ifferent point
of view toward crime. In the last hundred years much has been done to
make prisons better and to make more tolerable the life of the inmates.
This has been accomplished by men who looked on criminals as being at
least to a certain extent like other men.

Above all, as things are now, the prison inmate has no chance to learn
to conform unless hope is constantly kept before him. He should be like
the convalescing invalid, able from time to time to note his gradual
progress in the ability to make the adjustments that are necessary to
social beings. No patient in a hospital could be cured if he were
constantly told that he could not get well and should not get well. His
imagination should be enlarged by every means that science can bring to
the teaching of man.

First of all there must be individual treatment. No one would think of
putting hundreds or thousands of the ill or insane into a pen, giving
them numbers, leaving them so that no capable person knows their names,
their histories, their families, their possibilities, their strength or
their weaknesses. Every intelligent person must know that this would
inevitably lead to misery and death. The treatment of men in prison is a
much more difficult problem than the care of the physically diseased. It
requires a knowledge of biology, of psychology, of hygiene, of teaching
and of life; it needs infinite patience and sympathy; it needs thorough
acquaintance and constant attention. It is a harder task than the one
that confronts the physician in the hospital, because the material is
poorer, the make is more defective, and the process of cure or
development much slower and not so easily seen.

No person is entirely without the sympathetic, idealistic and altruistic
impulses, which after all are the mainsprings of social adaptation.
Probably these innate feelings can be found in prisoners as generally as
in other men. It is the lack of these qualities that often keeps men
outside the jail. They "get by" where kindly and impulsive men fail. A
large part of the crime, especially of the young, comes from the desire
to do something for someone else and from the ease with which persons
are led or yield to solicitation.

The criminal has always been met by coldness and hatred that have made
him lose his finer feelings, have blunted his sensibilities, and have
taught him to regard all others as his enemies and not his friends. The
ideal society is one where the indi