THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1937.
PRESIDENT AND
AND SUPREME COURT
Wages For Men In
British Jails
London, To-day.
NATIONAL LABOUR. AND PREMIER
Resolution Passed By Executive
London, To-day.
A resolution passed unanimous- ly by the National Labour Execu- Committee yesterday stated
the
Payment of wages to tive
that the Executive welcomes prisoners is to be intro-maintenance of the National Gov- duced in three convict ernment, records its appreciation of the services Mr. Chamberlain has prisons-Chelmsford, rendered in the past, expresses its Parkhurst and Dart-complete confidence in him 28
moor.
This is according to an announce ment made in the House of Com- mons yesterday, by the new Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.
Home.
Sir Samuel explained that the ex- periment of allowing a prisoner certain privileges on entering pri- son and withdrawing them in case of misconduct had proved so suc- cessful that the men in the three prisons mentioned were given the opportunity of earning wages.
With their wages, he announced, they could purchase such luxuries as cigarettes. Reuter.
TWO METHODS
Prime Minister and assures him that National Labour will give him the same loyal support as was ac- corded to his two predecessors, in
office.-British Wireless.
indefinite hope of them as the re- ward of good behaviour.
SUCCESS
Criticises Decision To Go Into Recess
Prepared for Modification of His Original Plan
Washington, To-day.
There is no question but that the Judiciary Re- form Bill will be passed during this session of Con- gress, declared President Roosevelt at a press con- ference yesterday.
He indicated, however, that a compromise on the Supreme Court issue might be acceptable to the Administration when he said that Senator Robin- He was able to announce that so son's statement to the effect that amendments to and the Home Office could judge the Bill would be submitted, was correct. that experiment had succeeded. ̈ ̈
far as the Prison Commissioners
It had been so successful that
The President declared that
of the Supreme Court Wealthy Peer Wins
and complained that the Court
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it had been decided to extend its the American people wanted scope at three convict prisons, reform Prison conditions were discussed namely Chelmsford, Parkhurst and in the Commons and Sir Samuel Dartmoor, by giving the prisoners had adjourned for the Summer £1,000 In Hoare, making his first speech in the opportunity of earning wages without deciding several import- the House as Home Secretary, said which might be spent upon minorant cases, such as the Tennessee Penny Pool the chief problem to-day was the relaxations, such as cigarettes. young offender and the prevention
KEEN DEBATE
Valley Authority issue, in which the Administration was vitally interested.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 16. Lord Armstrong, wealthy, white- of recidivism. There were two The Home Secretary also spoko
He pointed out that whilst the haired Laird of Rothbury, North- methods which might be advocated. of the need of modernising many Supreme Court was entitled to a umberland; has won £1,049 for a
The first was that of making pri- prisons which were antiquated in holiday, the law provides for one penny in a football pool.
He received the cheque on his se- son discipline so strict and condi- character having been built generterm annually beginning in October.
inventy-fourth birthday. tions so inhuman, that you might ations ago when ideas of prison ad-The Court therefore had acted
ministration were very different. their own volition for recession.
Lord Armstrong recently won hope that prisoners after one ex-
Following the debate in which a
President Roosevelt revealed that £300 in a cross-word competition. perience would be detered from run- ning the risk of going back to pri-number of criticisms and sugges- he had completed legislative recom- He told me to-day: "Football pools
were advanced, the Under-
mendations to Congress with a mes-and cross-word puzzles are my two son. In actual practice they had tions found that that method had not Secretary, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, said
sage advocating establishment of re- special hobbies." he was authorised to state that the succeeded in reducing recidivism.
gional authorities. Reuter. Home Office would go very careful- The other method was an ȧt-
He claimed there tempt at the evocation of lost self-ly into them all.
was a very satisfactory decline in respect and at character-building.
the numbers of the prison' popula- tion.
NEW EXPERIMENTS
Experience along
these
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·lines The help of psychologists which showed that as prison administra-members had advocated was being tion had become more humane, the increasingly enlisted, particularly number of habitual criminals had in respect of vocational guidance been lower. For some little time for first-offenders.
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I shall share the pool prize- money among charities in which I am interested.
“I don't regard football pools as gambling. To my mind, they are definitely a matter of skill. I take great care in filling up my cou- pons."
They Will Get the Prize-Money
Lord Armstrong has been mar- ried three times. Until last autumn he was a member of Northumber- land County Council, but he did not
TO BAN WORD "IMPOSSIBLE” Gen. Goering On Four-Year Plan
Weimar, May 31. prison administration had taken the Mr. Lloyd amused the House by
“During the four years which are direction of trying the experiment instancing the case of a boy offen of appealing to the prisoners' bet-der who had shown intellectual ahead, the word "impossible' must ter instincts and, most important ability. He wrote an essay which be left completely out of our voca- of all, of seeking to give them an revealed his ambition to become bulary," said Col.-Gen. Hermann seek re-election. interest in the things that really Prime Minister. The decision of Goering, Germany's Air Minister mattered in the world. They had the experts was, the Minister add and head of the German Four-Year castle Infirmary, the Eye Hospital adopted the principle of giving pri-ed, that despite this ambition he Plain, yesterday in a speech before and the North of England Cancer vileges which were lost by bad be-ought to make an excellent rating the officers of the Thuringian gar- Campaign. They will get his prize- haviour rather than holding out an surveyor-British Wireless.
THE GLOUCESTER
rison, a Socialist tors of tries.
He does much work for the New-
number of National-money.
s, and the proprie-Craigside, his seat at Rothbury,
region's biggest indus- is one of Northumberland's show. places. Lord Armstrong also owns
most historic fortresses
**The Four Year Plan is the plat- Bamburgh Castle, one of England's form on which the new Reich must be built for eternity” he said. "There are people who protest be cause the Third Reich doesn't give them iron or other commodities. That is unimportant. Nazi Germany absence of Mr. Rene Ohl, Vice- is prepared to make every necessary- Consul for Argentine at Hong
It is notified that during the
THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL sacrife I know that certain Kong, Mr. Jobard de Gapany will
DINNER DANCE
EVERY NIGHT (EXCEPT SUNDAY)
MUSIC BY-
ANDRE & HIS ENSEMBLE.
be in charge of the Argentine Vice- Consulate.
things are not abundant, but no one in our country is dying of hunger. The Four-Year Plan is es-
Lt. John Peter Gilbert Edward Orme: sential to Germany's future. When it has been accomplished. Germany at Singapore, has been killed by an ac
of the End Punjab Regiment." stationed
will be invincible forever”- -Havas, cidental fall at the Taiping Waterfalls.
King Ibn Saud, according to a Jeru- Herr Hermann Kuehn. 86, a former salem paper, has forbidden his sub- State Secretary, who was in control of. fjects, on pain of death." to take any the Geman finances during the first part in the Arab-Jewish disputes in few months of the war, has died In Palestine.
*Berlin...