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formerly. Criminal boys are given a 
chance to become better citizens be- 
cause of probation in the courts. A 
boy or man, who has once been in 
jail or in a truant school, finds it hard 
to live a straight life afterwards. 
Then it is that the probation officer 
gets in his work. The speaker gave 
the definition of probation as test of 
character, that is, to judge a person 
by what he really is, not by his repu- 
tation. A good old man, a philan- 
thropist, was the first to start the 
movement for probation. He was not 
a minister, nor a teacher, but chancing 
to be in a court room one day when 
boys and men were being tried for 
yarious offences, he finally walked up 
to the judge’s desk and asked to be 
given a chance to help just one of 
them to make good He was given his 
chance and the movement has grown 
until today it is one of the greatest 
forces toward making good citizens of 
the so-called “incorrigible” boys 
known. In Massachusetts last year 
148,666 people were arrested, nearly 
thirty thousand more than the com- 
bined population of Gloucester, Bev- 
erly, Salem, Peabody, Danvers, Ham- 
ilton, Essex and Manchester. Of this 
number I1,000 were women. 30,000 
men and women were put in jail and 
18,597 were put on probation. Last 
year, too, the probation officers col- 
lected $82,848 from 800 men charged 
with non-support of their wives. 
Boys out on probation paid back $11,- 
995 of the money they had stolen. 
Mr. Mulready gave numerous in- 
stances of the efficiency of probation 
and of the character of the prisoners 
in the State Prison. One of the most 
interesting was that of a good looking 
young man of twenty-two, who told 
Mr. Mulready he had been serving 
sentence for two years. When asked 
how much longer he had to serve he 
mara, ©), me? I’m a lifer.”. At the 
age of twenty-two he has written a 
book on civil engineering, the first of 
its kind, which is so good that it is to 
be used in the schools for instruction. 
He is assistant engineer at the prison. 
When sentenced, it was claimed by 
his parents that he could not endure 
more than a month of prison life ow- 
ing to his ill health resulting from 
head-ache powders and_ cigarettes. 
On the contrary, he has been better 
than ever before since being in prison. 
Another one of the prisoners present- 
ed Mr. Mulready with a sheet of mu- 
sic which he had composed during his 
imprisonment. ‘That the music was 
a beautiful composition is proved by 
the fact that the Oliver Ditson com- 
pany printed 50,000 copies. 
The speaker added the suspended 
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betterment of the men and boys, who 
must be American citizens. Mr. 
Mulready concluded his excellent ad- 
dress by impressing his audience with 
the fact that “we are our brother’s 
keeper” in every sense of the word. 
Many of his audience were presented 
to him after the close of the program 
that they might express something of 
the appreciation of his address. 
Miss Clara Corren of Magnolia ren- 
dered two solos, “Thy Beaming Eyes,” 
and “At Night-fall” in a way that 
won the hearts of her audience. At 
the program’s close a social hour was 
held and cocoa, sandwiches anc crack- 
ers were served by the committee. 
The next meeting will be the annual 
meeting. Mrs. A. L. Saben, Mrs. 
Emma Stanley and Miss Anne Clark 
were appointed for the nominating 
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