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"Kingston Penitentiary Row Prevents Prorogation," Winnipeg Tribune. July 2, 1934. Page 1 & 2. ---- MORE TIME IS DEMANDED FOR PRISON DEBATE ---- Gen. Ross, Woodsworth and Miss Macphail Want More Information ---- GOVERNOR-GENERAL IS KEPT WAITING ---- Hectic Day In Parliament Ends by Adjournment Over Holidays === By CHARLES BISHOP (From The Tribune's Ottawa Bureau- Copyright by Southam Publishing Co. Ltd.) OTTAWA, July 2 - The situation at Kingston penitentiary, where the records show trouble has been recurrent for 60 years, was the final factor in preventing the prorogation of parliament Saturday night.

Everything was set for the end of this extraordinary session. The governor-general and staff had arrived. But Miss Agnes Macphail, J. S. Woodsworth and General Ross, Conservative, demanded opportunity for further discussion of the penitentiary question,

Although there were plain evidences of disappointment over the turn of affairs, the opportunity will be afforded Tuesday for saying all that is desired to be said.

Is Hectic Day Meanwhile, the national holiday will be availed of to quiet the frayed and intolerant tempers, so much in evidence at the weekend. It was a hectic day throughout.

In the Senate, the government side succeeded easily in voting down the amendment inserted by its banking committee calling for bilingual notes for the Bank of Canada.

In the Commons, the discussions covered a wide range-the Franchise Act, the Election Act and, with the production of much fireworks, the Public Works Act.

Then came the final flare-up over the penitentiary affair and the reluctant abandonment of the hope of getting through before Dominion Day. Helping, as he thought, in the plan of prorogation, Mr. Mackenzie King did his part in abandoning the motion of want of confidence which he had intended to launch against the ministry.

The opposition leader has always been, and still is, persuaded that this is the last session before an election, but if by any chance he was wrong, he gave notice that want of confidence would be the first thing proposed when the House meets again.

He declared it to be "obvious that the government had lost the confidence of the people and strongly advised the prime minister to dissolve this House and allow the will of the people to express itself."

Will Fight Supply He went further. He warned that if, at the next session, supply for another year were sought by the government, the opposition would "do everything in its power to prevent such supply being granted.

While expressing appreciation of the Liberal leader's self-sacrifice in forgoing the opportunity of making a speech on a favorite topic, the shortcomings of the ministry. Mr. Bennett doubted if Mr. King were well advised in resorting to threats, and Mr. King said they were not threats, but the op position's "duty, under the circumstances." At any rate, the premier was grateful for the gesture to make prorogation possible.

String of Amendments A string of amendments came from the Liberal benches to the public works bill and the discussion, though moderate, consumed much time. There were heated altercations over proposed outlays in the prime minister's riding, at Calgary and Banff. Mr. King calculated them at 88 percent of the Alberta appropriation. He charged "favoritism" saw in it a symptom of Mr. Bennett's Intent to retire from political life; of his "desire to leave a legacy with his electors at the public expense."

Thereat, the premier was "amazed and astounded" at one of such standing speaking in such a fashion. Mr. King also has been "astounded" when he saw these expenditures.

When the premier thought the opposition leader's speech did "not reflect credit upon him," Mr. King retorted that "the proposals do not reflect credit on the prime minister."

Thereupon, Mr. Bennett explained the items individually - the need of an administration building and post office at Banff, the most widely visited point in Southern Alberta; a retaining wall on the Bow river, attributed to Liberal administrative neglect, and barracks at Calgary, desired as a ten-year-old pledge.

Causes Flare-up This exchange had the effect of so much oil poured on smouldering embers, with Mr. King and the militants, Motherwell and Donnell, advocating, as preferable, reservoirs in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan to permit irrigation of drought-affected areas.

Upon the Franchise and Election acts, the greater part of the day was spent. Colonel John Thompson, head of the pensions commission, was appointed franchise commissioner under the new act.

A judge will temporarily replace him on the pensions commission.

Mr. Justice Taylor, of Winnipeg. will come here, probably for a year, to clear up an accumulation of cases which have been provocative of high controversy.

In the Franchise act, the subject of greatest contention was the one which deprives British Columbia Doukhobors of their right to vote. Mr. Woodsworth wanted this struck out. S. W. Jacobs called it a "step towards Hitlerism."

Sam Gobeil, Compton Conservative, interposed to defend the measure and drew upon himself a sharp attack by Mr. Jacobs for remarks allegedly derogatory to the Jewish race. He wondered why Kobeil is so often asked to act as deputy speaker. Mr. La Pointe and Mr. McIntosh joined in the vigorous denunciation.

No Religious Issue But for the government, Mr. Bennett emphasized that the new w is not directed either against a race or a religion. These Doukhobors would not recognize constituted authority come citizens.

"People would not be who refuse to become citizens of Canada should not be allowed to to vote as citizens of Canada," and so the amendment against exclusion was defeated by 56 to 28.

The final battle over the Fran- chise act concerned an amendment by Angus MacInnis, Vancouver Laborite, which would give people In unemployed camps the same right to vote as absentee sailors, fishermen, lumbermen and miners. Mr. King saw no reason for this, but when informed that his representatives on the committee had agreed that only the four classes specified should enjoy the absentee voting privilege, did not wish to dishonor an agree an agreement.

He repeated his declaration that there will be an action this fall regarding the motion that it will take six months to get the new election machinery in operation as a "bluff" designed to lull the opposition into a false sense of security.

For Sweep Winnings The Criminal Code amendments assented to, include one which does away with the "common informer," but directs that winnings of sweeps and lotteries shall go to the government.

Other enactments sanctioned in the day were the pensions bill altered in such a way as to leave to the juridical temporary head of the commission the question of validity of the Customs Act to provide that certain taxes in foreign countries need not be added to the value for customs purposes and the bill which renews for a year, the status of the radio commission.

Mr. King King indicating apprehension on the subject, Mr. Bennett agreed that at election time all parties should have fair play in the use of the radio transmission facilities.

In the further discussion of the penitentiary question, Miss McPhail had expressed the view that there is too much militarism and found, in the fact that 21 percent of the convicts are second offenders and 22 percent fourth offenders, evidence that the system is not a crime deterrent.

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Ross: a dramatic portrait's different productions

Alec Guinness as Ross, Mark Digman as Auda; Royal Court Theater, Liverpool

Unable to find actors; Worksop College, Nottinghamshire

Will Cox as Ross, Andre Vafiadis as Rashid; Independent Theater, Australia

Joseph Fiennes as Ross, Eben Figueiredo as Rashid, Peter Polycarpou as Auda; Chichester Festival theatre

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hey so please don’t remove me from the fandom for this but I’d love to get some Ross geller headcanons? 😅 thanks so much if you get to this, i know you were writing for all the friends characters so i thought I’d ask

ross geller x reader headcanons

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a/n: hey no shame in liking who you like girly 🤭 this is a safe space for fangirling of all kind and even i can admit i did find professor ross a little hot sometimes. plus there is so little content for him so it seems only fair. enjoy!!

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dating ross would include…

so you and ross met at the museum 

he was working there the same day you were supposed to go there with a date 

a date who just so happened to have stood you up 

he thought you were attractive immediately and offered to give you a tour himself

you agreed — anything to distract you from your ruined date

you guys hit it off immediately 

‘she knew the mesozoic era from the cretaceous era! its a wonder i didn’t marry her right on the spot!’

and he concluded his tour by asking you if next you wanted to explore going out with him 

you agreed and you’ve been going strong ever since 

you get to know his friends really well

monica tells you a bunch of embarrassing stuff from his childhood 

‘ross, why didn’t you tell me you used to wear dresses and have tea parties. that gives me so many ideas for our next date!’

‘MONICA!’

he already has your lives together  planned out and you guys talk about the future a lot

you watch movies together 

and ross always picks something historical and points out the inaccuracies through the whole thing 

‘i’m just saying, this movie takes place in 1865 and the vacuum cleaner wasn’t invented until 1868. it has no place in a civil war setting—it’s absurd!’

‘ross just shut up and kiss me’

he gives you the most thoughtful gifts

and remembers that one thing you said eight months ago at 4:52 pm on August 8th

he plans the most romantic dates for you guys 

i’m talking apartment full of roses 

kisses the top of your head

ben loves you 

‘god (y/n), you’re so sexy.’

‘really? even though i don’t have space buns?’

‘ok who told you that!’

you play scrabble with him over breakfast, per his idea 

and you make up all of these random words to tease him 

‘armchermanslaf is not a word!’

he always has a hand on your back or your waist 

he is actually obsessed with you 

and he loves you almost as much as dinosaurs 🤭

(that’s what chandler says, at least)

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ˋ°•*⁀➷ hope you guys enjoyed this and stay tuned for phoebe hcs xx

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it sucks knowing that half of women characters would get 10x more appreciation if they were guys ☹️💔

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Thank you @shipper-of-many-many-ships for giving me the inspiration to draw them. Referring to this post

Hulk is not that scary compared to Chief

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hi! can i request androgynous fuhscia blood nepeta and ross lalonde in his winter outfit? if not, its fine!

Here you go! Let me know if you wanted something more specific.

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Scene from "Car 54, Where Are You" starring Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne, 1951

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family for real

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"BARBARITY MUST END." Toronto Globe. September 1, 1933. Page 4. ---- It is not astonishing that "the soldiers' Padre, Gen. Archdeacon Scott of Quebec, should wax indignant upon reading the report Brig.-Gen. Ormond on Kingston Penitentiary and lend his voice to the demand for public investigation.

"If anything would justify the demand for a Royal Commission inquiry into the conditions of our penitentiary system," he says in a letter to The Globe, "it would be the statement which is issued by General Ormond. The statement certainly does not satisfy the minds of those who, from the sworn testimony of convicts under trial for rioting or from the articles now appearing by Mr. Austin Campbell in Maclean's Magazine and Dr. Withrow in The Globe, feel convinced that the general atmosphere of Canadian penitentiaries is far behind the modern methods of dealing with criminals and that the systems of punishment are barbarous and cruel. With the criminal population amounting to over 1,200 a year, the average age of the prisoners, as it has been publicly stated, being 20 years, it is alarming to think that the reformatory side of prison life is so appallingly lacking."

The reformatory side seems to be the last thing in the minds of the "system" the reformatory side or any phase of construction. The eighteen "reforms" cited by General Ormond are clearly concessions made be- cause the convicts rioted and because The Globe had been calling for a full and open investigation.

"Imagine," says Mr. W. R. Givens in his second article, "as in Kingston Penitentiary today, many mere boys in that institution - some of them working alongside murderers and gangsters. Why a penitentiary for 16, 17 and 18 year old fads when we have reformatories to which they might better be sent?" Why should boys be thus converted into confirmed criminals, as Dr. Withrow has recorded?

And imagine, too, that these boys are in an institution where government is founded on ideas of military repression, under a Superintendent of whom Brig. Gen. Ross, M.P., of Kingston, said in the House of Commons: "It looks to me as if the only thing he knows about it (the penitentiary), the only thing he is interested in, is a rifle," the man who gauges the qualifications of penitentiary guards by the advancement they made in the army.

It is no wonder the friend of the buck private calls it barbarous and cruel. Perhaps we shall learn some day that the rising of the military ogre idea is responsible for the downfall of the juvenile prison plan. Reformation under humane principles is not compatible with the lock-step reign of terror and the policy which allows a guard to shoot into a small cell to invite heart failure for its occupant.

Archdeacon Scott rightly gives credit for those eighteen reforms, not to the Department of Justice, but to those men "who, in the hopeless mess of penitentiary life, took the only means in their power to get a public hearing and are now suffering additional terms of punishment of from six months to seven years." It may be galling to the General in command to see the public give credit to the despised privates in the cells, since he is on record as declaring that men who failed to rise above the rank of private in military life "could not be expected to show higher standard in civil life." The facts speak for themselves, "Most of these re- forms," Mr. Givens stated, "have been instituted only recently, and then not on compassionable grounds, or because of humane considerations, but, as it would appear, almost under compulsion." The changes in rules were made by the rank and file, and they are being penalized for using the only means in their employ.

"Will it satisfy Canadians," inquires the Venerable Archdeacon, "to feel that our methods of dealing with criminals can only be improved from time to time by riots behind the grim walls of institutions from which the light and force of public opinion have been excluded?" "Between the statements of General Ormond," he concludes, "and the number of testaments on the other side, nothing but a Royal Commission will satisfy the natural desire in the minds of an aroused and indignant public In its demand for the naked truth."

Mr. Givens's article published today makes suggestions for some reforms, and points out that previous investigating committees had laid down lines to be followed. The penitentiary authorities had ample information and sufficient excuse for using it in times past, They have shown no disposition to profit. Today it is impossible to trust the "system" to rectify itself. The clean-up must be so broad as to leave no excuse for mere official interpretation of what is necessary. It must be conducted by men not saturated with pre-conceived ideas of what military discipline will accomplish-bigger men than those now running the penitentiaries, although they may never have risen above the rank of private in the army.

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shit uhh g&e turned 13 yesterday and i didn’t post anything uhhhhh happy anniversary have a phone background i created in some how 1 hour

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guys rate the tally wall so far

it is technically incomplete but i needed to actually put the stuff on the wall just to kickstart it lmao

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