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THE TARIFF TANGLE.

paradoxical, to nay the lust.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1932.

cra now seem to have been justi fied in their scepticism, since Con- servative ideas are to prevali. We have, of course, to bear in mind that the National lenders. when they wont to the country. arked for a free hand in all mat- tera-a "doctor's mandate." as it has been termed. Under this, the Government would be quite free to take any action thint it saw it in regard to tariffa. By a decided majority, it has resolved in favour of a generni tariff: policy. The paint arises whether it is correct- ly reflecting the country's feel- ings. On the "dortor's mandate" argument, it may appear to be, but there is the further fact to be taken into account that Ey voters supported National candi- dates at the election in the belief that whatever policy was decided pa would be an agreed policy, not one to which one party alone ad- bered. There in thus a very nice constitutional point raiser,

All these matters aside, how- ever, we imagine that most people will agree that it would be a disas-' ter at this moment to break up the National Government.

doubt this feeling which has in- duced the dissentient Ministers to remain in office rather than por sibly jeopardisc national interests by insistence on precadent. All the same, the situation can hardly. he said to reflect "national

unity." seeing that only one sec. tion of the Cabinet subscriber to the Government policy. We have l always had a fear that, when it came to grappling with details, this Cabinet of so many confiel ing views would find it impossible to reach tariff accord. That fear has been justified by events, it remains to be seen whether the path of wisdom is being followed.,

The Dartmoor Outbreak, The mutiny at Dartmoor Prison, when considered in conjunction with certain incidents which have gone before and have now taken am a new significance. suggests that the affair will prove of more than passing interest. Amung the explanations likely to be first ought is the reason for the very

of

Uncle Sam's Model Prison.

DAY BY DAY

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By Stuart Whitehouse.

or other vermin there--and in the 10 years that this offer has stood, no one has ever claimed it.

Warden Tells How.

Warden Finch Archer, who con ducts this remarkable Institution. offers this advice for proventing riots:

1. Trent all prisoners exactly alike. Their lives inside have no- thing to do with what they were outside.

2. Give each prisoner plenty of warm food regularly. A man's stomach will rebel at cold food day after day, no matter how good the quality.

to Itve and make them keep it 3. Give the men a clean place

Above is an aerial view of McNeil Island prison; note the absence of wall. Below. interior of the light and airy main cell house.

The Dartmoor Prison muting, reminiscent of so many grave elcan. autbreaks in the United Staten, 4. Trent convicts 08 human makes timely the following beings: avoit useless, irritating article, dealing with America's prison rules. efforts to prevent such neeny- 5. Avoid brutality, but also avoid calling. Coddling la the How SELDOM 1 ANY MAN CON-

worse evil of the two, find here in the Pacific north! "The

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prison SITUATION West, on a tiny island in Puget riots all over the country," says WHERE HE HAPPENS TO BE PLACED! Sound a few miles trom Tacoma, Warden Archer. "is inefficient per. HE IS EVER COVETING THAT OF US is Unele Sam's model federal prisonnel. Civil service

THE on to which Ralph Capone of tions for guards are inadequate. NEIGRPOUR IN HIS TURN IS LONGING Chicago has already been sent Just because a * BE FREE. Gue the.

man can read and and to which

brother. his

All write and is physically fit in ni Capone, now languishing tempor-proof that he will make Home via Straits, is due here on the

Then Ben Line 3. «. Benulder, fromarily in a

in a Chienzo Jail. ney be prison guard. He should undergo 30th instan

Beni when his appeal from his 11-

a period of training at a regular prison and then, if he provee he is of the right type to handle moD,

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Prison on Island.

The island of exile is not on the

year sentence is disposed of.

The fact that there were too

sangster in the Leavenworth, eansed Ralph Capone to be trans ferred from Leavenworth to dis Netter, with the Japanese muils, is eNeil's Island prison a few open sea. It is set down in Puget

tant due here to-morrow afternoon."

reason Sound, far within the state of may cause Al Capone to be sent Washington. One mile wide and there. Both were convicted One ease of diphtheria and three of income tax frauds.

six miles long, its nearest point is enterie fover were reported to The

only 300 yards from the mainland. smallest of Uncle Sam's

McNeil's Island. oldest andIt has a prison and a farm,

The government federal

owns about penitentiaries, is unusual 5,000 acres, or half of the island. because:

The rest is owned by farmers and these farmers own Donts. Each year three or four prisoners as cape from the prison farm in stolen row boats.

Medical Officer of Health during the week-end.

The Empress of Canada is due here from Manila at 7 a., on Thursday, and will herth at Taikos prior to dry docking. She leaves for Vancouver vision 1 20th February.

on Tuesday fast.

three

It is a prison without walls. In its long history since 1867 it has never had a riot or a serious disorder.

It permits prisoners of good behaviour to choose their own cell

The body of Wong Tin, aged 30,

The most famous escapo-and

A. P. 6. lighter on which he was em who was reported missing from an mates.

ne of the very few from the pri Hon itself-occurred some The prisoners have their own on

years played as un engineer, has been re-board which controls their per Roy Gardner, famous train rob- ago during a baseball game when covered by the Water Polles outing sonal lives as aside from prison her, made a successful dash for in the turbour. The man disappeared rales-although the warden dees liberty from the bleachers, He not permit this "convict govern-hid on the island for several days Banished to Shum Chun on Satur-ment" to get out of hand.

and finally made his way to the day lust, a Chinese who appeared be-

Equipped with

ith radio in each cell | Palice Court this morning, was stated on what programme

Williams at the Central block, it permits prisoners to vote mainland in a stolen boat.

he was recaptured. they shall to have returned the following day, hear-and recently the convicta when he was arrested by a detective, voted against hearing Amos on The defendant, who was deported for Andy. a period of ten years, was given ten

Scrupulously clean, it offers $10 monthe hard labour.

to anyone who can find a bedbug

So far as its fiscal policy is con- cerned, Britain may now be said to have a Conservative Govern- ment in power. That, stripped of all pretence, is the meaning of the gather, sensational developments

real concern of the Home Office ve the tariff issue. The Con- in the Jast two or three years re servatives, occupying a dominant garding the famous penal institu- position in the Government, aretion at Princetown. Sir William insisting on full-blooded Protec-Joynann-Hicks (now Lord Brent-! Lian, not a mere emergency tarif, ford) paid more than one visit to buf a complete reversal of

the prison during his term the country's traditional fiscal policy. R. Clynes paid a "holiday

office as Home Secretary: Mr. d.

At least four members of the just before the collapse of the Cabinet, three Libērnis and one Labour Guvernment; and Sir Her Labour, oppose the Government's hert Samuel, his successor, made dreisions, and not only are they a special tour of inspection as re- The Lon- kely to express their diangreecently as December 20. ment in Parliament; they may

don newspapers were curious at the time, but their best efforts t even do so in spreches outslide the slucidation of the "mystery" were House. Yet, so far from resign-suppostions (a) that the Prison in their posts, they are to remain was to be closed and (b) that it in office, for the sake of preserving' was to be kept in operation for the what is termed "national solldity", role benellt of prisoners sentenced The situation is peculiar and to five years' penal servitude or more. In the light of the latest development, it would seem that There is, of course, no rule com-

the prison authorities, it least a pelling Cabinet Ministers to throw month ago, have had much more. in their hands when they dia- serious food for thought than the upree with their colleagues, but question of convict "housing" pro- bluma. The probabilities are that this is the unwritten law, especial-

the inmates have been voicing ly when, as in the present in-

grievances over a long period and stance, the divergence of viewpoint that the absence of remedial mea- is on a major question. We could

sures inspired them to the reck- understand the dissentients agree-less demonstration of Sunday mor ing to carry on. under the some. fning. These are assumptious what unusual circumstances in

which, on the facts, will be drawn which the National Government both at home and abroad and England, which has prided itself was returned to power, and in

on the excellence of s prizon view also of the abnormal condi- establishments, cannot permit the tions still prevailing, if there were

outbreak to равя without a definite understanding that the thorough and open investigation which will either give the lie to proposed tariffs took the form of

such Inferences or establish the emergency legislation, but in fact fact that the best has been done in it is believed that they are to be dimcult circumstances. It is easy permanent in character. That to imagine that Dartmoor la being the case, we have a situation | longer a "deirable realdence" from in which Ministers are at vari- any point of view. It was built long ago as 1809 to house ance in principle on a really vital issue. There was a good deal of ted for the use to which it is now French prisoners and was conver- talk immediately after the General put in 1855. During the war, it Election to the effect that the Con- became the "home" of conscien- nervatives might take advantage | tious objectors, and it well may be of their strength to Impose purely that Day of them forma Tory views on the National Gov. pacification of conscience in order ernment. Mr. Hamsay MacDonald, to get out. However that may be, however, was at some pains to re-

it in easy to bellove that changed fute the likelihood of any such proper for prisoners may have idens `regarding what is Alt and development, saying that he trust-rendered Dartmoor less, suitable ed the word of Mr. Baldwin as than it was in 1855. A full en- that of a gentleman. The doubt- qutry can scarcely be avoided.

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fore Mr.

"Now, girls, if you work hard and get these steps down

pat, I'll see that you get away in time to go to that dance

Ralph Capone Tolla Ralph Capone, of course,

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an object of great curiosity when he arrived but pretty soon the gangster became just o "fresh fieh," as convicts call new prison- ers. He sponds his days now with poly got crew shovelling gravel into a cement mixer. The chill winter fogs that drift across the little faland make the sleek gang- ater keenly appreciate the heavy winter underwear issued to him.

The prisoners have purchased their own motion picture and sound apparatus and the newest films are shown on Sunday morn- inge-that is, excepting gangster and crime moviea.

At Christmas, the men may re- ceive binek neckties and other of clothing. The Salvation Army gives each man a half pound box of candy

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This year the convicts raised a Christmas relief fund of $800, not for themselves but for their fami lies outside.

Allowed 810 A Month.

Each prisoner is allowed to ro- ceive $10 a month for spending money. Ralph Capone gota hla from his wife. He can receive se,

as he wants and many lettera writes one a week, but he can't write to his brother Al, however, because correspondance with other prisoners is not permitted.. Clarence Darrow, noted attor I want you to talk to the men," recently visited the prison. Wardon Archer told him. "Only two subjects are barrod—prohibf- tion and any statement that they should not be in here."

At the end of His Inspection of the prison, Darrow remarked to the warden: "This is the nest prison I have ever seen. But if i had only known of your $10 re- ward for bedbugs, I would have brought one in with me and col Ilected."