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the Medway, writes H. V. Morton. than
But an American Rhodes A little over twenty years ago a columna of the newspapers, many band of boys chained together like of them realising for the first time acholar, Mr. John W. Chase, has desperate murderers was halted be-that this is the cheapest method of now spoiled my chance of saying fore the gates of Boratal, the girl profitably increasing turnover. this; for he says the absolute op-
"The Government has found posite.
Bee quoted from a New
was shot back, and a warder re- garded the miserable little group Press advertising very profitable York paper the remark, "American with more than. ordinary interest, also. During the last three years students who are Rhodes scholars for here was a new bee in the bon- that they have advertised the Bri- at Oxford do not mix with the Eng- net of the Prison Commissioners! tish Industries Fair, it has grown ish studerits there."
During my three years at Ox- If warders could conceivably fast-in fact, this year's Fair is make a joke he might have asked: nearly twice the size of the Fair ford there have been six Ameri- "Have you brought your nurses four years ago.
can Rhodes scholars in my col- with you?" or he might have snap than it does to-day. I have broken notice how they mix with all the "Advertising never paid better lege, and I have been surprised to ped, "Turn sharp left for the Savoy Hotel," because it had been all records for results, from the men of their year, while many Eng- ordered for the first time in the Press in 1927. Use the Press, there lishmen do not even find out the
la no medium so good to got names of all the men. history of crime and punishment } | results." that the young offender was to have no contact with the old offen-
der.
Little Convicts.
In those hard days it must have scomed an amazing piece of soft- Special cells were allotted
ness,
MINERS' M.P.'S.
The reason for this, I learn from one of my American friends, was that all Americans had drummed into them the idea of equality, so they became acquainted with every- body. An Englishman, I was told, made perhaps four real friends. American bad while the average
no time to make a real friend: he: was too busy with his acquaint- ances.
to the boys, badly lit and dreary REDUCTION OF £50 IN SALARY
ACCEPTED. gaol clothes were issued to them, and to all appearances they were little conviets-with this differ- It was officially announced re- ence: they never met the old hand, cently, when the Executive of the English public school man at Ox- It must be eonfessed that the they never listened to his vain-Miners' Federation of Great Bri- ford does not mix well with the glorious stories; they never had tain met in London, that the miners' the chance to hero-worship a dis-representatives In Parliament had due to snobbishnes. It is due to grammar school men. This is not tinguished criminal.
agreed forego £50 ench from the That, twenty old years ago, was salarics paid them by the federa-natural timidity and lack of under- the beginning of Borstal. Just antion.
standing. experiment. In 1908 Parliament; The decision followed an inter- recognised the scheme, and from view between the officials of the very well: "What do you think of that day onwards the Borstal sys-executive and the representatives ful man who came from a gram- C.?" (C, was an extremely delight- tem has grown, developed, separat of the miners' parliamentary group. mar school).
ed itself from the prison regime, and taken a front place in State idealism.
I once said to M.. a'man I know
and was made in view of the de-
M. replied: "I like him all right, pression in the coalfields..
Mr. A. J. Cook, the miners' secre- much. I asked him to ten when but I have not spoken to him very tary, in making the announcement, he first came up. He came, but said:
I found the gates of Borstal wide open. A company of lads in football shorts and jerseys, with "Representatives of the Miners he never asked me back, so I na- spaden on their shoulders, march Federation in Parliament receive turally concluded that he did not ed smartly out towards the farm-as a salary £650, plus £10 for incid- I pointed out to M. that perhaps
wish to know me." lands. They were the same type ental expenses. After a sympathec. could not afford to ask him back. which I had scen under observa-tie interview with members of the This did not appear to have struck tion at Wandsworth Prison, but miners' group it has been decided him before, so from a lack of un- now vastly different in physique that the salaries of the members re-derstanding about C. he had deve- and expression. The pasty pallor presenting the miners shall be re-loped a timidity with regard to him had gone from their faces; their duced to 2000, plus the £10 for in-and actually generalised this into narrow chests were expanded by cidental expenses." hard work and games; they walk- et with an erect, soldierly swing, They were as hefty and healthy a band of lads as you will see any where in England.
4
Master's Question. A man in a tweed coat and fannel trousera strolled across the countryyard. One look labelled him na a public school man. He was, I gathered, a master. He touched a boy on the shoulder:
"How
Jones?"
are
you getting
"All right, sir."
"Heard from home lately?"
"Last week, sir."
"How's your brother?"
"Getting better, sir."
a fear of all who came from gram- mar schools.
Naturally, C. had pretty much. tired that they just fall asleep. A he had developed into a feeling the same feeling about M., which master parades the dormitory all about. all public school men.
The night. We watch carefully for the result is extremely deplorable boy who might infect others, and public school cliques and grammar we mark him down."
school cliques. That is the state "What is your main difficulty of affairs that seems to me to des- when these boys come to you fresh troy one of the real aims of Ox- from their escapades?"
ford to get rid of cliquiness, They The best means of destroying They this nuisance I have considered to about. be the Americana: they act as They have been in the habit of leaven. They recognise no cliques, pleasing themselves from their and very often they prove the earliest veare, staying out late, means of breaking them down. going home when they wanted to; By a Member of the Staff of "Isis." leaving work if they got weary of
"They have no discipline. cannot settle to anything. on. have never. been ordered
it. This is their first meeting with
The conversation struck the key-discipline, and they hate it for two note of Borstal. It is not a pri- or three months." son; it is not, the surface, a re- formatory, it is more like an agri-
selves into this work with mission- ary zeal.
A Real Rebel.
NOT AN AGENT:
STORY OF A TAILOR IN
MANILA.
at it hour after ex-soldier, WAB
cultural and industrial college run We saw a real bad lad at work. on public school lines. There are A genuine rebel. He was stand- no uniforms in Borstal. The masing in an enclosed yard breaking ters and assistant masters wear flint with a long iron rod.
Down Manila way where the His climate has an inclination to sort mufti. There are no jingling keys, foot was not so good as that of of make people take things for and nothing to remind a boy of the others. He was still unrepen-granted without troubling to inves- the police force. His masters are tant. He still refused to work, so tigate, the good people cf the city University and public school men all day long he faced the pile of were startled recently to learn that who, in spite of I imagine, slender fint, as hard as his heart, and a Shankhailander, one Joe Sussman, worldly prospects, have flung them-pounded away
wanted by the hour.
Secret Service authorities of "Most of them give in before Manila; that he was strongly sug- "We try," said the Governor, Dr.they have finished the pile," said peeted of being an agent of the Methven, "to create the public the Governor.
"It is the only Soviet government; that, he had school spirit and to rouse a keen thing to break down their rebel-arrived in Manila from Shanghai sense of house rivalry in work and Hon. After a bit they recognise as a stowaway one U. S. S. Chau- play."
He explained,, as
that there is something more im-ment, and that he was evading portant in life than their own per- arrest. the transformed prison sonal desires, and they, in most Newspapers carried the story square, that the 400 odd boya in cases, buckle to and enjoy their that an ex-soldier was sought as a Borstal are split up into four work."
Red and that he was playing a game houses-four gaunt, yellow brick, The play of Borstal consists of of hide-and-seek with the authori- barrack-like buildings which face football and hockey, cricket and ties. Manila was quite stirred up each other across the square. The other games. There are sixteen over the story and in the flubs and houнex of Borstal are Blake's football teams. There is a library. bars Sussman was denounced as Eccle's, Windel's and Rich's nam-Two boys now in Borstal will read rabid Red.
across
ernors
we walked
of
ed after the late Major Blake, nothing but Henry James! How Quite by chance the story reach- Governor of Pentonville, Captain they acquired this taste is a mys-ed the ears. of Sussman himself. Eccles and Dr. Windel past govtery which even Dr. Methven can- Promptly he reported to the Secret of Borstal, and Colonel not explain! The work of Borstal Service headquarters and gave Rich governor of Liverpool Prison. consists
As I looked at these "houses" classes and farm work,
various technical those surprised officers a bit of in-
formation. the thought ran through my head The farm is interesting. Borstal that perhaps two cat burglars, produces its own, wheat, ita owned that: meeting unexpectedly on a water-milk and dairy produce, ite own 1-Sussman is a pipe, weren't you at Eton?" and the acornful reply, "No; I played cen-
might whisper, "Hallo, vegetables.
Fat Stock.
· Among other things it was learn-
law-abiding
| Jewish-American tailor.
2. He did not stow away on the Chaumont,
4. He had never heard of the
5. He is peaceful, courteous and gentlemanly and is not engaged in any Bolshevistle propaganda in the are Islands.
6-He went to Manila for the
tre forward for Blake's!" but I There is a shoeing forge in 3.--He is not a Red and has never banished this cynical and unworthy which boys ahea the remarkably had any connections whatsoever thought and entered Blake's, · fine Dartmoor horses; there are with the Soviet government,
Kit Inspection.
cow-sheds and piggeries, contain- On the ground floor the boysing at the moment two enormous arms ship Praga, take their meals at tables serub-beasts which, it is hoped, will bed white. Upstairs is the long carry off the prize at the Roches dormitory.
There was a kit inter Fat. Stock Show.
The five technical sheds spection that day.. Each boy's clothes brashes, towels, razor, fitted with lathes and other ma soap, spare boots etc., were neatly chines from the War Disposals purpose of opening a navy tailor- set out at the foot of his comfort-out Government contracts and at Sussman lived in Shanghai a
Board. Here classes of boys carry ing establishment. able bed. He has his own locker the same time learn a number of number of years and is well and He is permitted a family picture trades. gallery.
The pictures with which these
The essence of the Borstal treat favourably known to navy men lads, locked away from the comment is thie: It is assumed that, no the U. S. S. Pittsburgh and later munity for two, and three years, matter how bad a boy may have served as an ofler on the Dollar choer themselves in their captivity been, there is still something de liner "President Madison" are of brothers and sisters, dogecency is appealed to every day. Boviet government, Sussman ges- ́cent in him. That assumed de- Asked he was an agent of the sometimes a man who is evidently He is on trust not to do certain tured with his arms and replied: father and invariably a woman who is mother. They save up the things. He is on his honour to "01, what foolishness." picture postcards sent to them stand by his masters, his pale, and from time to time, and the great to respect himself.
here. At one time he worked on
"You know," aid Dr. Methven, SIR JOHN SIMON. est sin against the community in as I was leaving, "there is some- Borstal is for a boy to interfere thing good in every bad boy if you RETIREMENT FROM FRACTICE with the family portraits of an can only get at it. It sometimes other exfle! KENNE
lier deep down in him, and you fey Dog Tired.
have to fight to reach it. But it Int there are
When they go to bed," explain- ed Dr. Methven, "they are so dog
That, in a few words, Is Borstal
AT THE HAR
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