_The Responsibility of the Church._--Dr. Frank Moore, superintendent of the New Jersey State Reformatory at Rahway, and a clergyman himself, in an address before the Y. M. C. A. at Atlantic City declared “crime is on the increase in America, and the churches and the ministers are in a large measure to blame because they do not get the boys and the men who are unfortunate before they are gotten by the police and hauled into court and consigned to the reformatories or prisons.” Dr. Moore said that in 1910 statistics showed there were 125 arrests in the United States for every 100,000 of population. In New Jersey alone there were 53,000 arrests for crime, exclusive of 9,700 arrests for drunkenness. In 12 counties in New Jersey there were 44 murders. * * * * * _Socrates on Missouri Prisons._--Here is something in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which is trying to reform prison conditions in Missouri: Socrates: Very well. Now this is enough of that light topic. What about the Missouri prison? Thrasymachus: We hoped to talk to you about that. Socrates: Good! It is becoming so easy to get into prison these days that one should have some concern for what may become at any time his own future state. Glaucon: Certainly. Socrates: You will recall how unexpectedly Julian Hawthorne got into prison, and how he became interested in prison then for the first time. Glaucon: Yes. Socrates: Indeed, none of us has much concern for how other people are treated in prison. Glaucon: It seems not. Socrates: The thing to do, then, is always to view a penitentiary in the humane light of what we would ourselves require if we got into it. Glaucon: Certainly. Socrates: Very well. Viewing it, then, in the humane light of what we would require for ourselves if we got into it, the average prison is unworthy of our present-day civilization. Thrasymachus: Absolutely. Socrates: The Missouri prison is so bad that one must question the advisability of living in Missouri and running the usual risk of prison at all. Glaucon: Undoubtedly. Socrates: Probably that is what is the matter with Missouri. Glaucon: As like as not. Socrates: Other things being equal, people would rather live in some State where the prison facilities are more up-to-date. Thrasymachus: Of course they would. Socrates: Good, Thrasymachus! Now let us get up in the stand and see if we can’t help our own courage to do some of the things that ought to be done. * * * * * _The Construction of a Death House._--The State of Pennsylvania is building, at the new Central Prison at Bellefonte, a separate building for the housing of condemned prisoners and for executions. In view of a movement in a number of States to segregate similarly the condemned men, the following detailed description is timely: