1952-10-17 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1952.

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ESTERDAY she

York: was the

The women of the open prison

"Madam" of Askham say good-bye to ‘Madam'—the

Grange;

the

farmer's

just Miss Sizo'

daughter who gained the re- roformer who now becomes putation of being "the best of all prison governors." Today she is plain "Miss" Mary Size, retired governor of Britain's first prison without bars near York-retired for the second time after 41 years' ser- vice.

Miss Size, the reformer, began her career aa ቦ school teacher, discovered. she hud a knack of dealing with difficult children and enjoyed it. Joining the prison service was suggested

to her as a

by QUIDA MACLELLAN,

joke, but she Cookery class; the prisoners ot-Askham Grange follow set courses but are.

allowed to choose the work they do. liked the 'iden

and became

the flower the first woman to start as The alternative was starv- quality of loam in

beds, condition of decay in the probationer and finish as ing," she said.

When

trees or the progress of plants in Askham Grange the rock garden with equal case, governor.

Miss Size

an ex- "I am a farmer's daughter," said. was deputy was being tried as governor of Holloway from periment Miss Size was re- Miss Size. 1928 to 1941, and there, as called to be governor. Her in all prisons, wages were doctor did not object. started, ranging from 2d. to cause she did not ask his ad- one shilling a week. A can- vice. teen was provided where could buy such items as curling pins, sweets and cigarettes.

wornen

...

Miss Mary Size, govern. or of Britain's first prison without bars, has gone

into retirement.

attended the Church of England Services at the Grange during the week.

Women prisoners are given six

from colours

which to choose their uniforms. They are allowed to choose their patterns or they can design their own.

They have a choice of work. too.

"There arc sel' courses which all the women take," said Miss Size, "but they are asked their preference for work." Largest number

are in the work- room sewing-shirts and under- clothing for men prisoners: They frequently choose, sewing for their spare time hobby as well, Others work in the laundry or kitchens-two of the set courses

or in the grounds.

FICTION? NO

WAS

of "The grounds Askham be- Grange had gone untouched for

Army was in All deors are open at Askham years while the (the possession"

house was a Grange; so is the wooden front wartime hospital). "We had to gate during the day. There have rediscover the flower beds.

been four escapes A

In the five prison since the Now Miss Size, has moved large rubbish heap'turned out to years her personal belongings out be a rock garden, the artificial opened. "The women can leave lake was covered in a green any time," said Miss Size. "But of Askham Grange, the 10- slime, but our ducks have cleared they would not get far. There is acre estate that had been that."

a feeling of honour among the women-it would be letting the gardening her domain for five years.

side down to break rules." and evening classes were all She has gone to live in Lel-

Miss started in women's prisons cester with a married sister- during this period and when and to tend the small garden Miss Size was appointed there. governor of Aylesbury Pri- son, she organised the knit- ting of comforts for the Forces.

Handicrafts,

IN A RUSH

In 1942 she retired from

the prison service after 36 years because of ill health. She spent eight months in bed.

KINDLY... FIRM

head

Size was allowed Ave

Inside the prison her manner weeks' holiday a year, but look was the same. She felt the fore

her full holiday only once. She victim, of an influenza commented on the expert knit pent her spare time reading-

but not fiction. "I prefer to She packed her luggage in a ting of a girl leaving next week, rush because the removal van checked the tenus in the kitchen, read to learn." She liked others came unexpectedly. Her suite was greeted with a smile by to learn, too. At Askham Grange at Askham, which was over the everyone and was always called English, polities, current affairs, ballroom, was barren the last "Madam,"

there

are evening classes in

with lecturers and teachers from York.

few weeks, but still impeccably In a recently published book, ncat and feminine. Her Georgian Joan Henry, a former prisoner at silver had gone, but she had kept Askham Grange, Bald of Miss Once a keen tennis player and "She exuded an alr of cyclist, Mias Size played table two of her Grosvenor china ten Size cups with their lowered green authority natural to those who tennis in the staff common room pattern for her daily we.. And have held high positions. She and went for walks in the near- flowers, dahlias from the priser po

spoke kindly but firmly about by countryside. garden, added a splash of colour, the rules,

ofice.

,,

"

Kelley, who entered the prison

I was impressed by "But I'll miss the women them- to her lounge and oak-panelled the way she spoke to

to me. I felt selves most of all," she said. The Red Cross was her

that oven though I' (wns

Today's "Modam" .nt the 'next interest. The doctors Miss Size's figure la squarish. prisoner I was perhaps after all Grange is Mrs Joanna Elizabeth

a person.". said she could do light work. hair greying and pulled loosely

Miss

*Size,

a Roman Catholic, service in 1947 under Miss-Size Miss Size was put in charge head: Twinkling blue eyes peer church in York on Sundays but the Size: methods..

Into a bun at the back of her

took Catholic prisoners to at Askham Grange. She knows of a rest home, did the through the dark-rimmed cooking herself when the glasser. Her sult is severely cook left for a month. fallored, but as. she passes, you there is a faint smell of perfume a dab of lavender water on her

"I simply picked up a cookery book and started.

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8.30 START

Despite preparing to leave Miss Size kept to her daily. routine. She opened her th spondence nt. 8.30 a.mtho kitchen women rise at 8.30 to stars the fires, others rise at.7.20 a.m., work' a' seven-hour

day. During the day she visited every section of the prison, called every woman by her -Christian momo, Inquired after ailments or prob- leans of work,

She discussed the moulting of, the chickens and ducks, the

Human Element

AGAIN DISASTER HAS MADE IT APPEAR TOO FRAGILE A THING FOR THE MACHINE AGE`.

by GEORGE SCOTT and JAMES LEASOR

T

London.. lines and the

HE Robot Ago is not Southend line.

London-Tilbury-..

At an inquiry this July into

yet. The Machine is

the derailment of the Glasgow- still dependent on The Eusten express near Nuneaton,

Mun. And so, disaster.

Warwickshire, Colonel D. Me-

All that £58,000,000 could Mullen, the omcer conducting

it, said: "There is little doubt thint automatie control would

the

do to maintain and improve services and safety devices have provented the derallment." on British Railways lust He went on: "It would almost

avoided certainly have year was done.

collisions at Brentwood in 1941 The figure is there in the (when seven were killed); Mford balance sheet to show the high in 1944 (when eight were idilled). priority given to maintaining end Gidea Park In 1947 (in culverts, bridges, elgnals, per- which seven died)." manent way....?

Yot still disaster.

Disaster in spite of man;

aster, even, because

dis-

of man.

This summer. experiments to

For, in spite of all the ingenuity devise an automatic safety con- of selence, the strength of the trol for all British Railways have

been going on between is the strength mightiest train

New

of the weakest man whose duty Barnet and Huntingdon,

These may well produce safer brings him into contact with it,

rallways-but they still will not

who or completely remove the human

No one can yet, say what caused last week's Harrow element. disaster. This will be for the

Electric trains are fitted with

Transport Ministry's inquiry to a device which stops the train reveal.

immediately the driver, for sud-

But in the majority of British ra cialis in the last 50 years machine the engine-has been found blomeless.

the

den sickness or any other reason, removes his hand from a lever.

But at least one crash han been caused by the driver tying down this "dead man's" handle with a handkerchief. In this

In the offlelal reports the same case the driver leaned out and keep on coming up: was killed. Instead of stopping, phrases "Confusion in the mind of the the train raced on,

driveries,

gate-keeper"...The crossing for two miles and hit a goods keeper and the signal, men were train. Inexperienced and misunderstood As far back as 1922, Colonel what

over the J. W. Pringle, then

Inspecting Officer to the Ministry

into

of

of

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new signal-box, part of n of Transport, said: "About 20 £300,000 scheme- of Improve- 'percent of rali accidents originat- ments at Eurion-the first real ed in failure of mechanism or change in the signalling system equipment, and 80 percent from there in nearly 50 years-had

the failure of the human' egent." few days provious gone operation. It bas 227 electrically

In 1928, the Railway Companies powered levers, hundreds coloured Indicator lights, and Is Association explained a series of intended to keep on time the 210 accidents in which 48 passengers steam and electric trains that use had been killed that year as

TA TIME

bad luck." Euston

every day. But even with the most modern that no expense was spared to equipment in

the world the keep up the high, standard of human element can be the safety, but "the human element weakest Ink. You cannot make is bound to enter into it.".

there Is Against all this, a man see or stop him from. for-

the something

Tho to remember getting. Like the guard of Brighton to Portsmouth train human element does not only which crashed into another at work one way-to forgetfulness Ford Junction, Sussex, in August or confusion of mind.

It can also last year, who said: "It slipped

show the power As my memory to watch the signals," of man above the robot.

when 30-year-old Signalman *

Harold Nind was taken lil in his Nine people died because one signal-box this February. man was forgetful..

His signals were set at All Or again: a signalman who Clear, Knowing that in seconds deserted his box to watch a foot- he might collapse, he used his to put the signalz ball match "contributed in no lost efforts small degree" to a crash that to danger and opened his level killed three people and injured

to trame waiting crossing gales 74. That was the finding of at Owen Street station, Tipton, Colonel R. J. Walker at an in- Staffs. Then, his duty done, he quiry in January into the sat down-and died.

And remember this, too: In collision between a Cup Final

1951 only one passenger was special and another train.

It is believed that automatic killed in overy 38,000,000

journeys. safety control is the answer to passenger

SKU - rall smashes. This is already in human skull-took the others use on Western Region main safely on their journey,

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