Henry M. Hyde: of the Chicago Tribune

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Henry M. Hyde of the Chicago Tribune
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HENRY M. HYDE of the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
In a Vital Lecture on
The Wholesale Manufacture of Criminals
A recent series of articles by Henry M. Hyde, widely known writer on the Chicago Tribune, which were printed all over the United States, and were made the subject of scores of editorials in newspapers and magazines, centered public attention on what he describes as The Greatest Crime in the United States—the Wholesale Manufacture of Criminals.

In view of the wide interest in this series of articles, the announcement that Mr. Hyde is to lecture the coming season on this subject, under Redpath management, will be enthusiastically received by lyceum committees.

Mr. Hyde pointed out in these articles that more than half of the 121,000 people arrested in Chicago in 1914 were charged with committing crimes which did not exist twenty years ago.  He showed that every year congress, state legislatures and city councils instantly turn large bodies of hitherto respectable and respected citizens into criminals by passing new criminal legislation.



Congress and Legislatures Pass 60,000 New Laws
In the last five years congress and the several state legislatures alone have passed more than 60,000 new laws—and that does not count the vastly greater number passed by city councils and other

Photo from The Chicago Tribune
Typical Small Cell in Which Fourteen Men Are Often Crowded at One Time in a Chicago Police Station
 local legislative bodies, which hold sessions almost weekly.

In Indiana, Hyde points out, men have been arrested for rolling a cigarette.  In Illinois the cell yawns for the woman whose hat pin projects more than half an inch from the crown of her bat.  If a merchant in Kansas sells a quart of peanuts for four cents when his regular price is five, he becomes instantly subject to arrest.

In one state a hotel-keeper becomes a criminal if his bedsheets are less than nine feet in length.  In New York state it is a crime to run a horse race within one mile of where a court is in session or to advertise as a divorce lawyer.

There seems to be no human action which somebody does not want to prevent and punish.  A bill was recently introduced into congress providing a penitentiary sentence for any man who publicly exhibits a clock which is either fast or slow.  Another bill made it a penal offense for a man to put his feet on the desk while dictating to a young lady stenographer.

As a result of this flood of new criminal legislation the number of American citizens arrested and locked up is enormously increasing year by year.



More People in America Annually Look Out Thru Iron Bars Than in Any Other Country
The land of the free—in which above all other lands it is easy to arrest a citizen and lock him up in an iron cage.

The home of the brave—where a larger percentage of people annually look out through iron bars than in any other civilized country in the world.

So, Mr. Hyde sums up the situation in the United States.  In making his investigations before writing his series of articles he spent weeks in visiting the cell rooms of city police stations, state penitentiaries and county jails in both large and small towns.

He uncovered a situation which is intolerable and menacing.  After the publication of the series which ran for more than two weeks daily in The Tribune, Mr. Hyde went down to his farm in the Blue Ridge country, of Virginia, and spent a month in putting into condensed and striking form all the results of his work.


Photo by International News Service
The Animals at Lincoln Park, Chicago, Have Far Superior Cells to the Prisoners in the Police Stations and Better Air and Light





HENRY M. HYDE

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Henry M. Hyde is a provincial middle-westerner.  And he seems to be provincial enough to be proud of it.

Born in a small town of the middle west, educated at a small, fresh-water college in the middle west, he has spent most of his working years in the metropolis of the middle west.

In his novel, The Upstart, Hyde has expressed the splendid democratic spirit of his section of the country and in scores of short stories and articles, published in most of the great magazines of the country, he has painted other pictures of midwestern life.

But his best work has been done as an observer of and commentator on life in Chicago and the great valley of which that city is the center.  Daily, for years, his signed articles, covering practically all phases of life in a great city, have appeared on the first page of Chicago's greatest newspaper, The Chicago Tribune.

His reputation is based, first of all, on the care and accuracy of his observation.  What Hyde states as facts the two million readers of The Tribune have learned can safely be taken for granted.  And the skill and training of the journalist enable him to present his facts in an entertaining and clever way.  Life to him is the greatest and most fascinating spectacle in the world.  Taking a little cross-section of it, day after day, he gradually unrolls the whole panorama.

Hyde lacks, perhaps, the fiery—if sometimes self-righteous—zeal of the professional reformer.  That may be because he sees life as a whole.  But it may be questioned

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 if the influence of his articles in The Tribune, which covers so completely the reading public of the middle west, has not been more effective for practical good than the efforts of most zealots, who see only one side of the picture they present.

As a public speaker he has been in much demand, bringing to the subjects he discusses the advantages of a first-hand acquaintance with the facts and of a fresh and stimulating point of view.  At the last commencement of Beloit college, where he graduated more than twenty years ago, his Phi Beta Kappa oration created something of a sensation.  Its matter was fresh, vital and important, while its delivery revived memories of the days when the speaker was a winner in the Interstate Collegiate Oratorical contest—a middle western institution which is responsible for the development of many forceful public speakers.

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DR. HUTCHINSON'S LECTURE SUBJECTS

Foods and Foolishness
Nerves, Ancient and Modern
The New Education
Fresh Air in the Schoolroom and Elsewhere
Clothes and the Woman
Women and the State
Which is Man's Life, His Work or His Play?
The Price of Sunshine
Darwinism and Disease
The Wastefulness of Cheap Foods
The Medical Treatment of Crime
Heredity and Civilization
Why Is A Fly?
The Birth of Language
The Aristocracy Myth



WIDE ACTIVITIES OF DR. HUTCHINSON
From Who's Who in America
HUTCHINSON, Woods, physician; born Selby, Yorkshire, Eng., January 3, 1862; son of Charles and Elizabeth (Woods) H.; A. B. Penn College, Oskaloosa, Ia., 1880, A. M., 1883; M. D., University of Michigan, 1884.  Married Cornelia M. Williams of Des Moines, Ia., May 15, 1893.  Began medical practice in 1884; professor anatomy, State University of Iowa, 1891-1896; professor comparative pathology, University of Buffalo, 1896-1900; professor of methods of Science teaching, Teachers' College, University of Buffalo, 1896-1898; lecturer on comparative pathology, London Medical Graduates' College, 1899-1900; lecturer on biology, extension department, University of London, Eng., 1899-1900; state health officer of Oregon, 1903-1905.  Fellow American Academy of Medicine; Member American Association for Advancement of Science.  Editor: Vis Medicatrix, 1890-1891; The Polyclinic, 1899-1900.  Author: The Gospel According to Darwin, 1898; Studies in Human and Comparative Pathology, 1901; Play as an Education; Acromegaly and Gigantism; Instinct and Health, 1908; Preventable Diseases, 1909; Conquest of Consumption, 1910.  Contributor to English and American reviews and magazines.



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WHAT THE METROPOLITAN PAPERS SAY

Name Carries Weight.  Not often does such an eminent group of speakers attend a budget hearing as those who yesterday spoke for generosity on the city's part in the fight against consumption.  Dr. Flexner, Dr. Knopf and Mr. DeForest, Dr. Lambert, Dr. Jacobi and Dr. Hutchinson are names that carry weight wherever the problems of poverty and disease are studied.  What they say demands a hearing.—
From an Editorial in the New York World, October 19, 1909.


Knows Both Medicine and Humanity.  A scientist who knows both medicine and humanity and has the gift of expressing his knowledge humorously and in terms of common understanding.—
From an Editorial in Philadelphia North American, January 27, 1910.


Sees No Evidences of Race Degeneration.  Amid all the discussion, which generally took the pessimistic view that the race is degenerating and that stringent methods must be adopted to call a halt to the downward trend, the most refreshing touch was the optimistic speech of Dr. Woods Hutchinson, a distinguished New York physician, who, at the evening meeting answered the topic assigned to him—Evidences of Race Degeneration in the United States, with the simple assertion, There are none.  Dr. Hutchinson explained that, so far as his topic was concerned, that was his only speech.  He continued at some length, however, giving facts to support this view.  It was a heartening, inspiriting address, brightened by flashes of humor, and it put the big audience in good humor.—
Philadelphia Ledger.


Emphasizes Responsibility of Teachers.  That the community is looking to the teachers of the public schools, as well as to the doctors, to carry their knowledge into the slums to alleviate poverty and distress was the message that Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of New York, the physician-author, brought to the Middlesex County Teachers' Association to-day at a meeting in Tremont Temple.  Every seat was taken by teachers, school superintendents and their friends, and many stood throughout the meeting.  It was the fifty-seventh annual meeting of the association.
Dr. Hutchinson spoke both to the elementary school section in Converse Hall and to the High School section in Lorimer Hall, and he was listened to with rapt attention, his remarks calling forth laughter at times and also applause as he wittily illustrated his thought by quaint stories, or striking bits of sarcasm.—

Boston Transcript.


Leading Authority and Most Interesting Speaker.  Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of New York, a leading authority on tuberculosis, was easily the most interesting speaker of the conference.  Speaking extemporaneously, and with a vigor that held the attention of his audience, he waded right into his subject of Teaching the Essential Facts to School Children, and handed a few jolts to other teachers of hygiene present.—
Newark, N. J., Evening News, November 18, 1910.


Is Conducting A World-Wide Clinic.  American magazine readers are getting interested in the cause and cure of many diseases about which they knew little until some of the new school of physicians began taking their patients into their confidence.
Among these new styled doctors is Dr. Woods Hutchinson, who is conducting a world-wide clinic and school of medicine for the sick, the near sick and the well in the columns of our popular periodicals.
He gained a well deserved fame a few years ago when he gathered together the threads of scientific facts about the treatment of tuberculosis and prescribed this drug—fresh air, sunshine and abundant food.  This drug he said would cure the sick, and would keep the well, with tubercular inclinations, from getting sick.  In fact, it is a splendid drug for both.
Another argument that he has advanced in his lectures was on the subject of the so-called children's diseases, which he said were children's because that is the earliest period at which a human being can have them.  Most of them can be prevented and it is nothing less than criminal for a mother to think that Johnnie might as well have the measles now and be done with it.—

Minneapolis, Minn., News.


Is Brilliant, Epigrammatic and Instructive.  A brilliant, epigrammatic and decidedly instructive address on Medical Inspection of Schools by Woods Hutchinson, M. D., proved to be one of the most thoroughly captivating and entertaining features of the entire session of the Southern Educational Conference.—
Chattanooga Times, December 29, 1910.



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