THE MAJOR'S POLICY

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 6

THE MAJOR'S POLICY

'r\EADBEATS F down-and-outers and-:V.r-L/ criminals— he knows them all and i ~ ■he is their friend. .. V - " Major 1 R. J. Barnes may .be seen ;. " every day m the Christchurch Police Court looking round : to lend a . hand, to some unfortunate. He is a Salvationist whose speciality Is the . care of the. underdog rather than the \ '.;..-. conduct of religious meetings. , .-' Twelve years m charge of the Army: . Men's Industrial Home at Addington : taught him a thing or two about i : * human nature. He made it his policy always to get first offenders into the home instead of gaol, as he believes that prison completes a • man's cri- ':''_ ;'., minal education. In all the years he was m charge of ',; the home he can only recall the case ~' of one man who proved a dud. Cor- . . rectional — not punitive— rmeasures are what the major banks o.n, although he admits that one has to know the kind of people one is dealing with.