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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1913
Page
4
The Monroe News-Star publishes daily and weekly editions with staff roles listed and subscription prices shown. The notice includes office contact lines and delivery rates, indicating a 1909 post office entry and carrier delivery charges.
A private letter to editor B S Bernard praises the Meridian Miss Disputed Dispatch for a magnificent Christmas number. The writer lauds Monroe for producing such an edition and calls it a credit to the city and state.
The News-Star offers a holiday appeal urging readers to spread kindness to the grieving sick prisoners hospitals and those burdened by life. It encourages small acts of generosity like a flower kind word or smile to lift others and brighten their season. The note closes with Christmas wishes for safe and sane pleasures.
The article discusses Lombroso's view of criminality as inherent and abnormal and contrasts it with environment based theories. It notes criminology shifting toward a medical science while debating justice for offenders and society. It also mentions reforms aimed at improving prison conditions and reflecting evolving legal perspectives.
The article argues for shifting from punitive penalties to a correctional model, viewing crime as a social and mental health issue. It emphasizes that offenders are mentally abnormal and deserving treatment, not mere punishment, and calls for prisons to become houses of correction and custody.
The Memphis News-Scimitar condemns profanity as indefensible and urges restraint. It argues profane language marks a lack of refinement, harms the young, and reflects poorly on the speaker, while noting some see it as a habit hard to break.
The secretary advocates using land for its best purpose and urges action in Congress. He notes Alaska as the largest block of unused land with potential from mines, fisheries, and furs valued at 500 million dollars. He cites vast acreage and likely self sustaining agriculture.
Secretary Lane urges $100,000,000 over the next decade for western reclamation on a leasing basis to boost profits and national progress. He notes the Interior Department handles Indian affairs public lands pensions parks and other major duties while expanding the recovery of government advances.
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