The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, April 09, 1909, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextHenry County Weekly. J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor. Entered at the pestofflee at McDon ough as second class mall matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per Inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. A western man Is advertising for the sweetheart he lost years ago. He must have the faith, observes the At lanta Constitution, of the fellow that adverised for a lost umbrella. The engineer who perfects a surfac ing that will withstand the strain of automobiles and at the same time will settle the dust nuisance, which has become much greater in this mo tor age, will have assured fame, pro phesies the Chicago Tribune. Those are the two live problems in highway construction just now. The conscientious newspaper ex pends more time in learning what not to print than it does in ascertaining what to print. Still, objects the Louis ville Courier-Journal, the joker and liar hang around, do their tales up plausibly and cause immeasurable trouble. What shall be done with and to them? President Eliot puts his foot down hard on certain new fads in educa tion, especially on the attempt to car ry the multiplication table beyond 12, which he pronounces "absurd.” It is such fads, laments the Boston Post, that crowd out plain, old-fashioned rudimentary instruction until the schoolboy who can read fluently at sight, write a good letter legibly, and spell and figure accurately is the ex ception rather than the rule. We are using 3% feet of wood an nually to every single foot of growth, reckons the New York Mail. Under proper forestry we could produce four times our present use. Forest fires destroy every year $50,000,000 worth of timber and burn over about 50,000,000 acres. One-fourth of the standing tim ber is lost in logging. The loss in the mill is from one-third to two-thirds the timber sawed. We can practically stop forest fires at a cost yearly of one-fifth the value of the merchantable timber burned. Would the growth of socialism be cnecked by an epidemic of arming? Mr. A. Cary Smith thinks so, and In a letter to the New York Herald lm calls attention to a Dakota farm er who has gone to England with plans for a large yacht. Prosperity in either individual or nation often has a tendency to put in the background the unconventional idea or the doc trine that is opposed to the present order of things. When that prosper ity is self-contained and independent, as in the case of the inteligent farm er, east or west, the amount of men tal soil left for cultivaton of unusual theories is very scanty. Possibly neither the law nor the efforts of the Audubon societies can reach the man in San Antonio who ordered 500 humming birds for a ban quet, since he ordered his supply from Mexico, but none the less he deserves public disapproval for set ting a bad example, avers the Bos ton Transcript. Doubtless he does this for dramatic effect or mere os tentation, for a humming bird is a poor apology for human food. The bodies of some of them when stripped of their feathers are not larger than a bumble bee. They are like flecks of sunshine among the flowers, their rapid and al most ceaseless motion and their fre quently brilliant plumage making them delightful little visitors. We have eighteen species in the United States but only one east of the Mississippi and north of Florida. No matter how plentiful they may be, they are a bene fit to vegetation. They live on honey and on insects that menace the flowers that constitute their dainty haunts and the sources of their food supply. Dike the bee, they also render a ser vice in the cross fertilization of flow ers. Their beauty, innocence and good offices should be ample protection against milliners and gourmets. Tie Shovelled the Money Ont —How Shall I Get Ont Mysell ?” —Cartoon by W. A. Rogers, in the New York Herald. Prisons Everywhere Are Overcrowded More Criminals and Paupers Are NoW Confined in State and County - ~ Institutions Than Ev>er Before—Hard Times and , ", Undesirable Aliens Are Ghiefly Blamed. New York City.—Never before in the history of the State of New York have there been so many criminals behind prison bars as there are at present. The State prisons are over crowded, the penitentiaries filled to overflowing and the workhouses so congested that the inmates are in each other’s way. Prison officials and criminologists assign two reasons for the crowded condition of the penal institutions — the hard times prevalent for the last two years and the influx of undesira ble aliens to the big cities of the State. Unable to obtain work these men drift to crime and eventually land in prison. Sing Sing Overcrowded. There are more than 2 000 convicts in Sing Sing Prison, originally built to house but 1600; the prisoners are doubled up in cells, lodged in out houses and the chapels and some are said to sleep in the main office of the prison. In order to accommodate the horde of convicted men recently sent from this city—and they have been going in weekly batches of a score or more—-Warden Frost has been compelled to place cots in the beautifully decorated Protestant and Catholic chapels. A batch of sixty-five was trans ferred to Clinton Prison against the protest of the officials of that institu tion, w T ho say they have no room to spare. Numbers of Sing Sing con victs—short term men—in order to make room for the new arrivals, are sent daily to the site of the new prison now being constructed on the west bank of the Hudson, near lona Island, and kept there in shacks un der the watch of keepers. These men are employed in the building of the new structure. The same condition is reported by i the warden of the penitentiary on ! Blackwell’s Island. The census thfere recently showed 1119 men and eigh- i ty-three women in cells. This is far above the average census, and the rate at which the courts are sending prisoners there has alarmed the peni tentiary officials. They are in a quandary where to confine the prison ers. As in Sing Sing, the problem of i employing all the convicts is puzzling j t£e officials of the penitentiary, and j steps are being taken *o put a number , of them at work erecting new build ings on the various islands owned by ! the cit'-’ and used for city purposes. Reports from the Elmira Reforma tory state that that institution is overcrowded, and transfers are being made daily to the up-State penal in stitutions in order to relieve the over crowding. Most of the Elmira recruits come from this city, and with the 6ix Courts of General Sessions working daily the number of youths committed to the reformatory weekly from this county averages twenty-five. An av erage of ten a week are committed there from the Brooklyn criminal courts. A batch of seventeen was transferred from the Tombs recently to Efmira, making a total of 110 sen tenced from this county during the month of March. Workhouses Are Congested. It is in the workhouses on Black well’s, Haft’s and Randall’s Islands that the increase of poverty is ap parent. Hundreds of prisoners—men and women—are housed in these in stitutions, all committed from the po lice courts of this city and Brooklyn, many oi their own volition. The cen- sus recently showed that In work house on Blackwell’s Island there were 1025 men and 579 women serv ing terms ranging from five days to six months, all for trifling offenses. In the Hart’s Island institution there were 653 men and thirty-seven women, and at Riker's Island 262 males were housed. Besides, there are scores of prisoners committed to the workhouse who have been trans ferred to the different detention prisons scattered throughout the greater city to do the cleaning. Ac cording to the figures of the Commis sioner of Correction obtained recent ly, there was a grand total of 3014 prisoners at present regularly com mitted to the workhouse. From all over the State the same reports are received —crowded pris ons, thickly tenanted workhouses and an ever increasing demand for admis sion to almshouses. The overcrowded condition of penf-' tentiaries and prisons in New York State is not peculiar to this State. Special dispatches subjoined indicate that similar conditions prevail in many other States. New York prison officials attributed it to two circum stances —the hard times and the in flux of undesirable aliens. Courts Less Lenient. Boston. —Massachusetts County and State reformatory ajid prison institu tions are crowded at the present time as they have not been for years. The authorities attribute this condition to the establishment of juvenile courts, leading to the arrest and conviction of many petty lawbreakers who here tofore have escaoed with a repri mand. Besides, they say, the courts of late have in very many instances imposed sentences where previously they have put the accused on proba , tion. The probation plan has not ! worked out as satisfactorily as it was hoped. Haiti Times Blamed. Philadelphia. For the last five years the penal institutions of Penn sylvania, both State and county, have been inadequate. The crowded con ditions in the Eastern Penitentiary, in this city, were relieved somewhat a few days ago when a score of Fed eral prisoners were removed to the new Government prison at Atlanta. The hard times have been the cause for an increase in petty crime, but it is not believed that there is any greater proportion of alien criminals than formerly. Maryland Like New York. Baltimore. Md.—All the penal in stitutions of the State and city are more crowded than ever before with minor offenders. It is attributed by the officials largely to hard times and the presence of foreign undesirables. In a report to the Governor recently it was stated that while there are fewer cases due to the enforcement of the anti-cocaine law, there is a large increase In police court cases. The State, penitentiary now has more in mates than it has had at any time within five years. One of the city po lice magistrates last week let off a number of petty offenders, saying he did not want to add just now to the number of prisoners who are crowd ing the city jail. The House of Cor rection is filled to overflowing with offenders committed from all parts of the State. Bay View Asylum, the city almshouse, is so packed with paupers, sane and insane, that vigorous pro tests are being made against the con ditions prevailing there. SPORTING BREVITIES. “Jap” Barbeau has received and signed a Pittsburg contract. Outfielder Billy Maloney, late of Brooklyn, has signed with Rochester. Pitcher Jim Swift, the Wilkesbarre recruit, has signed a St. Louis con tract. Hicks, the Harvard hockey player, is the best skater in the intercolle giate world. It will take all the foxiness Clark Griffith has to make a winner of the Cincinnati team. University of Pennsylvania chess team won permanent possession of the Rice Trophy. Harvard, Cornell and Yale are the earliest of the Eastern college crews to be on the water. Willie Keeler picks out George Per ring, of the Clevelands, as the com ing star in the infield. The conference colleges by a mail vote have decided to go back to seven game football schedules. Mrs. Caleb F. Fox was unanimous ly chosen president of the Women’s Golf Association, of Philadelphia. R. M. Owen won the feature event at the first mid-week shoot of the New York Athletic Club this season. Frank W. Entricksen's pacer, The Eel, went a mile on the ice at the Dufferin Park races, Toronto, in 2.14%. This is a new record. Dr. G. M. Hammond, of the New York A. C., carried off the honors in a wax bullet pistol duelling competi tion at the Carnegie Fencers’ Club. William J. Perlman won the an nual handicap chess tournament of the Brooklyn Chess Club with a total of ten games won, one lost and one drawn. Charles Curt took second prize with nine and a half points. 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