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Adam put a number of questions to Mr. George Bernard Shaw on some of the main features of the. system. The following are the questions and Mr. Shaw's replica.
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UPPOSING you ware Home Secretary, what would be your attitude towards the Prison
System?
Probably plgheaded, cruel, - and reactionary, That seems to be the final effect of the office on the most amiable per- Sons,
Prison industries.... It is my submission that prisons may be not only self-supporting, but might be made to pay. f have discussed this with all kinds of oficials, and they all declare that the one great obstacle to this desirable end is that they cannot get the money for the purpose. What would you suggestr
Of course they could be mada
self-supporting if our Capitalist system did not stand in the way. establishment But the moment any State manufactures goods for sale to the public the private commercial manufac- against uncommercial turors are up in arms at once petition.
com-
I can remember when the sale of Italian photographs of pictures and frescoes at the Victoris and Albert Museum had to be kept secret lest the neighbouring ota- tioners should raise a clamour against 11. State enterprise-can
estly and ably conducted; conse- quently it is a vital condition of the Capitalist system that State enterprise (Communiam, in short shall be resolutely barred. No- body is going to break up the system and ruin whole streetfuls of honest citizens for the sake of a handful of criminala,
an instance, it can be recalled | that news services out of Shang- hai carried a story not long ago Primo Scala Accordian Band. of Japanese soldiers' feelings Len Green, being hurt because a British soldier touched one of the small guna mounted in a launch which was halted in Soochow Creek. To most people such a story may sound like first class non-wipe out private trade if it is hon- sense. Apparently it must be admitted that guns, as much as swords, may be tied up with 2 man'a honour, and besmirch either
сап be an offence not readily forgiven, It
not was
long ago indeed, that man's sword meant 80 much to him that he would not use it to chastise persons of lesser social standing; or if a little blood- letting were forced upon him he
about that the launch was boarded was very scrupulous cleansing his blade. It is not when flying the American flag generally supposed that modern was considered an affront. The caused the Hearst weapons are treated. with the incident same consideration, but there is Press in America to exclaim no telling how a soldier's feel-in headlines: "Insult to flag inga
may be offended. The climaxes series of provocations.” Guardsman thinks a good deal This, of course, in very large of his uniform; and no-one un-type, topping the story as told authorised can wear the badges by the Hearat correspondent. of His Majesty's Navy and ex- But after all, this is only the
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ANOTHER obfection to the de- *velopment_of_prison. Industrica is that the Trade Unions oppose them as "unfair competition" Cannot these diferences be ad- justed?
This is the same objection. The
Ignorance can often be ad- is discovered. So it may well be
vanced as an excuse, though in that the Japanese feel the same law it constitutes no defence. way about their machine-guns. For instance, the young non- and that the profane hand of union newspaperman who in- another nationality upon this advertently handled the metal
weapon is much the same as slur upon the flag.
in the composing-room of a big
a daily paper and thereby caused |
Exclusive Interview G.B.S. on
Prison Reform
tablishment commercial n
criminal who produces anything does an honest man out of his job.
CELLULAR confinement the
most terrible and demoralising, feature of the whole system. It scams to belong to the Stone Age. of the At least tacive out ttoenty-four hours are spent by prisoners in these "Itping tombs." I am told that if these hours are reduced it would mean enlarging the administrative staff-and they "can't afford t”!
goods
·ore
wo are still in the short: dimcully.
As long as a prison is a place of torment from which any inma's will escape if he can, the chalco is between cells and the promiscuity of a general prison, which is un- bearable. In Munich, where the Communists were thrown together in this way after the fall of Bela Kun, the prisoners used to break the prison rules for the sake of escaping from one another for ten days' solitary. Here it would be worse than the general work- house in respect of the corruption of the young by the old. BROADMOOR-A an outcome
of the cellular confinement referred to, some prisoners po mad, and are then sent to Broad- moor. If they are considered "cured " before the expiration of their sentence, they are returned to prison.
It then sometimes happens that they lase their reason once more, and are again sent to Broadmoor for another "cure." (This was told me by a Superintendent of Broadmoor" in con-
if our bepitelst nomost any state public the private at mice ageret un come
Bernard Shaw has been a consistent crlite of of prison system. Reproduced here is part of the manuscript of his -
anrivers to the interviewer's sat of questions.
Cellular confinement is a dia-
of bolical form
torture: but thoughtless and unimaginative people regard the locking up of a prisoner in a cell very much as they
regard locking up a loaf in cupboard. Imprisonment began. not as a punishment but as the sheriff's only means of preventing an accused person from running away before ho was delivered up.../ to be put on his trial. Now that imprisonment has largely super- seded other. forms of punishment
Merchant Fleets
of the
Roads
£400,000,000 circulatory system of Grant Britain. Two valves of its hoart: passenger transport and goods haulage. Its blood-stream: 500,000 coaches, buxos, forries, vans. its arteries and veins: 175,000 milles of highways and byways
-By- BRIAN
LEWIS
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had become a practical com- mercial possibility. Its accele- ration was fairly gradual until the war, which mushroomed it gigantically.
The petrol engine was the only solution to the enormous pro- blems of transporting food, clothing, supplies, munitions to armies of millions of men, of
futence "It sounds like something from the Spanish Inquisi- tion.)
This procedure is quito logical. If it happened to me. and I found Worm- wood Scrubs Icss comfortable than Broadmoor, I should take care to go mad at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
IN order that prison industries might be developed, it would be necessary to redtice the hours of cellular confinement-the one would impinge on the other. Can you make a suggestion how this might best be accomplished?
cannot pursue the subject any farther. The Standard Edition of my
works containa a volume onutled "Doctora" Delusions, Crudo Criminology and Sham Education," in which the subject of imprisonment is the subject of an exhaustive essay. I cannot go over it all again.
•
WE print below a selection of points.
from the book referred to by Mr. Shaw In the interview,
- Imprisonment es it exists to-day
́ ́ 15 ́A" WOTEG" Crime than any-of-those- committed by its victims; for mɔ single criminal can be sa powerful for evil, or as unrestrained in ita exercise, as an organised nation."
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•The public conscience would be far- more active if the punishment of in- prisonment ware abolished, and we wont back to the rack, the stake, the pillory, and the lash at the cart's. LAIL"
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Every judge, magistrate and Home- Becretary should serye a six months' sentence incognito; so that when he is dealing out and enforcing men- tences ho should at least know what. ha is doing."
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*Violent and quarrelsome people are often only energetic people who are under-worked: I have known a man cured of wife-beating by setting him. to beat the drum in a village band; and the quarrels that make country life so very unarcadian are picked mostly because the quarrellers have not enough friction in their lives to keep them good-humoured."
*Warders suffer la body and mind: from their employment; and, if it be true, as our examination acems to prove, that they are doing no good to soclely, but very active harm, their lives are wasted more completely than those of criminals; for most criminals are discharged after a few weeks or months: but the warder never escapes until he is super- annuated, by which time he is an older jailbird than any er i the .colls."
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derstood by those who do not under But it can be stand freedom. understood quite well enough to have it made a much less horrible, wicked and wasteful thing than it is at present."
a strike, might be forgiven for TF a man's heart stops beating the problems of transporting the his ignorance. He did not know the blood carrying oxygen men themselves rapidly from It can be more readily under the union rule that no outsider and cell-building materials to all sector to threatened sector, from stood, then, that the United shall "touch typo." But in this parts of his body stops circulat- front to front.
Since the war it has continued matter of handling guns and ing, and he dies.. States of America feels some-treating flags, the position is If the internal combustion to grow steadily and irresistibly, indignation at the latest in somewhat different. Moreover, ongines of Britain's road trans-until now its passenger division dignity alleged to have been a nation of Japan's susceptibility port Industry ceased ticking alone carries over half of the offered to her national honour should recognise that there may over Britain would starve to passenger traffic of the country - Imprisonment cannot be fully un-
It is governed bureaucratically be others equally easily offend- death.
under a complex system of MGADADADABADADASADADASACIFREDDO DEVOVEMENT MAEVESEAT ADVENTIONIERTONENEHNO NERONDA and prestige. It is reported cd; and likewise British soldiers, On its vehicles are made some
SCALA SESTRE DECOR PIN
that Japanese nationals boarded so proud of their own honour. 6,000,000,000 passenger journeys licensing and a tangled web of launch ying the Stars and should probably know better a year; goods are transported Acts of Parliament regulations
than to profane another's wea-7,000,000,000 ton-miles; it gives made under them. Stripes, lowered the flag, holsted pons. There is no law about direct employment to 750,000 the banner of Nippon and such things; but the average workers..
vehicles safe guide, A allowed America's Old Glory to conscience is
licensed in threo cate-| float away on the none-too. Some wise man may some day coin some phrase like: "The
ROAD transport is pro- gories: "A" public carriers sparkling tide of the Whangpoo. love and respect which
bably the oldest form licences for operators using their There is no proof that the feels for one's flag may be of transport in the world. In vehicles entirely for hire or ro carriers the gauged by the honour shown to its present petrol-powered form ward; "B," limited Japanese actually threw
the flag of another." But such it is nearly as young as aviation. licences for those using their business; "C" privats carriers Stars and Stripes into the
It dates from about 1900, when vehicles partly for hire and licences for those using their would not apply today, it
the internal-combustion engine partly for their own trade or Whangpoo; but the mere fact
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---To-day's Thought.
WHILST we have prisons it matters Hittle which of us occupy the cells.
-0. B. SHAW, In "The Revolutionist's Handbook."
(Continued on. Pude: 5.7