Decker Lake Cafe Full Course Meals - Light Lunches * HOME MADE PIES AND CAKES * DECKER LAKE B.C. BECK HARDWARE CO. LIMITED SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE Ranchers’ Supplies - Stoves and Ranges Furniture - Sporting Goods BURNS LAKE BRITISH COLUMBIA BURNS LAKE ICE CREAM PARLOR PATENT MEDICINES MAGAZINES - CONFECTIONERY BURNS LAKE B.C. NEW OMINECA CAFE “A Good Place to Eat’’ * BURNS LAKE R. A. ROBINSON Insurance Agent for AUTOMOBILE - FIRE - LIFE BURNS LAKE B.C. Silvertip Tire Service J. R. DUNDAS, Proprietor Tires - Batteries - Accessories Vulcanizing and Tire Service Standard Gasoline and Oil Massey Harris Farm Machinery BURNS LAKE BRITISH COLUMBIA eeeeeeeEeEeE————— BURNS LAKE PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL SHOP F. HURSTFIELD, Proprietor Wiring: Electrical & Household Appliances Plumbing and Plumbing Fixtures Electrical and Plumbing Servicing Musical Instruments and Supplies Burns Lake, British Columbia The Pioneer Store P. T. JACOBSON, Prop. GROCERIES, DRY GOODS .- MEN'S, LADIES’ and CHILDREN’S WEAR GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH AGENT - POST OFFICE ENDAKO BRITISH COLUMBIA —————————— | Page Fourteen ae eon CM fo Whek Isat Brandon Police Chief sponsors campaign to rehabilitate ex-conuicts. THE WORK of the Brandon, Man., city police prisoners’ rehabili- tation committee is summed up by Chief Constable Harry Collister in the words: ‘‘A man needs help when he gets out of jail and we try to give it to him.” Chief Collister organized the com- mittee. Its work since has drawn praise from police authorities and penologists across the continent. Men have found jobs waiting for them when they completed sentences in the provincial jail at Brandon. In every case the job has been one suited to the abilities of the man con- cerned, in every case the men have continued to work as responsible, law-abiding citizens. In addition, transients, men head- ed for the life of the vagrant——the social misfit who drifts from city to city, leaving each one with a warrant hanging over his head—have been placed in suitable employment or helped on their way with a meal and an encouraging word. The need for such a committee was brought to Chief Collister’s attention when a young Brandon man returned to the city after serving a peniten- tiary term. He said that after his release he had tried to get a job in another city, but could find no one who would hire an ex-convict. He had then applied for jobs without telling his employer about his record, but these had lasted only until his em- ployer found him out. Very often the employer found out when police came to see him every time certain types of crimes were committed in the city. “He told me he had to make a liy- ing for his family and if he couldn’t make it honestly he would take it the other way,’’ Chief Collistex said. The committee consists of the Chief, Detective M. McLean and De- tective Constable J. Forbes. When a REID HOTEL Robert Reid, Prop. Rooms with Private Bath Ww VANDERHOOF B.C. man nears the end of his sentencc one of the committee interviews hir at the jail. The committee man decides firs whether or not the prisoner can b rehabilitated; then whether he in tends to stay in Brandon. So far ni attempt has been made to find job for men in other centres. With the first two question answered satisfactorily, the man’ abilities, experience and interests ar surveyed. Then local employers ar canvassed. In every case the employe is told that the man has “don time,’’ but he is asked not to mak this fact known to other workers “Much of the credit for the suc cess of our experiment should go t the employers,’’ Chief Collister says “We have wonderful co-operatior and without their help there is littl we could do.’ It has been found that men re leased from jail, who had expectec to find the going hard in a work that ignored or shunned them, simply won't let their employers down. Anc it’s broader than that. These mer have stepped from status of prisone: to citizen, and they won’t let th community down. Brandon people hadn’t figured or any profits, believing that a man’s < man for a’ that, and deserves an ever break. But having cast theic bread upon the waters they find iv retusn. ing to them after not so many days. Behind the work of this commit- tee and other activities which Chief Collister has started is his conviction that a police force can accomplish much more through education than it can through coercion, Recently he has visited every school in the city. He has stressed the fact in talking to pupils that the policeman’s job is to help people. He urges the children to come to the police with their problems and to make friends with the man on the beat. TED’S TAXI TED COOK, Proprietor 24 HOURS’ SERVICE Phone Central VANDERHOOF THE SHOULDER STRAP