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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-04
LEAGUE GREETS OSBORNE
Telegraphs Thanksgiving Message and
Urges Him 10 Get Well and Return.


The executive committee OF the Mu-
tual Welfare League last night tele-
graphed 20 Warden Thomas Mott Os-
borne. at his home in Auburn, its
Thanksgiving greeting. The executive
committee met and formulated mes
sage Of cheer after hearing an address
by Mrs. Annie T. L. Field. of Brooklyn,
who is the only woman having the dis
tinction Of being an honorary member
Of the Auburn branch of the Mutual
Welfare League and of the Sing Sing
branch The message read:
Thanksgiving. And we do give
thank giving TO you. our warden. We
are all deeply indebted for your great
humanity. your kindness, consideration
and thoughtful deeds in promoting the
welfare of the prisoner.
"ln your great work OF elcvating; in
the encouraging words spoken TO US;
in your every manner, there is thought
Of US and for US, and we from our
hearts thank you.
Never in the history Of any prison
has any one ever done any part Of
what you are doing, and had a man like
you lived ages ago and did what you
are doing a great many Of US would not
now be here.
1--WE assure you of our loyalty. There
are times when we try your patience,
we know, but we want to be better men,
and we cannot without you. We recall
your pledge 10 remain with us so long
as we need you, and our need is never
greater.
BE assured that with all our faults
your efforts in our behalf are appre-
ciated and never will be forgotten.
at is not the great influence only
that you have brought 70 bear in our
behalf. but your own personality that
has won our confidence, and TO you.
Please get well and come back TO us. "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-04
TAFT CRlTICISES
PRISON REFORM
Warns Against Treating
Criminals as Victims
of Society.

Prison reforms in New York came
under the criticism of ex-President
Taft last night, when he delivered his
fifth address before the Columbia Uni
versity Institute of Arts and Sciences
in tho Horace Mann auditorium. IL IS
the impulse Of too many retormers, ne
said. to treat criminals rs the victims
OF society and 10 make society the
scapegoat for all their sins.
He said in pare: .
at seems to ne that the people Of
New York and IF the country generally
are in danger Of being led by an IN
wise sentiment into treatment OF con
yicted criminals that will neither i'm
part TO the Grim mails the proper es-
son from punishment nor will keep be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-04
NBORNE HERO
GGPRIs0N MOVIE
,.,,;c TO See Warden
ctarred as Voluntary
Convict in Auburn.
eopTY PRISONERS AID
N FILM PORTRAYAL
..c Sing and Great Meadows
'| ,,so in Reels Produced by
committee on Reforms.

vo.4 Osborne will be seen IN
- 70, soon. The Joint Committee
i' p,,.on Reforms, DESTROYS Of afford
{, 9. , =, public truthful motion pictures
- ,I' conditions in the state has
y ..ten three sets Of films the FIRST
~ 80 Auburn prison the second Sing
49, and the last the Great Meadows
ifi:.SSn1.. .he Prison Walls" IS the title
49,, In which Sing Sings present
O. i5e "' starred. l. portrays Us
gifoeu ,,rerience while he underwent
Nine vo,untary Imprisonment at
We GOO years sgo, during which
A.01-l Gathered ideas for reforms
rbieh have kept the S'A'e ''0'
.,rtment stirred ever slhoe. Il .ho
la IT, picture opens with 3 view OF ihe
o.s ~ library, where his son ana
49, are irving 10 persuade me prs
i'' .,torner not 20 undertake ms haz-
% ~, ayreriment Of week IN prison.
naODss ..I I'D the next scene shows the
Ins! - no prison a. Auburn with
fa't " o6rv;cts. hsndcuffed and
o tist,.S arriving from Sing sing,
saaOh''W ", osborne is shown going
men Tho daily routine Of a prison
ers life. - s1- e callod "a
CO. ~ old Times" relsted by a hfer
III IN Brown." as Sing Sings warden
~ t-orn a, Auburn. Forty convicts
"-.;..,5 heir heads 10 be shaved and
.,cd The striped suits o. the old sys-
,oI.'' - mste the picture authentic. II
- tho cruel punishment inflicted
Suo"' .Se,5srs inside the walls in the
.lr,aey 6ays. Two-thirds Of the cost OF
a,ISrcing this film was raised by the
mates Of The Auburn prison. $3.50
A priva,e view OF the films VIII be
.,rsrged by the Joint Committee OF
p,isoS Reforms at q matinee perform
,sce AZ the Lyric Theatre, on Novem-
-, Is Later public exhibitions will
h given and the pictures VIII be sent
round the state for educational pur-
poses.
Committee on Prison Reforms is made
m Of Mrs Francis McNiel Bacon. IT,,
Professor George Washington Kirch-
rey DR. Katharine B. Davis, Richard
n Hurd. Miss Anne Morgan. Thomas
vo,, Osborne. Mrs. August Belmont.
sSoiph Lewisohn. Miss Maude X. Wet
ore Seth L ow. Mrs. William Emer-
Ian. II. MIS-. Gilbert H. Montague,
Ms, Emily Cross, Or. c. F. Lewis, Dr..
Stag Within and Harry B. Winters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-04
Miss Ann Forsyth on the police force of Aurora, ILL.,

il. and before ! could get suitable
place for them to stay they had been
set free. One we lost track OF entirely.
The other, girl of nineteen, fell into
the hands Of iend, who kept her on
a deserted island, where it amused him
70 starve and beat her. Some men on
a boat saw her there one day, picked
her up and brought her back to US.
That is just as capable as the poor
child was of using her liberty.
"The value of the policewoman Is
in Strengthening out tangles for women
and girls, and even men, which would
never be brought to the policeman
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
DIFFERENCE 1T WOULD MAKE.

The Chicago Live Stock World
quotes Mr.. Charles F. Scott, ex-con-
gresham of Kansas, as to some of the
results if the annual liquor bill-near-
ly $50 per capita-were no more than
1t is in Kansas-$1.25 per capita. Mr..
Scott says:
If the national liquor bill could be
reduced to Kansas proportions, with
the corresponding reduction in murder
and assault and theft and the long cata-
logue of crime that follows in the trail
of drink, if the loss in efficiency
through the use of alcohol could be
stopped, if the heartache and heart
break, the wreck of lives of ONE
and children could be saved-if all
that could be done the minimum wage
wouldn't matter, for women wouldn't
have to work, and the railroad rate
wouldn't matter, and there would be
enough money to pay them, and the
trusts wouldn't matter, for we would
be so happy we wouldn't worry about
them, and the currency wouldn't mat
ter, for prosperity would be so gen.
eral that we could thrive under any
currency law"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
LITTLE AFFECTED BY WAR
London's Whitechapel Pursues the
More or Less Even Tenor of
its Way.

The wave of war has swept over
London's ,Whitechapel, but has
changed it very little, says Herman
Sheffauer. Some of the physical
signs and symbols are there-the gar
ish posters, the bronze-brown of kha-
ki, and the darkened streets that make
London's Ghetto still more Ghetto
like.
Whitechapel is not only in the East,
but of the East. Like Asia that
watched the legions thunder by, then
plunged in thought again." the East
end lifts up it's eyes to the troops of
the king, then turns to trade again.
; There is always war in Whitechapel
the struggle to survive. To one
fresh from the West end and
the hushed suburbs, the stir-andibus-
tie of Whitechapel has a brave def
.ance. 1t is not only business as usual,
but business as from time immemo-
rial. The Whitechapel t~enacity has
withstood chises more terrible than
this-and among it's own people. Re-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
BODY AS A MACHINE.

BODY AS A MACHINE.
How will total abstinence most eff
fectively appeal to the boy in his
teens? asks many a mother and many
a teacher. The angle of vision most
likely to interest him in that which
emphasizes bodily efficiency. Hear
what thai experienced educator, Hon.
Edward Hyatt, superintendent of pub
lie instruction for the state of Cali
%fornia, has to say about 1t:
Many a boy, if he could look upon
his body as a machine, could stand
outside himself as it were and look
at himself with the same eyes with
which he regards his bicycle, would
be made sensible OF the danger, use
lessness and utter folly of trifling
with a habit that has overthrow mil
lions of strong ones who thought 1t
a joke until it al too late to see. that
death hid behind the mask.
This is an age of mechanical in
vention. 1t is an age of comprehen-
sion, an intelligent understanding of
mechanism, even by the very young.
The boys of u year are thinking in
constructive terms, of the relation of
parts to other parts, of loss by fric-
ton, chemical waste, of chemical
agents that preserve. a machine and
other chemical agents that ruin it.
1t is ours to shift this idea until the
boy applies it to his own God-given
body-than which there is no more
perfect machine in all the world"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
MAKES RAPID
Add This Fact to Your Store Of
knowledge.

Kidney disease often advances so
rapidly that many a person is firmly
in its grasp before aware of its prog
ress. Prompt attention should be
given the slightest symptom of kidney
disorder. If there is a dull pain in
the back, headaches, dizzy spells or a
tired, worn-out feeling, or if the kid
ney secretions are offensive, irregular
and attended with pain, procure a
good kidney remedy at once.
Thousands recommend Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Read the statement below.
Mrs. D.. F. Smith, 2209 Paramount
Ave-, Atlantic City, N. j., says: THE
doctor said | had acute sciatic rheu-
matism and / suffered from many
other symptoms of kidney disease.
The kidney secretions were in bad
shape and | had constant pains throi
my back and head. Black spots often
came before my eyes and | had to
catch hold of something to keep from
falling. l couldn't do my homework.
l doctored and used all kinds of medi-
cine but still suffered until | took
Doan's Kidney Pills. They perman-
emily cured me and today I am strong
and well, and able to do all my house.
work with ease. Doan's Kidney Pills
are the only remedy that aver helped
me-" Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Smith had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y. adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
A APPEAL.

An appeal urging that all men now
serving in the British army and navy
abstain from the use of intoxicating
drinks, at least while the war lasts,
pointed out that alcohol
1. Reduces the power to see sig
nails.
2. C~onfuses prompt judgment.
8. Spells accurate shooting.
1. Hastens fatigue.
8. Lessons resistance to disease
and exposure.
8. Increases shock from wounds.
This appeal was signed by the fol-
lowing eminent physicians: Sir Thorn.
as Barlow 1.-THE kings physician), Sir
Frederick Treves, Surgeon General
Evatt. Sir Victor Horsley, and Prof.
Sims Woodhead. 1t was published by
the newspapers and issued as a poster
in red and blue ink.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
Back TO the Soil.


The city people have been urging
each other to move back to the farm,
but very few of them have moved.
We welcome our city cousins back to
the soil and this earth's surface con-
tains 1902, 160, 900 idle acres of till
able land where they a make a
living by tickling the earth with a
forked stick, but We do not need them
so far as increasing production is con-
cerned; we now have all the producers
we can use. The city man has very
ideas OF agricultural condi-
tions. The commonly accepted theory
that we are short on production is all
wrong. Our annual increase in pro-
duction far exceeds that Of u in
crease in population.
The World as a Farm.
Taking the world as one big farm,
cultivation. Of this amount there Is
approximately 10000, 900 acres on the
western and 1890, 100000 acres on the
eastern hemisphere, in cultivation.
This estimate, of course, does not in
clude grazing lands, forests, etc.,
where large quantities of meat are
produced.
The worlds annual crop approx
mates fifteen billion bushels of &C.
reals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre
and sixty-five million tons of meat.
The average annual world crop for
the past five years, compared with the
previous five years. is as follows:
Past Half Previous Half
Crops Decade. Decade.
Corn (Bu.) 3,934,174,000 3,403. 655 900
Wheat(Bu.) 1922, 769, 900 3,257, 526, 900
Oats (Bu) 4,120,017.000 3,50S, 315, 900
Cotton Bales) 19,S63.S00 17,541,2 200
the world shows an average in
crease in cereal production of 10 per
cent during the past decade, compared
with the previous five years, while the
worlds population shows an increase
OF only three per cent.
The gain in production far exceeds
chat of our increase in population, and
it is safe to estimate that the farmer
can easily increase production rs per
cent ii a remunerative market can be
found for the products. In textile
fibres the world shows an increase
during the past half decade in produc-
ton of ID per CEN against a popula-
ton increase of three per cent.
The people of this nation should
address themselves to the subject of
improved facilities for distribution.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
CAUSE OF CHILD LABOR.

There will be general agreement
with the statement made by Mr.. Dan.
iel A. Polling, the noted Christian En-.
deavor lecturer. that the cause for
child labor abuses is directly traceable
to the liquor traffic.
Drink" he says, has impaired or
cut off entirely the earning power of
the natural provider; the father has
lost his job because of drink. But the
fact that the natural provider has lost
his job does not at all indicate that
his children have lost their appetites.
Child laborers are working to feed
hungry stomachs, to clothe naked
bodies"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
MARKETING WORLDS
GREATEST PROBLEM
WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION,
SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION.
BY Peter Radford
turer National Farmers Union.

ACCtuiGL ~ \ NJ
The economic distribution of farm
products is today the worlds greatest
problem and the war, while it has
brought its hardships, has clearly en-
phasized the Importance of distribu-
ton as a factor in American agricul-
ture and promises to give the farm
ers the cooperation of the govern
ment and the business men the
solution of their marketing problem.
This result will, In a measure, COM
pensate US for our war losses, for the
business interests and government
have been in the main assisting al
most exclusively on the production
side of agriculture. While the depart
ment of agriculture has been dumping
tons of literature on the farmer telling
him how to produce, the farmer has
been dumping tons of products in the
nations garbage can for want Of a
market.
The World Will Never starve.
At no time since Adam and Eve
were driven from the Garden of Eden
have the inhabitants of this world
suffered from lack of production, but
some people have gone hungry from
the day of creation to this good hour
for the lack of proper distribution.
Slight variations In production have
forced a change in diet and n local
ity has felt the pinch of want, while
another surfeited, but the world as a
whole has ever been a land of plenty.
We now have less than one-tenth Of
the tillable land of the earth's surface
under cultivation, and w not only
have this surplus area to draw on but
it is safe to estimate that in case of
dire necessity one-half the earth's
population could at the present time
knock their living out of the trees
of the forest, gather 1t from wild
vines and draw it from streams. No
n should become alarmed; the
world will never starve.
The consumer has always feared
that the producer would not supply
him and his fright has found express
sion on the statute books of u states
and nations and the farmer has been
urged to produce recklessly and with
out reference to a market, and regard
less of the demands of the consumer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
Arrival and Departure of Mails.

Mails arrive at the Pleasantville
p~ostofice as follows:
From Philadelphia a. M; 12.45
and 6.45 D.. m.
From Atlantic City-7.30 a. m. and
ABB p. m.
Mails close as follows:
For Philadelphia-7.05 a. M, 1918,
$50, APO and $40 p. m.
For Atlantic City-12.15 and $40
p. m.
The office opens daily, except Sun
day, at 7 a. M, and closes at 7.15 p.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
pRINkER is DREADED.

Having spent the greater part of
my life in oRerating, l can assure
you hat the person of all others that
I dread to see enter the operating
room is the drinker. | share with
the late Sir James Paget his absolute
dread of the secret drinker.-Sir
Frederick Treves of England. one of
the worlds famous physicians and
surgeons.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
EFFICIENCY.

German army officers find that out
of 80 shots fired, men averaged 23
hits on abstaining days, three hits
on drinking days. And the amount
taken was less than that contained
in a quart of 4 per cent beer. These
and similar experiments have made
the kaiser a total ~abstainer, and it
is why he is urging the army to follow
his example.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH MENACE.

The licensing of the saloon for the
drinking of crime-producing poison is
a far greater public health menace and
quite as logical as would be the sale
and general distribution of typhoid
and tuberculosis germs.-Dr. De Witt
q. Wilcox. of the Boston University
School Of Medicine
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
MEssIAH's KINGDOM.
The Glorious Day of Divine Favor 10

The Glorious Day Of Divine Favor 10
Nearing.
The period In which sin Is permit
ted has been a dark night to humanE
ty, never to be forgotten; but the glo-
rious day of righteousness and divine
favor Is SOC to be ushered In by Mes
slab. He, as the SUN OF RIGHT
EOUSNESS. shall arise and shine fully
and clearly into and upon all, bringing
healing and blessing, which will more
than counterbalance the dreadful night
OF weeping, signing, pain, sickness and
death, in which the grooming creation
has been so long. weeping may en-
dure for a night. but joy cometh In the
MORNING"
For further LIGHT on the coming
Kingdom send thirty-ive cents for
the Helping Hand for Bible Students,
entitled, THY KINGDOM COME"
Bible and Tract Society, IT Hicks
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Itching, bleeding, %protruding or
blind piles. have yielded to Doan's
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

Over-production and crop mortgage
petition with each other. The remed
lies in organization and in cooper
ton In marketing.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

NEW YORK to San Francisco
IN in a fifteenth of a seconds A
few hours since, the voice. of man,
for the first time in history, leaped
in a single bound from the Atlantic
to the Pacific! Thus have the
dreams of the early telephone pio-
neers come true!
What a short time it seems since
Alexander Graham Bell heard the
voice of his assistant, Watson, come
feebly over two miles of wlre from
Cambridge to Boston. Within the
week, DIR. Bells voice has answered
that same Watson's voice over 800
miles of line from n coast to the other.
Down swept that voice over the
copper wires from New York through
the outskirts of Philadelphia, up and
down over the Alleghenies into Pitts
burgh and on past the windy city of
Chicago, across the plains through
Omaha and up over the s~now-capped
peaks to Denver. Then on, swifter
than light to Salt Lake City and out
across the foothills of the Rockies to
the Golden Gate City of the Pacific!
That voice of forty years ago
was anxious and hesitant. This
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

time it had in it the ring of triumph.
For a triumph it is, a triumph of
science; none greater has the past
generation witnessed.
Within a short time, when the
final tests and adjustments have
been made, the gateways of this
mighty wire span will be thrown
open to the public. This achieve
-ment has involved the work of a
corps of $50 engineers and scientists;
Improvements, great and small in
every piece of telephone plant and
apparatus; a vast expenditure of
money; all contributing to convey
the tiny voice impulses one seventh
of the distance round the globe.
But it is a triumph in a greater
sense. Back Of and beneath 1t all is
the spirit Of SERVICE, the observance
Of public need and the untiring, an
scoring energy aohich has its focus on
the achievement of the required end
despite all seeming impossibillties.
That's the spirit of the Bell System
organization, which justihes the gen
erous measure of confidence and
reliance hat has been placed upon
it by the American people.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

fugees grow tough and indifferent,
and Whitechapel is a retreat for the
worlds oldest and most numerous
refugees.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06
Goes the Limit.

When a woman is angry she tells
a man just what she thinks of him
and, incidentally, just what she thinks
other people think of him.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

For any pain, burn, scald or bruise,
apply DIR. Thomas Eclectic Oil-the
household remedy. Two sizes 25c and
Soc at all drug stores.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-06

Itching, bleeding, %protruding or
blind piles. have yielded to Doan's
Ointment. SOC at all stores.-adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-27
FRANZ BRIEF FINISHED.
Appeal for Communication of Death Sen
tence TO Review Case Fully.

ATLANTA, Ga, May 27. Counsel
for Leo NJ. Frank have practically com
pleted the brief they viii present to
the Georgia prison commission when
the hearing On Frank s petition for
communication Of his death sentence to
life imprisonment takes place.
The attorneys said the brief would
embody a minute chronology of the
ease from the discovery of the murder
of Mary Phagan, April q, 1913, and
would assign the following reasons for
the appeal: The doubt of Judge L. F.
Roam, trial Judge, as to Frank S guilt
as expressed when he denied the first
motion for new trial several months
after the original verdict: the dissent
ing opinion by Chief Justice Fish and
Justice Buck of the Georgia supreme
court when Frank s motion for q new
trial was denied; the dissenting opin
ion of Justices Hughes and Holmes Of
| the United States supreme court il
Frank : habeas corpus proceedings be
/ fore that body.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-27
KEEP FRIENDSHIP
OF UNITED STATES
This is the Advice Given to Japan by
Some of her Ablest and Most
Serious Men.

TOXIC, Japan, May 27.-Make an
alliance with Russia, keep the friend
ship of the United States and increase
Japan 8 influence in China-these are
counsels of a group of serious wrlters.
Japan IS duty to augment her fnan-
cial and economic forces in China,
whose integrity is necessary for japan
and the peace of the Orient.
s'Our destiny is immense and our
task is immense, says an editorial Ill
one review. Seek therefore the great
anu permanent interests and not the
temporary.
Let us not make enemies of all the
powers of Europe. Let us not become
the Germany of the Far East and start
a eonfagration such as is now devast
tating Europe.
1shikawa, in the Chuo Ko Ron Re
view is more emphatic s'The time ha!
come, he affirms, for Japan to cul
] tivate her strength. Remember that il