The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
RESTORE STAMINA
AND MORAL RULE
Municipal Farm of Dallas
Has Been Turning Point
In Many Lives
MAN. BUILDING PLANT
Men Lost to Themselves and
Decency Are Lifted Into
a Sphere of Regeneration

DALLAS, March s. -- The re-
manufacture Of broken stamina and
,hc building up OF both physical and
moral power in men and women
comprising all the types OF persons
IN tha down-and- -out category. is the
nature Of work being accomplished
d..y M tho municipal farm. owned
a.I operated by the city of Dallas
according to Commissioner l., T.. Nc
dec under whose Indirect super
IsI1n the rescue work is carried on.
Started first as an experiment, tho
citr farm institution has proven such
an effective aid to those In charge OF
all classes OF rescue work In Dallas,
as we'll as 10 officials in the city and
county law enforcement depart
u.rfa that it has become perhaps
tho greatest means for starting err
ring or unfortunate persons again
ON tho road to success and happiness,
Commissioner McGee declared.
THE city com missioner told OF a
man who was recently sent to city
farm 20 work out a fine imposed by
local authorities This man." Mr..
NrGce said was an avowed COM
murlsf. and had become hardened TO
the belief that the world owed him
"a living, without display Of his own
energies and talents. lie was never
known to even attempt TO obtain
omployment, but went from house to
house demanding food. He was II
nuisance wherever he went. Finally
4oprchended for crime with which
H. was charged by the city police,
no was fined and sent TO the muni-
unal farm to work out the money.
Nhou he arrived at the reservation,
ho Was still q vagabond, early prov
ins a problem to those in charge of
activities there.
shortly after he arrived at the
ci'ys building plant. he became
more occupied with the pleas
ant farm life and took an in
creased vigor in the open air, the
troubles and sordid life he had been
won. 90 lead In congested cities were
soon forgotten. We were surprised to
observe in the former criminal, at
the end OF only a few weeks, the
qualities ~ a regenerated man, and
such nc has proven to be since his
release. The prisoner was released
from the city reservation as soon as
his obligation to the municipality
had been worked out. The author
tiles aided him in securing a posi-
tion, and his present employer re-
ports that the former vagabond is
working with "A will and has new
ideas Of lfe'
Mr. MCGEE said this was only one
instance out OF many, where both
men and women had been lifted
from the depths in which they had
lost themselves, into a sphere Of re-
generation, through aid of the city
farm.
All tho phases OF work, done at
the farm, including domestic house
hold duties, are accomplished by in
mates there. Negroes are also sent
10 the farm. Both men and women
are confined on the reservation, but
\ are segregated in such manner as
y 20 produce best results.
The farm supervisor said that the
matter Of caring for the various peo-
Pic that are sent to white Rock
farm has been solved by discreet
supervision of all activities main
ialncd. 4 resident matron looks aft
or tho welfare OF all women inmates
ho said while any and all prisoners
detailed for duty on the farm are
given every possible aid and encour-
agcmont in their fight for renewed
manhood and womanhood.