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"IF OSBURN WANTS
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"Millionaires Is Get
ting More Interested
in Jails Every Day,"
Birsky Continues in
Discussing Prison
Reform
"What Them Fellers Would
Like to See Is That Every
Cell Should Be Big Enough
to Take an Armory Size Ori
ental Rug, With a Stock
Ticker on Top of the Humi
dor in the Corner," Ho
Goes On
"As It Stands Today," Agrees Zapp,
"If You Would Keep a Dawg in &
Placo Like They Keep Convicts,
and the Neighbors Complained.
Thoy Would Arrest You and Send
You to a Jail Which Would Make
tho Place Whore You Kept the
Dawg Look Liko tho Waiting Room
of the Pennsylvania Station"
"T SUPPOSE you arc reading in the
paper from this hero Mr. Os
burn?" Barnctt Zapp said, as he fin
ished his second cup of coffee in
Wasserbauer's restaurant.
"The way the papers is so full of
news nowadays," Louis Birsky re
plied, "I am lucky if I get through
ovory day a couple of Mexican mur
ders and the real estate notes. What
did ho ever do that he should run for
President?"
"He ain't running for President,
but he's got a lot of people sore at
him," Zapp said. "Also there is also
a lot of people says the feller is all
right, and I think so, too. He be
lieves that them fellers should get
more out of life than just working
and sleeping and a little exercise and
meat only three times a week. He be
lieves they should go on a moving
picture once in a while and to a tho
ayter also."
"I believe so, too," Birsky said. "In
fact, I was speaking to one of them
by the name Tzvcc Margonin tho other
day, and I says to him the same like
you says about going once in a while
to a moving pictures, and he said
what could an operator do which gets
only ten dollars a week? A pressor
and a buttonhole maker is the same,
Zapp. All them fellers is up against
it for money something terrible."
"What are you talking nonsense
pressers and buttonhole makers?"
Zapp exclaimed. "I am speaking
from convicts, which you couldn't ex
pect they would behave no better, if
you treat them like animals."
"Or buttonhole makers," Birsky in
terrupted. "Nine times out of ten a convict
18,000 going on 19,000
members ! ! !
Honest Injun.
RAINBOW PEN
William's Lesson
(By Mary Neary, Coral street.)
One dayt William, a very selfish lit
tle boy, was given a bowl of jam to
share among his sisters nnd brothers.
He said! "I am not going to share.
I will stay in the barn and eat it
myself." All at once, he heard his
sister calling his name,
"I am not going to give them any,"
he said. Soon they stopped calling,
Then they said to him; "We just had
ice cream, cake and jam. But, we
could, not find you," This taught him a
lesson and after that he was more
generous.
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"Suffering from a chain of busted banks."
didn't get a show in the world," Zapp
said.
"Neither did a buttonhole maker,"
Birsky retorted, "and he worked his
wny up to bo anyhow a buttonhole
mnkor, whereas the convict become a
convict."
"I wouldn't argue with you," Zapp
said, "but a buttonhole maker don't
got to rcmnin a buttonhole maker if
he don't want to, whereas when you
are a convict it's got to run its courte
like stomach trouble."
"Sure, I know," Birsky agreed,
"and that's the way it is nowadays.
People treats a convict like he would
got up one morning perfectly strong
and healthy with n wife and six chil
dren, and he's kisses 'em all good-by
and goes downtown, y'understand,
happy and contented that he is a
decent respectable citizen, understand
me, cats a hearty lunch, smokes a
good cigar, and in the drop of a
bucket, y'understand, he gets stricken
down in the prime of life with grand
larceny in tho first degree, and for
tho rest of his days he's a convict, j
Then tho idee is to make the patient
as comfortable as possible with chick
en soup and moving pictures, and they
learn him stenography, typewriting
and bookkeeping, so as when he re
covers or escapes he wouldn't got to
go back to housebreaking or safe
blowing, but could go in for something
more bekovet, like raising checks or
forgery."
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VALENTINES
Abraham Lincoln
(By James Dougherty, Rosewood.)
Lincoln as a boy studied hard. He
had not the opportunities which we
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have now, He had to write on the
back of a shovel with charcoal and
read by the firelight. He studied
very hard and by his hard studying
he raised himself to the highest gift
a nation could bestow upon a man.
We ought to appreciate the oppor
tunity we have and study hard. Our
motto through life should be, "Sink
or swim, live or die, survive, or
perish, every boy should try to imi
tate Lincoln."
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By MONTAGUE GLASS
"You are the same as a whole lot
of other people, Birsky," Zapp said.
"Just because Mr. Osburn wants to
have a prison a place for human be
ings and not dawgs, y'understand,
you claim he is trying to make Sing
Sing a sort of combination between
the Waldorf-Astoria and Palm Beach;
if somebody says that every loom in
a tenement house should ought to got
anyhow one window, you say: 'What
do you want for fourteen dollars a
month studio apartments?' If the
Board of Education pays a professor
ten dollars to give a public lecture for
a thousand people, you holler your
head ofT that it's tho equivalence of
hiring Caruso and Pavlova, and you
wouldn't put it beyond tho Board of
Education that they split up with the
professor on his fees and their wives
is shopping in twin sixes with the
piocecds."
"I don't know what you arc talking
about at all," Birsky said. "If this
hero Osburn wants to put in a tiled
batluoom with each cell and give a
grand opera show every night, Zapp,
he's got my permission; tho only
thing is he should quit talking about
it, because as it is now, y'understand,
Osburn and his friends goes round
and gives lectures to churches,
lodges and ladies' clubs, and he tells
'cm how when he first come to Sing
Sing the place was so dead, y'under
stand, it was just like being in jail,
whereas nowadays they give patties
d V lews of Farmer S
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
This is Lincoln's Birthday and we wnnt to remember him, for he was very fond of children.
Before you read this, turn the electric light off and then turn it on again Lincoln read by the light of a
burning pine knot.
Wash your hands and face in the bathroom with hot and cold water. Then remember Lincoln broke the ice
in the bucket on the back porch before he could wash.
Take a trolley car to school, if your school is over a mile away, and while you are riding remember that
Lincoln was only too glad to walk three miles to school in the snow at that.
Turn on the radiator if your schoolroom is cold, but first think of the stove which heated the schoolhouse
where Lincoln went.
When your father or mother presents you with a dollar simply because you ask for' it, inquire of yourself
how many rails Lincoln had to split before HE got n dollar.
We need men like Lincoln today. Study his life and see why, though great, he was always humble; sad, yet
always telling funny stories.
February has given us two great men. If your birthday comes in February, perhaps you may become
great, too.
Suppose you try to be liko Lincoln. FARMER SMITH
Children's Editor, Evening Ledger.
Farmer Smith's Bug Book
DOCTOR BEETLE'S RIDE
Doctor Beetle came down the road
singing softly to himself:
A Flutterby Bee
On a peach tree sat
Looking as pretty
As a Pink Pussy Cat.
Said a Grasshopperee
To the Flutterby Bee,
"You're catching a cold,
As I can see."
Said the Flutterby Bee
To the Grasshopperee,
"I may catch cold,
But IT can't catch ME."
Suddenly one of the good doctor's
FARMER SMITH,
Evening Ledger:
I wish to become a member of
your Rainbow Club. Please send
me a beautiful Rainbow Button
free. I agree to DO A LITTLE
KINDNESS EACH AND EVERY
DAY SPREAD A LITTLE
SUNSHINE ALL ALONG THE
WAY:
Name ...,,.....,,,.,
Address ........................
Age ...,,,
School I attend. .................
A TILED BATHROOM
EVERY NIGHT, HE'S GOT MY PERMISSION
up there and have elegant meals and
everybody is happy and contented,
y'understand, and the consequence is
a lot of fellers which formerly worked
themselves to death for ten or twelve
dollars a week gets an idee from hear
ing this feller Osburn talk that if
they want to improve themselves all
they got to do is to go out and knock
somebody on the head, which Golt soil
huctcn it should be me, Zapp, it would
be just my luck that the feller over
does the thing and gets electrocuted."
"Osburn nin't getting off lectures
about Sing Sing to exercise his voice,
Birsky," Znpp said. "People invites
him to these nfTairs. They want to
hear what the feller is doing, because
they take an interest in such things,
and thoy ain't schnorrers liko us,
Birsky. They're rich people million
aires." "Sure, I know," Birsky continued.
"They wnnt to find out just what they
arc up against in case they didn't got
the right dope from their lawyers be
fore they went into tho last big
merger nnd floated that $100,000,000
bond issue. What them fellers would
liko to sec is that every cell should bo
big enough to take an armory siac
oriental rug, with a stock ticker on
top of the humidor in tho coiner.
Millionaires is getting more interest
ed in jails every day, Zapp, and if
the Government goes to work and gets
after all them millionaires which is
allowing themselves such liberal cash
discounts in tho income tax state
ments, Zapp, instead of leaving their
money to hospitals because they got
treated so good in Mount Sinai that
time they had stomach trouble, them
millionaires will remember how kind
Mr. Osburn was to them that time
they had income tax trouble or rail
road bond trouble or anti-trust trou
ble, and the first thing you know,
Zapp, you will read it in the papers:
$2,000,000 TO SING SING
Prison Benefits by Will of J. Van
Rensselaer Mezummen
Or when real cstatcrs is taking out a
couple good sucker prospects in auto
mobiles to see lots 422 to 428, inclu
sive, in Block Gl on a map filed in the
Office of the Register of the County
of Westchester, January 2d, 1916, by
the number 2G49, y'understand, one
of the talking points will be that from
any part of the property you could
sec the new buildings of the Judson
K. Rayvoch Memorial Jail, and the
grounds is all fixed up elegant with
flowers and trees like a high-class
cemetery development, and there is
lady trained nurses in white caps
leading around tho patients. The big
gest cripple among them is an old
feller which is suffering from a chain
of busted banks, and when after a
couple of weeks the President dis
charges him as incurable, he's going
to live in a little cottage with his
wife and take no more interest in
nothing except to collect ocean steam-
June Bugs, which he always drove,
stopped in the middle of the road.
"What's the matter? What's the
matter?" asked the driver.
"I don't like that song," answered
the June Bug.
"It is not for you to tell me what
I shall do and what I shall not do
GET UP." And with that the June
Bugs started off with Doctor Beetle's
carriage at a lively rate.
Finally, as they turned in tho road,
they came to the edge of a high cliff.
Nearer and nearer the edge went the
June Bugs. AH the while the good
doctor was shouting,
"WHOA! WHOA!"
Can you guess what happened to
Doctor Beetle? The Lady Bug hears
the story tomorrow.
Story of William Penn
(By Helen Jones, North Bancroft Bt.)
William Penn was an English
Quaker, The King of. England gave
Penn some land in America to pay
a debt he owed Penn's father, This
land included what is now Pennsyl
vania and Delaware, Penn wished to
make a home for his Quaker friends,
who were treated badly in England
because of their religion, so he and
a band of Quakers Bailed across the
Atlantic Ocean and settled In the
place "here Philadelphia now stand?.
"Havo
crs, and when he comes in tho house
and says to his wife, 'Look, Mommer,
here's a new one forty thousand
tons,' she smiles and pats him on
the shoulder and says, 'My! Ain't
that nice!' and then she turns her
head so he can't sec she's crying to
think thnt her husband, who only a
few months ago was a big, strong
man, running two trust companies,
three national banks and a life in
surance company into the ground,
should now be happy like a little child
"Where they learn a convict to go
out and look for revenge."
mitn s Rainbow Club
Penn called his land Pennsylvania,
which means Penn's woods. He
treated the Indians very kindly and
made a treaty with them, which was
kept for many years. It was signed
unuer a large elm tree in what
now Kensington.
is
Do You Know This?
1, Build as many words as you can
from the letters of PREPOSITION
without using the same letter twice..
(5 credits.)
2, What country in North America
belongs to England? (6 credits.)
3, Build sentences from the follow
ing words went, she, callings they,
home, away, not, day, were, next. (6
credits.)
Honor Roll
Catherine Murray, Danville, Pa.
Albert D'Imperio, South 10th
street.
David Gordon, South 6th street.
Elsie Knecht, East Ontario
street.
Violet Graser, North 12th street.
Sidrfey Berg, West Dauphin
street.
Eleanor Koons, Wynnewood, Pa.
William Cortese, South 8th street.
Frederick Fueller, Glenside, Pa.
Charles Rossiter, Woodstock
street.
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IN EVERY CELL
Illustrations by BRIGGS
elegant meals and everybody is happy
over getting another forty-thousand
ton ocean steamer for his collection."
"Sure, I know," Zapp said, "but tho
idee of prison reform is that if the
jail where Morse was would have been
tho way Mr. Osburn wants to make
Sing Sing, Birsky, and Morse's
friends would come to Mr- Taft and
say the feller was dying, y'under
stand, Mr. Taft would say, 'Well, he's
got a decent place to die in anyhow.'
As it stands today, Birsky, if you
would keep a dawg in a place like
they keep convicts, and the neighbors
complained about you, y'understand,
they would arrest you and send you
to a jail which would make tho place
where you kept the dawg look like
tho waiting room of the new Pennsyl
vania Station, tho old prison idee be
ing that the next time you felt like
treating a dawg like a dawg, Birsky,
that you will remember what hap
pened to you the last time. As a
matter of fact, Birsky, tho idee won't
work out that way, because all tho
time you are in that black hole, Bir
sky, you arc saying to yourself,
'Wait till I get out of here and I'll
show that dawg what cruelty to ani
mals really ought to be.' Also after
you get out every time you meet a
dawg and nobody is looking, you kick
the dawg for the sake of his friend
who got you into jail."
"What are you talking nonsense,
Zapp?" Birsky said. "I never look nt
a dawg from one year's end to the
other."
"I am only talking in a manner of
speaking, Birsky," Zapp explained.
"I am trying to tell you that Mr.
BULLETINS
Rumors About the Mayor
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12. Mayor Smith is reported to have
framed the picture of himself and the Rainbow Club button pre
sented to him by Louis Ruberton. When last seen tho Mayor would
not deny the report.
Rainbows Welcome Medicine Men
RAINBOW LAND, Feb. 12. Little Roscoe Jonson, Locust street,
and his small friend, Henry Herbert, arrived here last night. Both
new members like to play doctor so well that they have decided to
be real doctor men when they grow up. In the meantime they are
content to be sunshine givers. The other night they went to a party
and Roscoe gave little Henry, who didn't get enough to eat, part ol
his piece of cake. Wasn't that fine?
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The nostal card squad is growing
and GROWING. Madeline Evers,
Overbrook, has just joined, and we,
know from her earnest letter that she
is going to be a very splendid worker.
Beatrice Palmer, Wyncote, Pa., sent
in the nicest drawings the other day
keep your eyes wide open, you're very
apt to see them in the club Rainbow
Art Gallery. Charles Mitchell, Tampa
Btreet, had better keep his eyes open,
too, for a battleship is apt to appear
in the art gallery. That's a secret,
isn't it, Charles?
What do you think? Elizabeth
Miles, North Peach street, West
Philadelphia, has organized a branch
Rainbow Club in her Sunday school.
She writes; "We are going to meet
every Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
and at the end of every month we are
going to have a social lunch. We pay
two cents a week, if we can, toward
this. The minister's wife is going to
teach us to make candy and we're go
ing to have a piece of pink, blue,
yellow and purple ribbon on the wall
to imitate the Rainbow." I know
these little folks are (coins' to have
' some very happy tubes and we think
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and contented."
Osburn wants to make a prison i
place where thoy learn a convict to
go out and look for work, while the
people which is opposed to Mr. 0i-'
burn want to make a prison a place
where they learn n convict to go out
nnd look for revenge. Probably pe
pie figure that here they've been pay.
ing insurance premiums for yean on
burglary and theft policies and nevet
had so much as a collar button stolen
on 'em to show for it, so why should
Mr. Osburn reform these burglars just'
to make it easy for the burglary in
surance companies? Also, Birsky.
while wo are talking about it, people J
ain't nearly so sore that Morse didnV
get punished enough for what he done,
as they nrc disappointed that he
didn't go to work nnd die as promised.
Furthermore, it wouldn't been so bad
if the feller had started in to bast
a few more banks and trust com- j
panics, but when ho turns rightV
round and makes a legitimate fortune'
in the ocean, steamship business, itv
breaks them all up."
"Say, I ain't knocking Morse," Bir
sky protested. "The way the realj
estate business is nowadays, I'd be
willing to spend a couple years ia
Sing Sing under Mr. Osburn's man-j
agement, if I thought I could make ii
tenth the success that MorBe did li
ter he come out." i
"The chances is you'd be sent righil
back again," Znpp concluded, "be
cause the police is very old-fashioned
that way, like the people that oppose)
Mr. Osburn. They like to see an a
convict behave as such, and it ain't
their fault if ho don't."
THE WHETHER
Whether or not you
arc a Rainbow.
Are You?
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i it very kind of the minister's wife
intoroaf Tioiolf
Chnrlotta Rodenhauser, ColumbU,
Pa., has been visiting sick folks WMj-
cheering them up. She would ma
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postals to her, Who will?
Wiener, South 6th street, sent us y
pretty message. Reuben Gurmanl
Green street, says that he wowj
-,l. o,l 1,1a Hmp earning ?ML
money than staying idle about tbffl
street. Ellaine Frances, Dudley "
joined the pin money squad, so
Afntfio Ttntill. Howard street. WW
girls seem just a3 eager to work Mj
are their sturdy brothers
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