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WESTERN LEAGUE

wichitA 4: AZ. Joseph 4.
Oklahoma City 3 Tulso g. 4
Others moi. scheduled.
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Jamestoyyn LOSES.

OAMbSUOWH LUScS. ..".
Mitchell, 8. D., June 91.-The cham
pion Kernels closed. u most successful
stay today, defeating jamestown 10 to
8. Mitchell has won 10 out. of Ii
games played They made It three
Brundake but in the third inning.
Jamestown sent Jimmy Harrison to
the showers in the sixth inning. It
was a twilight contest. Score:
Jamestown. ..... 8 2
MITCHELL. E. $50. 49,. 10 "A 4
Brundage. Keegan and Smith; Har-
rison. Zweiful and Dougan.
Wahpeton, Breckenridge and wkt-
ertown not scheduled.
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Movable scenery was first used IN
italy IN the year 1906. II was the
Invention Of an Italian architect mani
ed P.eru4si.., -
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Herald want Ad. Bring Results.
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Valley City Wins,

Sioux Falls. s. D., June 21.-rwo
line drives, misjudged by LAahy in
the second inning. n going, tor a
triple and the other a homer, gave
the tai1enders an early lead, which
the Sioux could moi Valley
City winning 10 to 8. Bye. who had
pitched great ball after relieving
Achenbach, In the second inning, wAs
knocked down BY a bAtted ball In
the eighth. He then weakened, and
the Hi-linors ran in four, more tall
Hes. ooore:
Valley Citys.s. 10 1s 1
Sioux Fallss. ,.... 3 :
Dellman; And Carlson; Achenbach,
Bye and, D.. Nelson. SD ~
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Chicago, June 21.-A ninth inning
rally today enabled Chicago to defeat
Washington 5 to 4 and even up thy
series, AS a result If today's victory
and Cleveland's defeat by New York,
the White sox tied the Indians fof
fourth place. \
Score: r, II. r,
Washington. 900 o1p oso-4 8 3
Chicago. =. 020 900 1923 II
Francis. Mogridge and Charity,
Picinich; Robertson, McCabe and
Schalk.
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AMERICAN

ST.. Louis. June 21.-Rommell held
the Browns to four hits today and
Philadelphia won a shut out victory
5rto-0. Philadelphia pounded Wright
and Danforth freely. .Sisler stole his
twenty-fifth base of the season.
Catcher SEVERED of the Browns was
forced to retire in the first inning
when he was hit on the hand with a
bat but after the game it was an.
nounced the injury was not serious
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Danforth and SEVERED. Collins.
The Washington times., 1922-07-02
Essential Vice of the System Is the Vice of
Vengeance Criminal Must BE Treated Though
Incapable of Exercising Liberty Through Weakness.

Of vengeance. or tho intentional
duplication Of malicious injuries
in compliance with the ex-
piatory superstition that two
blacks make q white.
The criminal accepts this, but
claims that punishment absolves
him II the injuries seem fairly
equivalent; and, when absolu-
ton is necessarily denied him he
is forced back into. crime by the
refusal to employ him. he feels
that he is entitled to revenge this
injustice by becoming an enemy
Of society.
No beneficial reform of our
treatment Of criminals is possible
unless and until this essential
sentimental vice Of vengeance h
unconditionaIly eradicated.
< Society claims . right Of self
defense, extending to the do
struction or restraint OF law
brsaksrs- This right b separabis
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

lack Of the necessary certainty Of
detection and prosecution, partly
because their methods are too cruel
and mischievous to secure the CO.
operation Of the public, partly be-
cause the prosecutor 10 put to
such Inconvenience and loss of
time that he feels that he is throw.
ing good money after bad, partly
because most people desire to
avoid an unquestionable Justice.
and partly because the proportion
OF avowedly undetected crimes n
high enough to hold out reasonable
hopes to the criminal that he win
never be called to account
The third IL irreconciiiabls with
the first; and the figures of
recidivism and the discovery
that the so-called criminal type
is really . prison type, prove that
the process 10 one Of uncompen.
sated deterioration.
A Ths essential vics of the sys-
ten = ths Christian yies
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

from the right to revenge or
punish: It need have no more to
do with punishment or revenge
than the caging or shooting Of a
man-eating tiger. 1t arises from
the occurrence Of:
(A intolerably mischievous hui
man beings, and
CD persons defective in the self.
control needed for free life in
modern society, but well behaved
and contented under tutelage
and discipline.
Class A can be painlessly killed
or permanently restrained. The
requisite tutelage and discipline
can be provided for Class B
without rancor or insult. The
rest can be treated not as crimi-
nails but as civil defendants. and
made to pay for their depreda-
lions In the same manner. At
present many persons sufity OF
conduct much viisr than that Cor
The Washington times., 1922-07-02
Killing Is Reppgnont.
The principle to be kept be.

e The principle to be kept be-
fore the minds Of the citizens
is that as civilized society is
very costly arrangement necessary
to their subsistence and security
they must justify their existence in
It by contributing their share to
the cost, and giving no more than
their share Of trouble, subject to
every possible provision by insur-
ance against innocent disability:
and that this Is a condition prece-
dent to freedom, and might on ex'
treme provocation be enforced TO
the full extent Of removing cases
Of incurable noxious disability by
simply putting an end TO their
existence, y
An unconquerabls repugnancs
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

vent my friends doing what they
could for me, but i wished them
to base their appeal and petition
on the broad grounds Of freedom
for all the political prisoners,
leaving no one out who had been
sent to prison because Of his opin.
ions on q public question. such rs
the war.
When Mr.. Darrow left Atlanta
he went back to Washington. and
had further interviews with tbs
higher officials there.
I met Mr.. Gompers when he
came to the prison. at the invita-
ton of the warden, to deliver an
address to the convicts in the
auditorium Of the penitentiary.
Mr.. Gompers was courteously TO
ceived by the inmates. and their
response to his remarks was
appreciative and generous. After
his prison address We enjoyed q
brief visit In tho office Of the
warden. ''-
HAPGOOD SAW DEBS.
MR. HAPGooD's visit was par.
ticularly pleasant to me. He
was at that time writing for .
newspaper syndicate In Washing
ton, and followed his articles
in the Atlanta newspaper that
published them. understood
that Mr.. Hapgood had visited me
so that he might write a series Of
articles about my case. After
an hours talk together he left.
and was much impressed by his
kindly manner, his charming per.
sonality and his sincerity In the
issue that had brought him to
Atlanta prison. His articles ap-
peared a few weeks later. and I
am sure they had a salutary in
fluence in directing the public's
attention to the fact that many
men and women had suffered i'm
prisonment because they had
stood upon their constitutional
right to hold a point of view and
express 1t.
had not seen Melville q.
Stone for twenty-five years. At
that time Mr.. Stone was editor OF
Victor Lawson's Chicago Record,
and we were brought together
through Eugene Field. whose
close personal friendship 1t was
my privilege to possess.
At that time Mr.. Stone and ]
understood each other perfectly.
He was on one side Of many
public questions affecting the in.
terests of the common people.
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

treatment Of extreme cases will be
barred. On the contrary. It may
be extended to criminals Of all
sorts.
All that can be said at present
is that II 1t be absolutely barred
sufficient restraint must be effect
ed, not as q punishment but as
necessity for public safety. But
there will be no excuse for making
II more pleasant than it need be.
In all cases where detention and
restraint are called for, the crimi-
nails right to contact with all three
spiritual influences Of his day
should be respected.
Conversation, access to books
and pictures and music. unfetter.
cd scientific, philosophic. and relig-
ious activity, change Of scene and
occupation. the free formation OF
friendships and acquaintances.
marriage and parentage-in short,
all the moral methods Of creation
and recreation, must be available
for criminals as for other persons.
partly because deprivation Of these
things IL severely punitive, and
nartly because Il is destructive TO
the victim and produces what We
continued On RHGs -
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sORGE BERNARD SE1AWMoen Prisons Costly Cruel and Fu

to resort to killing having led to
the abolition Of capital punishment
in several countries, and to its
reservation for specially dangerous
or abhorrent crimes in all the
others, 1t is possible that the right
to kill may be renounced by all
civilized states.
This repugnance may be intensi-
fled by the removal Of the distinc-
ton between sin and infirmity, or,
in prison language. between crime
and disease, because It leads to the
extirpation of the incurable invalid
as we'll as to that Of the incurable
criminal.
On the other hand. the opposite
temperament. which is not squeari-
ish about making short work Of
hard cases, may be reinforced by
the abandonment of ethical pre-
tentiousness, vengeance, malice
and all uncharitableness In the
matter, and may become less scru.
pulous than at present in advocat-
ing euthanasia for incurables.
Whichever party may prevail.
capital punishment as such Il
likely to disappear. and with II the
earmarking Of certsin offenses az
calling for specially deterrent Sc
verities.
But Il does not follow that isthai
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

Modern imprisonment; that Is.
imprisonment practised a. q
Inishment N well a. q means of
ytention. is extremely cruel and
Ischievous. and therefore ex.
'emely wicked. The word ex.
emely is used because the
gstem has been pushed to q de-
rec at which prison mortality
.nd prison insanity forced II back
: the point at which It 10 bare
endurable, which point may be
Ssarded as tho practicable ex-
etne.
A., Although public vindictive-
ness and public dread are
Jsely responsible for this wick
hess. some Of the most Cruel
s.tures Of the prison system are
Understood by the public. and
I've not besn deliberately invent
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

while I was on the other. Those
are matters not to be discussed
here; suffice It to say that Mr..
Stone and were personally
friendly. and on the occasion OF
his visit with me his eyes filled
with tears as he tonk my hand
and told me that his faith In ms
as q man had never wavered, and
that notwithstand, ,ng the fact tina.
we were on opposite sides. he had
never permitted q reflection upon
me as a man to remain un-
challenged.
1t had been my pleasure to meet
Mr.. Steffens many years ago. lie
came TO see me once in Boston
during the campaign in 1908, when
I was a candidate for President.
His visits to Atlanta occurred a
few weeks before my release. and
he 1t6ld me much about the politi-
cal and economic conditions In Rus
sia, where he had spent consider
able time Investigating anl observ-
ing them, Mr.. steffens was also
interesting himself In the question
Of amnesty for political prisoners
In the United States, and We talk
Cd at some length upon that sub
jeot.
THE casual visitors who came to
Atlanta Prison to see the in
stitution for itself almost never
failed to ask the guards to permit
them to SEQ me Many Of them
must have thought that I was
some sort Of curiosity. and I was
told that not infrequently guards
and even TRUSTEES were offered
small sums Of money by these
prison tourists II they would point
me out to them. In. almost
every case they were disappointed.
for my quarters were in the hos
pital. to which visitors were not
usually admitted I'd
Ono Of the rules of the prison
forbids . convict frsm addressing
himself to . person from the out
side unless he ID specially permit
ted to do 80. Ono day I was order
ed to go to the warden's Office.
and as I passed the main corridor
an Atlanta friend saw me and got
UP to greet me. I extended my
hand to him. when suddenly .
guard screamed at the person.
seized him roughly and threaten
ed to eject him from the prison.
By the same token, I had also
violated rule, but no punishment
was inflicted for the infraction.
tcopyrtsht, 1sa,. by Bell Syndicate. Ino.l
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

NORMAN HAPGooD
His articles on Debs had
. salutary influence In d.
rscting attention to the fact
that many suffered impris-
.onment because they had
stood upon their constitu-
tional right"
however. for he IL escorted from
the captains office TO one Of sew
eral reception rooms where inter-
views with prisoners are permitted.
VISITOR NOTIFIED.
THE visitor waiting In the cor
ridor is now notified that tho
interview is about to take place,
and he follows q guard into the
reception room, where the prisoner
is sitting on the Ear side Of long.
plain table. The room Is perfectly
bare. and barred at the window.
The visitorrnust sit on the opposite
side OF the table and keep hts
banda In view Of the guard vho
sits at the head Of the table aud
overhears every word that ID said.
and sees that nothing, passes be-
tween the prisoner and his visitor.
To prevent the latter the table has
underneath II q partition that ex-
tends down to the floor. No writ
ing. not even a ecrap Of paper. n
permitted to be handed to the prfs-
oner until It IL first inspected by
the guard, who may or may not
permit the convict to receive It.
A rather humorous incident 10
recalled here. A friend came to see
me and brought q letter that he
wished me to read. He attempted
20 pdSe tuo iottcE " hios puI tho
guard took It from his hand say
Ing:
Here, let me see that"
He examined the document
critically. but It was apparent that
he could not read II. and he had to
pass II back to my friend and have
Il read to him.
The exceedingly stupid express
sion upon the face Of the guard
while the missive was being read
to him indicated the grade Of intel
lisence that is placed and kept In
q Federal prison under civil serv.
ice regulations.
GIFTS GO TO GUARDS.
VIsIToRs bringing fruits. can
dies. tobacco. or other articles
to their friends behind the bars
are subjected 10 both surprise and
disappointment The guard takes
The Washington times., 1922-07-02
MELVILLE Z. STONE

MELVILLE i. STONE
Former manager Of the
Associated Press. Mr.. Stone
was on one side Of many
public questions, while I was
on the other. Notwithstand-
ing, he never permitted q
reflection on me as q man.
able number Of residents Of that
city and vicinity. but for various
reasons It was not possible for me
to see them.
SOCIALISTS CALL IN BODY.
FIRST Of all. as I have said, I
felt a reluctance, as many
other prisoners do. to have those
I esteem subjected to the humiliat-
ing conditions imposed upon visi-
tors by the prison regime. In the
next place, my attitude from the
beginning had been that I would
permit the prison to confer no
privileges upon me. andyI had no
right to expect any faeors on his
score. .s..tS Il .-- ~
It was IN consequences of this
that the report went out from At
lanta that I had refused to see GER
tain visitors. At O matter OF fact.
such instances were due either TO
my already having received the
fun quota Of visitors allowed by the
rules or else because the visitor
happened to have come under the
head of q certain order that wills
specially issued in my case by the
department at Washington, and
which placed me incommunicsdo
for O time.
In this position no. press repre-
sentative was permitted to see
me, nor. in fact anyone else save
in the discretion of the warden.
OF this order Of the department,
which completely suspended my
writing ana visiting privileges for
q time, shall have moro to say
in q later article.
An interesting visit to me was
that of the delegation Of socialists
composing the State convention of
the party In Georgia This visit
occurred during the administra-
ton Of Warden Zerbst, who had
given the convention special per-
mission to visit me in a body.
There were fully q hundred or
more men and women in the dele
cation that came to the prison.
and was permitted to meet them
in the main corridor. where I was
rendered their congratulations In
the most loyal and devoted terms.
and to which ! made due re-
The Washington times., 1922-07-02
Restrictions Upon Visits In Penitentiary.
Guard who Couldn't Read Typical of Class
Employed-InferiOr Articles Substituted for
Presents Sent Prisoners by Friends s-EVen
DebS' BOX of Animal Crackers Was Looted.
ARTICLE "
HOW PRISONERS RECEIvE FRIENDS
BY EUGENE v. DEBS

circumstances under which visitors permitted
to see a prisoner such that did not encourage
- my friends to come to On the contrary,
had too much respect for them wish have them sub
jcted to the rules of the prison governing visits and Wis
tors.
The visiting privilege very restricted in the
prison and Atlanta exception to the rule From
thirty minutes to hour is the time allotted. Persons
coming to friend loved in prison likely to
shocked by the rude in which they received
" the guard at the main gate Of the prison.
At Atlanta visitor must first pass two outpost guards
tationed the reservation like sentines These guards
armed with Winchester rifles and visitor approaches
the main walk the guard out from his solitary
,arrack and inquiries his business This is purely per-
tunctory the of the guard for the visitor invariably
Is permitted to pass ..,>'ha~E< ~ .sz;1zz
The second sentinel quartered directly in front Of the
main the prison. He also inquiries to the
stors business and scrutinzes him to he carries
weapons although search is made Of the visitor
BY this time friend from the outside world has been
impressed that he is about to enter prison. the inner
workings of which dark and forbidding Before the
gate opened admit him, guard peers through the
asks what wanted he is satisfied that the
,an is legitimate he will open the gate not the
isitor is sent away.
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

cd and contrivsd for the purpose
Of increasing the prisoners tor.
ment- The worst Of them are:
(a) unsuccessful attempts at re-
form. (b successful attempts to
make the working of the prison
cheaper for the State and easier
for the officials. or .(cl accidents
Of the evolution of the old private
ly owned detention prison into the
new punitive stats- prison. .-.ry.,
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

DERNARD SHAW, ,ohose series of articles in The
- Sunday Times haze gone to the heart of the prob
tem OF imprisonment and capital punishment as q
eterent OF crime, here sums up his conclusions These
rsctes hare arrested the attention of all thinking read
6s: Mr. Shd.o presents hs solution of the problem
tines Eugene Debs tells the story of his prisonn.ent
nd the lessons he learned och he presents for the good
i humanity.
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

peal may be made to the guard.
who in turn may obtain sanction
from the warden. or some other
higher official. to grant the inter.
view. In cases Of this kind ths
prisoner 10 always impressed with
the fact that q specified dispens..-
ton Of Justice has been made In
his behalf. ;;
A convict runner or messenger
takes the slip from the first guard
and goes to call the prisoner.
wherever he may be. who % merely
told that his presence 10 wanted in
the office Of the captain Of the
guards. A prisoner 30 informed
does not know that he has a caller
awaiting him. and on the way to
the office he often conjures up in
his mind some form Of punishment
that 10 about to be meted out to
him for reasons that he does not
know. This suspense II not long,
The Washington times., 1922-07-02
Three Objects in VieD.

z The prison authorities pr6fsss
three objects: ta) retribution
n euphemism for venseance). b,
deterrsnce ta euphemism for ter
rorim). q, reform Of the prisoner.
They achieve the first atrociously.
Thsv fatl n the second thrsuxh
The Washington times., 1922-07-02

CLARENCE DARR0W
Mr.. Darrow handled the
case Of the American Rail
way Union IN the courts fol-
lowing the strike Of 1894.
Hs interceded in Washing
ton to procure Debs' release
from Atlanta.
possession Of the gifts with the
statement that he will have to de-
posit them In the office before
turning them over to the prisoner;
the chances are that tho convict
has seen the last of the articles
selected for him by loving and ten
der hands.
It requires no flight Of the i'm
sgination to figure out in whose
hands they have fallen and win
probably remain. Articles with
out number brought or sent 20 mo
by friends never came into my
hands.
Gifts 10 prisoners arc considered
legitimate spoils for the prison
stsachss vhe handle thcms s,7-.
& ~ -
IF . friend outside had sent .
nice pipe or q necktie. or any
article Of that kind. It would not
be surprising II 1t did not reach
you at all.
Sometimes, indeed. an inferior
article is simply substituted for the
one sent. II you have q friend In
prison and you have sent him a
fine pipe It Is not unlikely that n
cheap one has replaced 1t, and
the helpless prisoner is grimly
amused when he receives your let
ter and reads your comment about
the nice pipe he 10 now smoking In
the solitude Of his cell. A number
of such instances were brought to
my attention.
A friend Of mine in Florida sent
me . large box containing animal
crackers, done up In smaller pack
ages. always gave those kind
Of things away, passed them
around among tho othsr prison
ers, and ~ ! opened the case i
wss happy In tho thought that
these crackers would 60 . long
way-therc appeared to BE- so
many Of them. When I had tslsen
out the top layers Of packages tile
layers underneath collapsed; the
box had been robbed before it got
to- me, and Had been sItilIfulIy
packed 50 as to present IN intact
appearance.
There was q great many persons
who were desirous of visiting me
at Atlanta, including q consider.