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The Washington times., 1922-08-06
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

is. and that she is entangled in a
mesh from which it is impossible
to extricate herself.
There's a reason for all this, Of
course. For generations the wife
has been only an appendage to the
husbands possessions-her life at
best merely sort Of auxiliary and
reflection Of his, her pleasures only
what he allowed her, and her
money a child's spending money,
for ribbons and sweets.
Now she is standing beside him.
Still weak. bewildered, inexperi-
enced, yet she has stumbled to her
feet and taken the bandage from
her eyes, and she is learning to
walk and 10 see. She wants wife
hood, motherhood. companionship,
OF course, but she realizes that to
gain them she must-too often!-
go back to slavery and stupidity
and physical and financial depend.
ence.
She must give a year OF her life
to every child-Nature has taken
care Of that. And during that
year-unless the child's father is
the wise, good, generous man so
few men know how to be at that
time-she must experience splr-
itual weakness and humiliation to
match the physical.
Is 1t astonishing, all the strains
OF soul and body considered, that
she emerges from four or five
years Of marriage disillusloned,
saddened, handicapped, and once
more looking about her for her
own work, her own place, her own
individual right to happiness and
service?
WHAT Is THE ANswER'
Women Of America. what is the
answer Given our mortal stupid.
ties and imperfections, what better
can we dor Surely, surely. we
can't 20 on this way, letting our
friends, and our code, and worst
OF all. the children OF the nation,
pay for our mistakes.
One mistake we make, / think,
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understanding in the police ma
tron who made the arrest after
spying upon the girl and hunting
her down, she would have found
a way to manifest it by caution
ing the child against continuing
the sad life which she had invol-
UNFAIRLY persuaded herself to fol-
low. 1t seems to me that the
innate instinct of a woman would
have prevented the matron from
adopting the brutal and unrcason.
Ing course which she, in her in
finite Ignorance, probably deemed
a most worthy and >virtuous
action.
1 am not unmindful Of the fact
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crime that were made in preceding
articles.
I have seen boys in Jail not be-
cause they had committed crime,
but because they could not fur
nish bail for their release until the
charge of crime lodged against
them was proven at their trial.
They were not guilty, but were pre-
sumed to be innocent, for they
had not been tried. Yet they were
in Jail and their poverty was
therefore their crime. Many
hardened criminal Of today was
started on his career in some such
way, as I'learned from the heart
to heart stories heard from their
lips as we sat together in the
shadows of the prison walls.
At this point there occurs to me
a most poignant and concrete inci-
dent in relation to the point I
have just made. with the excep-
ton that the case concerns a girl
instead Of a boy. Between the Pc
riod Of my sentence in Cleveland
in September, 1918. and my going
to Moundsville prison to serve 1t
in April, 1919, made an almost
daily speaking tour of-the territory
embraced by the Federal judicial
district of northern Ohio, being
permitted so to do by the court
that had pronounced my sentence.
An appeal in my case was at that
time pending before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
I/had filled a speaking engage
ment near Cleveland. after which
visited the County Jail and took
several Of the inmates some cigars,
tobacco and CONNECTIONS. As I was
about to leave the place I heard
the shrieks Of girl, and turning
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xxi Ell US suppose, SAID ny
friend, that the Govern
- ment declared ev,ry mar
riage that has taken place in
America in the last twenty years
invalid, and forbid aay re-marry-
ing for three months. How many
women that you know would go
back TO the same husband?"
We had been taliang Of marriage
and divorce, a subject upon which
1 have been having s9me unusual
ly grave thoughts since an article
Of mine about marriage was print
ed several weeks ago. I have had
hundreds Of letters about that
article, most Of them from un-
happy wives. The letters have
come from every State In the
Union. except one.
1t makes me feel extremely seri-
Gus, this mass Of mail. I wonder
what the percentage OF completely
happy marriages is, anyway? We
know there is no such thing as a
completely happy marriage, but
how many are 80 per cent success
ful? Sixty per cent?
Because. of course, no life is
100 per cent perfect. We have
only to look about us to begin
with the butts" and the ifs"
that frame us all in, in this
singularly bewildering world.
NO PERFECT HUSBAND.
They're tremendously rich, but
"Of course, she had
everything, but >" WED be
completely satisfied, II -
How they pile up, and how often,
observing the lives Of the rich, the
successful, the fortunate and beau.
'tiftl women we know. we other
women say truthfully: But 1
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pendence gone, perhaps my health
and nerves temporarily gone - ="
And she began to recount the
marital troubles of her friends.
The many who were divorced, the
many who would like to he.
my dear" she said finally. in
the words with which commence
this article, ''let us suppose that
by some decree of the national
powers-that-be every marriage per.
formed in America in the last
twenty years should be declared
null and void, and that no mar.
riages could be performed, say, for
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courts; one marriage in seven
reaches the divorce courts.
Then there is, for every divorced
woman. at least one other woman
who for secondary reasons will not
ask for a divorce and prefers to
sacrifice her life rather than pay
the price Of freedom.
Then there are the countless
women whose religion make
divorce a solution only to be con-
sidered at the last extremity.
Catholic women. contrary to the
casual belief Of good many igno-
rant outsiders, can be divorced, for
certain grave causes, but never re-
married, but It is extremely rare
for a Catholic woman to ask for
release from marriage vows. And
there are many woman who be-
long to other churches, and who
seem to have brought the sense
Of the sacredness Of marriage
dowr through the, ages, as a
legacy, perhaps, from the days
when all the Christian world was
Catholic.
MANY EvADE MARRIAGE.
And then there are working
women and professional women-a
group, alas, that is growing enor-
mously and steadily larger-who
simply evade marriage because the
sight Of all the wreckage Of mar.
ried love about them appals them,
as well 1t may.
I know one woman In this class,
and II she were the only one, yet 1
would feel the world infinitely
poorer for 'the loss of this ideal
wife and mother.
NO" she said to me, a few
weeks ago, when we were con-
sidering the claims OF one Of the
finest Of men, II don't dare. I'm
happy now. have my apartment,
and my summer camp, and my
friends. I won't marry except
with the hope Of children, and how
dare I risk finding myself, in a
few years, with children. my inds-
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GENE " DEBS CONTINUING TNSIDE PRISON WALLS" TELLS
HOW LACK OF MONEY PRESUMES GUILT i'm ADVANCE OF TRIA

that many people will uphold the
matron and will consider that she
vindicated the best interests Of
society by causing this child to be
sngmatized for the rest OF her
life as a woman with a police
record.
Between those who adhere to
this point of view and me there
yawns a psychological chasm as
broad and deep as that which
stretches between love and hate.
THE CRIME OF
LACKING BAIL MONEY.
No man and no woman, more
especially no boy and no girl,
should ever be put in jail for
being unable to furnish bail. We
declare that under our benign
code a man is innocent until he
is proven guilty and the next
moment we lock him in Jail be-
fore he is tried.
II the honor Of. men were ap.
pealed to, and they were trusted
TO put In their appearance when
they were needed, as was the
common practice among Indians
$under Incir tribal code, few would
betray the confidence reposed In
them. And far better IL would
be that such rare instances as a
betrayal Of confidence should oc.
cur, than that q single innocent
boy should be lodged In Jail,
branded with police record and
started on his criminal career.
In such q case q crime is I'm.
deed committed, a crime Of cruel
and tragic consequences, and So
ciety itself is the criminal.
The man with money is never
the victim of such a crime. His
money, and not necessarily his in
nocence. keeps him out of Jail.
He can furnish bail though he
may be guilty, while the poor
man must go to Jail though he
may be innocent.
Yet we proudly boast that all
men stand equal before the law.
II this were true one of two
things would follow, either men
would no longer be sentenced to
prison and the prison would cease
to exist. or SO many would be
sentenced to prison that additional
bastiles would have to be built
to confine them.
There is not the slightest doubt
in my mind that, as a general
rule. the criminal is created by
the society in which he lives, and
his crime as a rule 10 rooted in
his poverty; yet little intelligent
attention is given to that vital
and fundamental phase Of crime
which has to do with the crea-
ton Of the criminal.
Society Is greatly agitated over
the epidemic Of crime" and cries
out for protection against crimi-
mails, little realizing that 1t Is but
reaping the fearful harvest of
dragons teeth sown by itself.
And what are the remedies pro-
posed for combating crime
which steadily increases in spite
of the church, the school and the
country club?
Adopt more drastic lawsr' I'm
crease the police force" PRO
nounce longer sentences" 'Inflict
severer punishment
All OF which simply indicates
the puerile understanding we have
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OF this social phenomenon known
as crime. All our efforts are
put forth to suppress the effect
while blindly ignoring the cause,
and Of course our efforts are
futile and barren OF results.
Crime, in whatever form 1t may
make itself manifest. is trace
able in every instance to a def
mite cause. and until the cause
is removed crime will flourish
and grow apace with our vaunted
civilization. We deal with ef-
fects only when we build prisons
for the Incarceration Of criminals
that we ourselves have created
and for whom we are responsible.
The three boys, mere children,
who were convicted at Chicago
some years ago as "carbarn ban
dts" never had a home in any
decent, wholesome sense of the
term. They were the inevitable
products of poverty and the
slums.
The only interest that society
had in them It imposed upon
them as penalty Of its own
neglect by hanging them by the
neck until they were dead!
ARREST IMMEDIATELY
IMPLIES GUILT.
The arrest of a person, however
innocent, is generally regarded as
prima facie evidence of his guilt
Had he been innocent he would
not have been arrested, so con-
cludes the average mind, and
thus he is already convicted.
Is it not apparent at a glance
that the first step has been
taken in creating the criminal
when he is placed under arrest,
a circumstance which is often
heralded to the public in sensa-
1AohaA icpoiIS lIOII udy W udy
After the arrest follows the Jail,
II bail money is lacking. as is
frequently the case, and the Jail
is most likely a filthy den where
in the first offender receives a
rude shock. not at all calculated
to increase his self-respect, or
enhance his confidence in law and
in his own future.
From the Jail he is taken to
court under guard. perhaps band
cuffed, and there he is placed in
the pillory as a public exhibit.
Everything is done as publicly as
possible for his benefit, and all this
occurs before he has been tried
and while he is presumably en-
tirely innocent.
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Is in believing that anything also
In the world is SO important as
children. homes and husba nd,.
Our civilization has run a little
slant-wise on these points, and we
are moving along with our GUS
tomary rapidity, but not quite
toward the real goal.
In the next article write Iwant
to outline a few experiments that
could be made very simply In some
Of our towns and villages, and
that would, I do truly believe, go
a long way toward solving the
problem Of seven-tenths Of our
unhappy marriages. And 1t would
be the supremely advantageous
solution for the small children, too.
I've been thinking about it for
years, talking about it whenever l
had a chance to talk to any one
interested In the subject, and,
while 1t is still, of course, in an
entirely crude and skeleton form,
1t seems to me that 1t is almost
time to try to interest the women
of America in It.
have these letters from un.
happy wives to prove to me that
there is room for Improvement, at
least. And have freshly in mind
the truly extraordinary remark OF
a friend when asked her yester.
day about her little sister.
She's lucky" said this friend.
only twenty-five, you know, and
she's been married, and has a dear
baby, and she's gotten her divorce.
and she's nicely started in a good
job in the business she likes best.
I do think she's going to have n
wonderful life!"
Copyright, 1922. BY The Republic
syndicsts)
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ARTICLE TX.
HOW PRISONS CREATE CRIMINALS.
BY EUGENE " DEBS.

THE most vtaly important phase of the entire criminal
question is the creation of the criminal and launching
him upon his criminal career If the criminal
not created the prison would be unknown IT, to
seevdent the socalled criminal Is social product
it of supreme imporanceth society should realize not
only its responsibility but the necessity of making the
searching investigation of the process whereby crime
is produced and devising suppress least
mitigate the evil.
There much said and written these days. especially by
lawyers in trial courts about criminal psychology. The
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This Il one Of series of Woman.
to-Woman Talks on presented
family and social problems that
Mrs. Norris, Americas best loved
and most popular woman writer,
ls writing especially for this news.
paper. Another talk will be
printed next Sunday.
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around I saw q little lass. certainly
not more than sixteen, struggling
between two policemen and plead.
ing with them not to throw her in
Jail because Of the disgrace that
she felt would come upon her
mother and knew would fall upon
her
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THE BRAND OF THE
POLICE" RECORD. ::

made hurried inquiry Of the
officers and learned that a police
matron was the direct cause of the
plight of this child, who had been
spied upon by the elder woman
when the girl. in desperate eco
nomic necessity, had spoken to q
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ANOTHER DEBS STORY
NEXT SUNDAY

HOW WOULD MANAGE THE PRISON" is the
subject OF Mr. Debs' article in The Sunday Times next
week He Will tell his impressions regarding what he calls
the civil Service farce in relation to the guards The
Prison Under Control of Absent Politicians Who Have Never
Seen It. How the Drug Traffic Thrives Dozen Petty
and Starving Their FAMILIES The Redeeming Power of
Kindness As Substitute for the Brualizing Power of
Cruelty The Human Element Actually Applied in Atlanta
Prison and It's Amazing Results. Challenge to the
Powers and Personalities That Control Jas and Penten
tiares in the United States. ~
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II the criminal instinct actu-
ally exists In the human being
as a positive factor in his mental
and physical organism, it Is so
rare and exceptional as to make 1t
n subject for pathological treat
ment. Only by extravagant ex-
aggeratiOn can it be regarded as a
prevalent Psychology.
Most men and women who, by
the lofty professional criminolo-
gists, would be charged with hav-
ing a criminal psychology" are
simply the victims of social injus-
tice in some form. and when the
cause Of this is ascertained and
removed and the victims are &C.
corded humane treatment in terms
OF love and service their criminal
psychology" at once vanishes.
should rejoice in th@ opportu-
nifty to take a dozen of the most
pronounced cases wherein "crim-
inal psychology" has been estab-
lMhed by the professors who
delve into the mysteries of the I'M
derworld; should like to place
these victims in proper environ
ment, surround them With whole
some influences, and give them
such incentives to right living as
every human being should enjoy,
and then see what becomes of their
criminal psychology.
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD
GIRL IN JAIL.
1t has been a matter Of such
common observation with me that
poverty, generally speaking, is
the basis of crime that, in dis
cussing this phase of the question,
am under the necessity of repeat
ing and emphasizing some refer.
ences to poverty in relation to
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SOCIETY COMMITS
REAL CRIME WHEN
JAILING INNOCENTS

Those Charged With Criminal Psychology"
Are Really Victims of Social Injustice, Says
Mir. DeBS-POVerty is the Deadly Nemesis
ON the Track of the Accused Man,,
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EkT EFT us suppose" said ny
friend, that the Govern
- ment declared ev,S-y mar
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CHAPTER III
The Two Ornhans

ne TWO OTpndnS
II ACK and Janet opened their eyes
wide in surprise when they saw
~ Sleepy Woodchuck walk across
the river. The ripping water held
him up as though it had been frozen
into solid ice.
"His-s-s-s-s! You, too, can walk on
the water now that you are Slumber
Sprites," Kissed Black Snake. To
show them how easily it was done he
glided down the bank and out upon
the river. After him hoped Colonel
Croaker, the frog. Chip and Clipper
Chipmuch followed, and they didn't
seem to get wet enough ven to need
rubbers.
"If they can do that, we a too"
said Jack to Janet. Taking her by
the hand he jumped down to the
rivers edge and ventured n foot
upon the water. He didn't sink. Then
he put his other foot, and that didn't
sink. Janet did the same, and there
they both were standing on the water
Come on cried Jack, and he raced
across the river as fast as he could
go, dragging Janet after him.
They ran fast because they were
scared. What if the water should
suddenly open and swallow them?
But the water didn't open. 1t held
them up and they soon reached the
other shore.
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means all dull colors, however, are
neutral. Russell, for instance, is ad-
vancing because the amount of red
and orange in its makeup for out
balances the blue element.
One of the most useful qualities of
neutral colors is that other colors may
be placed against them without clash
ing. This makes them valuable as
backgrounds that can easily be ma.
naged. The grays in general al
though many of them are not strictly
speaking neutral in their compost.
ton, commonly possess neutral quail
ties. Neutral -colored walls do not
seem to come together toward you.
Their tendency, if anything, is to in
crease apparent size.
Friday-"CoIor Properties"
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The Daily Fun Hour
Follow Ball Race


This game is usually played with
a medicine ball, but a basketball or
any other sort of air-ball will serve
the same purpose. The players stand
in two lines, facing one another. The
lines should be about twenty-five feet
apart, forming what is called a hollow
square, open at both ends. Four pegs
may be driven into the ground, one
at the beginning and one at the end
of each line of players, or fiat stones
may be used to mark the n of
the hollow square.
The first player at the right end of
each line takes the ball for his side
and run all around the square, be-
hind each row of players. Each ball
runner attempts to "tag" his oppo-
nent with the ball and also tries to
avoid being tagged himself. When
he returns to his starting point with
out being tagged he passes the ball
to the next player in line, who i'm
mediately rum with it, following and
being followed by the second player
in the opposing line.
The first player then goes to the
foot of the line, and the whole line
moves up one space. This follow-ball
race continues until a running player
from n side ball-tags the runner Of
the other side. This counts ten points
for his side. Game is fifty points
This game is sometimes called "Me.
dicine Ball Pursuit" The medicine
ball, which is sold in all first-class
sporting goods stores, is, as it's name
indicates a ~favorite ball for health
full exercise, but is rather heavy for
general use.
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you snail go WIN me on my TRIP
There Sleepy Woodchuck, Black
Snake, Colonel Croaker, and Chip and
Clipper Chipmuck were waiting for
them.
1.-THE steamship is nearly ready to
sail for Egypt" barked Sleepy Wood
chuck. We must hurry aboard"
Jack and Janet didn't know
whether they wanted to go to Egypt.
1t seemed very far away. But they
ran after Sleepy Woodchuck a she
ran after Sleepy Woodchuck as he
ship lay, pouring smoke from it's fun
nels and throbbing as if eager to be
off.
AS they scampered across the docks
they heard the sound of sobbing. All
stopped in surprise to listen. The
sobbing seemed to come from a large
box. They looked within, and there
was a ragged little girl crying as if
her heart were breaking. A ragged
little boy was trying to comfort her.
Don't cry, little sister," said the
boy. 1--WE will make our home in this
box, and 1 will run errands to get
money to buy us food"
81 am cold" sobbed the little girl.
lam hungry, too"
A heavy step sounded on the dock,
and a whiskered man wearing a ship
officers uniform looked down upon
the ragged girl and boy.
why is the little girl crying?"
asked the man in a kindly voice.
"She is crying because we are or
phans and have no home except this
old box" said the ragged boy. Sister
ic afraid 1ua will fraaznp
"Hm-m-m!" said the whiskered
man, who was none other than the
captain of the ship. 81 should say
you would freeze when Old Man Win
ter comes along with his billiards
and ice. You can't keep warm in that
box"
The ragged little girl sobbed harder
than eve
There! there little sister," said
the ragged boy, hugging her tight.
perhaps Santa Claus will find us and
give us a nice warm home and plenty
to eat"
"Ho! no! ho!" alughed the Kindly
Captain. 81 will be Santa Claus to
you and give you a nice warm home
on my ship, and plenty to eat if the
pesky rat don't gobble all our food
first. You shall go with me on my
trip" ~
Are you going to the North Pole?"
asked the ragged lad, %shivering. Lit
tie sister is too cold now"
mo, we are going to the land of
the Nile, where summer eve ends"
laughed the Kindly Captain, "All
aboard for Egypt"
He picked up the ragged little girl
and ragged little boy and carried
them aboard the steamship.
Hurry! urged Sleepy W~oodchuck
TO Jack and Janet, Black Snake, Col
onel Croaker, and Chip and Clipper
Chipmuck. They ran across the gang
plank to the deck of the ship just
as the sailors drew the gang plank in,
and the boat started on its long trip
to Egypt.
lin Fridays chapter will be told
how they find foes aboard the ship
but foes that cannot harm them.)
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Tomorrow-Corned Beef and Cab
bage BY Mrs. Jack London.
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VIOLET GREEN 6CSLATE -NeOreAt
VIOLET - " BLUE " RED
GREEN N Blue Y YELLOW
IATE 4 eLOeM YELLOW tREo
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RECIPES
OF FAMOUS o M
No. rs BY Mrs. William C. Nc.

No. 25- BY Mrs. William G. Nc.
Adoo.
(Wife of Secretary of Treasury in
President Wilson'S Cabinet)
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Boil five large sweet potatoes and
cut them crosswise in pieces 1K
inches in thickness; lay in pan and
put two tablespoonfuls of butter, cut
in dice yer them, then three table
%spoonfuls of powdered sugar and two
tablespoonfuls of Porto Rico molasses
and cook in oven for ten minutes to
get nice and brown.
Tomorrow-Corned Beef and Cab
Lz-- d.. M.- -AI- .I
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In Fridays chapter will be told
how they find foes aboard the ship
but foes that cannot harm them.)