El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-18

-HE Current Events and Literature
department Of the WOman's club
= met Wednesday afternoon in the
auditorium Of the First Christian
church The program topics were the
character of the Bible hero, Joseph
which was given BY Mrs Louis l. Ro0-
inson in a discussion of prison conol-
fions and prison reform by MISS trace
VIRGINIA Logan. Mrs. Robinson gave
the romantic history of Joseph MISS
Torau discussed the subject OF prison
conditions from the living and pnysl-
cal conditions 10 the moral ana splIit-
mai conditions and also went into the
causes that produce criminals iII ~
are 100000 men, women ana chiidren
sentenced to short terms every yedL
FOR crime and an additional l9Viuv9
sentenced to long periods; crime costs
the United states over SIX plllion oo4-
lars q year, she SAID -.
s,-ba national committee on prison
reform at Columbia University aIteI
making their Investigations summed
nm the conditions in prisons through
! t6a United States in four words,
sIs,-sry- cruelty. draft and disease
said Miss Logan. She then told OF
{ SoT7a OF the conditions in the penal
! institutions Of this country, descrlDeti
/ the vermin ridden cells, Whlch aver
/ sge six by nine feec IN size; the cham
! hers OF silence, where the prisoners
! are put in solitary confinement unIh
/ thew frequently go insane; the torture
| 81 the straight Jacket tread mill, oull
| ring and knotted lashes and other
/ methods used up 20 within two years
l ago in almost every penal institution
1 in the country and still used IN some
! Miss Logan told OF Thomas Moll Us
/ horne the New York millionaire. VINO
I had himself committed TO term OF
! e,s7-virude in the state penitentiary in
/ order to study first hand the treatment
! 1i,en prisoners Mr.. Osborne has since
/ been made the warden Of sing sing
prison and has completely revolution
lied the methods Of treating the prs
! oners in that institution
| Through the Investigations OF Nj
I Osborne and the national commlttet
/ Of prison reform. and other notable
/ people and organizations, NUMBER ~
Z greatly needed changes are peln5 IN
froduced into the prisons" said MISS
] Logan. Among the reforms she De
scribed are the Introduction OF lhuus
trial and business training to give
3 the prisoners some equipment an'
nreparatfon to earn an honest hvins
when they are again free- ana n
applfcation of modern science IN IN
, cure OF patients where their crlInlIs
! tendencies have been found enIlIei.
An. to their physical conditions "Ih
/ first movement in this reform WaV
h2s been placing men Of humane IN
] stincts as wardens OF prisons ana aooI
( ishing the cd rule that on Sunday
] and noluags al tAS p
{ locked in their cells for the entire day
( Nov they are given the liberty Of usin
| the yard. some are allowed to pla
ban and in some prisons there ar
2 bands"
{ Miss Logan also told OF the Work 9
Dr.. Henry Newlin Stokes, Of Washing
= ton. d. C.. in organizing the o
n League library for the use Of prison
. ers. She said that the work Of prise
reform had been endorsed by the ger
20 D rrF &
= the Chicago biennial meeting
<, Miss Elizabeth Darwin, Of the stat
= pure food commission, outlined ne
d campaign Of investigation the sanitaI
r. I conditions Of the food supply places
e the city She viii begin work ne1
! week. Assisting her will be the 70
b lowing committee OF club womel
-e Mrs ". L FoxwOrth. chairman; Me-
l. danes r. ". Lanier, W R Brown
n T Bowie, Burt OrndOrff. Olga koh