Evening journal., 1922-12-26
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922
OUR SLOGAN.
CARRY ON PLUMBERS WORK

Il A MONUMENT 20 the memory OF a mans man.
N monument. yes, but great as It is It cannot com
pare left In the hearts OF those who
today are respectable citizens, saved by this man who
preached the Calvary cure"
This Is the aexpressve testimonial in the words OF
the New Castle County worhouse prisoners themselves
to the lasting effectiveness OF the reformatory work
that crowned the useful life OF Mordecal s. Pummer
And the setting wherein words uttered by a
e-term prisoner to be forgotten by those
who were fortunte enough to be able to attend the
funeral services the workhouse Sunday afternoon 1t
is rare indeed that those who have derived the most
benefit from the lfe-exacting toll of one OF natures
real nobemen" have the chance publicly TO express
their sincere gratitude in manner which eonvinees
the most skeptical But those hundreds of prisoners
did so impress all those who them at the Plummer
funeral.
There mingled with the rich. the wel-to-do and
the poor with honorable upright citizens and criminals
sentenced to pass the remainder OF their lives apart
from the general their fellows. with high public
officials headed by a United Senator and moral
detectives who have had real chance with per-
sons Of every religious faith and persuasion. Roman
Catholic Methodist Baptist Presbyterian, Episcopaan,
Quaker and, last, but most important Of all one
mingled with those salvaged wrecks Of humanity, for
mer inmates who had had the whole of their
lives changed by the Plummer honor system These
former prisoners who look like and act like just
the average r'sn OF mankind. to be the living
testimonials of Plummer's work
For impressiveness the funeral services seldom
be equaled. To men, white and black, with
the marks Of crime not yet fully effaced from their
countenances break down and sob convulsvey as
heart-broken children do. to men who have COM
mitted murder choked with emotion that they
unable 10 participate choral singing these
things words accurately portray. And the
climax reached when during the earlier service for
prisoners members Of the Rotary Club and a few in
vited guests, the chairman of the honor system
-nittee stood with hand appraised the the
dead warden and called upon the prisoners to pledge
themselves 10 carry the work started by Mr. Plum
ner so that he should not have died in vain. And
Without exception up went the hand every prisoner
solemn And with that we know the Plum
system will endure.
Amid unusual wealth OF floral tributes the ritual
stc services for the public conducted by Bishop Cook
ook on a new meaning for the hundreds who crowded
he services attended by fully one thousand
people.
And as an earnest for the future the belief ex-
the cheering CLINT of hope to CLEAN from the con-
lined mems eyes Dr. Hubbard had stated that he
thought. the General Assembly which convenes next
week will proper parole law. This OF all his
unfinished the closest to the heart OF Mr.
Plummer His disappointment bitter that such a
law failed of years ago II every citizen
could have the wistful look the OF
Greenbank prisoners when Dr. Hubbard gave vent to
his expressions there would the slightest
doubt that Pummer's parole bill would be one OF the
very first be enacted into law in January
action would prove faith In the life and Wort
Of Mordecai s. Plummer.