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OSBORNE LEADS PRISON REFORM j
Lieutenant Commander Thomas
Mott Osborne, commandant of the N. S
naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H.. and
prison reformer, has started a nation
wide campaign to put each of the 59
state prisons and five federal peni- flip;, M '
tentiaries upon “ a humane basis.” • ;• j|
The fortune of a wealthy ex-con- iiiiiiil# %
vict, “known from one end of the Wz
country to the other,” a man of in- &
fluence in Washington, but who for the tlollf : 7C• ftfjp '' .
present is mentioned only as the iPIBPC'- ''• **
“Gray Brother,” is said to have been ' ■ V‘
placed at the disposal of Mr. Osborne. 'bll''.
Sixteen hundred former prison inmates
in New York city, all of whom are with
reputable firms and living “straight,” v
are assisting the crusade. A Jb.„
Incidentally, this noted prison re
former before the Hamilton club in II 1
Chicago denounced Joliet penitentiary W®..:
as a “disgrace to the state of Illinois."
John L. Whitman, Illinois state JWbO&xßi
superintendent of prisons, protested.
“I reiterate that Joliet prison is an infamous place, and if you will induce
Governor Lowden to appoint a fair committee to investigate my charges I’ll
prove it,” retorted Osborne.
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[ RETURN OF DR. ALEXIS CARREL
Surgeons and medical men the
world over are stirred by the signifi
cance of two items in the current
news: John D. Rockefeller’s addition
al ? ift °f $10,000,000 to the Institute
for Medical Research in New York,
which bears his name, and the return
‘•' 9 of * >r - Al °xis Carrel from France to re
sume his research work at the institute.
Since its foundation, in 1901, the
Rockefeller institute has made much
y> .}:?s medical and surgical history. In this
11b|P&:.’'1 work Doctor Carrel has been the lead
gllifl • jji;- - ing figure. The crowning glory of his
career, however, came through the
: - iptililljr great war, where his method of treat
igß|l|L ing war wounds prevented thousands
W. upon thousands of amputations and re
|||k IflfflL stored to full vigor countless men who
im, Jill. ipilllk. under old-fashioned treatment would
have become legless or armless.
Only in aviation and surgery did
the world struggle produce results
which inured to the advantage of hu
manity. Thus the Rockefeller institute and its research surgeons made strides
far faster than was expected by the founder. Methods of treatment of dis
ease were perfected. Improved surgical appliances were devised.
| DID AMERICAN TROOPS MUTINY?
Col. Raymond Robins of Chicago, a
former member of the American Red
Cross mission to
ing on soviet Russia, is the center of a
controversy regarding the conduct of J&giiP: ; v ;
American troops in Russia. At Madison, g|l|||||;;§:; •
Wis., a group of ex-soldiers, who had ||||||.*/ | w ||&nj
served at Archangel, challenged ||||||||^
Robins’ statement that, as an indirect
result of the allies’ policy in failing to
recognize the bolshevik government, -i-' : '
American soldiers in Russia had
“We demand to know the authority
for that statement,” declared Capt. •' Jm
John Commons, son of Prof. John R.
,Commons. “We served at Archangel JL
“I have it in the affidavit of three
American soldiers, including an offi
cer,” replied Colonel Robins.
The audience demanded the names ill
;of those making affidavits and the Jgjg 1
organizations charged with mutiny.
Colonel Robins said he could not divulge this information, since it would in
volve other persons and federal proceeding which had not been concluded.
In New York Lieut. A. W. Kleifoth, assistant American military attache
In Russia, who wrote the official report for the war department, in a public
address denied that the mutiny took place.
SCHURMAN BOOKS TO LOUVAIN
t 1 ”"””’ - "Jacob Gould Schurman, president
of Cornell university, has offered to
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, chairman
of the committee for the restoration of
the library of the University of Lou
vain, his entire philosophical library
of several hundred volumes for ship
rated by scholars as one of the best of
its kind in this country, being especial
ly rich in books on philosophy, many
of them rare first editions that could
be replaced only at great cost, even in
In his letter of acceptance Doctor
Butler pointed out that the destruction
by the Germans of the priceless manu
scripts in the archives of the Belgian
university had only one parallel in his
tory. That was in 643 A. D., when
Caliph Omar caused the destruction
of the library at Alexandria, with
countless manuscripts dating from the times of earliest Egypt.
When the library was destroyed by the Germans in 1914 it contained about
300,000 volumes. A new catalogue then being made by the librarian, Professor
Deldanov, was daily bringing to light treasures among the manuscripts, most
of them being first-hand sources of information upon the history of the low
countries. All these manuscripts were destroyed, including a rare collection
of virtually every edition of the Bible from the earliest times of printing.
ARIZONA STATE MINER
WOMEN IN TURKEY
Mistake to Class Them as “Toys
of the Harem/’
Under the Law They Have Absolute
Control of Their Own Property,
Which All Western Women
Have Not.
“Some extremely modern young
women, who mistake symptoms for the
causes of woman’s independence,
should make a tour of Turkey,” sug
gests a bulletin from the Washington
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society. “There women
smoke, have had property rights for
centuries, and divorce is easy, but who
—in all respects —wants to be a Turk?
The ‘toys of the Turkish harems’ were
to be pitied in many ways, it is true,
but considerable pity for them has
been misdirected. For example, the
Turkish women who now are to be
‘emancipated’ have had absolute con
trol of their own property for hun
dreds of years, whereas the German
wives cried in vain for such ‘emanci
pation’ under the kaiser.”
The bulletin quotes from a commun
ication by Mary Mills Patrick, which
gives a vivid picture of the condition
of Turkish women before the world
war, as follows:
“It is a well-known fact that Roman
law regarded the rights of the indi
vidual without consideration of sex;
a man or a woman was alike a citizen
of the Roman world. This met the re
quirements of Mohammedan life,
where no woman ever necessarily sus
tained a lasting relation with any man.
“Therefore, during all the centuries
of Mohammedan history, women have
legally controlled their own property.
They have been free to buy, sell, or
alienate it without consulting any
male relative. This has given them in
dependence of thought and an influ
ence in business affairs that seems
wholly inconsistent with their life of
comparative personal slavery.
“Enter a harem and there you see a
Circassian beauty, who has been newly
acquired by the tall, handsome pasha
who has just passed you in the street.
“Would you think, to look at her,
that when she draws her money from
the bank that she must sign her own
check? These two sides of life have
been wholly at variance with each
other; but, as years have gone by, the
thoughtful side has predominated
among the more intellectual Moham
medan women, until now they are
ready to enter into the affairs of today
with an understanding and vigor
which the world has never accredited
to them.
“It has been on the social side that
Mohammedan women have suffered
most under the oppression of the past,
especially from the frequency of di
vorce. A man could legally divorce
his wife at any minute, the only con
dition being the payment of the dowry
which was settled upon her by the
husband at the time of her marriage.
“In the last attempt to keep the sex
in the role assigned to them by the life
of the harem, very strict laws have
been made to prevent all possible prog
ress among them. Laws have been
proclaimed over and over again for
bidding Mohammedan women to at
tend foreign schools. Ir this emer
gency they engaged governesses. Most
of these governesses were aliens, and
many of them were inefficient, and bad
moral guides to so large a portion of
the population beginning to think and
question. The governess system ob
tained so much Influence after a short
time that laws were made forbidding
women to have governesses. Yet they
struggled on in an effort for mental
illumination, reading, writing, talking
things over among themselves, and
sometimes getting help from their hus
bands and brothers. They have ac
complished much, with so heavy a han
dicap, in literature, science, com
merce and politics.”
The Best Way.
If the show of anything be good for
anything, I am sure sincerity is better;
for why does any man dissemble, or
seem to be that which he is not, but
because he thinks it good to have such
a quality as he pretends to? For to
counterfeit and dissemble is to put on
the appearance of some real excel
lency. Now the best way in the world
for a man to seem to be anything, is
really to be what be would seem to be.
—Tillotson.
Unique London Club.
Os the many clubs in London, per
haps the newest and most exclusive is
the Thirteen Club, which meets at the
thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day
of every month. It owes its inception
to a lunch held to celebrate the arm
istice during the world war, at which
it was found that 13 were sitting down.
The membership is restricted to 13. and
at a recent lunch every member mad**
It a point to upset the salt.
The Proper Thing.
“If you have an itch for writing
Robert, get a scratch pad.”—Boston
Transcript.
MAY STUDY MERITS OF HORSE AND TRACTOR
The Tractor Is Supplanting the Horse Entirely—lt is Proposed to Make a
Careful Study of This Tendency.
[Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
One of the chief means of effecting
Increased and more economic produc
tion on the farms of this country, and
consequently of reducing high cost of
living to a considerable degree, is a
more efficient and complete utilization
of farm power, according to the re
port of a special committee recently
appointed by the secretary of agricul
ture. This report gives formal expres
sion to the conclusions arrived at in
Will Such Scenes Become a Thing of
the Past?
a conference recently held in Chicago
at the invitation of the secretary. This
gathering included representatives of
farmers, horse breeders, tractor and
mplement manufacturers, saddlery
nanufacturers, feed producers and
workers from the farm management,
animal husbandry and agricultural en
FEEDING POULTRY FOR EGGS
Most Important Matter After Making
Careful Selection of Hens Kept
During Winter.
By E. J. PETERSON, North Dakota Ag
ricultural College.)
When a careful selection of the flock
nas been made, the next important
thing is feeding. In order to make
hens lay in winter we must duplicate
summer conditions. To take the place
of grasshoppers, worms and bugs ob
tained in the late spring and summer,
the fowls must be provided with ani
mal food. After the frost has killed
the bugs and worms, high-grade meat
scraps offer a convenient form of ani
mal food. Fresh green bones make
one of the very best animal foods.
Half an ounce per hen daily will be
sufficient. When this amount of green
bone is fed, no other animal food is re
quired. Skimmilk is also very good.
PIGS NEED MINERAL MATTER
Excellent Practice to Place Mixture of
Charcoal, Lime and Salt
in Self-Feeder.
Pigs kept in confinement, which is
usually the case when they are being
fattened for the market, are generally
not fed enough mineral matter and in
order to satisfy their craving for min
erals it is an excellent practice to
place a mixture of charcoal, lime and
salt in a separate compartment of the
self-feeder. Some add sulphur and
wood ashes to this mixture.
LACK OF BUSINESS SYSTEM
No Greater Cause for Loss and Drudg
ery on Farm —Good Judgment
Helps Wonderfully.
There is no greater cause for loss
and drudgery on the farm than a lack
of business principles. System and
good sense make long days shorter,
hard work easier, mortgages lighter
■ind the <'ami!y life more easy and
gineering departments of agricultural
colleges, as well as representatives of
various divisions in the federal de
partments, including the bureau “Os
animal industry, the rural engineering
division of the bureau of public roads
and the office of farm management.
Studies which should be made to
show the relative merits of horses and
tractors" for use in various capacities
on the farm was the central theme of
discussion. The conference recom
mended that a series of studies and
investigations relating to five principal
subjects be undertaken under the aus
pices of the United States department
of agriculture in co-operation with
state agricultural colleges.
Under “farm power requirements” it
was suggested that attention be given
to the farmers’ needs in various field
operations, in s hauling and in the op
eration of heavy belt-driven machinery
and in small power operations.
Under the topics “animal power”
and “mechanical power” the recom
mended field of investigation includes
a study of the preferable size of ani
mal and mechanical power units, costs
of maintenance, total utilization of
power units and the quality of work
done by each.
Classed under the subject “relation
of forms of farm power to man labor”
the themes listed for consideration
include seasonal demand for labor, the
effect of time and weather limitations,
the cost of man labor, the quality of
work required and so on.
The fifth topic, “influences (of vari
ous types of power units) on farm or
ganization and operation,” covers such
items as the size of the farm, the size
of fields, the topography of the farm,
intensity of culture and total farm
products.
The conference recommended that
appropriations be made for these fun
damental studies of farm power prob
lems and that when such appropria
tions become available the Investiga
tions be planned by a committee of
the ablest men available.
PREPARATION OF HERD BOAR
Animal Will Require Heavier Feeding
Than During Idle Summer Months
—Supply Mineral.
An essential point in herd manage
ment is preparation of the boar for the
breeding season and his care during
that time. Naturally he will require
heavier feeding than during the idle
summer months. A ration of milk,
ground oats and wheat middlings fed
In a thick slop will be palatabie and
nutritious. An ear or two of corn add
ed will help it. Enough to keep him
looking right and active should be fed.
Two sows a day to aged boars and
one sow to young ones are all that
should be allowed. One service on the
second day of heat will be found to
settle the largest percentage of sows.
Os course, supplying a mineral mixture
and plenty of good grass at this time
ought not to be neglected.
Make Farmer Prosperous.
Produce on the “live-at-home plan,”
ride in his own automobile and ship by
truck should make the farmer pros
perous.
Carrots Good for Horses.
Plant some carrots for the horses.
These roots promote thrift, keep the
digestive organs in good shape, and
save much food.
Why Mix Breeds?
Why should we mix the breeds of
poultry, any more than we do the
breeds of horses, cattle and hogs?
Clean Up Garden.
Get rid of the rubbish in the garden.
Clean up. Debris of any kind harbors
bath insect and fungous foes.
Best Plan to Save Manure.
One of the best ways of saving barn
yard manure is to haul It out from the
barn and spread it over the soil.
Oil Garden Tools.
Oil all metal parts of the garden
tools and store them till needed next
spring.