The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

RUSSIA AHEAD? Penal Reform Rises As Question For Future NEW YORK (AP) -- Americanmethods adopted in Russia' would penal authorities. are franklyibe desirable in the U.S. skeptical of claims that Soviet! Discussing Russia's conjugal DRE FALL WEATHER COMING office, Map also shows precipitation forecast for | ly the same region. right gives normal for Fall weather, with tempera- | tures below normal for the sea- son, is predicted for a large part of Canada from the Sas- katchewan - Manitoba border eastward in the 30-day forecast of the United States weather period. Table at readings various centres during the | --CP New Russia has oustripped the United {States in the humane treatment lof convicted criminals. Nevethelegs, members of con- : |gress are begining to question ipenal officials fo find out why : |U.S. prisons are. falling down on the job of rehapilitating eriminals before returning. them to society. Among other things, recent {travellers to Russia have re- ported: | 1. Under the Soviet system, {prison inmates live in hope in- {stead of drifting in an' atmos- jshere of black despair so com- mon in American prisons. Ricts and escape attempts are said to be rare. 2. Soviet prisoners work at a # trade and earn as much as they ! 'would outside, thus helping sup- port iheir families and saving : money for a fresh start. (In many U.S. prisons, the only jobs available are "made" work. Laws forbid prison-made t 'goxls to compete in the open ¢ market. And too often, when a * man has served his time, he goes ¢ out to face the world in a prison- i 'made suit with a $10 bill, 8. Soviet authorities encourage [the preservation of marriage ties {and discourag in prison by permitting inmates' {wives to visit them for several {days each month. |SHARP CONTRAST By conirast with these reported conditions in Russia, too many |U.S. prisons are swept by recur- light ough- smap FRENCH COLLEGE The Paris Sorbonne, a college TIMBER PORT Finland's busiest port of 'the University of Paris, was|lumber-shipping centre of Kotka,| But there is widespread doubt | breatt) tor founded in 1252, 175 miles east of Helsinki. |rent riots, seething with escape |plots, and admittedly hotbeds of is the bomosexuality. !_and some controversy--whether sexual depravity| visit system, Lamoyne Green, superintendent of Ohio's new $12,- 000,000 Marion Correctional Insti- tution, told me: "] don't know if we should build our population with children sired by murderers who are now about nitting home fur- loughs to prisoners with good be- havior records. From the stand- point of rehabilitation, it might be a good thing, but from the standpoint of punishment it would be bad. "When we see that a man is ready to go home and lead a decent life, then it's a different stoov. Td let them go home over the weekend, during the last. six weeks in prison, so they could look for a jor and get back into the community FURLOUGHS FAVORED James V. Bennett, veteran chief of the federal bureau of prisons and one of the country's [lop penologists. says he too would | How To Hold FALSE TEETH | More Firmly in Place | Do your false teeth annoy and em- | barrass by slipping, dropping or wob- bling when you eat, lau h or talk? | Just sprinkle a little FA TEETH on | your plates. This alkaline (non -acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not | sour, Checks "piate odor" (denture Get. FASTEETH today at going to) spend the rest of their lives in Jrison. | "There \s a good deal of talk favor home furicughs for prisom- ers with good conduct records. "I think it's the coming thing," he said in an interview. As for Soviet:style coningal vis- its in prison, Bennett said: "I don't think we're ready for that in this country. There's still good deal of puritanical makeup in our people. "But a restricted form of fam- ily visitation would solve many social problems if a selected pris- loner were permitted, cceasionally and particularly just prior to re- lease, an opportunity. to visit his family over a weekend." So far as known, Mississippi's state venitentiarv at Parchman is the only American 'prison lwhere conjugal visits are openly authorized. Perhaps significantly, it has escaped the unrest which has been exploding in prisons elsewhere across the country. At Parchman, wives are per- mitted to visit their husbands every Sunday afternoon. Special houses were built to - more who have been in the peni- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, September 21, 1959 © tentiary for five years and a H trusty for six months. rected with prison rehabilitation say the only answer to crime is' Some critics, however, com- programs. to incarcerate the criminal until plain there 'is already too much| Scoffing at what they call sofi-(he has learned his lesson--the "psychiatric smorgasbord" con-|headed do-gooders, these criticsihard way. : date them. "We believe the program is tvery successful," says William Harpole, superintendent of the Mississippi prison. "For - one thing, the prisoners are contented. Perhaps more im- portant is that allowing a man and his wife to have a little of the normal relationship helps bold families together while the man is in prison." Parchman also permits 10-day Christmas home leaves for honor prisoners serving 10 years or | | { $50 to $5,000 Without Endorsers or Bankable Security Loons Life Insured Open Fri. Until 8 p.m, 17 Simcoe St. North FOR EXAMPLE: You Monthly Receive Payments $ 506.94 | $22.00 $1,526.72 | $60.00 $2,500.00 | $98.25 UPERIOR NANCE Closed Seturdey During July end August RA 5-6541 OFFICES THROUGHOUT ONTARIO - - 7 Save shoes, save money at your shoe repairer's! $-t-r-e-t-c-h shoe dollars with amazing Cat-Tex soles by Cat's Paw! They combine extra lightness with miles of extra wear! Get Cat-Tex half and full soles by Cat's Paw! - CAT- HALF AND FULL SOLES By the makers of famous CAT'S PAW heels and soles and CAT'S PAW TIPPS Wh ER tye fn FR PERS SS St RS aa Te a Sa "Come on down to Oniario Moior Sales and make us an ¢{ er on any car of your choice" COMPARE THESE BARGAINS The Pride of Chevrolet! THIS BEAUTIFUL CHEVROLET WAS G.M.'S BEST IN 1954, IT'S A ONE-OWNER CAR COMPLETE WITH HEATER, TWO-TONE PAINT, RADIO, OIL FILTER, WINDOW WASHERS AND ONLY 43,000 ORIGINAL MILES. THE COLOR IS TURQUOISE AND WHITE WITH MATCHING INTERIOR. THIS IS TRULY AN AUTOMOBILE YOU WOULD BE PROUD TO OWN--COME IN AND COMPARE. If You Prefer Pontiac! COME IN AND INSPECT THIS ATTRACTIVE DUSK ROSE AND IVORY DELUXE 1956 PONTIAC 2-DOOR SEDAN. TO INSURE MANY MILES OF TROUBLE FREE DRIVING, WE HAVE JUST COMPLETED A MAJOR ENGINE OVERHAUL. PRICED TO SELL! A Car With A Ride! 1956 BUICK 4-DOOR HARDTOP SEDAN. AGAIN THIS IS A ONE-OWNER AUTOMOBILE AND LOW MILEAGE, TOO. IT'S BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED IN BEIGE WITH A BRONZE TOP. OF COURSE IT'S EQUIPPED, DYNAFLOW, RADIO, HEATER, ETC. TRY IT ON THE HIGHWAY THEN MAKE US AN OFFER! ONTARIO MOTOR SALES LTD. 140 BOND STREET WEST Performance With Economy! PRESIDENT BY STUDEBAKER IS THEIR BEST. WE HAVE A ONE-OWNER 1957 SEDAN IN BLUE AND IVORY THAT IS EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN. IT IS POWERED BY STUDEBAKER'S 'OWN 225 H.P. SWEEPSTAKE ENGINE. V8 OF COURSE. TEST DRIVE IT--YOU'LL BUY IT! Oldsmobile Has Been Proven Best ECONOMY ---- PERFORMANCE -- RIDE -- DURABILITY AND THIS 1956 OLDSMOBILE IS NO EXCEPTION. IT'S ONE OF THE BEST USED CARS AVAILABLE TODAY. A HARDTOP WITH HYDRAMATIC AND POWER STEERING--EVEN HAS ELECTRIC WINDOWS. COLOR BLUE AND WHITE. TRULY EXCEPTIONAL VALUE RA 5-6508