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Prisoners
Trusted
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Cass idy
Lake
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-Daily-Sam Ching
NEWSPAPER TALK-Evelyn Burke (left), advisor of Battle Creek
high school's newspaper, "Central Key," leads a discussion on page
makeup with a group of high school journalists here for the annual
Michigan Interscholastic Press Association convention. Approxi-
mately 1,565 students attended the MIPA convention.
High School Journalists
Hear Dale at Convention
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Inmates Get Job Training,
Schooling, Sports at Camp
Located 15 miles west of Ann Arbor is an unusual but theoreti-
cally modern prison camp.
Cassidy Lake Technical School is a "prison of minimum security."
No walls. No fences. Nothing to prevent any of the more than 230
inmates from just walking away.
Nothing, that is, except that he gets a good deal at Cassidy Lake.
So far in its 11-year history, Cassidy Lake has been accepted as a
worthwhile place to stay. An average of only 10 to15 men escape per
year.
Correction the Aim
This is not mere coincidence; it was planned that way. Cassidy
Lake was set up under the theory that correction and preparation for
the future is better than punishment.
A corollary to the theory explains trust in "minimum security."
It holds that men imprisoned for crime turned to it because of lack
of education, proper upbringing, wholesome family and social life,
and opportunity, and that they are willing, even eager, to learn how
to stay out of prison. Thus, they would be willing to stay at a place
like Cassidy Lake.
There are many concrete reasons why they should. A visitor can
see them for himself on a tour
of the camp with Superintendent
C. D. Miles.
"Cap" Popular at Camp
Miles is one of the reasons. The
inmates call him "Cap," which
gives an indication of their affec-
tion for him. "Cap" has been sup-
erintendent at Cassidy Lake since
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C. D. MILES
.. . superintendent
ROW OF MACHINES OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first
place story in the Donal H. HainesC
memorial contest sponsored by sigma
Delta Chi journalism honorary fra-
terny as part of yesterday's Michigan
Interscholastic Press Association con-
vention. A panel of 14 judges chose
the story written by a Mumford High
School, Detroit, student.)
By BRUCE PARKER
Helping people to get their bear-
ings by the use of clear,. compre-
hensive pictures of the world they
live in is the primary function of
the mass media, according to
Prof. Edgar Dale, noted audio-vis-
ual education expert from Ohio
State University.
Addressing the 28th annual con-
vention of the Michigan Initer-
scholastic Press Association at
Rackham yesterday, Prof. Dale
pointed out that the present gen-
eration is the first to have the
benefits of all the mass media:
newspapers, radio, television, no-
tion pictures, and books.
In his address, "The High School
Student and the Mass Media," he
said that this generation must
learn to use them effectively.
Public Must Be Critical
The majority of the public can
be classed as the consumers of
the mass media, Prof. Dale said.
It is important, he continued, that
they understand the necessity of
critical analysis rather than mere
acceptance of what they see and
hear.
Prof. Dale pointed out that peo-
ple should ask themselves the fol-
lowing questions: (1) Am I an ac-
tor in the mass media, or merely
one who is acted upon? (2) Am I
thoughtful about what I see -and
hear, or pm I easily propagan-
dized? (3) Am I active in my crit-
ical analysis of the news, or pas-
sive in my acceptance of it?
In answer to these questions,
Prof. Dale stated that individuals
should. always be critical in the
sense of analyzing what they
hear; that they should learn to
judge the mass media. He ex-
plained that everyone should be
"critical - minded, not sponge-
minded.'
Public Influence Important
Being the majority of the pub-
lic, the consumers of the mass me-
dia exert a great influenee upon
what is produced, according to
Prof. Dale.
By a careful choice of what he
sees and hears, continued. the
Ohio State University expert, the
ordinary individual can dictate to
the producers of the mass media
the topics about which he wished
to hear, rather than being subject
to the will of the producer. More-
over, he pointed out, "To choose
widely is to live well."
The world is in the making,
Prof. Dale concluded. It is for the
younger generation to continue it.
High school and college students,
he said must learn to take ad-
vantage of the opportunities of-
fered them and to use the mass
media as a guidepost when they
become lost in the maze of every-
day events.
it was opened in 1944. He is one of
the two, out of 30 employes there,
who live at the camD.
The rest of the reasons are scat-
tered around approximately 200
acres, although the camp owns 300
more, yet unused. They aren't in
any premeditated order. But they
are in logical clusters.
One group of buildings houses
a garage, a machine shop, a wood-
working shop, a welding shop and
classrooms.
The machine shop is equipped
with some 20 modern lathes, drill
presses, and other machines one
might find in any small shop of
the kind. Inmates here learn how
to operate the various types of
machines, so they will have some
job training when they return to
society.
In the woodworking shop, the
constant whir of electric saws
testifies to the shop's twofold pur-
pose.. Many use the shop for a
hobby, like making lamps. But
all the camp's repair work that in-
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AFTER ONE LESSON
AT ARTHUR MURRAY'S
Arthur Murray's
secret to speedy
learning is his fa- '
rmous "Magic Step
To Popularity".
This basic step
gives you the key
to all dances and
can be learned in
minutes. So come
and take advantage
of special offer
below
100
$ -Q
3j hr. trial lesson
ARTHUR MURitRAV
1311 South University
NO 3-4143
Read and Use
Daily Classi f ieds
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BETWEEN SEVEN AND NINE INMATES LIVE IN EACH CABIN
BASKETBALL IN THE NEW RECREATION BUILDING
WOODWORKING SHOP IS ALWAYS BUSY
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ENJOY
PIZZA
Carry-Out
Service
Beer & Wine
Served
at the
Del Rio Restaurant
122 West Washington
Hours 4-12 - Closed Tuesday Tel. NO 2-9575
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volves woodworking is also done
u here.
Close by, in the classrooms, oth-
er inmates are finishing the stud-
ies necessary to get a high school
diploma.
Another cluster of buildings con-
tains the dining hall, the hospital,
a barber shop, a laundry, a radio
station and the fire station, which
shelters two bright red fire trucks.
Chapel Built by Inmates
A little removed from these two
main clusters is the chapel, which
was built by the inmates ;in 1952.
Every Sunday Protestant and Ca-
tholic services are held, at which
. the choir sings. Outside engage-
} ments by the choir and a quartet
provided most of the funds for
building the chapel.
Not far from the chapel is the
new recreation building. Though
not yet completed, the building
looks as good as anything ever
turned out by a large construction
firm. The inmates built this re-
creation building. They are al-
most finished after only .one year
of work.
Already the building is being
used - basketball in the gym and
ping pong in the room next to it.
It is in this building that a mov-
ie is shown every Thursday night.
There is also a television room,
and, in the rear, a library.
Miles estimates that" approxi-
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THlE ANN ARBOR BANK
A offers you a plan to
BANKABYN AIL
Be sure to inquire about this plan:
SAVE TIME and MONEY
DOOR OF A PRISON CAMP
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PRISONERS BUILT THEIR CHAPEL
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