Therefore, let us not forget the missionary nature of the prisoners’ aid society. But, in spreading far and wide the facts regarding the prisoner and the duty of society in his behalf, let us not fall into the error of being fanatical because our field is one of magnitude. Accepting the proposition that the great public wants definite and impressive information, not simply emotional enthusiasm or tirade, let us present honestly and vigorously conditions as they are, and also make constructive suggestions as to their possible betterment, never forgetting the many difficulties that prison administrators are forced to meet which are not of their own making. ---------- =THE REVIEW= This number of the REVIEW begins to illustrate the purpose of the editors. This periodical should be a live news sheet of events and discussions in the prison and prisoners’ aid field. So we publish this month a noteworthy article by an Iowa warden with progressive ideas; we print also Mr. Whitin’s conclusion about the use of prisoners in road making and about the administrative problems raised by their use. Several prisoners’ aid societies are described by their own representatives. This journal’s first purpose is to be a bond of union between these societies. Then follow a number of pages of notes on events in the prison field. We hope the Review deserves the co-operation of all engaged in the prison field. Paraphrasing the Old Farmer’s Almanac: “Now is the time to subscribe!” THE MAN GOING OUT.[1] =By WARDEN J. C. SANDERS, Ft. Madison, Iowa.= Footnote 1: Reprinted from “Man for Man,” annual report for 1911 of Central Howard Association. I do not feel enough can ever be said to eternally damn, as they should be, the vicious, barbarous, degenerating method, which until within comparatively recent years, robbed penology of the right to be classed as a science and converted our prisons and penitentiaries into forcing beds for the germinating and spreading of folly, vice and crime. Society, however, has paid the price for the mistaken views it endorsed, and as the new era is fast sweeping away the old, I have elected to deal with the man produced by it. And mark you, I say MAN, for in Iowa we are trying to make men in our prisons today, not ex-convicts. I want to feel, and I am going to feel, when the day of liberation comes, and a man stands in my office prepared to re-enter the world, that society is about to receive back in the economic value of the man returned, the principal and interest on all it has cost to produce him. But to come at once to my subject, the “MAN GOING OUT.”