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them now that you're free?" What can I foci? I can't forgot 16 lost years, but I can't alford to waste more time duelling on them, either. And they ask me how the world has changed. It's alder, I say. And far more expen sive. Remember, I must start from scratch, building every thing from a wardrobe to a bank account and at today's prices that's quite a building W. ' :A ' tj H;fe!" tew Roy Eaton ( left above ) is manacled as he appears at one of the many hearings on his unjust imprisonment. Justice finally triumphs, and Eaton enjoys a reunion with daughter (bottom) he had not seen in 16 yeets. job, even for a younger man. But this is also more of a world of opportunity than I remember it. I've landed a good job in Elgin, 111., and already have been promoted. How different that is from the '30s! Which brings me to the most startling thing about this age. When I left State ville, more and more of its newer inmates were what we called "punks." Folks on the outside usually label them "juvenile delinquents." The prison population of the '30s had many men driven into crime by a world that had nothing to offer them but a few days employment a month and a dole. There is never any excuse for crime, but sometimes you can see a reason why some men try it. What's the reason for the "punks" of today? Limitless jobs at good salaries are open to them; education is avail able to most at half the effort it took just to cat 20 years ago. Yet many youths throw away today's easy opportu nities looking for something even easier. Anything that is lasting and worthwhile, I've told them, doesn't come easy, not even the freedom they don't con sider precious until it's lost. On the other hand, I know it is too easy to lose the human dignity and faith that make life rewarding in the end. Well, maybe that's too "preacher-like." I think, how ever, I could dramatize the lesson with a few prison anecdotes. I used to want to forget those prison memories. Maybe it's well that I can't; the stories and feelings some day may help someone. That's all in the future, though, and about the future I'm still a little vague. I'd like to have my own business. I'd also like to put to use, for myself and others, what I've learned about meeting life and what it brings. Right now, however, I'm trying to regain my health and my bearings. Freedom itself is such a heady ex perience, it takes time to ad just to it. But I don't fear tomorrow as I once did. Tomorrow is better for anyone who wants it to be. !-iw-s Nfe: 7 ie slnte o Illi nois rpci'iitli awarded Kny B. EhIoii S'f 1,000 in pnymi'Ht for the Ifi years he spent in jiriso for a prime lie didn't conpriif. Family Wcci.lt. June li. liUI 1 your roses may be begging for help ! Know these signs of distress then give quick first aid treatment for all these insects and diseases with ORTHO Rose Dust. Si. APHIS attack and suck the very life out of new shoots and flower buds. Lindane gives excellent control of this most common pest. SLACK SPOT is a fungus disease spread by wind and rain. Bad infestation even causes leaf drop. Captan, ferbam, sulfur control it. POWDERY MILDEW turns leaves, buds and stems of plants a sickly, powdery gray. Experts recom mend sulfur for powdery mildew. ROSE RUST is generally revealed by yellowish or powdery pustules on undersides of leaves. Ferbam is the recommended control for rust. FOR BIGGER BLOOMS! 0RTH0GR0 Liquid Plant Food contains organic hsh, nitro gen, phosphoric acid and potash in balanced fertilizer. T M RIG U i PT Off ORIMO (ORTH0) California Spray-Chemical Corp. Contains: captan lindane sulfur ferbam DDT JAPANESE BEETLES are vicious leaf chewers. but the DDT and lindane in ORTHO Rose Dust knock 'em out. ROSE SLUGS are small, green pests that look like caterpillars and chew all of the leaves but the veins. DDT controls rose slugs. THRIPS, 116 of an inch long, puncture buds, causing Ihem to become discolored and tail lo open. DDT and lindane slop them. NEW "SQUEEZE OUSTER," TOO! lust squeeze and watch il puff. Big re tillable plastic squeeze duster contains 10 oz. 0RIH0 Rose Dust. Easy to use wilh one hand. U I., ' Richmond, Calif., Wiihtrajton.D.C. mmm9m O o
