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...often is preferable to the enforced continuance of a relation which has no true basis in mutual respect. . ." The delegates voted to delete "and often is." Liberal on the whole, the Council's creed further favored such things as unemployment insurance, collective bargaining, social planning, penal reform, shorter working hours, wider distribution of wealth, repudiation of war, "spiritual comfort and sympathy" to conscientious objectors, opposition to compulsory military training...
...sentenced by a board of men who are qualified to judge what form of corrective treatment they should have. With this aim in view, the Institute is preparing men who will be properly educated to do the work, and meanwhile to fill positions on the various probation and penal boards...
...program the scientific correction of criminals. In the wide curriculum are included economics, government, social and psychopathology; social ethics, casework, and research; mental hygiene, criminology, penology, and the usual legal subjects. The first part of the two-year course is spent in research, the summer in some penal institution if possible, and the second part in instruction. When these men have graduated, the Institute hopes to place them in probation or correctional offices, so that they may be able to apply knowledge in practical reform...
Such a Utopian reform, of course, lies in the very distant future, but the great merit of the Institute is that it has no illusions. Rather than let the whole affair slide, its graduates are ready to attack immediate penal problems that can be mended without any sweeping changes. Furthermore, it augurs well for future success that the Institute does not act on the basis of sentimental humanitarianism, but rather from a scientific interest in social welfare. There are and will be many obstacles in its road, including the ponderous weight of a legal mechanism that is very difficult...
...picture scrupulously explains, zombies are a superstition. But it adds that "wherever there is a superstition, you will find there is also a fact." Voodoo is still esoterically practiced in Haiti. The Penal Code, Article 249, reads: "If, after the administration of such substances [drugs to induce a coma-like death] the person has been buried, the act shall be considered murder, no matter what result follows." No scientist has investigated zombies. But reports indicate that the term means people who have died of disease, old age or wounds and. before decomposition, been reanimated. White Zombie combines voodoo murder prac...