Where Shall Borstal Go ?
SIR,—It was with " no small indignation" that 1 read Mr. Richard Church's remarks on the setting up of a Borstal institution in Kent. and I wonder which part of the country he would consider sufficiently dreary and hideous for this purpose. It is generally accepted that environment (physical as well as moral) is a very important factor in the development of the young, and if the beauty of Kent plays even a small part in the immensely valuable work of rehabilitation undertaken by the Borstal institution, the erection of a barbed-wire fence in a beauty spot will, surely, have been amply justified. It• is hard to believe that these boys are really so unwelcome, and so bitterly resented, by the inhabitants of that lovely and kindly countryside. Could it be that it is Mr. Church who has, to use his own words, unwittingly committed a blasphemy against the. spirit of the men of Kent?—Yours faithfully,
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