Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, July 31, 1913, Image 3
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GIVES CONVICTS
"CHANCE^NEEDED
Head of Big New York Concern
Known as "Soul-Saver of
Sing Sing." |
WAS ONCE IN PENITENTIARY
Unjustly Sentenced, as Ho Maintains,
What He Saw There Led Him to
Adopt His Peculiar Business Plan,
and He Has Never Regretted It?
Good, Efficic Yorkers, and All
Honest?R;. Prison as "Crime
College."
MR. EMPLOYER RAW THIS IN SING
SING PRISON.
Forty per cent, of the men in prison
ougnt not have been sent there.
Nearly 50 per cent, of the Inmates
of Sing Sing are "dope fiends."
Twenty per cent, are "dope fiends" |
when they go there. The remaining |
30 per cent, acquire the habit in their '
cells.
There should be prison segregation
?prisons for first offenders, places for
old-timers, for degenerates and for
murderers. By mixing all together, I
the pestilence of one is spread to the i
other. Thus the prison becomes a
crime college.
mtEW YORK.?Ex-convlct and the
|u head of one of the largest manufacturing
concerns in New York!
That's the record of a man who
served almost a year and a half In the
water-soaked cells of the state's chief
prison. Hut here's his trait that
makes every man with a heart love
him?"lie's the Soul-Saver of Sing
Sing."
This manufacturing company Is do- j
lng a reputable business In lower New
York city. Its president and proprietor
Is a former inmate of the prison,
and his office employes have served
prison sentences for nearly every variety
of crime.
The firm does about $1,000,000 a
year business and enjoys an enviable I
standing for integrity and reliability. I
The jailbird proprietor has an inti- ;
mate acquaintance with every notorious
criminal in Sing Sing prison. 1
gained while he was doing time as a ;
fellow prisoner. He ulways hires his 1
employes direct from orison cells ns
they are about to bo paroled.
This Is what a business rival said
of him: "Ho is fur more honest than
most men who have never seen a
Jail. I never question his word. It is
as good as his bond, and I should be
satisfied to transact any business, no
matter how large, with him on his
verbal agreement."
This is what the employer says of ,
his thirty ex-convict office employes:
"I have employed Beveral hundred
at various times, and I have never
had one go back on me. These convicts
have proven 100 per cent, honest."
Found Guilty of Fraud.
For obvious reasons the name of
this convict-manufacturer is withheld, j
though he makes no secret of his own
life-story. ltriefly. ten years ago he
was accused of taking part in a conspiracy
to defraud, was tried and
found guilty. For a long time the
case hung on the records, but finally
he was sent to Sing Sing on a fifteen
months' sentence, which he served.
It was what h4 saw there that
caused him to start his unique employment
shop for ex-convicts. While living
with two other men in a cell, three
feet six inches by seven feet, with the
water reeking and dripping down the
stone walls of the century-old hellhole,
he developed some radical ideas
on the present-day theory of prisons |
and prisoners.
He had ample opportunity to study
the civilization 'that openly tolerates
the throwing of men. who have made
a single slip, into one of those threoby-seven
cells, with a pair of the lowest,
most hardened, degenerate crooks
that can be found for companions, lie
formed opinions as to whether a year
or two of life in these cells with the
dregs of human degeneracy for com- '
pany was of much practical value in 1
reforming a young clerk of good fam- '
fly who took a small sum of money J
out of the till, or an unemployed boy |
\
who stole to get food for his sick 1
mother or wife.
Knows Convicts Intimately.
He studied the men and their environment.
and worked out the result
of the combination. He got a good
Idea of the advantage to youthful convicts
of having cocaine and morphine
smuggled In to them by keepers a lot
more crooked than th? prisoners they
guarded. He formed some Impressions
of whether the prerogative of a
prison is to reform or create crimln- j
als. and he got to know that even a
man with a jail sentence at his back
1b a human being.
These things were what made him
determine to snenH th?> met ?>f ii>"?
iness days?when he got out himself?
helping "the boys." as he calls them,
get a start despite the prison which
keeps many of them crooked. He
found that a man out on pnrole needed
two things, principally?encouragement.
and ^ chance to make an honest
living. And he determined that
so long as it was In his power he
would provide those dual requisites.
These are some of the home made
statistics he compiled during his eojourn
in a Sing Sing cell:
Forty per cent, of the men in prison
ought not to have been sent there.
Nearly 50 per cent, of the inmates
of Sing Sing are dope fiends.
Twenty per cent, are dope fiends
when they go there. The remaining
30 per cent, acquire the habit in their
cells.
There should bo prison segregation
?prisons for first offenders, places for j
old-timers, for murderers, for degenerates.
By mixing all together, the
pestilence of each is srread to the I
others, and the prison becomes a
Crime College.
Says It Docs Not Reform.
"An investigation of Sing Sing's ,
1,600 convicts will show any fairminded
man that the penal system of
today does not reform criminals or
tumofit society." said the president of
that unique company. He is a tall,
wide-shouldered. black-haired, earnest-faced
man. One needs but to
look at him and talk with him to discover
there was a blunder somewhere.
"Yes; I have taken all my office
force from Sing Sing and Elmira. I
find them good, efficient, earnest
workers. I)o 1 have any fear of employing
them direct from a cell? No;
of course, not. 1 know them, and they
know me. We understand each other.
finm.i ~? ? * ?*?
- .v. ... mem >>uc up men: w m'li 1
was. We got to know each other, and
I could pick ray men. 1 never have
employed one that has not proved
himself rellnble.
"I suppose I receive several hundred
applications for jobs from Sing
Sing yearly. I investigate them all.
If I haven't a place I find other work
for them. Not long ago I got a man
out of his cell into a bank down town.
He's doing well and they know his
story and trust him.
Giving All a "Chance."
"You see. 1 took up this work after
seeing what sort of a chance the boys
at Sing Sing had. It was pretty plain
they needed help when they got out.
Nobody wants to employ a convict, as
a rule, and if you're going to keep a
man who has committed crime from
going back to it when he gets out of j
Jail, you must show him the world ;
hasn't lost all faith in him. If he sees 1
It has, and can't get a job, and hears '
his babies crying at home because I
they're hungry, he's going to feed
them. And if lie can't do it honestly,
he'll do it the other way.
"What they need is a ohnnce?the
feeling they aren't blacklisted for life
Just because they've fallen, and some
one to encourage them. That's what I
try to give them!
"I found how it was myself, first
hand. Remember that! I had money
and a big business when 1 came out.
but I had that blacklist bugaboo to
face and I needed some one to encourage
me. If a man doesn't get that its
back to the old game, or?the river,
generally.
Best Way to Put Down Crime.
"If people only would realize tluse
boys are not so bad as they're painted
?l moan tne first time inon who'vo
made a mistake. Just one little mistake's
enough, you know. It would
make a lot of difference if somebody'd
help them out when they first get paroled.
I know of no better way of cut- |
ting down crime than helping the
criminals to quit it.
"You see, I've got faith In human
beings. A man's naturally honest.
Hut let me give you an example of
how the prison system helps them to
be dishonest! In one of those threeby-seven
cells, when I was up there. <
were two men.. One was an old-time
safe cracker doing a long 'bit.' He
was hard as nails?mean and crooked
to the soul, and cruel. The other was
WHY I EMPLOY ONLY
CONVICTS.
By New York Manufacturer
Who Was In Prison.
I have taken my office force
from Sing Sing and Elmlra. I
find them good, efficient, earnest
workers.
1 have no fear In em ploy lug
them direct from the cell. 1
know them and they know me.
We understand each other.
Some of these boys were up
there when I was. We got to
know each other, and I could
pick my men.
I have never employed an exconvict
who has not proven
himself rellnble. The rule is invariable
the country over.
I . I ? * --
ivwnais mciai uuuurca ap
plications for jobs from Sing
Sing each year. 1 Investigate
all of them. If 1 haven't got a
place I tind other work for them.
Not long ago 1 got a man out
of his cell and into a downtown
bank. He's doing well.
The "blacklist" is the bugahoo
that confronts a man when
he emerges from Sing Sing. 1
had money and a big business
when I came out, but my social
standing was gone. I've risen j
above the stigma, which 1 maintain
was falsely applied, and 1
have a good trade.
I've got faith in human beings.
A man's naturally honest.
Two-thirds of the men in Sing
Sing are. That's why I'm giving
those boys a chance.
a miserable wretch who was there for
moral degeneracy a horrible, repulsive
creature of the most revolting
type. Into that cell, occupied by these
two men. was put a young fellow who
had been caught trying to steal a
diamond from a jeweler. He had tried
to steal it because his mother was dying
of consumption, and he wanted
money to get delicacies for her, and
he uidn't have a Job. For two years
he was scheduled to spend fourteen
hours a day in that cell with those
other men. Can you imagine what
he will be when he conies out?
"Dope" Their Worst Failing.
"They sell dope, too, and if a man
Isn't a fiend when he goes In. it Is
likely he will be when he comes out.
Naturally, in running my business, I
have to avoid the dope (lends. I cannot
employ them. Their place Is In a
hospital, not in prison.
"I have a letter today from a boy
in Sing Slug. He Is In a cell with two
cocaine fiends. He is a lirst offender,
and does not even smoke or drink.
He must spend throe years with his
drug-crazed companions.
"Sing Sing is merely a cesspool of
humanity, where contamination is
spread to every person that enters.
And yet our civilization tolerates such
conditions. Is it any wonder 1 am tryins
to give the poor fellows there a
chance to get on their feet? Hut the
prisons are turning out habitual crooks
a good deal faster than a few of us
can reform them."
News of Antarctic.
The editor of the Adele Blizzard
sends wireless gre< tings to his newspaper
contemporaries the world over.
The Hlizzard. which will be printed on
Adelieland. the headquarters of Dr.
Mawson. the Antarctic explorer, hns
just made its bow to the public. It
will be printed once a month and will
give all the news of the Antarctic continent.
The editor says that the first
number, which was of twenty-six pages
was a great success except for the
fact that the circulation was limited.
Everybody except the seals and penguins
hail gone into winter quarters.
The members of the Mawson party,
the editor of the Hlizzard says, are almost
snowed up in their huts, hut aro
all healthy and able to attend to the
scientific instruments, which are working
in an eflicient manner.
Diet and Caste.
The private secretary of the malmrajah
of Jhalawar recently gave a
lecture on food In Ixuulon, In the
course of which he stated that the
eating of onions is conducive to
"darkness of spirit." Mi- also averred
that the caste system in India is
largely reminded ?y met. I Iiiih,
those of the highest caste only eat
vegetarian meals in order to keep
their Bonis pure. Members of another
caste are allowed to eat meat
so that they may become fitted to be
warriors; while the lowest caste of
all eat "stale, flat foods," which suit
their unspiritual natures.
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Mother ^
Knows What ??*
To Use
Quick /l-> \ M
Relief if l VI
HAN FORD'S I
Balsam of Myrrh
For Cuts, Burns^j^
Bruises, Sprains,
Strains, StdJFf Neck,
ru:iLK? ? r. . <IcVK
v/iuiuiuna, Lame uack,
Old Sores, Open Wounds,^B
and all External Injuries. ^
Made Since 1846. A*ib*ut^d*
Price 25c, 50c and $1.00
AH Dodters G.c.H?nKIJng.co.
"" W SYKACUSE.N. Y.
Cheap people are always looking for
something cheaper than themselves.
Occasionally a man kicks because
his name is in the paper?in small
type.
Case in Point.
"Pa, what is dollar diplomacy?"
"Morrow ing a dollar, son. from a
man who doesn't want to lend it."
nor.s Yoi'tt iibad Aciircr
Try Hicks* CAPt'OINK. If* liquid ? pleasure
to tnkc ofTools ImtiirUlatr iro-xl to prevent
Sick IleaduclieM ami Nervous Ilcuilnrhrs nl?..
Yourmnnoy back If not sattHflrd. 10c., 2Sc. ami
hie. at uiotlirlur ?torf?. A?lv.
Summer Bargain.
"Orace is always good at bargains."
"How, now?"
"My coat of tan cost $ I f?0. ilie got
one just like it for $10."
Sizing It Up.
Macon?What did you give for that
rigar you're smoking?
Egliert Nothing.
"Is it good?"
"Well, it's good for nothing."
Honk! Honk!
"Hid she come to the door when
you serenaded her with your mandolin?"
"No; but another fellow came along
and brought her out with an auto
horn."
How to StOD Pen Lral/lnn
"That reminds mo of the story of
the advertisement which said that for J
tho small sum of 2a conts, anyone
could receive the information on howto
keep a fountain pen from dripping
ink." said City Attorney Daniel \V.
Moan in illustrating a point.
"A young man whose pen bothered
tho life out of him, sent a quarter for
the desired information. The reply
was:
"'Don't put any ink in it.'"?Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
Taking It Out of Clients.
A well-known Milwaukee attorney
had Just returned from a northern 1
Wisconsin city where he tried a case.
His partner was just closing a minor
legal affair as the attorney entered
the office.
There had been a long night ride !
to Milwaukee and the attorney was 1
greatly exercised over the poor railroad
accommodations on the train.
"Well, I Just cleaned this little matter
up today." said the partner.
"How long did it take you?"
"About two hours. What shall we j
charge our client?"
" these railroads, anyway.
('harge him $1.000."
HOW TO TREAT PIMPLES AND
BLACKHEADS
For pimples and blackheads the following
is a most effective and economical
treatment: Gently smear the
affected parts with Cuticura Ointment,
on tho end of the finger, but ,
do not rub. Wash off tho Cuticura
Ointment in five minutes with Cuti- 1
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing for somo minutes. This treatment
is best on rising and retiring. |
At other times uso Cuticura Soap
freely for the toilet and bath, to as- 1
slst in preventing inflammation, irritation
and clogging of the pores, the
common cause of pimples, blackheads,
redness and roughness, yellow, oily. }
mothy and other unwholesome condl- 1
tions of the skin.
Cuticura Soap and Olntmont sold
throughout the world. Sample of ?ach
free,with 32-p. Skin Hook. Address postcard
"Cuticura, Dept. L, lioston."?Adv.
Just Wanted to Be Sure.
Four four entire hours hud the lady
remained in the shop. She had visited
every department and worried
the majority of the salesmen without
spending a penny.
Toward the close of the afternoon
one of tho salesmen, feeling somewluit
exasperated, ventured to make a mild
proie. i.
"Madam," he asked sweetly, "are
you shopping here?"
The lady looked surprised. hut not
: hy any means annoyed.
"Certainly," she replied. "Hut what
else should I he doing?"
I For a moment the salesman hesitated,
then blurted out:
"\V? 11. madam, I thought perhaps
you might he taking an inventory."
Then the la lv melted away among
; the shadows by the door.
MALARIA &
DRIVEN OUT
f
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Some folks never learn to let bad
enough alone.
Never put off till tomorrow what
any one is willing to do for you today.
Perfectly Clear.
"Peters has a clear head."
"Yea, there's nothing in it."
Wtl.I, KKI.IKVK N ER VOI'8 OEI'KKSSION
AM) I.OW S 1*1 KITS.
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
UltOVK-H TASTKI.KSS rhtll TONIC, arouses the
liver t<> action, driven out Malaria and builds up the
iTsU'tn. A sure Appetiser and aid U> digestion,
lor adulta and children. AO cents.
Perhaps They Do.
Mr. Flat bush?This paper says that
in Italy 600,000 persons find employment
In rearing silkworms.
Mrs. Flatbush?Well, I hope to gracious
they bring them up properly!
Bonehead.
Mollie?What were you and that
fellow arguing about?
Chollie?The size of my bond.
Mollie?Oh. that was the bone of
contention, was it?
RUB-MY-TISM
Will cure your Rheumatism and all
kinds of aches and pains?Neuralgia,
Cramps, Colic. Sprains, Bruises, Cuts.
Old Soros. Burns, etc. Antiseptic
Anodyne. Trice 25c.?Adv.
Why She Was Timid.
They stood upon the crest of the
mountain, and gazed off through the
purple distances.
"Honey plum," he whispered, bending
closer, "give me a kiss?just one?"
"No. Harold." she answered timidly.
"some one will hear me. There ,
may be other ears around."
"Other ears? Why should you
think so, fairest flower?"
"Oh, because I have so often heard
of mountain ears 1 thought perhaps
there might be some around and?"
But just then there was a mighty
crash.
A mountain goat had heard the awful
pun and jumped over the cliff.
Don't Po\
FORTY YEARS AGO almost everj
PAREGORIC or laudanum to m
sleep, and a FEW DROPS Tt
FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WA
have been killed or whoso healtli has b
nurn and morphine, each of w hich is a
are prohibited from selling either of th
to anybody without labelling them " p
is : "A medicine which relievea juiin ai
ous doses } traduces stupor, coma, corn
smell of modicines containing onium art
of " Drops," " Cordials," " Soothing Syr
medicine to bo Riven to your children
of what it is composed. CABTORIA
CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it boars tl
of Chas. II. Fletcher.
Gcitulno Castorlu ulways bears tho B
UPwALARIA"
pLUjUR If not sold by your druggist,
KjLfiiiftSl on receipt of price. Arthur
n?! I Mpin |_| ii-irpMWWM
MkMlflAai II
Toachra llookkitrpliiK. Shorthand and thr Poimnrrrl
enro l trarhora. One of Iho olden and mom rttlla
UrreunlMjro, North C'arullua, for Information
Must Be Away.
"I haven't quarreled with my wife
for a week."
"When do you expect her home?"
( rtinitlul ?-<l F..vrllda ('urrtl
Tin* worat i ?? r.. no matter of how long
atundliiK. ?r- cured hy the wondrrful. old relluhlt
l?r Porter k Anllarptlr Htullni; Oil.
Relieves pain mid heals ut thr an int.- time.
26c. 60c, J1 00.
So Far.
Mill I hear lie is preparing for one
of those trips to the north or south
pole.
fill Mow far has lie got?
Hill?Oh. he's written all the press: <-<.ill
Something to Remember.
"Now i.s the time to pitch in and
achieve, now, now!" said Norman )
Hapgood in an eloquent political .address
in New York.
"Remember. my friends," said Mr.
iiapKood. "the present is the future 1
from which you hoped so much."
Compliment.
"The English arc a heavy-handed
race.' said a suffragette in the smoking
room 01 the Colony club.
She lighted a fresh cigarette and
sipped her coffee.
"The English are heavy-handed," '
she repeated. "! went to hear Mrs. I
l'ankhurst lecture in Woodstock on j
my last visit to England, and do you
know how the Jolly old farmer chair- I
man introduced her? Well, this is
what he said. Intending it for a compliment,
mind you:
" 'Ladies and gentlemen, you have
heard of Mr fiiadstone, the grand old
man. Let me now introduce to you
the grand old woman.'"
"T^Tl ALLEN'S
FOOT=EASE, ,
P> The Ant nept.c powder shaken into
tlu" ' hoes?The Standard Hem(mt7
edy lor the feel lor n quarter
centnry .VtOOPtestimonials. Sohl |
Triuti M\r-k everywhere. 2V, Sample 1*"KKK. (
Ad<lr.-sH Ailen S. Olimte.l. I.e Kov N V. | I
The Man who put the F. F. ? in F E E T. i
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BLUE AND
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Mrs. Hamilton Tells How She
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Warren. Ind. ? "I was bothered te?v
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my head ached aB
the time,I had beai?>
San-ip ing down pains and
i vg ^ -.hB:! my back hurt me tka
till ? US ^ p?*1
mil ^ mm urr\\ \ waaL
iilfjUiiiOk - A\t i| j and had weak faw>
*n?? w^en * would
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I 111 V me to wa'^ *"7
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? and discouraged.
"I began taking Lydia E. Pinkhara'a
Vegetable Compound and am now ia
good health. If it had not been for
that medicine I would have been in my
grave a long time ago. "?Mrs. Artie E.
Hamilton, R.F.D. No. 6. Warren, Ind
Another Case.
Esmond, R. I. ?"I write to tell yam
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I hope that many suffering women will
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son Baby.
r mother thought her child must laff
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KING. Many are the children who
eon ruined for life by paregoric, lswio?
narcotic product of opium. Druggist*
e narcotics named to children at all, or
oison." The definition of "narootie*
ul produces alecj), but tr/uoh in gtmmmruUnona
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> disguised, and sold under the nanw
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10 signature Ignaturo
of
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a'. Hmnchrp. Coursps by mall, 461o ao4 ?in<
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Nine times in ten when the lrver It
right the stomach and bowels are right
CARTER'S LITTLE
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gently but firmly com-^^WI?
pel a lazy liver to^MRpinTrn^
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digestion,
Headache,
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