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...Harvard Law School and his scholarly wife Eleanor have told how 500 Criminal Careers began, how 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents got that way. In a third fine fat book they now tell why 500 Delinquent Women went wrong.* The publication closely follows conventions last week of the American Prison Association, the American Parole Association and the National Conference of Juvenile Agencies in Houston, Tex. For many of the jailers and reformers there the texts of the Gluecks are so much gospel...
Since Mahatma Gandhi dropped his anti-British disobedience campaign and turned to such a forlorn cause as abolishing Untouchability, more and more of India's Hindus have turned away from him. In 1930 when he was all India's idol and a prisoner in the Poona jail, he whiled away the time translating from Sanskrit into English hymns from the Upanishads and other Sanskrit scriptures and from the Bhakti poets. Last week Macmillan Co. published his Songs From Prison. Samples...
...pictures made to follow the book even fairly closely, "The Count of Monte Cristo" as a film does a welcome justice to Dumas. In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer and with a sigh asked if this picture had anything to do with Dane's Inforno, the work of newcomer Robert Donat as Edmund Dante was refreshingly outstanding. Elissa Landi is as beautiful as ever though not very much in evidence...
...editorial page of Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News a reader is likely to find almost anything. Last week 1,829,000 Sunday readers found a cartoon of a prison with a serpent labeled "Homosexuality" coiled within the walls. A two-column editorial was entitled...
...Russian convicts . . . are granted furloughs from time to time so that they can go home and see their families for a few days. . . . Why not laws in this country granting visits home-carefully checked, of course, by prison officials and local police to prevent escapes-as rewards for good behavior in prison...