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Volume III, Nomber IX CASTLE ON THE CUMBERLAND March, lQbh

 

 

 

 

ADMINISTRATION IN THIS MONTH'S CASTLE

 

The Honorable EDWARD T. BREATHITT, Governor

 

Castle News 2'

The Honorable HARRY WATERFIELD, Lt. Governor
Chaplains' Corner 8

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Editorial 9

JOSEPH CANNON, Commissioner

MARSHALL SWAIN, Deputy Commissioner THE COMPENSATION OF

 

 

IMPRISONMENT ll
Dr. HAROID BLACK, Director of Institutions
THE WHEAT HARVES TEES 1h
W. Z. CARTER, Director of Education
BOARD OF PARDONS & PAROIES Exchange Page 17
Dr. FRED MOFFATT, Executive Director Tall Tales 18
WALTER FERGUSON, Chairman Department Reports 19
‘ SIMEON WILLIS, Member
THE HOMELESS MAN 22
ERNEST THOMPSON, Member -
Mrs° LUCILLE HURT, Member Crossword Puzzle 25
Statistics & Movies 2h
PENI’IENTIARY ADMINISTRATION The Castle Laughs 2b,
LUTHER THOMAS, Warden
LLOYD ARMSTRONG, Deputy Warden
CASTLE STAFF

W. 0. LONG, Captain of the Guard
Rev. HOUSTON E. INMAN, Protestant Chaplain Lawrence Snow, Editor
Rev; THOMAS CLARK, Catholic Chaplain Harold Arnold, Associate Editor
HENRY E. COMAN, Supervisor of Education James McKinney, Art Editor

WILLIAM EGBERT, Vocational Instructor John Busby, Multility Operator

 

 

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BUT AMOUNT WILL NOT COVER ALL REFORMS

 

PRISONCI BET $9 MILIION FOR BIENNIUM,
Febm 11 ~— Governor Breathitt’s budget,
made public today, will include more

than 9 million dollars for corrections
for the next two years, a sum that will
pay for part but not all of the am~
bitious reform programs recommended by
the NCCD and the Governor's Task Force

on Corrections.

The actual figure, according to the
Louisville Times, is $9,53h,897o Cor~
rections Commissioner Joseph Cannon had
asked for approximately $125-million for
the biennium.

The Times quoted Cannon as being "very
disappointed about our proposed budgeto"

hired to
nearly as

He said the reforms he was
bring about "will not come
fast as we had anticipated."

The new budget will pay Operating ex-
penses of the prisons, continue some of

the reform programs that were started
earlier, and permit some of the recom»
mended changes to be brought about,

including the addition of hl new Departn
ment of Corrections workers.

These will include a psychiatric direc-
tor and a training director at the
Frankfort level and the following prison
workers:

1. An associate warden for treatment
and a training officer for each of the
two male prisons, here and at LaGrange.

29 A chief social worker for each
prison.

5. A fullmtime physician for each
prison.

h. A psychologist for this prison
(LaGrange presently has two).

But, said Commissioner Cannon, the pro»

fessional workers to be added will have
no staff to work with. About 120 new
personnel were recommended by the Task
Force.

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The workers will probably be able to
“set up programs in their own areas, but
they won't be able to make any apprecia-
ble progress until we begin to give them
staff," Cannon noted. '

PROBATION—PAROLE FUND INCREASE Is ONE
" BRIGHT SPOT" IN CORRECTIONS BUDGET

 

The Probation & Parole Division of the
Department. of Corrections got almost
everything it wanted from the new
budget, and this is one of the few
"bright spots" in the fiscal picture,
said Commissioner Cannon.

These reforms will be possible in that
division:

1. The hiring of about lb new probation
& parole workers, a move that has been
deemed necessary if parole is to be
liberalized.

2. Raising of salaries for paroh
officers from $508 monthly to $h15. flw
increase will hOpefully "attract college
graduates" to the field, said Cannon.

LAGRANGE GETS FIRST PRE—TRAINED OFFICERS

 

The first group of men specifically
trained as guards was employed at the
Kentucky State Reformatory, LaGrange,

early in February.

Twenty-three new correctional officers
underwent a week of training by the
State Police and the Department of Cor—
rections before actually reporting to
work on the night shifts at the reforma~

tory. Their training included instruCe
tion in prison rules and policiess
discipline, supervision, treatmemh

selfwdefense and the use of firearms and
gas equipment,

Several more new officers were scheduhfi
to be hired at both prisons, but lack 0f
funds under the new budget may preven‘t
such a move,

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LAGRANGE GETS SECOND DEPUTY WARDEN

 

Feb. 21 an The appointment of a second
deputy warden for the Kentucky State
Reformatcry at LaGrange was announced
today.

James Howard, 29, was to assume his
duties as deputy warden in charge of
treatment programs February 2h. He will
be working with the present deputy warm

den, Porter B. Lady, who will be in
charge of custody.
The appointment is in line with recunm

mendations made last year by the Task
Force on Corrections, which urged that
an additional deputy warden, fullwtime
physicians, psychologists, sociologists
and other trained workers be employed
for each prison.

The Department of Corrections, hampered

somewhat by a budget that provides only
limited increases for the priSons, is
also expected. in appoint a treatment
deputy warden at this institution.
Howard, formerly director ~of social
services at the London, Ohio, correc~
tional institution, holds a bachelor's
degree in sociology from LaSalle Col»
lege, Philadelphia, and a master's dew
gree in correctional work from Florida
State University.

confinement officer at

Fort Dix, for two
years in addition to his experience at
the Ohio institution. He is married and
the father of three children.

He was assistant
the Army Stockade,

GATE FEE TO BE HIKED T0 $25 ~~ IF NEEDED

 

Prisoners released after July 1, l9éh,
will no longer have to stretch a $5 bill
until their first payday, according to
Commissioner of Corrections Joseph
Cannon. After that date, the "gate fee“
~~ money given to a prisoner on his
release from prison -- will be increased
to $25.

In a later clarification, however,
Cannon noted that this money will be
paid only on the basis of need. That

is, prisoners who have less(Than $25 of
their own money at release time will be
given the difference; those who have $25
or more will receive nothing.

 

 

STOPuPRESS

 

LONGwAWAITED LIBERALIZED PAROIE RULES
ANNOUNCED AT PRESSTIME: EFFECTIVE APRIL

 

2000 TO BE CONSIDERED IN NEXT 127$; MONTHS
IIFERS NOW ELIGIBLE IN 6 YEARS

 

March 11 am New parole~eligibility rules
that will slash drastically the time a
Kentucky convict must serve before he
can be considered for parole were an-
nounced today, barely in thne to be
recorded in this issue. The liberalized
regulations will take effect April 5.

Lifers could be released in 6 years
under the new rules, 2l~year men in A.
Many others could be paroled within 12
months of entering prison on sentences
up to 15 years.

The new rules, subject of considerable
speculation here since a bill making
them possible was passed in special
session last summer, were delayed for

several reasons, chiefly that the Parole
Board was expanded from 5 members to 5
by the same law, but only 1 new member
has so far been appointed.

announced today
Chairman Walter

Briefly, the new rules,
by Parole Board

'Ferguson, provide that:

l. Prisoners serving terms in excess of

21 years, including life, may be con-
sidered for parole after serving 6
ye ars a

2. Those serving terms of more than 15
years but not more than 21 years may see
the Parole Board after serving h years.

3. Prisoners now serving 15 years or
less, or beginning such a term before
April 1, will be eligible for parole

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 NEW PAROLE RULES ANNOUNCED (Continued)

within the LB-month period immediately
following the effective date of the new
eligibility rules.

h. Prisoners with terms of 15 years or
less beginning their sentences after
April 1 will meet the Board within 12
months of entering prison.

About 2000 of Kentucky's 5000 prisoners
will be affected by the new rules within
the next lZé'months, said the Louisville
Times. The old law required most
prisoners to serve 1/3 of their time be—
fore becoming eligible. Lifers served 8
years, 16~to~21 year men served 6.

NO "WHOLESALE" RELEASES

But, the Times quoted Ferguson as say-
ing, the adoption of the new rules "does
not mean there will be a wholesale turn-
ing out of men on parole."

It will mean, he said, "that those who
become eligible and are ready for parole
will be released.“

ASKS PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING
The Parole Board "is going to need the

help of the public to make this a suc-
cess,“ he said. "We want the public to

understand what we are trying to do.
(The Board) wants to help the inmates
who are ready to help themselves

(and to) go home and live decent lives."
The Louisville Times story reported that
Commissioner of Corrections Joseph
Cannon said the new regulations are
"fine rules which will give us a lot of
flexibility coo very progressive in the
light of what other states have in their
regulations.“

He said the new regulations were adapted
from the National Council on Crime and
Delinquency model code of parole eligi-
bilityo

The new system will mean a great deal of
extra work for the Board, Ferguson said.

 

 

KNIVES, FORKS ISSUED IN KSP MESSHALL

 

March 6 —- It may feel
while, but we'll be using knives and
forks in addition to spoons when we go
into the messhall, according to a gen-
eral order issued today.

strange for a

The order,
Deputy Warden Armstrong,
the utensils would be supplied inmates
beginning March 8, a Sunday. It also
made clear that each inmate would be re—
quired to take all three utensils at the
steam line and turn them in again after
the meal.

signed by Warden Thomas and
indicated that

No PAY RAISE FOR GUARD FORCE

 

A projected raise in pay for officers of
Kentucky's two male prisons will not be
forthcoming under the new budget.

Prison guards presently start at $266 a
month. The proposed raise would have
hiked starting salaries to $295.

GOIDIBERG DE-
COURTS

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
PLORES FLIGHT OF POOR IN U. S.

 

In Spite of Constitutional safeguards,
the poor and near—poor of America cannot
get an even break in the courts.

That was essentially the position U. 3.
Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg
took last month when he listed the legal
handicaps of poverty. According to
Newsweek, Justice Goldberg said these
included:

1. The greater danger run by the poor
of being arrested for crimes they did
not commit and inability to get out of
jail on bail once arrested.

2. Lessened chances of being freed on
probation or parole, which often hinge
on the ability to get a job or psychiat—
riC help.

He urged modification of bail and pro-
bation and parole procedures, suggested
that acquited defendants be reimbursed.

 

  

BILL TO END DEATH PENALTY GETS GOOD RESPONSE AT HEARING: ONLY ONE FLATLY OPPOSED

 

FRANKFORT, March A _... A bill that would
end capital punishment in Kentucky was
cleared for further legislative action
by a favorable report from the House
Criminal Law Committee, and another bill
that would have substituted a sentence
of life without privilege of parole for
the death penalty was rejected, reported
the Louisville Times today.

The favorable report followed a public
hearing held on March 5, in which the
execution of convicted criminals was
condemned as immoral, out of line'with
religious teachings and public senti—
ment, not effective as a deterrent to
crime, a form of punishment usually re»
served for 'ww poor and members of

minority groups, and "legal murdero"

THE REJECTED MEASURE which would have
substituted absolute life sentences,
opposed by all the witnesses, was termed
one calling for a I“living death" Punish-
ment, said the Times.

Witnesses arguing against the death
penalty included Louisville Times rem
porter Dick Berger, who was Speaking as
a private citizen, U. L. socialwwork
professor Charles L° Newman, and former
Welfare Commissioner Carlos Oakleyo
Alone in favoring retention of capital
punishment was Court of Appeals Judge
Morris Montgomery, although Appeals
Judge John Palmore was quoted as favorm
ing capital punishment for Slayers of
policemen and prison guardso Both
judges joined the other witnesses in
condemning the life—withoutwparole punm
ishment.

ARGUMENTS AGAINST DEATH PENALTY

BERGER, whose writings on Kentucky
prison conditions are well known here,
presented statistical evidence which
Showed, among other things, that aim
though Kentucky has had 162 executions
since 1911, only one has taken place
within the last 7 years.

TWO lwaEAR-OLD BOYS, four l7~year~olds,

four 18myear-olds and seven l9~year-olds
were among the 162, accounting for more
than 10% of the total, Berger said, and
NB% were first offenders. Moreover, al-
though Negroes make up only 7% of the
total Kentucky p0pulation, they account

for 51% of Kentucky's executed, his
statistics revealedo
CHARLES L. NEWMAN, director of correc-

tional training at the University of
Louisvillels Kent School of Social Work
and president of the Kentucky Council on
Crime and Delinquency, presented statis~
tics which showed the murder rate in
states that do not have the death penal-
ty to be the same as that in states that
execute convicted slayerso

CARIDS OAKLEY, formerly commissioner of
the Department of Welfare which, until
recently, included the correctional
system in its jurisdiction, described in
what the Times called "dramatic terms"
the horror of the 1962 electrocution of .
Kelly Mosso Oakley was a witness at the
death ceremonyo

SEVEN MEN, four of them Negroes, are
currently awaiting execution hereo

LOUISVILLE TV STATION FILMS PRISON

 

Febe 29 ~~ A mobile unit from Louisa
ville's WHAS-TV drove through the prison
gates today carrying a small crew of
cameramen who Spent most of the after-
noon filming the compound of this 80»
yearuold, maximum security institutiono

Accompanied by Warden Luther Thomas and
Captain‘Wo 00 Long, the TV crew shot
footage which included exterior scenes,
extensive shots of the present, one-room
prison school, the new educationmrecreau
tion building now under construction,

 

and interiors of the crowded "shops"
-- dayroomse
BRITISH PRISON-MADE GOODS will soon be

competing on the open market, says AP.

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 "STARS-ARE STILL IN SKY," SAYS INMATE
CLUB MEMBER AFTER FIRST NIeIT MEETING

March 5 —- Some 100 prisoners here were
able to see the stars at night on their
way to and from the first extracurricu-
lar after—dark activity ever held in
Kentucky's maximum—security penitenti—
ary.

"The stars are still in the sky -- and
they're beautiful," said one delighted
lifentermer, a member of the Barons
of Good Will, an inmate club whose mem-
bers accounted for approximately 80 of
the men "okayed out" for part of the
evening. Most of the others were there
for pre-parole interviews with Dr. J.
Wysocki, volunteer peychiatric consult—
ant for die prisono The activity lasted
until about 6:30.

MEMBERS HEAR TALKS, MUSIC

The club members heard brief addresses
from Dr. Wysocki, who is the club's
executive director, and from Commission-
er of Corrections Joseph Cannon, who was
at the prison that day. Members of the
hillbilly band provided music.

NORMALLY IN CELLS BY Luao

Normally, most of the llOOnplus prison-
ers here are locked in their cells by
hzfio each afternoon. A few in jobs

administration and
institution are
stay at their
weekly movie,

important to the

Operation of the
cleared, or "okgyed," to
work until later. The

shown to most prisoners during the day,
is re-run at night for the benefit of
these "okays." With these exceptions,
there had been no afterudark activity
here prior to tonight, although prison-

ers at the medium-security LaGrange
Reformatory frequently enjoy "nights
out.".

How did it feel to be out after dark?
The prisoner who enjoyed the night sky
-- for the first time in 5 years, in his
case -_ commented: “It was wonderful.
It felt good to be trusted."

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W. 0. LONG APPOINTED CAPTAIN OF GUARDS,
STONNIE PARKEh APPOINTED LIEUTENANT

March 1 -~ The vacancy created by the
death last December of KSP Captain
Willard T. Baxter was filled today when
former guard-lieutenant W. O..Long was
named captain of the guard.

Captain Baxter and his wife were seri-
ously injured in a Calvert City automo-
bile accident last October. He died in
a Nashville hOSpital on December ll.

in Paducah,
of the
following

Long, who makes his home
Kentucky, assumed the duties
captain on an acting basis
Mr. Baxter's death.

The post of utility or senior lieutenant
was also filled today. Former morning-
shift Sergeant Stonnie Parker of Cadiz
was named to that slot to work with
Captain Long.

WATER COOLERS INSTALLED IN SHOPS

The wooden water kegs which once sup-
plied cold water to KS? inmates on hot
summer days may be a thing of the past.

Electric water coolers were installed in

the "shops" -— large open rooms that
serve as dayrooms -- early this month.

BRITISH POLICE CHIEF WANTS STOCKS USED

 

In Bristol, England, Police Chief Norman
Frost has suggested that stocks be used
to punish vandals who destroy road
signs, street lamps, etc.

Stocks have not been in use in England
since 1865. Chief Frost feels that the
method of punishment used by the Ameri-
can pilgrims would make a laughing stodi
out of the malefactor as he sat in the
Stocks 0

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

VERA FOUNDATION'S MANHATTAN BAIL PROJECT,

2é-YEARS OLD,

 

SELECTED PRISONERS RELEASED ON HONOR

 

Even if he is eventually cleared of
guilt in the courtroom, the poor man
accused of a crime almost always loses.

He loses his freedom while awaiting
trial if he can’t raise his bail.

He may also lose his job.

But, according to AP reporter Charles L.
West, something is being done about it
in New York City.

"Something" is the Manhattan Bail Proj-
ect, a bail-reform eXperiment conducted
by the Vera Foundation and the New York
University School of Law. Through the
efforts of these two groups, some 1600
persons have been released from jail on
their promise to show up for trial.

Only 15 of the 1600 _- less than 1% --
have "skipped."

And the city saved the cost of keeping
the 1600 in jail for periods that aver-
age h weeks.

Applicants for release under the Mann
hattan plan are screened by Vera Founda—
tion interviewers. The interviewer then
makes a recommendation to the court,
which has accepted about 70% of the fav~
orable recommendations.

The Vera Foundation was established in
1961 by retired industrialist Louis
Schweitzer, who was appalled by the num—
ber of indigents who had to remain in
jail because they were unable to raise
bail.

According to West, burglars, robbers and

others are eligible, providing they meet
standards set up for the plan. Persons
accused of murder, rape and sex offenses
involving children, as well as narcotics
addicts, are excluded. But Herbert
Stuiz, director of the Vera Foundation,
hopes to extend the plan to some of the
now-excluded categories and to poor-risk

IS PROVING ITS WORTH

applicants in are now

acceptable.

categories that

in bailnreform
number of
Some of the

The foundation's work
procedures has impressed a
people in law enforcement.
results:

1. Money has been appropriated to make
the plan a regular part of New York City
courtroom procedure.

2. Similar projects have been started
in Washington and Des Moines.

of the American Bar
begun related studies
cities across the

5. A committee
Association has
in 11 other major
nation.

CALIFORNIA LIFER WHO REFUSED PAROIE DIES

Antonio Ditardo, a resident of Cal-
ifornia's San Quentin Prison for h}
years, died in his sleep there last
month.

Ditardo, a native of Italy serving time
for the 1920 murder of his wife, made
the news several months ago when he rea
jected a parole, a policy he had folw
lowed consistently since he was first
offered his freedom in 19h5.

“why would I want to go out?" he once
asked authorities. "I just want to stay
here until the Big Boss calls."

 

NINE RIVERS LONGER THAN THE OHIO

Nine U. S. rivers are longer than the

mighty Ohio, according to Information
Please. They include: the Rio Grande,
the Red, the Yukon, the Snake, the

Colorado, the Columbia
the Mississippi and the

Arkansas, the
and, of course,
Missouri.

The Ohio is 981 miles long.

  

HE D n I

FATHER THOMAS CLARK, CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN

 

 

Whenever we intend to make a box we pre—

sume we will be succeSSful. We calcu-
late how much wood we will need because
we have determined the size it will be.

In other words, we plan to be victorious
by accomplishing what we plan. This at-
titude is the same any time we plan to
do something -- victory.

The last Sunday of this month we look at
another person's victory when we cele-

brate Easter -- the Victory of Christ
over death and sin. Throughout the
Christian world this is the greatest

feast of the year. It is great because
it gives faith and Holy Hope to all of
us still in the struggle against the
world, the flesh and the devil. But let
us consider: If Christ has won a View
tory, why do we fear defeat? If Christ
has conquered evil, why do we still have
to defeat it?

The answer to this paradox is this:
Christ by His Cross and Resurrection has
overcome sin, and death and evil, 'in
principle, but we have not overcome them
in fact until we appropriate His merits
by right living and obedience to His
Holy'Will.

He overcame sin and evil in principle,
for the very worst thing that sin can do
is not to steal or persecute or murder.
The worst thing sin can do is to kill
God, for that is sin in its essence.
Sin is essentially anti—God. The Cruci-
fixion is therefore the final act of
sin. And this is all sin can do.

But though sin had done all that it
could, the Son of God had not done all
that He could; for by the power of God
He could rise from the tomb where sin
had buried Him. The Resurrection -—
there was sin's defeat and our victory.
Sin had been overcome in principle; and
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REV. HOUSTON INMAN, PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN

The message of the gospel may fail to
find its mark for curious reasons. It
may be obscured by words that hide its
meaning, or the fault may be in men's
consciences. They may be blinded so
that they cannot recognize the truth.
There are blind spots on the conscience
as well as on the eye. In some cases
the conscience may be wholly dead. In
other words, the Spiritual eye may have
gone blind.

The psychopathic person is an individual
acting normally in some areas but there
are blind spots as far as determining
right and wrong. A blinded mind is a
worse calamity than blinded eyes. Many
people have been blinded by the lust for
power and profit. Our era has been so
marked by this type of blindness that
one explanation for the wide-Spreadness
of crime today, called loosely "juvenile
delinquency," is that our values are
catching up with us° The "corner store"
holdups are a reflection of a larger
mood of an adult generation which has
been blinded by the "god of the world."

Here is the glamour of those material
things Which appeal to "the lust of the
flesh and the lust of the eyes and the
pride of life" (John 2:16), and which
prevent peeple from seeing the "light of
the goSpel." These people are called
"unbelievers." The unbelievers are not
the honest doubters who seek to know the
truth but cannot obtain religious faith
and convictions. These do not becmw
the prey of the "god of this world."
Their honesty of mind and love for truth

keep them sensitive to moral and
spiritual values. The unbeliever Who
abecomes a victim of the "god of the

world" is the man who makes a deliberate
choice of a godless view of life. He
does not believe in God because he does
not really want too He rejects faith
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A RETRACTION AND AN APOLOGY

 

Certain facts have come to light during
the past month which indicate that this
writer owes an apology to individuals
and official bodies which may have been
cast in a bad light by an editorial
which appeared in last monthls Castle.

The editorial dealt with regulations
governing the termination of parole in
Kentuckyo It was intended to suggest
that perhaps it would be more consistent
with modern penal thinking to release an
offender from further legal entangle»
ments once he has successfully completed
his parole periodo As an illustrations
the case of an elderly lifer, now serv»
ing a h=year deferment as a parole view
lator, was offered.

The man had served more than 15 years in
prisono He was paroled with the stipum
lation that he stay out of a certain
county during active (parole) and in»

active (postmparole) supervisiono He
served his parole period in another
state and received a releaseo Some

time later, he attended the funeral of
his sister in the prohibited countyo
As a result of that tripg he was are
rested and returned to prisono

It was my belief that the trip to the
funeral was the sole reason for the
prisoner's arresto I checked the facts
with certain papers the prisoner pos=
sessed dealing with an unsuccessful
attempt to gain his freedom through the
courtso These papers» which included
the Commonwealth‘s arguments against his
appeals mentioned no other ground for
his re-arrest than his refusal to stay
out of the prohibited countyo

However9 shortly after the editorial was
publisheda an official check of the
prison records disclosed that the lifer
had in fact visited the prohibited coune
ty on at least one other occasion,
apparently in an attempt to gather inw
fonnation needed to Open his claim for
oldwage benefitso At that time he had
been arresteds but released with an
admonition to stay out of the areao The
man also admits to returning to the
county a second time for the same pur»
pose, and a third time to attend the
funerals after which he was again ar-
rested and returned to prisono

Some tine laterg a letter from the
parole officer who made the arrest
arrived at the prisono This letter
stated that the prisoner had, after the
funeral, become intoxicated and "terror-
ized the community" with a pistol, which
the letter said he discharged on at
least two occasionsg and that this was
the reason for his being returned as a
parole violatoro

With these additional facts in hand,
this writer wishes to offer an apology
not only to the Parole Board, but also

to the field parole officers who may
have been innocently embarrassed by the
original article, and to the prisoner
involved, who was in no way responsible
for the editorial° All blame for any
misunderstanding or distortion of fact
resolves solely on this writers and we
are glad to set the record straight
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-- Lawrence Snow

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 CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN (C ont inue d?

 

In the truest sense the Savior standing

by an empty tomb could say, "I have
overcome the world."
But though Our Lord overcame sin in

principle, sin is not overcome in fact;
and it is not overcome in fact because
we are free. A scientist may discover
an infallible cure for a disease. The
disease in that case has been overcome
in principle. But since patients are
free not to accept the remedy, the dis—
ease may every now and then win a
momentary victory. In like manner, the
victory over sin and death may be re-
jected at any particular moment. The
same divine love which permitted men to
reject Christ on Calvary still permits
them to reject His conquest over sin --
for God is not a dictator. No man is
forced to live a resurrected life.
Man's evil is still his own. He can
still win his passing victories over
Divine Love, until the final gathering-
in when Christ shall come wifii His Cross

to judge the living and the dead. The
final victory will be His.
But there is beauty in this tragedy of

for it is followed by a
Resurrection. And the central desire in
the great heart of Christ is that we
share His Resurrection ~- His Victory.

the Cross,

PROTESTANT CHAPLAIN (Continued)

 

because the way of faith is not the way
in which he has chosen to live. By a
series of these trifling decisions the
unbeliever places God in the background
and Spiritual values become obscure.

The attraction of the world is a form of
worship. Man must have something to
adore. This must be recognized. Money,
power, position and popularity can be-
come the object of that adoration.
PeOple reverence the rich, the powerful,
the popular; mark the homage accorded to
the celebrities of the screen or the
Sports. This type of adoration cannot
permanently satisfy, but it certainly
causes the mind to become impervious to
the glory of Christ. For the blinded
mind walks in the midst of the glory and
misses it all:

The glory of Christ is explained by the
fact that He is the likeness of God and
reveals His nature and character. In
other words, the gOSpel includes not
only what Christ taught, and what He
did; it consists in what He is —- the
living center of power and love from
which His teachings and His actions
spring. The goSpel is the truth about
God and man, and therefore corre3ponds
with universal human needs and aSpira-
tiOflSo

 

SCHEDULE OF CHAPEL ACTIVITIES

 

SUNDAY

Protestant Services: 8:00 aom.
Catholic Mass: 12:30 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous: 1250 p.m.

TUESDAY

Choir Practice: 12:50 p.m.

WEDNESDAY
Mid-week Prayer Service: 1:50 p.m.
Bible Class: 2:30 p.m.

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THURSDAY

12 : 30 Puma
1:30 p.m.

Choir Practice:
Group Therapy (AA94

SATURDAY

Group Therapy (AA): 10:00 a.mo

 

 

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BY JOHN SPIERS

EDITOR'S NOTE: John Spiers, editor of
VALUES at the time this was written, has
Spent many years in selfmimposed exile
in Indiao This article, reprinted from
THE HARBINGER, was written following a
philosopher9s tour of the western nan
tionso

 

IMPRISONMENT DOES NOT WORRY a wise mane
It is only a pain for those whose inter»
sets and values lie entirely in the cute,
side world, Among these, some at least
can take the opportunity of having the
outer interests closed off to discover.
interests and values of another ordero

A man who is imprisoned can_ actually
consider himself in an honorable comm
pany, along with many of the greatest
figures in history, including philoso»
phers, including also that figure whom
many consider to have been the supreme
teacher of wisdom ma Jesuso The law has
to fulfill its course and a wise man acw
cepts that when he moves within societyo
Socrates could have run awayo He had
the chance, But while his close discino
ples were troubled and weeping, he went
on disooursing as usual about the realo

"How shall we bury you, Socrates?" somem
body asked, and pat came the reply, "You
must catch me first," Obviously, the
"me" here refers to a selfucertainty
with which the relative necessities of
death or life had nothing to do, nothing
in common. This is the verdict of all
the wise sages of history, east or westo

 

 

ulln

 The great Plato, disciple of Socrates,
was also once sold as a slave. Do you
imagine that slavery or imprisonment
changed his ideas of philosophical verim
ty? Or take the 5th century Roman
philosopher Boethius, who was one of the
most favored courtiers and who by a
changed government was stripped of his
riches and thrown into prison. As a re=
sult of this we have one of the most
beautiful texts, his THE CONSOLATION OF
PHILOSOPHY. Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
is also a jail production. In Persia
innumerable Sufi mystics were cast into
prison. The great Gurus of South India,
like Ramanuja, were often in danger of
arrest because of the unorthodoxy of
their views. But that di