“In Tennessee about half of the able-bodied convicts are worked under ground in state-owned and operated mines, having exceedingly little opportunity to enjoy the fresh air and sunlight necessary to the physical well-being of a man. The other able-bodied half are worked in factories within the penitentiary walls at Nashville under the lease system that Georgia five years ago abolished as inhuman and unjust. “A small per cent., too old or too infirm for mine or factory, are worked on a farm adjacent to the Tennessee penitentiary. Georgia has equally as good a farm at Milledgeville for its prisoners of the same class who are not fitted for work on the roads. “Tennessee convicts in the mines and in the factories come in direct competition with organized free labor. Georgia’s road building convicts are worked for and not in competition with other classes of labor. “It is true that the temporary road building camps, which of necessity must be moved from place to place as construction progresses, do not possess the permanent sanitary improvements that Tennessee has installed inside the walls and at the mines--a condition to which the Tennessee party calls attention--yet this is more than offset by the health-giving open-air life led by the Georgia prisoners. “It is a matter of record that both Governor Hooper and his predecessor, Governor Patterson, pardoned hundreds of Tennessee convicts because they were victims of tuberculosis, produced by the close confinement in the mines and factories. Without comparative statistics on which to base the assertion, the writer is confident that in the last five years there have been at least fifty per cent. more cases of tuberculosis among Tennessee than Georgia convicts, despite the fact that Georgia with its larger area and population, has about fifty per cent. more convicts than Tennessee, of whom eighty per cent. are negroes against Tennessee’s sixty per cent. of negro prisoners. “Governor Hooper says Georgia is making fine roads. There may not be as many prayer meetings in the Georgia road camps as in the Tennessee mines, but Georgia is not blindly killing off the bodies with tuberculosis while trying to save its convicts’ souls. Georgia believes in saving both, but says to save the body first and have a better chance at saving the soul.” * * * * * _A New Warden at Sing Sing._--Warden Clancy, who made a creditable record at Sing Sing, has resigned, and Superintendent of Prisons Riley has appointed Thomas T. McCormick of Yonkers as warden. Which leads the New York Evening Post to say: