New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Miller to Ask
Work and Paw
For COnvicts
Idle Felons to Help Make
Prisons Self Supporting
Under New Plan: Wages
Will Be Given to Families
Mollycoddling to End
Governor, i'll Message, to
Call for $4.OOO.OOO to
Aid Veterans in Distress

Governor Miller has been investigat-
ing the prisons with a view, it devel-
oped yesterday, to making recommen-
dations in his message to the Legis-
iature that will place them on self
sustaining basis. The Governor, ac
coro,ng to experts on prison manage
ment, is likely to make rather startling
recommendations. the following out of
which will put hundreds of idle con-
victs to work at wages. the money
either to be turned over to the fam lies
ana relatives Or placed to the credit of
the men and handed over to them at
the emo of their tt rms.
TIL, re is strong prospect that expert
mentation in vocational tralning at Sing
Sing. Auburn, Dannemora and other
prisons will cease abruptly. and that
more furniture, and possibly shoes and
twice Minnesota makes q very large
amount of binding twine, for which the
market rrice is paid by the merchants
whn supply the farmers. The Mime
sots prison management has attracted
the attention of Governor Miller, who
is likely to use some of the ideas en-
p,oyed to make Minnesota ptisons self
sustaining.
Convicts to Learn Trades
1t is ssid to be the intention of the
Governor not to neglect sanitation and
morale ir the prisons. and also to give
the connects q training. If possible that
will enable them when they are free to
earn living with their hands. All So
called m ollycoddiing viii be abolshed d
The state now makes desks. fling cab
inets and furniture used in state insti-
tutions, but the production is not very
large.
1t is understood that tie Governor
has decided to recommend prompt and
adequate relief to all soldiers Of the
World War in distress wit an ao-
preparation OF between $1,000 900 and
$4,000,0U0. In his speech to the State
Legion at jamestown last summer the
Governor told the sold ers that he
could not recommend tax levy for a
bonus, but that he was not averse t.
the submission of constitutional
amendment to the people. This woUld
involve a delay of three years. 1t is
said tat tne Legion leaders do not
wish to have an amendment submitted
next fall, for fear t at it would not be
approved An investiga ion by NJ
tional Guard men shows that in some
communities-n Oswego and Jetfer-
son counties, for instance-the local
Congre ssman has attended to all the
distress cases, using Federal aid. The
tonus commission, which ceased to
function hen the Court of Ape Is de-
clared unconstitutional the bonus law
passed las1 year, will be reorgal zed
TO handle t e distress cases. T is
c~mm ssion consists Of Adjutant Gen
eral kircaid of the National Guard.
Comptroller Wendell and Attorney
Genera. Newton.
Political Ala for Women
The Governor, it was sid yesterday,
has decided II recommend equitable
REPRESENTATION poli,ical org4niza-
tons doubling the SIZE of the county
committees, so that there may lie a
wo .., as well as q man from each po-
itical unit
As already stated in The Tribune.
tie Governor viii tighten up on his
economy and retrenchment policy,
probably recommending central pur-
c s Ng a eacy bv amplisy ng G pow
ers Of the State Boara O Estimote a,a
Control The Governor has discovered