“Prison reform is no easy matter. It must be the work of devoted and expertly trained men and women. Sentimentalism can play no part in it and certainly discipline, properly understood, will always have its place, but it will be discipline in which mutual responsibility, human sympathy and understanding will replace autocracy and indifference to the individual and personal element at stake. It is, perhaps, only fair to say that with the arrival of Major Adler at Fort Leavenworth at the beginning of this year certain very important reforms have been started. But it is going to be a long, uphill fight which will require the enlightened support of the public if prisons are ever to cease being a degrading influence in the prisoner’s life to say nothing of becoming the constructive help that they should be and can be.” PROHIBITION AND ARRESTS. HARRY M. CHALFANT. ... We have a detailed report of the number of arrests in Detroit during the last eight months of license as compared with the first eight months under prohibition. Detroit became dry May 1, 1918, and this report covers the two periods of eight months each, preceding and following that date. It is issued by George H. Walters, deputy police commissioner. Detroit is the largest city in the world to experiment with prohibition, it having close to 1,000,000 people. We have grouped kindred offenses to secure brevity. The first column shows the number of arrests during the wet period and the second column shows arrests for the same offenses during the dry regime. In the third column we have worked out the percentage of reduction. Under the dry period there were 1511 arrests for violation of the prohibition law and 550 convictions resulted. These are omitted from the list because, obviously, no comparison on this offense could be made. The following figures tell their own story: NUMBER OF ARRESTS. Under Under Percentage license. prohibition. reduction. 28,156 10,543 64 It is worthy of note that these results are not materially different from what happened in the cities of Denver and Seattle, which became dry January 1, 1916. They afford a hint of what may be possible, at least to a degree, in Philadelphia after the 1st of next July. PHILADELPHIA, February 20, 1919. HONORARY MEMBERS. Maud Ballington Booth (1909) New York City. Judge Ben B. Lindsey (1909) Denver, Colo. [4]Frederick Howard Wines (1909) Judge McKenzie Cleland (1909) Chicago, Ill. [4]Gen. R. Brinkerhoff Z. R. Brockway (1909) Elmira, N. Y. [4]Prof. Charles Richmond Henderson (1910) Dr. Hastings H. Hart (1914) New York City. [4]James A. Leonard (1914) Timothy Nicholson (1915) Richmond, Ind. Amos W. Butler (1915) Indianapolis, Ind. LIFE MEMBERS.