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A CURE FOR CRIME

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 24, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 39.

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A CURE FOR CRIME.

A writer in the North American Review asserts that manual training is almost as good a preventive of crime as vaccination is of smallpox.
"What per cent. of prisoners under your care have received any manual training?" a Northern man asked the warden of a Southern penitentiary.
"Not one per cent.," replied the warden.
"Have you no mechanics in prison?"—"Only one mechanic—a house-painter."
"Have you any shoemakers?"—"Never had a shoemaker."
"Have you any tailors?"—"Never had a tailor."
"Any carpenters?"—"Never had a man in prison that could draw a straight line."—Michigan Christian Advocate.