Article September 12, 1925 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from O'Neill

[From The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts]

Under the heading, "Brief Biographies of Success," the Central Howard Association of Chicago, organized to help paroled or discharged prisoners go straight, recounts a few of its hundreds of cases, showing how convicts have become good citizens.

Looking back over a period of twenty-five years, this prisoners' aid society for the Middle West is able to speak in terms of permanent reformation. Its records tell, for instance, of a young man whom the association first met twenty-four years ago. He was then on parole from the state penitentiary, where he had served a term for robbery. This young man later took a theological course, became a pastor, and is now state executive of a public-service organization at a salary of five thousand dollars. "He has made good absolutely," the association asserts. Another paroled prisoner gladly went to work as a day laborer in the stock yards. He was then thirty-five years old. Four years have passed since he took this job, and he is now head clerk of his department, earns fifty-five dollars a week, supports his wife and two children, and has saved twenty-seven hundred dollars.

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