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...They may be interested in aviation but they don't care a continental damn about prisons abroad," was last week the particular opinion which one U. S. citizen had about U. S. citizens. The one was alert, freckled B. Ogden Chisolm who was testily quitting the post of U. S. International Prison Commissioner, to which President Coolidge appointed...
Many a citizen, not unwilling to lend an ear to the plight of "prisons abroad," nevertheless wondered why the President had ever appointed one of their number especially to deal with such a subject. The answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must...
Meanwhile, outgoing Commissioner Chisolm advised the President that prison conditions are so radically different in different countries that "I couldn't reach any com mon ground or make any progress." He also flayed the U. S. for giving him only a "measly" appropriation...
...underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...
Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...