How Public Opinion Inspiring Moved: Miss Fry's Addresses Members of the B.W.A. and their guests had the opportunity of meet ing Miss Margery Fry last Wednes day when a lunch was given in her honour at headquarters, The: gathering included a large humber of members headed by the president, Mrs. V. G. Sutelife, and Mrs. N, Viloudaki; "the former president, Mrs, J. Ford was also resent, and the Joint Committee Wag represented by Mrs, H.C, Mei, and several others.
'Among the "guests Mi were Miss Fleet, headmistress of the Cathedral Girls' School, Miss Phylis Aryton, secretary of' the British Chamber of Commerce, and. 3 general secretary. of the Inter tional Branch of the Y.W.C.A, Aistinguished audience who listen" with interest to, Miss Fry's talk on 'Penal Reform" at' the conclusion of the Inneb, ago, when England was on the point of beings industrialized, prob: ferns. were dealt with m plain defiance of the rights of the bottom dogs, among. wham then were the working class—voteless and" un organised." Thus. the commons were enclosed by landlords by' the help of Parliament and machinery was allowed to develop industries without adequate protection of the worker against exploitation. This Struck a twofold blow at English tural life, The countryfolk were deprived of the commorcland for the grazing of their cattle and the cultivation of their produce. They were also deprived of their little penal codes Miss "Margery Fry declared that England could not be termed a civilised country until the barbarous practices of flogging and. capital punishment are entirely' eliminated. EReverenee for lite he stated. was the fundamental principle of al ethics, observing that it was a common reaction to. exclude minals as unworthy of inclusion la the departments of life to be Fever: enced, The work of the voluntary visitorg in England was hailed asi Aistinct step forward, while, refer. ting to the work of Sir Maurie Waller, Misg Fry stated that it was to hig credit that the British public wag invited to take a constructive part in its effort to reclaim. the Youthful offender as well ax the hoydened criminal, She concluded her talk with an outline of the Borstal system now in practice, noting both its limita: tions and its advantages broadly To the members of the B.W.A. she delivered a plea for the type of preventative work now in practice many American Communities as perhaps offering a solution offences in a community as. Inter: national as Shanghai, "If, such methods, are adopted here," "she stated, "they will come, not through the initiative of the' government, Dut through the initiative of indivi: duals who put into effect their own personal reverence for. life.
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