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CORPS AREA CHIEFS
VISIT CAMP RITCHIE
Col. Darrah and Maj. Gillam
Express Pleasure With
Guardsmen’s Work.
Br ft Staff Correspondent of The Star.
CAMP ALBERT C. RITCHIE. Cas
cade, Md., August 14. —An unexpected
visit was paid the camp yesterday by
Col. T. W. Darrah, chief of staff of
the 3d Corps Area, and Maj. A. C.
Gillam, jr.. mobilization officer, both
from 3rd Corps Area headquarters, in
Baltimore.
After a cursory inspection of the
reservation Col. Darrah expressed ap
proval of the general appearance of the
camp and especial pleasure in that the
infirmary had no inmates.
They arrived during the absence of
Maj. Gen.. Anton Stephan, command
ing the 29th Division, and Col. John
W. Oehmann, camp commander of
troops, who were at Gettysburg with the
division staff, studying the Civil War
battlefield. They were shown through
the camp by Capt. Charles E. Smith
son, regimental adjutant.
Discuss Mobilization Plans.
On the division staff officers’ return.
Col. Darrah conferred with Gen. Ste
phan concerning the functioning of the
division in the corps area, while Maj.
Gillam discussed with the other staff
officers mobilization plans.
Today Companies B and E went on
the rifle range for their practice firing
preliminary to firing for record tomor
row. At the same time Companies C
and D began their course in prepara
tion for rifle marksmanship.
The work yesterday of the demoli
tions group was suspended because of
faulty explosives. A string of blocks of
TNT' laid along the bottom of a
trench failed to explode. Lieut. George
Harbin, in charge of demolitions, ex
plained that, the explosive had been
stored since 1928, and consequently re
quired a strong detonating charge. A
car was dispatched to Washington for
a supply of stronger caps, and if the
more powerful detonations do not work
fresh TNT will be gotten from Port
Humphreys, Va., he declared.
Work continued yesterday on road and
raft building and repair of the drainage
system.
Second Battalion Parades.
The day's work was brought to a close
by a parade by the 2d Battalion of
Engineers. In the morning an airplane
from the National Guard Air .Service
camp at Martinsburg, W. Va.. circled
the parade ground, and experiments
were conducted in communicating with
ground forces. The Signal Company
from Norfolk, Va., received and sent
the messages for the camp troops.
Upon recommendation of their com
pany commanders 11 men were pro
moted and four were reduced in rank
in special orders made public yester
day. The promotions follow:
Headquarters and Service Company.
Corpl. George C. Danforth to technical
sergeant; Corpl. Louis A. Robertson to
sergeant; Pvts. Lloyd Nell and Elmore
W. Seeds, to corporals. Company B,
Corpl. Harry E. Bartz, to sergeant, and
Pvts. William J. Cave, Charles R. Woods
and Henry C. Dixon to corporals, Com
pany E: Pvts. John K. Randolph and
Steven M. Brown, to corporals. Military
Police Company; Pvt. Albert B. Burton
to corporal.
The following reductions were made:
Company B. Sergt. John T. Kidwell and
Carp. William F. Keller to privates;
Headquarters and Service Company,
Tech. Sergt. Charles Dunn and Sergt.
Harold W. McGiverin to privates.
Sunday will be Veteran day. Col.
Oehmann has issued an invitation to
veterans of all wars, former members
of the Guard and prospective members
to make an inspection of Camp Ritchie.
Because of the death of his father
Capt. Henry C. Stanwood, aide to Gen.
Stephan, left camp last evening for
Chicago.
Poland has no talkies, but it is ex
pected that 50 theaters in large cities
will be equipped for them as soon as
owners can arrange for the change.
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Treatment of Criminals Is Graduated in
Accordance With Legal and Personal
Status of Culprit.
This is the eighth and last of a rerles of articles on Xuropean methods of
dealing with crime and criminals.
BY HENRIETTA W. BINGHAM.
VIENNA, August 14 (N.A.N.A.)—Treatment of prisoners in Austria is to
some extent graduated in accordance with the legal and personal status of the
cu'P r pp rsons un der provisional arrest during judicial Investigation of alleged
offenses naturally receive more lenient treatment than criminals sentenced and
serving terms. .. . . .
Prisoners not vet up for trial and kept in preliminary custody may wear
1 their own clothes arW provide themselves with meals, receive newspapers and
books, write letters and smoke. They have fairly comfortable rooms, and gen
erally are treated as individuals merely suspected of punishable acts.
Certain prison facilities are also ex
tended to political offenders.
A distinction is made between adult
and juvenile criminals. Experience has
disclosed the grave consequence of in
termingling Juvenile and grown-up
criminals.
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Austria. There is also an unwritten
distinction between convicts belonging
to Intellectual classes and others. The
better educated wherever possible are
not employed at manual labor, but pref
erably In office or library work, or some
similar occupation.
Assignment to Industries and handi
crafts in prisons is governed by the
principle of keeping the prisoners as
closely identified as possible with their
calling in civil life, so as not to estrange
them from it or make them lose chance
of resuming their former activities, on
release.
Change for Worse With Peace.
For many decades, up to the war,
criminal statistics in Austria showed a
certain stability in numbers and grade
of offenses. With peace, a temporary
change for the worse set in.
The remnants of the great Austrian
armies, partly demoralized by war, were
swept back to the impoverished and
starving homeland already overcrowded
by civilian fugitives from the provinces
of the former vast empire.
It is not to be wondered that with
chronic lack of food and all other com
modities brought about by blockade dur
ing the war, the rate of criminal of
fenses, principally theft, burglary and
fraud, rapidly reached an astoundlngly
high level.
This movement was reversed, however,
when conditions in Austria became more
stabilized, and the following years re
duced crime statistics sharply.
Two Methods of Confinement.
Austria has six large prisons, five for
men, one for women, in which only per
sons sentenced to penal servitude of
more than one year are kept. They
accommodate 3.570 prisoners. Besides
these, there are 16 prisons connected
with the principal law courts, and more
than 200 district Jails with a total ca
pacity of 4,290.
Two methods of confinement are
practised, solitary and “joint” deten
tion. In the solitary form the prisoner
lives and works In his cell entirely
alone. He sees nobody except his
warder and once a month a superior
officer of the prison, and Is not per
mitted to speak. In complete silence
his days and nights are passed and
only a short daily walk In the courtyard
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supervision of a warder.
Solitary Confinement.
In the common cells, in which the
prisoners live in groups of about 14,
the convicts take their meals together,
and they work together in common
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Solitary confinement is either ordered
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for disorderly prisoners, or is given
convicts who ask this form of punish
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If a man has a clean record in prison
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Austrian prison rules afford well
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of earlier release. After a prisoner has
served half his sentence he can get
conditional release whereby he enjoys
freedom so long as he behaves. If he is
found guilty of any offense, however
slight, his original sentence Is revived
and he has to serve it out.
The death penalty was abolished in
Austria in 1919. This abolition brought
no appreciable change In homicide
statistics. Murders did not rise above
normal, as predicted by opponents of
the measure, nor did they fall below
normal. In this Austrian criminologists
saw proof that capital punishment is
not a deterrent of murder.
In Austria, the percentage of re
cidivism is high. Nearly 50 per cent of
the released jail population resumes Its
criminal activities and finds its way
back to prison, so the same percentage
of the average prison population must
be classed as habitually criminal.
How to deal reasonably with crim
inality both from the point of view of
protecting society and endeavoring to
reform the individual criminal is as
puzzling and perhaps as hopeless in
Austria as in every other country.
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