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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03
PRISON SENSE
By H. Addington Bruce


TIME other evening I'heard Thomas Mott
Osborne plead for saner treatment OF
a. criminals.
.eWhat we actually do through the way
wa deal with men convicted of crime he.
in effect maintained, sis to increase the
menace of criminality instead OF lessenlng
il. So far from making prison places OF
reconstruction, we have let them become
institutions for rendering their inmates
less fit to lead worthy and productive
lives.
"Everv nrison should be a school for eff
ficient citizenship. Instead men are so de-
graded and embittered in our prisons that
their great aim when they regain their
freedom, is to take revenge on society
which they feel has not dealt fairly with
them
Then, in a recently published book on
"Penal Discipline" by Mary Gordon, ! read
this:
eff the penal system has any good effect
on any prisoner, I failed to find it. 1t APP
pears to me not to belong to this time or
civilization at all.
eve not only do not deter. but we do
actually make over our criminal to crime
We merely ill-treat the man or woman, who
none the less ignores and escapes us.
"The huge proportion of uncured and I'M
deferred criminals which we have always
proof OF the failure of our penal system.
And, a few days afterward, came upon
the following in a news dispatch giving the
opinion of Louis Victor Eytinge, wh1lom in
mate OF state prison:
'The prisons of this country do more
harm than good. They must either be
revolutionized or abolished.
"The way to revolutionize prisons Is,
first, take the pHIsons out of politics and
the politics out of prisons. Second, give
every man a psychological trial before you
give him court trial. Third, let tri-
umHirate of one business man. one moralist
and one psychiatrist govern every prison.
Full brains, full bellies and active, fin
gers are what prisoners need. They need,
too, an amount of study and play equal to
that of work.
All of the above, I submit, constitutes
what may be termed prison sense.
The trouble with our prisons is not
merely that they are so often dens of bru-
tality and cruelty, where the human rights
of prisoners are callously disregarded.
They are hotbeds, also, of vice and crime,
deforming rather than reforming.
And they will always be that, to the in
creasing peril of society, until an aroused
public opinion forces on legislators a radical
to making all prisons what Thomas Mott
Osborne rightly says they ought to be
schools for efficient citizenship.
Does mere punishment of prisoners profit
society anything? Does degrading of pris-
Oners make them better men? Ordinary in
telligence, to say nothing of the rising tide
of crime, compels emphatic answers in the
negative.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03
BY DR.. Edwin E. S1OssOn.

with the suspicion of knowing too much for
his neighbors The "kenning man. becomes
the reputation of being "artful." A crafts
man is regarded as crafty" A politician has
come to mean-well, politician.
Four hundred years ago the word ''virago"
meant an heroic woman and was esteemed.
a fitting name to apply to Eve, the mother of
all living. Nowadays no one would dare call
woman a virago to her face If she were one
"Hussy' has degenerated in hundred years
from thrifty housewife" to quite the OPP.
posite.
In Australian newspapers today you may
see a lonely bachelor advertising for "a home
Iy Wife" not because he has an aversion ia
feminine beauty, but because he desires dos
mesticity.
wretch" was not at all wretched on the;
start Othello calls his beloved Desdenaona,
Excellent wretch" A modern maiden would
not feel complimented by such term OF en-
dearment. p,
"prude' was merely prudent person!
VILLAIN" and Door once meant SIM
ply countryman, not necessarily wicked or
even rude. A "knaYe" was a simple servant.
A "varIet'' was a candidate for knighthood.
A "miscreant' meant one who differed from
you in theology. e.
In 154S it was proper to express the piosis
wish that his son, Prince Edward, that good
imp, may long reign over you" How is it
that limp" has since come to mean a httle
devil? lR f..
So, as we see, words generally degenerate
as they grow old That does not matter
much, for we can always make new words so
long as the alphabet holds out. I am not
concerned over the loss of name, but am
with the loss of the type that the name once
signified. If an ancient and honorable title
falls into disrepute it is not altogether with
out reason. 1t means that some at least OF
those who bore it have not lived up to it's
true meaning.
1t would be profitable exercise to consid4
er such cases as occur to us Of WORDS that we
see are gradually becoming lowered or limit
ed and try to discover the cause of their de-
cline and how it may be prevented.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03
A BOOK TO LOVE
BV DR.. Frank Crane

There are some books we read for informa-
tion, some for diversion, and some to say that
we have read them.
But occasionally comes along book that
gets into our hearts. Such a one is the last
book w. H. Hudson wrote before he died,
"a Hind in Richmond Park"
1t is nothing but an account of what he
thought upon seeing a deer in park. That
is all.
But that is enough. For beginning with
this fountain the stream wanders on through
the pages of rich experience, whimsical OBJ
servation, questioning philosophy, and hearty
feeling till it waters the whole landscape of
the readers nature.
I like to commend this kind of book be-
cause it is real, it is healthy, it is as whole
some as a garden as a pine wood.
1t is not about any particular subject. 1
doubt if books ever ought to be written upon
some given theme. How much life we sacri-
fee to system and how often thought has its
head and feet Topped Off to fit the bed OF
logic!
Of course Hudson, being a naturalist, has
most to say of animals and plants and all
naked life. In all the book there is no sug-
gestion of clothes.
1t is very difficult to quote from this book
because any quotation will be taken as sam
pie of the whole. But the totality of Hudson
cannot be sampled any more than a little
piece of wood can be a sample of the majesty
of the forest. But here, for instance, is a
sense of smell:
"It is a common idea, and is in the books,
that mans sense of smell has decayed; some
writer's have gone so far to describe 1t as
Obsolescent. 1t would be nearer the truth to
say that the more civilized man becomes, the
more he secures himself against the forces of
nature by improving his conditions the less
important to his welfare does this sense be-
come. The dangers he is warned against by
smell in a state of nature have been removed
artiicially; in an environment in which the
function of the olfactories has been suppressed
ed, the inevitable result is their decay. This
is in accordance with natures economical
principles; she will not continue to do for
us what we have undertaken to do for our
selves, and will cheerfully scrap the exquisite
apparatus she has been building up for our
safety in thousands and millions of years.
To those for whom thought is not pain,
but a delightful exercise and as interesting
golf, to those for whom the mind is be-
loved kingdom and not an annoyance, to
those who love thoughts as they love pets and
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03

when the question doubtless will be
threshed to a decision, there should be
full-hearted support of liberal policies
Eardless of party prejudice. In the present
comment of Democrats there is inevitably
when the time of decisive action comes,
they should be found working magnani-
mously for the triumph of principle. Thus
will they best vindicate their party and
best serve their country.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03

'Tn my state" says. a Kentuckian, as a
that the account Of any festivity is sure to
contain items of anything but a peaceable
nature.
"a recent wedding presented such unusual
features that it was spoken of with wonder
by the inhabitants of the town
" I never saw anything pass off so pretty
and calm as Bud and Harriet's wedding in
all my days said one of the invited guests
week after the wedding. why, there
wasn't single casualty excepting Bill Thorn
as black eye, and we got Henry Morton off
him without half trying-you know we did.
There didn't seem to be any what you might
call family feeling at that wedding, any
how"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03
was Europe. I do not know how this is now
The Swords of Two Angels

How old is the sword? Who invented it?
Some historians say that the Egyptians gave
the sword it's name five thousand years ago.
But lest we forget, the twenty-fourth verse
of the third chapter of Genesis says, that
when God drove Adam out of Paradise HE
placed at the east of the Garden of Eden
Cherubims, and flaming sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of
life" Then we have it on Biblical authority
that the angel of the Lord with his sword
drawn in his hand" stood in the way of Ba-
laam riding upon his ass, and the ass saw the
sword, and turned aside out of the way, and
went into the field, carrying the angry BaIaam
with him.
In Millions wonderful paradise Lost"
that great epic of the fall of mankind, there
occurs these words: "The sword of Michael,
from the armoury of God, met the sword of
Satan" This was just before his satanic
majesty was hurled from the battlements of
heaven, and dropped, with the rapidity of a
falling star, into bottomless hell.
And then, Isaiah, of the Old Testament,
tells us ''they shall beat their swords into
plowshares''
1t would seem that there were angels in
heaven with swords before the days of the
Egyptians who historians say gave the sword
it's name.
That was glitterng array of blades when
the tribes of Israel assembled on one occasion
and four hundred thousand of them drew the
sword,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03
A PREFERENCE
BY BERTON BRALEY

BY BERTON BRALEY
r d rather be an Easy Mark
Than Hard-boiled Egg;
- I'd rather be a Sucker
Than the guy who pulls his leg
For the Easy Mark has peace of mind
And the Hard-boiled Egg has none,
And the Easy Mark has the better part
When all is said and done.
I'd rather be an Easy Mark
Than be Hard-shelled Crabs
Who always has his f1shy eye
On things that he may grab;
His friends may stick the Easy Marx
With schemes for which he'll fall,
But Hard-boiled Eggs and Hard-shelled
Grabs
Possess no friends at all.
I'VE hung this motto on my wall
Upon a handy peg,
"Pd rather be an Easy Mark
Than be a Hard-boiled Egg!
I'd rather think that goodness re1gns
Amid the human throng,
Thus copying the Easy Mark
Yes, even if he's wrong!
Copyright, 1929
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for whom reflection is chosen delight, this
volume will be a treasure.
Hudson's was an amazingly rich and fecund
nature. We can never be too grateful that he
turned to literature and endowed the world
with some of the beauty of his mind.
Copyright, 1929
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

good old age is often a bad one.
More than rouge and powder are needed
to alter the complexion of a woman's
thoughts.
When it comes to looking Oh the bright
side of things one-sided views are apt to be
satisfactory.
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Copyright, 1929

"But I'm not drunk, your (hic) honor"
said Mr. Triple. "The only spree I was ever
on in my life was when was eighteen years
of age"
Dear me, dear me-" unused his honor
"That's the longest spree that I've ever
heard Of"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03

pair of lovers were strolling along in
the park one evening when the girl said to
her companion: Bill, I dreamt about you
last night" For one short moment, Bill
tasted heaven. go on" he said you new
err" YES" she continued, 81 did, straight
Yer know fried fish and mince pie and stuff
like that allus gives me the nightmare"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-03
The Restoration of the Sword

BY JOHN T. BOFEUILLET
without sign his sword the brave man
draws,
And asks no omen but his countrys cause"
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Say" remarked the little American girl
to her English cousin, which would you
rather be-British or Americana"
why, English was the prompt response
Jaw, g'wan,'' she said, with glance of
disgust; that's just like you Britishers,
crazy about your own old country
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mo Bobby" said mother, with decision
For the third time tell you you can't have
another chocolate" Bobby is in despair. 81
don't see,' he said, "where father gets the
idea that you always changing your
mind"
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w yHILE there is no probability of the
M Senates ratifying, at this session, the
Presidents recommendation that
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
Adopt Gold Teeth Fad.

While most people prefer to con-
ceal the fact that they have artificial
teeth almost as much as man dis
likes to wear wig, the display of
gold teeth has become fad among
the nouveaux riches In Paris. or at
least a front tooth inlaid with little
gold plate. At first to indulge this
fad 1t was necessary to have a tooth
extracted and an artificial one of
gold fitted in its place.
But now, thanks to the invention of
an Limitation false gold TOOTH" the
painful extraction is avoided. The
invention consists OF kind of adjust
ed gold covering which Immediately
adapts itself to any healthy tooth and
entirely covers it. A few judiciously
placed imitation gold teeth impart to
the smile gorgeous effect not other
wise attainable.-f'rom the Paris
Correspondence in the New York
Tribune.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
ROAD MAINTENANCE TRUCK
Implement Carries Concrete Mixer and
Combination Bin for Cement,
Sand and Gravel.

A highway-maintenanc truck, de-
scribed in the Popular Mechanics Mag
azine, has been put into operation In
California, which would seem to be
the last word in complete equipment.
1t carries concrete mixer and COM
blnation material bin for cement, sand
and gravel. Also an air compressor
and air tank which can be used for
driving rock drill for road work. or
can be used in connection with n wa
ter-supply tank as spraying outfit
or fire extinguisher.
There is also centrifugal pump
which can be used for filling the water
tank or for pumping out cisterns or
caissons. The truck engine furnishes
all necessary power for driving the
auxiliary equipment ut various speeds
through special transmission. Flanged
wheels may be substituted II so de-
sired.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
The End of Ionla.

The Greeks may stay in Constantine
pie, but they are to he expelled from
Anatolin. Already they seem to have
been cleared out of Smyrna and the
neighboring regions; and thus ends the
history of the oldest of European civllI-
cations. the parent of the rest. For
the Greek culture of Smyrna and the
west coast of Asia Minor Is Asiatlc only
by accident of geography; Its ancestry
can be traced back 10 the earliest ~
European cultures, that which -four
ished In the great and brilliant island
empire of Crete, with some outposts on
the Greek mainland, in the second and
third millenniums before Christ With
all allowance for Egyptian and possi-
bly, Asiatic influences, that civilization
was still European; and 1t reached
high point at time when the rest Of
Europe was a wilderness.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
ADDING TO VALUE OF LAMBS
Docking and castration Should Be
Done in Mornins-Many Males
Should Be Marketed.

Lambs should be docked and cas-
trated in the morning If possible so
that they can be looked after during
the day time. In case of excessive
bleeding as a result of docking, the
tail should be tied with cord. 1t Is
best to dock first and castrate a few
days later, but if the flock is a large
one and a. second handling is not desir-
able both operations may be done at
one time.
Too great emphasis cannot be placed
uron these two acts of proper flock
management from the standpoint of
success in raising the lambs and the
higher market value. Many males are
used for breeders when they should be
wethers fattened for market.
The proper place to dock is about
the third vertebrae or about one inch
from the body. The skin should be
forced forward so that it may later
fall back and cover the stump. For
docking sharp knife will serve well.
Many use n hot pincher or chisel for
this operation, but the heating of iron
consumes time and the hot iron is used
only in cases when lambs cannot be
watched afterward, MS in range flocks.
Phil A. Anderson, division of ami
NAL husbandry, University farm.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
MLost Tree" Often Found.

The Lost Tree" that has been wide
ly discussed throughout the country, Is
not "lost" at all, for there are great
many of them. Nature Magazine an
nounces. All that is lost about this
genus Franklinia is the place where it
was first found, the magazine asserts.
The early discoverers carried seeds to
Philadelphia and the plant has been in
cultivation ever since. There are plen-
ty of the plants in this country and in
Europe.
But there is real Lost Tree" in
America as far as classification goes,
and that is the Lee Oak" at Clncin-
natl, which has been given a place in
the Hall of Fame for trees with a his
tory.
This tree was discovered by DR..
Thomas Lee in 1896. In 1870 Sir VIII
liam Hooper, the English naturalist.
with Prof. Asa Gray, spent some time
in searching for other specimens.
Acorns from this tree have been sent
to the Academy of Sciences Mt Phila-
delph'a. the National museum at Wash
ington, and to Harvard.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
A Country on the Novel

Some parts of the world are changing
their POSITIONS
Perhaps the most interesting case is
that of Greenland. Two Danish scien-
lists have been investigating, and their
results show that the country is NOV
ing to the west at the rate of about
twenty yards year. Two other oh
servations, one taken in 1870 and the
other in 1907, showed a difference Of
roughly 1910 yards.
Another portion of the globe which is
altering its position is the North pole
Owing to the small area of the pole
it is about the size of tennis court
observation is difficult, but two oh
servatories have reported that II Is
moving slowly to the north 1t is also
stated that the coast of Labrador Is ris-
ing from the sea.
Many authorities declare that both
the poles are moving, and that this nj.
teration to the worlds axis will mean
in time that regions which are now
frozen will become warm and habitn'
BILE.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
RuI1soN AND VICINITY

Mrs. Muth received n letter that
her sister, Mrs Shultz, had had an
operation in January and had never
fully recovered. Her death was nearly
n month later.
Mrs. Harry Estes left for susanville,
Calf, to attend the funeral of her
sister, Mrs Shultz.
Aura Smith is visiting few days
in town, the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rosseau; also to meet the eye doctor.
Charles Evans took in load of beef
hides to Mr.. Boland on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Corley are moving
on to the Rich Estes place on Beaver
creek for the coming summer.
Bert McDaniels and family are NOV
ing on to the Cribben ranch on Porcu'
pine.
Mr.. Bernklau and Ed made trip to
the sawmill on Wednesday.
Mrs. Kissee was business visitor
in town over Saturday.
Mrs. Winters was Rulison visitor
over Saturday and Sunday.
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
FIRST FLATiRON ROUND ROCK
Modern Implement is Evolution oY
Stone oId-Timers Used to
Smooth Linen With.

eyes" said the laundryman, "you
never would think it, but the electric
and gas irons you see us using today
are the Legitimate offspring of a
round. water-worn stone. You've seen
pictures of women washing clothes on
the river stones and in the Orkney ia-
lands they Still employ them, but as faf
back as the Tenth century the Scotch
began to use mushroom-shaped object
of black glass as linen smoother.
"The appliance was operated in an
inverted position, of course, the stem
representing an attempt 70 make the
round stone more convenient by giving
it handle.
about 200 years later the French
began to use metal irons shaped like
tailor's goose though they were
smaller, and they were hollow so as to
hold burning charcoal or red-hot iron
bar.
"Many of these early irons were
elaborate, the artistic Frenchmen orna-
menting them with scrolls and ara
besQues of silver. Can you imagine
them today in the hands of an ironer?
Following these fancy irons came
| the flatiron of generation ago, heated
on stove, and today we have the
electric and gas-heated kinds.
''The modern washing machine also
developed in the same way from the
washing methods of the ancient Ro-
mans, who would put soied toga in n
vat and stamp on it, hnrefooted, until
it was clean. The washers used alliall
instead of soap for cleansing purposes,
and then bleached the clothing in sui
phur.
Sometimes this method was varied
by slapping the linen with sticks or
whacklng it on stones. The wash
board, of course, was invented to take
the place of the rough river stones."-
New York Sun
The Glenwood post., 1923-02-22
Fasclsta Of a Century Ano.

A forerunner of the Fascista was
the Carbonari, society which flour
:shed in Italy about a hundred years
ago. 1t was extremely nationalistic
IN aim and did much to bring about
italian unity.
"Clear the forest of wolves" was n
secret phrase of theirs by which they
meant that they were trying to drive
out the Neapolitan Bourbons. The
initiated were styled good cousins"
and the uninitihted were called
heather.
The various societies do not seem
to have possessed a common center
or to have been properly organized
for concerted action. The society,
soon after 1t came into existence
numbered 10000 adherents.