Life — October 22, 1908 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Prison Reform URRENT gleanings from the columns make un crying news dcniably need for radical penological The sum total o1 prisons, apparent reform q it all is that our jails and penitentiaries are woefully dis with the ideas of art, vod taste nal comfort of many of those called upon unex abit them cordan and per: who nowadays are pectedly to inh It is unnecessary to go at length into the theory of the matter. We are con fronted by a condition, not a theory. Tf, of course, we were to seck the cause, we would undoubtedly find it in the lack of competition due 10 the government own ership of fhe penal institutions, If we had free competition, then the man with the mast money could choose the best Prison as is There would be pris ons 10 correspond with every tradstree 1 that would be the en it, But are not interested only iar c are interested in facts rating in causes. Causes interest acadensi Now, it is an indisputable fact that one cannot make a silk purse out of It is no less indisputable t up the ave cannot properly fit Tso that a man of wealth and refine can be reasonably comfortable in I. is an appalling state of affairs. Hi long, all forms of ns, embezzlement ontinues. very incentive | crime, brib: of one’s wife's ' ore respectable such as defaleat ing legistatures, the killin paramour and the like, will disappear and we shall settle down to a dead level which a W night's prayer-meeting would seem as a hace! of virtue beside Inesday natian riot e nour careful calculations 1 faux pas We must not hands, Th to the Somewhere there has been a slip, a ache, but we must not despair. throw up our can spirit is certainly equal constitution is clear when it says that no erucl shall ft is not cruel and une: nusual punishments he in yan who has. stolen avoid starvation, put him in a He is bread to vermin-ridden ceil and feed him used to it, all but the feed. But to do the same to a Lank clerk or president who has temporarily borrowed securitics on automobile or give his girl a good time on the Great White Way is simply barbarous. Words fail ine, and I feel like resorting to exclama: tion points when I think of it Ellis O. Jones. in order to buy Marine Note F ZARS are entertained for the safety of the “ Ritltaft.’ She has re cently been in collision with a Standard Oil Towboat, and is reported to have been rammed by the “Willie Randolph,” The Bilitaft is a amed craft of over California privateer Muff bowed, broad by joo tons burden, built in Ohio Heavy ter part of feared she nd ownel in Oyster Bay winds from Washin her are expected, it is ton during la Octo. may founder. .D. sir! T tell you this emire coun Iry is in the absolute thirty men.” “You don’t tell me! 1 the number was so la had no idea “ Business vrganized that littic educational tne Saturday Evening Post HE idea of business is not io be of any educational lue, but to produce as h money for the m: engaged in That is why our men of business know as is possible. nothing of art, of beauty, of literature, except what they get in an automobile, as the: go from one directors’ meeting That is why they talk mostly of nothing much but prices current, stocks, another. the prospect for crops and the latest po- litical mushroom. Schopenhauer, in his favorite restaurant, was once seen pass- ing a gold coin from one pocket to an- other. When asked the reason for this he said that he made a bet with himself that the conversation of the men around him would never deal with other sub jects but business and women. Thi have not changed much since then The Patriotic Old Standard Oil HE downfall of Foraker has been ce garded with so much holy’ horror that it is rather strange that no one as yet has thought of discussing the other party in the transaction Standard Oil Comy The officers of this company have been protesting their virtue so long that they the good old really believe it themselves. 5 “Like or unto truth, by telling of it, made such a sinner to credit who having, of his memory his own lie."" Never! They {reeze out competitors by buying up the legislatures? Oh dear no! Mr Archbold has been specially prom’ this campaign of injured oS innocence. Perhaps he thought it F°% patriotic to corrupt United They have secret rebates! nent in senator of the lates by giving him money, “W LOTHES make the man, and want of them Salome. Gifts of Fame ARCEL, the original fab- ricator of the Marcel lately been 10 London, reccived some of testimonial in casket, and heard the band play “See, the Conquering Hero Comes!’’ in his honor. No made in the dispatches of thunders of fort and fleet, Lut these would hardly he lacking to an occasion otherwise so wave, has Fre nefition is distinguished. In the meantime, the inventor of th Hertzian cooped up in some obscure German laboratory, if he dead. As for the brought out the sad sea wave, we don't wave is isn’t already man who even remember his name. Wolfe rather have written the boast of heraldry than beat the French he had to take what he could get, and so he has General would to-morrow; but his centenary celebrated by nents, while poor old G mentioned for a moment — - Telephone Manners NCE two con is scarcely akes possible new forms impoliteness. Why should a because he has a telephone, of by the other man on the ide. who wants to sell hin something, or bore him, or importune And a way im: to himself, The man who has a telephone is, in a