Wednesday, November 4, 1959

THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

PROBATION SERVICE ONE
SENSE; NOT SENTIMENTA

© The following article on Dp
especially for The Tribune
Peter Bone.—Editor’s note.

robation was written
by local Probation officer
“... and I am therefore eo; 4
probation for two years. You must pepe ot, om
self, you must keep in touch with the ‘probation
officer as instructed by him, you must tell him if
you are going to leave town and if you become un-

employed. Now let’s see you make

7 So:
That’s all. j me effort.
The magistrate bent his head {€W pennies from a dwelling

Before him,|Pouse. When a man was sen.
uncertainly,|‘€need to death tor chopping
then on the| Wn a cherry trée, the learned
at his side, | J¥dge met his protes

His mothe:

ations with

her handkerchief ner- * CUrt “A man who cans chop

E jfewn a tree would have no
. qualms at destroying ;

“This court is now closed in| MIMS at destroying a human

the name of her Majesty the
." Briskly the RCMP
table brought the proceed-
ings to a close, and silently sig-/£leamed. Certain amen ont
nalled to the two to go outside. | Udges looked with compassion
From the rear of the court the)? SOme of the more youthful
probation officer quietly rose | enders who were brought be,
and followed them into the cor-/ fore them. In 1820 they began
ake releasing some of these young-
This scene is enacted dail. of their
with a warning that
further wrongdoing would bring
rious

| In the New World acro:
Atlantic, however, a

Canada but in most countrie:

“throughout the world. It is consequences. It wa:
denied to the majority of people 20t Until 1840 that certain
because the law prohibits the| British judges followed suit.

general public from entering! They went further — they re.
the juvenile courts. jleased some young offenders in-
to the custody of their employ-

What is probation? Is it ers or guardi
merely soft sentimentality? | evereans.
Does it really achieve its pur-| By about 1860, the
pose? What is its purpose? penalty 1 i

these questions, let us turn back| °°S: @nd to all intents and pur-

OF COMMON
LITY

In Br Columbia the Pro-
vincial Probation Branch of the
Attorney General's Department
Provides a probation service in
jMost towns of any size. The
| writer serves four magistrates’
jcourts in the Cariboo—Wwitliams
|Lake, 100 Mile House, Clinton
and Lillooet.

What is probation?
us say what it is not. It is not
ntimentality, It is not weak-
ness on the part of those who
administer our laws, Nor
a“ let-off."

Probation

First, let

is it

s seldom an easy
Way out for the person at the re.
ceiving end, nor it is without its
disappointments — and hard
— for the probation

Unlike prison, it makes
demands on the older
In prison, the adult

many
| oftenaer.
| offender is required to make a

ew decisions for himself. He

sets up to a bell, washes, eats,
. Works and goes to bed
| He knows he will be
|clothed, fed and housed for the
period of his imprisonment. He
can become, if his period of in-
carceration be a long one, little
more. than a vegetable. And be-
cause he does not have to think,
the adult offender who knows
the ropes would often prefer
prison than probation. It con-
in a way of ‘life he

No, probation is,

instead, an

pa i opportunity for a person who
the clock to the beginning of|?°S*S is now applied only for m

certain types of murder.
| But the efforts of reformers
| such as John Howard in
18th century and Elizabeth

the last century.
EXTREMELY HARSH

Western civilization was just
emerging from a period of ex-

in the last century i
treme harshness in its attitude ; Pees
much opposition, often from ¢
to those who had offended ji
_those church and the judges.
against its laws. In 1832 the ti

Queen
British penal system was des-

cribed as being the cruellest in
the Western world. The speaker
was the then British Home Sec-
retary, Sir Robert Peel, who is
now remembered for giving

name to British “ bobbies,” or| FORERUN
policemen. Over 200 offences | By the end of last century,
were punishable by death. Little| however, police court mission-
children could still be hanged) @ties were busy at work in the
or deported for the theft of a|/ London court Sponsored by
the Church of England Temper-
ance Society, they tried to help

offenders instead of just Punish-
|ing them, was unable to under-
|stand why this was so desirable.

Dickens

as readers or Chari
| know, drunkenness was a major
social evil in Britain.

since 1 every magistrate’s

the) honest life as do the
Fry| majority of people. It is recog-

has broken one of our laws to
show, by dint of painstaking
effort, that he can live a decent,

vast

that he is in

order to prevent the oftender, | | Mill employees elect safety
through youthful inex erience oe =
or folly, from “ wal ing over s ee: So.
the edge of the cliff.”

The probation officer diseu
ses these plans with the proba-|
tione and if it be a juvenile,

been adopted. A monthly award

°
| committee [3 made by company president

Dan Basaraba, to be drawn. for
attending the
provided the

employees

At the annual meeting of the) by
meeting.

safety committee of Dan D.| safety L
with his or her parents. Need- |Basaraba Sawmills Ltd., Pete| previous month was accident.
less to say, while the probation ‘|Basaraba was elected president| free.
olficer does not ask the parents | E land O. Riess secretary. Com-|
to agree willy-nilly to his sug- | mittee members are H. Oden-| visitors in town over the week
gestions for the future welfare | |

back, F. Haller, E. Hedland and) onq to attend Klondyke Night
ot the youngster, he does look

B. Gellert. |were Patricia Burk, Donna David

for their active co-operation and ; iver i ick:

i vi ie j | The committee has erected a/of Powell River and Shiela Vick

effort. Without it he can do| | | rv: ver, all former
bulletin board for safety litera-|ery of Vancouver,

little. |

If the probationer cannot, or|
will not, make the required |
effort, he may be brought back
before the m; rate and dealt)
with in another way, such as|
being sent to a penal
i

in re-|nurses at War Memorial Hospi

has! tal ,

ture, and a strict polic
fety procedure

a

fined or

juveniles or for
although many probationers are
young first offenders. The Lord|
Chief Justice of tain, Lord
Chief Justice Parker, who in
Vancouver recently affirmed his
belief in the value of the cane
when used by parents at the
right time, has this year reduced
several terms of 10 years’
ventive detenetion (given to

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probation.

What gives the Lord Chief Phone 206-Q for Reservations

Justice of Britain this faith in

probation? Well, since it’s in-
ception there in 1907, probation
has been successful in 70 per CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 139

cent of the cases. That
out of every ten persons placed
on probation in Britain in fifty
years, have never appeared be-
fore the courts again. This, of
course, is a negative criterion,
but it is the only one the statist-
ics can offer us. The probation
officer, however, is not just con-
cerned with preventing a reap-
pearance in court. His work is
more than that.

What he is really trying to do
is this: to encourage the pro-
bationer to make the fullest use

REMEMBRANCE DAY
PROGRAM

Wednesday, Nov. 11

An open invitation is extended to all organiza-
tions to take part in the parade. Please do not

. _ :
LINE INCHES OUT OF TOWN
Growing paints are not confied to Williams Lake as
the above aerial picture shows of the main road
through Glendale. The road is being ditched to
take the new water project to the residents of this
populated area.

of the probation

ofticer, therefore, to try and help|

the probationer, as he is called, |
to keep out of further trouble.
To do this, he first of all tries
to find the reason why the per-
son got into trouble. Contrary
to the opinion of many self-
righteous but unthinking people,
it is not merely a question o1

ing right from wro!

to gether the cha’
which led to the offence being
committed. This may entail
going right back to the offend-
er’s early life. Thus the offence
is seen in its correct perspective |
—as a symtom of something

These voluntary workers were
SERVICES ithe forerunners of the modern
ON

probation officer. In Britain
Word of Life

court has been able to use the
services of at least one man and
one woman probation officer,
and there are now about 2,000
probation officers in Britain, in-
cluding some 500 women

Younger such as

countries

2 i Australia, New Zealand and
(Meanonite Radio |) canada have in the past 20
Meee years developed their own pro-
hiaday, 8:30, 2. bation services, and today the
OT experience of many countries on

Oral Roberts

Sunday, 9 a.m.

Curtain is pooled at United

Nations conferences.

jthat has gone wrong apd not as
jan isolated incident.

|. When the probaton officer
has diagnosed the pyssible cause |
|of the trouble, h¢ attempts to
put into operatioy@ plan which
he hopes will rgflove the need |
for further offices. He does
lnot do this Arbitrarily. He
| recognizes tha/the young oifen-
der will one day have to make
|his own degions unaided, and

both sides of the so-called Iron| therefore ly does not generally | hurst, funniest

force his va Will on him, al-|
[though a/ times he has to, in,

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ot his physical, mental and -spirit-
ual resourses and those of the
community in which he lives, for
his own benefit, for that of his
family, and for that of the com-
munity

wait for a direct invitation.

Ex-Service men and women, whether Legion
members or not, are also requested to take part
in the parade, wearing medals and berets when
possible.

ON HALLOWE'EN |

Parade assembles on First Avenue,
opposite Court House.

9:30 a.m.

Parade moves to Elks Hall for ser-

9:40 a.m.

~~ Dress § ° oe
tor re maleing euyice 9:50 a.m. Remembrance Service in the Elks
le youngsters was Available

held Saturday at the home of Hall. Public cordially invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Paxton,
Forty-nine children attended,
ranging in age from pre-school
tots to teenagers. After a pro-
gram of gam supper was
served and the evening closed
with a fireworks display.
Costume prize-winners in the
three age groups were: pre-
school, Gary and Penny Beaman |
as the funniest, and Susan Hay

ward as the most original. |
years, Lance Langford, funniest, | ‘AY

Susan Cawley prettiest. 9 and|
over, Ann Singlehurst, as the

most original, Jeffrey

10:45 a.m. Parade reforms and marches to War
Memorial Hospital Cairn. Sounding
of Last Post, Two Minutes’ Silence,

laying of wreaths.

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Rear of Maple Leaf Hotel

Costumes were Judged by Mrs.
Charlotte Guilleaux

Voice of m
Prophecy
Sunday, 9:39 a.m.

British Israel
Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

i

Church of
the Aic

Morning Setvice
Sunday, 11 a.m.
PS

Christian
Science

1st ana 3rd Sunday
1:02 p.m.

Tabernacle
Tidings
Calvary Tabernacle
Sunday, 1:30 p.m.

Billy Graham

Sunday, 3:30 p.m.

Wonderful Word

Sunday, 10:15 p.m.

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Morning

Devotions
Mon.-Fri., 9:05 a.m.

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