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...Upon one occasion he remarked that, "Penologists are handicapped, at every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again that "if prisons exist for the sole purpose of being agreeable, then the best citizens ought...
...France's turn next. By denouncing commercial treaties between France and Britain signed in 1882 and 1926 she fired a mighty salvo which, however, will not hit its target until three months hence. Long have these particular treaties been under attack by French shipping interests, as they gave Britain marked advantages in carrying freight between France and her colonies...
This situation is, of course, unjust to Superintendent Gill. He and not Commissioner Dillon, has been made the target for an attack on the entire Massachusetts prison system. Mr. Hurley has done yeoman work in making the knot more difficult by violating the governor's injunction against publicity, and by spreading through the newspapers a hopeless mass of sensational and unclassified criticism. The first inference to be drawn from Norfolk is that it would be desirable to place prison officials under civil service, in which a consistent disciplinary mechanism has been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service...
...Howard Carter, expedition leader and most conspicuous target for any curse, is quite alive at 61. Of 40 persons who saw either the inner tomb or the sarcophagus opened, only six are dead. They and their ages at death...
...Parkes notes that battleships of the Mutsii class have now been equipped with foremasts so thick that they accommodate an electric elevator running clear up to the masthead. "This mast is claimed to be almost indestructible by shell fire," notes Dr. Parkes, slyly adding, "but its weight and the target offered must be enormous...