Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 'it, I would make one week in jail a part of the education of every college man." In this rather startling fashion a contemporary American writer of considerable fame voiced his version of the opinion that an integral part of education is to be found in actual physical contact with the life outside the classroom and outside of books--and not only that, but also in knowledge of the social fabric outside the sphere of campus life, in understanding the points of view and philosophies of life of those in every circumstance and every social plane, even...
...every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell, and each in turn has been proved a liar after a day or two of dazzling front page existence. Is it any wonder that serious people advocate a jail sentence for false confessions which 'put the police to so much trouble for nothing...
...last week Messrs, Mason, and MeNaughton have written your paper urging that a friend of mine be kept in jail. The points for the pardon of Debs fall into three main groups...
...examine your reasoning. 1. You assume that the occasion which called forth the punishment has ceased and therefore the punishment should cease. All very logical but why not apply it to all criminals and have a general jail delivery? You would give preference to the man who attacks society in its very vitals when the nation is engaged in war; and yet, I assume, you would not advocate releasing all our jail birds simply punishment ceased, to wit--their criminal act. And yet these criminals are angels when compared with the man who attacks society as did Eugene V. Debs...
Readers of C. S. Parker's "American Idyll" will remember how a "Wobbly" asked Charleton H. Parker to lend him Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" to read in jail. That "Wobbly" was J. T. Doran, better known as "Red", who will uphold the doctrines of the Industrial Workers of the World in this evening's meeting. He has given lectures on "Syndicalism" in many universities of the west...