The Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VOLUME I, No. 2. FEBRUARY, 1911 THE REVIEW A MONTHLY PERIODICAL, PUBLISHED BY THE =NATIONAL PRISONERS’ AID ASSOCIATION= AT 135 EAST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. --------------------------------------------------------- TEN CENTS A COPY. SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS A YEAR --------------------------------------------------------- E. F. Waite, President. F. Emory Lyon, Vice President. O. F. Lewis, Secretary and Editor Review. E. A. Fredenhagen, Chairman Ex. Committee. Charles Parsons, Member Ex. Committee. A. H. Votaw, Member Ex. Committee. G. E. Cornwall, Member Ex. Committee Albert Steelman, Member Ex. Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LEGISLATION These are the months that count. This issue of the REVIEW brings notice of many bills introduced in various states for the betterment of prison conditions and for the welfare of the prisoner. Let prisoners’ aid societies show during these next few months that they can work for legislation as well as talk, co-operate with other organizations as well as criticize, get results as well as get out annual reports. Let us not be discouraged because it may often be said that “there is no hope of getting a bill like that through this year.” Passing a bill is only one of the steps in the process of educating public sentiment up to the acceptance of a new idea. Education must begin somewhere and sometime. So let us be active in advocating and introducing good legislation, even though we may not get all we want in any one year. ---------- =MESSAGE OF THE PRISONERS’ AID SOCIETIES= We have one of the most important messages in the field of practical philanthropy. Americans, particularly in the eastern states, are loth to wear their hearts upon their sleeves. So we hesitate sometimes perhaps, to emphasize the message we have. Yet—life is short, and the field is wide. Prisons are still far from solving the problems of the deprivation of liberty, punishment, the protection of society, the rehabilitation of the criminal, and the reduction of crimes.