Show ENGLISH PRISONERS SHOW SPIRIT OF S PA PATRIOTISM Men and Women Serving Terms Do Share in Turning Turning Turning Turn Turn- ing Out Necessities l Cable to The Tel ram LONDON LO o Oct t. t 21 The TI The e Patriotism with Sisi Sister Sis- Sis in competing convict in ot f the he in making things thing for the themY ter Susie of the most curious sidelights side side- armY mY Is which one this war has produced sightS lights most enthusiastic reformer The hardly have believed it possible could and women serving terms of that men would be so stimulated i imprisonment IS willinglY to w work rk long hours a and d ISow as a vigor which has resulted m in show out millions of war articles turning I The commissioners of prisons in their annual report say sar that that there is Justification for the opinion lOn expressed Ihy one of the chaplains m in a large conict conVIct con- con by VIct prison that it if those people who fare disposed to grudge the use of public public pub- pub are Ilic lic money to reform criminals had I been working among convicts at the present time they would find good cause to reconsider their opinion It It would says the chaplain convince convince con vince them beyond a doubt that under these broad garments garments' there beats many a heart still sUll responsive to the sentiments of loyalty and patriot- patriot ism During the twenty months ended March 31 1916 orders were placed I with the commissioners for nearly articles for army and navy fuse use The supplies during that period reached a total of which were produced by a staff of prisoners averaging averaging aver- aver aging laging a day I It will always stand to the credit of the department says the report that these results have been achieved in face of a rapid and unprecedented fallin fall fallIn lin in the prison population They have been made possible by an extension of the hours of labor emergency regulations regulations regula- regula calculated to increase the indi indi- vidual output by the untiring zeal of officers and by the keen desire of the prisoners to do their utmost f S This keenness has been noticeable among the female prisoners at Holloway Hollo Hollo- way and it is evidence of the good quality of the work turned out that not a single mail mall bag out of supplied was rejected by the postal authorities Reports of the excellent spirit pre- pre among among prisoners come from pearly nearly all prisons Their interest is stimulated by the weekly statement nude made of the progress of the war At Ata a large London prison there was an increase of manufacturing output although although al- al though the numbers admitted were were not half those of any previous year I The good feeling among the prisoners prison- prison ers willingness to refrain from givIng ling log Ing trouble working longer hours without a murmur is declared by the prison inspectors to be all aU due to patriotic patriotic pa- pa Instincts |