Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-12-11
Warden Codding Says Modern
Buildings are Neces sary
for Reform.
PRESENT PLANT OUT OF DATE
A Great Revolution in Manner of
Handling Convicts Since the
Penitentiary Was Built.

ana corrections, j. h. COdd1ng, ward
en- of the state prison at Lansing,
said that one of the great necessities
in prison reform is modern peniten-
tiary.
Our present institution is unsafe,
insanitary and absolutely out of date"
Warden Codding said. Since it was
built there has been great revolu-
ton in prison policies"
He said that thirty years ago pris-
on methods were adapted to the
handling of prisoners who would try
to escape, assault an officer or break
any of the rules of the institution.
at that time the silence rule, the
lock step and striped clothes, he said,
were believed a necessary part of
prison government and, perhaps, were
but for only rs per cent of the men.
But the rs per cent who could be
| trusted and were willing to live up
to the rules of the institution had to
live under the same conditions.
The speaker told of prison manage
ment and spoke at length on the pa
role system. He said that paroled
prisoners who had been Cleaning
house" and casting away bad things
while in confinement returned to their
home towns, to the city which spoiled
nlIn, 10 11nO Ine same OlQ vie pQO1
halls, the same alley joints and the
same old rendezvous where some of
the boys slip down after night to play
poker and shoot craps. He finds that
while he has made earnest, honest
efforts to reform, his town has made
none"
Whenever the municipalities of
Kansas take as active and efficient
steps to prevent the making of Grim
inals by cities of Kansas the state,
through its penitentiary management,
uses to reform the boys thus spoiled
said Warden Codding in closing, then
will we commence to make progress
in prison REFORM
Captured Many WoIves.-The an
nual Greeley comfy wolf drive was
held the other day under the direc-
ton of Colonel Thyfaut and Colonel
Carter. Merchants, bankers, the law
yers and hotel men took their motor
cars and joined in the big drive. The
public school was closed at Tribune
and the teachers, like the students,
participated in it. Many wolves were
captured.
Pension Five Mothers
pensions of SO to SIS a month were
granted to five women by Sedgwick
county commissioners recently. The
examining board reported favorably
on seventeen applications for pen
sions. This number staggered the
commissioners, who decided to award
five after much discussion. This |
makes total of ten mothers pensions |
now in force in that county.
KAN. 3D."
Reduced a Spinal DisIocation.-Dr.
John F. Binnie of Kansas City and To-
cal surgeons performed an operation |
upon Mrs. Arthur Hoffman at Salina, |
reducing a dislocation between the |
sixth and seventh cervicaI vertebrate. |
Mrs. Hoffman was struck by a motor |
car and was paralyzed from the shout |
ders down. According to physicians
only one similar operation has been
reported successfully in the country.
Mrs. Hoffman is improved.
Miners Hand Blown Off-Alexan-
dor Richards, a strip pit worker at
Skidmore, lost his right hand and suf-
fered a severe injury to his right leg
when a stick of dynamite he held in
his hand was exploded. The electric
shot firing device at the pit was ac-
cidentally set in operation.
Postoffice Inspector Quits. F.
Elston, postoffice inspector. with head
quarters in Salina, has resigned. He
was promoted to an Oklahoma point.
but refused to leave Salina. Elston
did considerable work in Kansas City
and worked up several important
cases between Kansas City and Dem
yer.
Fatal Auto Accident-August Mem
hardt was killed recently when his mo-
tor car overturned between Paxico and
Mcfarland. The engine died on hill
and the car ran back into a deep
ditch.
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Keeps Pillow Show-The Kansas
tractor show and tractor blowing con-
test will be held in Hutchinson again
in Jely, 1916 The show probably will
become an annual event.
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Visitor a Motor Victim.-Mrs Ar
thur Hoffman of Lincoln, who was
visiting in Salina, was run down and
probably fatally. injured by a motor
n1r drir Nv 0r II