Editorial
| Date | 01 May 1941 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054100301402 |
| Published date | 01 May 1941 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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EDITORIAL.
Blitzkrieg
The
London &dquo;
season &dquo;
has
commenced
and
we
have
had
three
violent
air-attacks
since
the
daffodils
began
to
bloom
in
St.
James’s
Park.
But,
like
all
our
other
great
cities,
London
is
&dquo; ~taking
it.&dquo;
I
was
fire-watching
at
47,
Whitehall
on
the
night
of
April
16.
Some
of
our
windows
were
blown
out.
Behind
the
office
the
body of
a
man,
just
killed,
lay
on
the
door
steps
of
the
Society
for
Promoting
Christian
Knowledge.
There
were
flares
in
the
sky
and
hell
in
the
air,
but
down
Whitehall
walked
a
a
citizen
soldier
and
a
girl,
in
step,
oblivious,
arm
linked
tightly
in
arm ;
she
was
humming
quietly,
&dquo;
Forget
your
troubles ...
to-morrow
is
a
lovely
day.&dquo;
The
raid
ended
at
4.30
in
the
morning,
at
4.45
sweepers
were
clearing
the
streets
and
at
6
o’clock
early
morning
workers
were
patiently
queu-
ing
up
f or
the
first
buses.
Conference
N.A.P.O.
has
another
achievement
to
its
credit;
it
has
held
a
National
Conference
in
wartime.
The
28th
Conference
and
Annual
Meeting
due
in
1940
was
twice
postponed
and
perhaps
this
one
would
not
have
been
called
but
for
the
need
to
elect
a
new
chairman.
Twice
as.
many
probation
officers
as
we
anticipated
attended
the
meetings
and
!they
had
the
pleasure
of
welcoming
Mr.
S.
W.
Harris,
Assistant
Under-Secretary
of
State,
and
six
mem-
bers
of
the
Probation
and
Children
Branches
who
came
with
him
and
stayed
over
Saturday
night
to
attend
the
Sunday
sessions.
I
heard
many
officers
say
how
much
they
enjoyed
the
opportunities
for
personal
conversation
with
the
Home
Office
officials,
especially
with
Mr.
Harris
who
never
spared
him-
self
in
this
direction.
The
whole
accommodation
of
St.
Andrew’s
Hall
was
taken
and
for
the &dquo;discovery&dquo;
of
the
excellent
additional
accommodation
at
Maiden
Erlegh
School,
as
well
as
for
unstinted
help
in
many
other
ways,
we
owe
our
thanks
to
Messrs.
W.
T.
Godden
of
Reading
Borough,
W.
H.
Palmer,
senior
county
officer,
and
G.
W.
Staveley,
secretary
of
the
Mid-
Southern
Branch.
Mr.
Godden
seemed
to
get
his
whole
family
working
for
us
and
we
thank
them
too.
The
Mayor
of
Reading,
Councillor
W.
E.
Mcllroy,
J.P.,
officially
welcomed
the
delegates
at
the
Sunday
morning
session
and
a
number
of
the
Borough
and
County
magistrates
attended.
For
a
number
of
years
past
the
Glasgow
Proba,
tion
Committee
has
paid
us
the
great
compliment
of
sending
an
official
delegation,
usually
consisting
of
its
chairman
and
one
otiher
member.
This
year
it
was
Councillor
Mrs.
Beaton
and
Councillor
Mrs.
Morrison
who
came.
The
Probation
Committee
of
Burnley,
Lancashire,
followed
suit
by
sending
its
chairman,
Mrs.
Ogden,
and
Mr.
W.
J.
Perkins,
clerk
to
the
justices.
The
election
of
a
new
chairman
added
a
spice
of
excitement
to
Saturday’s
business
meeting.
Last
autumn
MISS
GERTRUDE
TUCKWELL,
our
chairman
and
guide
for
so
many
years,
decided
to
retire.
Branches
were
asked
to
make
nominations
for
a
suc..
cessor
and
Mr.
C.
E.
Garland,
secretary
of
the
Midland
Branch
and
principal
probation
officer
for
Birmingham,
was
elected.
Miss
Tuckwell’s
address
before
she
vacated
the
Chair
was
one
of
the
most
inspiring
we
have
had
from
her.
She
will
remain
in
the
Association
as
a
vice-president
and
we
look
forward
to
her
continued
attendance
at
our
con-
ferences
and
meetings.
The
new
chairman’s
speech,
a
report
of
the business
proceedings
and
further
con-
ference
addresses
will
appear
with
the
next
issue
of
f
Probation.
The
general
subject
of
the
Conference
was
&dquo; Probation
and
the
War.&dquo;
We
wished
to
look
at
probation
after
eighteen
months
of
war,
not
because
we
are
afraid
of
the future
of
the
probation
service
but
because
we
believe
that
through
their
personal
service
probation
officers
can
get
a
glimpse
of
how
the
war
is
affecting
the
people
who
come
within
the
machinery
of
the
law
and
what
changes
it
is
making
in
their
family
life.
A
more
than
usual
significance
attaches
to
this
Conference
for
it
has
been
adopted
as
the
first
of
a
series
of
conferences
through
which
some
5,000
professional
social
workers
concerned
in
the
machinery
of
national
and
local
authority
govern-
ment :
probation
officers,
mental
health
and
public
health
workers,
house
property
managers
and
the
like,
will &dquo;
take
stock &dquo;
of
their
specialised
fields
of
work
to-day ;
then
they
will
aim
at
getting
an
intimate
picture
of
family
life
for
use
in
New
World
Planning
which
the
Ministry
of
Reconstruc-
tion
might
find
it
impossible
to
get
by
any
other
means.
Mudh
more
information
on
this
subject
will
be
circulated
to
our
members
before
the
year
is
out.
Conference
sent
messages
of
greetings
and
good-
will
to
our
president,
Major
the
Earl of
Feversham,
who
is &dquo;
somewhere
&dquo;
in
the
Mediterranean;
the
honorary
treasurer,
Lieut.
Greville
Worthington,
who
is
on
H.M.S.
&dquo;
Lynx &dquo; ;
the
honorary
auditor,
Major
P.
J.
W.
Straus,
who
is
at
the
War
Office,
and
to
all
those
probation
officers
who
are
in
His
Majesty’s
Forces.
We
wish
they
could
all
have
been
with
us
at
Reading
for
the
gathering
seemed
more
like
a
big
house-party
than
a
Conference.
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