"Men Need Women"

On the editorial page of Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News a reader is likely to find almost anything. Last week 1,829,000 Sunday readers found a cartoon of a prison with a serpent labeled "Homosexuality" coiled within the walls. A two-column editorial was entitled:

CONVICTS ARE MEN--MEN NEED WOMEN

Excerpts: "Most of us know what damage the lack of a normal sex life does to either a man or a woman. What it does in the prisons isn't often brought up in polite conversation, but most people know, just the same. . . . New convicts coming into the prisons are promptly approached by veterans in these vices, and initiated into them if they will consent. . . . What this does to the penologists' attempts to make over men into normal citizens, it is easy to imagine. And what must it do to many a convict's wife? . . .

"Russian convicts . . . are granted furloughs from time to time so that they can go home and see their families for a few days. . . . Why not laws in this country granting visits home--carefully checked, of course, by prison officials and local police to prevent escapes--as rewards for good behavior in prison? . . ."

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