Chairman's Notes
| Date | 01 January 1947 |
| Published date | 01 January 1947 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054700500701 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
’PROBATION
The
Journal
of
the
National
Association
of
Probation
Officers
and
the
Clare
Hall
Fellowship
CHAIRMAN’S
NOTES
Perhaps
the
Newness
has
a
little
worn
off
the
Year
by
now,
but
I
trust
it
is
not
too
late
to
express
sincere
good
wishes
to
all
members,
and
to
suggest
a
resolution.
If
I
say
simply
that
I
wish
happiness
and
success
to
all
of
us
in
the
New
Year,
it
is
in
the
knowledge
that
the
words
will
not
be
misunderstood.
So
long
as
the
success
we
seek
is
the
greater
success
of
our
work,
so
long
as
we
try
to
ensure
it
by
using
every
means
in
our
power
to
make
the
most
of
such
opportunities
of
service
as
come
our
way,
then
we
shall
not
have
to
seek
far
for
happiness.
It
may
be
that
this
year
will
bring
to
us,
generally
or
individually,
some
new
fields
of
service.
If
not,
perhaps
there
may
yet
be
scope
for
greater
&dquo;success&dquo;
in
the
old
ones:
that
is
a
matter
for
each
of
us
personally
to
consider.
*
*
*
Perhaps
it
sounds
as
though
the
promised
&dquo;resolution&dquo;
for
the
New
Year has
already
been
suggested. I
should
like,
however,
to
ask
for
a
rather
more
precise
one.
There
is
one
form
of
service
for
which
the
National
Association
of
Probation
Officers
has
long
made
itself
responsible,
but
in
which
it
has
never
yet
been
able
to
feel
the
hap-
piness
of
complete
success:
that
is
the
service
of
those
retired
Probation
Officers
for
whom
the
Edridge
Benevo-
lent
Fund
exists.
The
members
of
the
Fund’s
Committee
would
like
to
help
in
every
case
of
real
need;
and
they
would
like
to
remove
real
extreme
hardship
from
the
lives
of
their
former
colleagues.
They
can
do
neither
of
these
things,
neither
help
often
enough
nor
help
enough.
Perhaps
that
is
sometimes
because
someone
who
had
really
meant
to
subscribe
to
the
Fund
had
omitted
to
do
so.
A
special
appeal
has
gone
to
Branches
on
this
subject,
but
I
do
want
to
add
this
word
in
support
of
it.
Your
Branch
is
probably
about
to
hold
its
Annual
Meeting.
It
will
wish
to
elect
&dquo;live
wires&dquo;
to
hold
office.
It
will
wish
to
send
a
&dquo;live
wire&dquo;
as
delegate
to
the
National
Executive.
Let
us
hope
that
it
has
another
one
available
for
the
post
of
Edridge
Fund
Correspondent:
and
then
that
each
individual
member
of
the
Branch
will
make
a
New
Year
resolution
to
ensure
that
his
task
is
made
as
easy
as
possible.
*
*
*
Talking
of
Branch
meetings,
one
of
the
matters
which
Branches
generally
will
be
considering
at
the
moment
is
their
programme
for
the
coming
year.
I
have
lately
had
the
privilege
and
pleasure
of
attending
several
Branch
meetings
and
week-end
conferences,
and
in
consequence
not
only
learned
a
great
deal
but
been
much
refreshed
and
encouraged.
The
experience
has
also
con~rmed
a
view,
already
firmly
held,
of
the
extreme
importance
of
an
active
Branch
in
the
life
of
N.A.P.O.,
and
of
thp
Probation
Service,
both
locally
and
nationally.
In
the
local
sphere,
many
Branches
have
found
the
open
conference,
especially
the
week-end
conference,
of
particular
value.
By
&dquo;open&dquo;
one
means,
of
course,
open
to
magistrates,
justices’
clerks
and
others,
not
confined
to
probation
officer
members.
The
opportunity
for
friendly
and
informal
discussion
of
common
problems
from
a
common
point
of
view--or,
possibly
even
more
important,
talking
over
and
understanding
occasionally
divergent
points
of
view-is
of
benefit
to
all
parties,
and
ultimately
of
benefit
to
those
people
with
whose
troubles
all
in
concert
have
to
deal.
Nationally,
one
can
hardly
over-stress
the
need
for
Branches
to
express
fully
and
freely
the
view
and
tho
special
experience
of
their
members
on
the
matters
on
which
the
Association
is
endeavouring to speak
for
the
service
as
a
whole.
That
this
is
generally
recognised
is
evidenced
by
the
thorough
consideration
which
so
many
Branches
habitually
give
to
these
matters.
Let
us
bear
in
mind
in
planning
our
programmes
that
in
1947,
as
in
the
past,
there
are
clearly
going
to
be
many
vital
questions
in
the
air,
demanding
both
local
and
national
expression.
~
*
*
Congratulations,
on
behalf
of
all
her
colleagues,
to
Miss
E.
E.
Inman,
Senior
Probation
Officer
in
the
London
Juvenile
Courts,
on
the
award
of
the M.B.E.
in
the
recent
Honours
List.
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