Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-31

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honesty and fairness demand that ii
shall be stated that the quality OF
human material given to it is of such
a character as to of necessity greatly
limit its results"
After going into detail on the many
activities at the institution the
speaker continued:
I'VE have during the last four
years allowed boys to go home to
funerals. where one of their own i'm
mediate family has died, dressing him
up in a black suit. giving him his
carfare, sending them out to all parts
of the State with instructions to re-
turn within forty-eight hours. Thus
far thirty-two have been granted this
privilege and not one has failed to
return at the appointed time
"The very heart of the institution
is its court. No officer is allowed to
administer any punishment, except
the disciplinary officer There is no
corporal punishment.
1.-THE religious part of the reforma-
tory plan cannot be too strongly en-
phasized The institution has two
chaplains, a Catholic and Protestant
1.-THE farm work We regard as the
best kind of work in which many of
those who have broken the States
laws can be engaged in.
"AIl is done in. our power to take
care of the physical condition of the
inmates. -oo "a, ~.
institution, but we have 500 on parole
outside in all the counties of the
State. -,
1.-TWO years ago we paroled 3ls
Young men who when they came into
the reformatory were receiving an
aggregate wage per month of $4,000
These same 313 went out to positions
found either by their people or by the
parole officers of the reformatory, al
which their aggregate wage was
$4,000.
"All this, let it be said to the great
credit of the citizens of the State OF
New Jersey, has now passed away.
and everywhere there are men and
women who are willing to lend hand
and give a chance to the one who has
fallen.
1--WE believe that from so to IS per
cent. of all who are sent to the re-
formatory are made over or re-
formed into good citizens, and II TINS
be true. certainly there is no greater
WOTk tl1dt liC DlettC VI WV
can undertake.
Society Should Do More.
Society could do more than it is
doing by seeing that so many do not
have to be sent to the correctional in
stitutions. Those who have had to be
put behind walls are society's failures
They are the failures of the home, the
school, the church, the police, the
city. the State and the nation"
The speaker then said that society
could do a great deal toward keeping
young men and boys out of penal in
situations by seeing to it that in time
thew get better environments. AS one
of the great helping factors Mr.
Moore cited tho recreational centres
In conclusion, Mr.. Moore advocated
the following measures: .
IF society were more careful il
these things there would be fewer
who would have to go into penal in
situations.
'First-A pure indeterminate sen.
fence law. The reformatory must mo-
be regarded as place of punishment
but of instruction; as a place not tt
inflict cruelties, but to effect cures.
"Second-The State should pay
wages to those whom it confines, and
not seek to make a profit of them
When l became superintendent of the
New Jersey Reformatory 200 young
men were making shirts and overalls
in what were practically sweat-shops
and two money grasping contractors
were getting rich from their labors
We soon put an end to that practise
and we were glad to say that soor
after that the State passed a law
making it illegal to hire lawbreakers
out to do any contract labor. but the
State has not yet gone far enough
II has no more right to make the Of
fender work even for its own finan-
cal advantage than it has to compe
him to work for the financial bene-
81 of one of its citizens. At least al
that the man behind bars can make
beyond his support ought to be his
own.
"Third--A fair chance on parole.
"Fourth-If the offender restores
himself to uprightness the State
should restore him to citizenship.
"It is inconsistent to send man &c
the reformatory, for judge when he
sentences him to say, I am going tc
send you to the reformatory to re-
form and make man out of your
self and then, when the man, with
whom society mas Idlleu, GOES Hndlly
after great struggle, overcome his
weakness and rises to the place where
he does do right and continues to dc
right. to leave a brand on him by
saying, You cannot exercise the right
that other men can because you did
wrong once and were caught while
others who may have done wrong
may have that right because they
were not caught"
Among those present besides Judges
Martin and Osborne were BENJAMIN
r. Bailey, warden of the Essex
County Hospital; DR.. Guy Payne, SUI
perintendent of the Hospital for the
Insane; Richard McGuinness, warden
of the county Jail; Ferdinand ]. Hosp
warden of the penitentiary; Daniel F.
Delaney, superintendent of the house
of detention; Deputy Sheriff James
F. Hyland, Carl Heller, superintend-
emit of the Parental Home; Prosecu-
tor Louis Hood, Charles Hood, Cap
tain of Police william Carroll, Will
son Farrand, headmaster of the New
ark Academy; John j. Gascoyne,
chief probation officer.