Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23

allowed to walk out Of their cells and
eat their Sunday dinner and go back
without any guards thing never heard
OF before in this excellently managed
prison. Kennedy writes me, II hon.
estly believe that Pathfinder teacher
in any prison will take the place Of at
least IL armed guards"
The second letter Is from Don "
Kimball, recently released from WASH
ington State Prison, where he was
teaching a class IN philosophy. Most
people imagine all criminals are de-
PRAYED, defective, insane or something.
Oh, no; many of them are just like you
and me-but somehow spoiled In the
making-men who never learned how
to engineer life or read its price tag.
Kimbau says he one tried to block the
Pathfinder work, as he distrusted all
welfare organizations, as most prisoners
do, but by chance he learned what 1t
was and Is now devoting his life to
teaching the Pathfinder philosophy.
But the little children give just as
eloquent testimony. One little girl
writes-I just pick these letters out OF
the thousands: your lesson N Anger
made me feel so good toward my mother
that she thought / was SICK" Another,
MY mamma and papa have always
fought great deal, but after took
said, I guess we will have to cut out
fighting and since then our home has
been very happy" And, II told mamma
lies SO long she won't believe me now
when tell the truth, but am going
to keep right on telling her the truth
anyhow" And another, from a mother:
II don't know what you have done to
Mary, but tried every way possible to
get her to help me wash the dishes
without success, but now she washes
them without my asking her" 1t Is
such temptation to extend these into
the hundreds, even thousands.
Backed by Manufactures.
But finally: While in every great
movement there is always a man who
leads, yet back of him Is always another
man who Is often unknown, but without
whom success would be impossible
Just so, back of Dad Wright has stood
all these years Joseph Boyer, now past
&c. builder and president of the Bur-
roughs Adding Machine Co., who has
furnished the funds for carrying on this
noble work. have often said that Mr.
Boyer would be remembered by his work
for the Pathf1ndeFs long after the Bur-
rbughS adding machine had been for
gotten. 1 am sure he will. He has
backed the entire work from the be-
ginning with untold thousands of dol
lars.
In fact, some day Detroit will build
three monuments. One, of course, to
Henry Ford, and probably the greatest
thing Henry Ford ever did was to install
the Pathfinder work in his trade school
for boys. The second monument, Just
as high, will be for Joseph Boyer for
his work, without which this story OF
human regeneration and character
building would have been impossible
And the third will be to j. Franklin
Wright, Doctor of Common Sense who
has developed practical system for
teaching the good life and showing men
that moral conduct is simply intelligent
conduct, right doing is just reasonable
doing and the only morality that will
stand up through the years is one that
teaches men how to plan their lives with
the same intelligence with which an
engineer plans building and shows
them how to read the price tags that
are already plainly printed on every
thing good or bad within the range OF
human desire.