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...Lack of food (no eggs, milk, buttered bread, fresh meat); 2) Heat; 3) Despair growing out of the Baumes Laws, with long terms, reduced paroles, no time off for good behavior; 4) Bedbugs, lice, insanitary plumbing; 5) Overcrowding in cell blocks; 6) Petty graft by low-paid guards; 7) Tyranny of prison self-government (Mutual Welfare League...
...Significance. Neither as scholarly nor as impartial as his publishers believe, Author Winkler gives a very human, very rambling account. Moral, he writes: "[Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...
Mayor Hague has been under investigation by a Republican legislature at Trenton. The charges against him have been municipal graft and corruption. The potent Jersey Journal has raked him with editorial criticism. Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague...
...York Evening World, a Pulitzer paper, went the "most meritorious public service" prize, a $500 gold medal, for combating civic graft...
...stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death of Mellett, although he had previously been removed from the mayor's office by the Governor of Ohio as a result of an expose in the Canton News of graft and corruption at City Hall; his brother, E. E. Curtis, who was Director of Public Safety during the former regime of Mayor Curtis, organized the Canton underworld and exacted a toll of graft from all of its vicious activities and, when exposed by the News, was arrested, convicted and sentenced...