. Industrial Education Magazine . the majority, internment meantalmost the loss of all things—business,employment, savings, home, separationfrom wife and family, the latter oftenhaving a hard struggle for facts together with the confine-ment behind barbed wire, contributed tomental and physical strength becomingseverely strained; for some the strainproved too great and they became mental-ly deranged and physically wrecked. tions before the end of 1914 with theobject of mitigating the deporable condi-tions of the interred. Thru their unitedefforts the camps were soon suppl
. Industrial Education Magazine . the majority, internment meantalmost the loss of all things—business,employment, savings, home, separationfrom wife and family, the latter oftenhaving a hard struggle for facts together with the confine-ment behind barbed wire, contributed tomental and physical strength becomingseverely strained; for some the strainproved too great and they became mental-ly deranged and physically wrecked. tions before the end of 1914 with theobject of mitigating the deporable condi-tions of the interred. Thru their unitedefforts the camps were soon suppliedwith libraries, schools, orchestras, the-atres, gymnasiums, relief agency, work-shops, gardens, etc.; and various com-mittees, chosen by the internees fromamong themselves, were soon organizingand administering the work. During the years 1915 to 1918 com-petitive exhibitions of industries andgardening were held and caused muchenthusiastic interest. In each of thecompounds there was at least one work- CRAFTS AND EDUCATION 385. Fig. 2. Press Where Steel Engravings Were Printed shop in which various crafts were plied;it was common to find the woodworkerand the tinsmith, the tailor and thebookmaker, the watchmaker and thepainter, together with others, workingunder the same roof. These industrialactivities of the camp at Knockaloe wereadministered by four industrial commit-tees, one to each of the sub-camps. The committees were constituted with achairman, secretary, and accountant,together with the manager of eachrespective compound workshop; they metat least weekly to receive from the indus-trial superintendent orders for goods tobe made, and to allocate such orders todifferent groups of workers; also to re-ceive and pass on to the industrial i if r **! «or iflt sill mZi n * WUTE Fig. 3. Carved Bone Work. 586 MANUAL TRAINING MAGAZINE
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