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Roger Baldwin, noted New York criminologist; will speak at the only remaining meeting at present planned, on "Prison Systems...
...Atlanta, Georgia, home of Professor Dubb, who is connected with the University of Georgia. Professor Dubb is about to set out on an expedition to Tambelo, to investigate the ancestry of the natives, when he is unexpectedly joined by two Yale graduates who have just escaped from the Federal Prison. This upsets his plans considerably, but the party finally succeeds in starting on the expedition, and the scene is shifted to the tropical island of Tambelo. Here the Professor's family meets with various adventures in the form of dancing girls, intoxicating cigarettes, and bandits, but survives them...
...What happened in the Vanzetti trial is no new story--it is a repetition of practices in the Mooney trial, the Centralia trial, and the prosecution of Sidney Flowers in Los Angeles. Mooney and Billings went to prison on wholly fabricated evidence; the judges in the Centralia case made rulings without a show of regard for the truth; and stool-pigeons were used in the Flowers case; one of them was lately planted in a cell next to Sacco in an effort to get him to commit himself in conversation...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, the wellknown advocate of prison reform, will speak on "What the Criminal Thinks, in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at 7 o'clock tonight...
...Osborne has for the last fifteen years been interested in a reform of prison conditions, especially in New York State. In 1913 he spent several days in Auburn Prison as a convict in order to study the life of a prisoner. The conclusions which he reached at that time he put into effect shortly afterwards when he became Warden of Sing Sing. His actions, however, brought him into conflict with certain elements in the political parties of the state and resulted in his resignation as head of the prison a few years ago. During the past few years...