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By Les Armour
Crimes of violence have in- IXTY serious crimes are erased in much the same pro- committed avery hour, or the crimes showing the
portion
other crimes, 24 hours a day, seven days greatest increases are. a week, 365 days a year in and housebreaking.
larceny the United Kingdom,
The "great crime wave" become more "violent." may be slightly past peak; there are signs that treated more lightly? Not
Its
So it is not that Brilone have
Is it, then, that offenders are
Those who merit a tough ime get one. Those who con be reformed aro reformed.
But, still the crimes go on- 00 every hour, 550,000 every year. And the police catch up with only half them.
Perhaps, in the long run, all these measures will have their effect,
it is "levelling out.” But likely. In the unenlightened Moral Revolution it ia atill a mighty current days when criminals WOTC of violence, scheming and
hanged for minor offences, DUT Sir Hugh is more than attacks on persuns and pro- more prevalent than they are
offences were probably doubtful.
He says frankly: "The pro- blem of crime...con only be
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today.
Moral values in every walk of
This year,
if current trends Morcover, British law now solved by the sanction of higher continuo, the police records has a wide array of weapons at will show almost twice as many its disposal. serkous crimes
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(Indictable
offences) as similar records showed in 1939.
And
crimes
In 1030, even was on the increase. The wave begon
back as as far
1930. Until last year, there was no sign. of any abatement,
be
The present "levelling" may
only a pouse. Sir
Hugh Lucas-Tooth Home Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, warned recently: "We cannot yet say with any confidance that the upward trend has coased."
Before The War
WOR
WORSE, the Home Office is baled by the crime
waves as the rest of 119.
Is it due to
the war? Slr says no. Hugh
It was well under way before the war.
Is it due to the waywardness of toxlay's youth? Sir Hugh says no ogoln. "The rate of increase of offences by children under 17 almost exactly parallels the increase in crime committed by their elders."
rate has
The
Crimes Go On
Own
That is a sedly vague phrase. But it means that the real reason for the wave is probably HERE are probation officers that too few people belleve in
to look after those who have anything beyond
their strayed only once or twice from whims and desires. the path of virtue.
There are
It means the churches have "detention centres" where young not rammed home their lessons; toughs are given a "stift jolt." that schools have fallen down There are "preventative deten- on the job; that parents have tion" prisons where old logs
get fumbled. a long, rough ride, There are
It means that, having got on education. prisons where the emphasis is through the industrial revolu
And there are tion, Britain needs prisons, Borstals, and "approved revolution in
moral common with schools" where every kind of most of the rest of the world. "treatment" in between is meted We can make.bigger bombs out..
but net, apparently, better men.
1
FAME REACHES HER AT 75
From Donald Ludlow
New York.
They have got him to agree increased TO A WOMAN of 76, Dr to de no more painting on the
Lillinn Moiler Gilbreth, want him
White House lawn; now they stop his golf
to
uniformly. Women criminals, į even though they are only one- twentieth of the total criminal who gave a lecture to 800 practice. But this he is reslat- population, account for the business same proportion as they did before the wave started.
Hinduism Shapes
A Five-Year Plan
T
By JAMES WICKENDEN
Q
Lundon
executives in ing strongly.
last month, goes
the coveted Washington Do YOU have trouble backing award for leadership in your car out of a narrow engineering.
She is the Arst woman to re-
driveway?
celve it, and her name now Installing turntables
Garage bullders
stands with
Henry Ford,
those of Herbert Hoover, Orville Wright,
and
used Press swings round.
for railway
a button-and
Gilbreth-does the name ring
here are
ike those engines. the
car
neighbour
at all? Well, Mrs Gilbreth, ANDSOME
H mother of 11, was the heroine of Martin Block look pretty that giddy true life best seller Mrs Betty Gottlieb of Highland about a large family, "Cheaper Park, linois, in his arms and by the
the Dozen." Myrna Loy look sald: "I'll show you how her part in the film
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) EARLIER in her career Dr kissed 'em." Gilbreth encountered all sorts of snube and on
Today the
Now Mrs Gottlieb is suing him for $10,000. She says he industry injured her spine and damaged
13 clamourng for women en her norvous system.
says Professor
Lois
steady the pride of a nation conscious of Illinois Instituto
of new-found Independence, of Technology-"30,000 Jobs PACE TRAVELT Equally serious is the mental
S' attitude of all classes of Indians going this year and little hope
of filling them,” towards the burden of progress girl students.
Delhi. neres will receive HROUGH Himalayan supply of water.
mists the sun rises to
The Community projects are the paint
Influence snows spreading their
in purple and rose-pink, be 16,000 villages. On the face of fore lighting the burnt the planners are succeeding. earth and splendid ruins of But now, there are signs that India.
India may not be able to carry through her ambitious projects.
Dawn etches black
Some of the problems are
New Delhi. les pile up and are
shadows of scrawny bul- cecnomic, but the greatest are pushed from one office to 00-
locks dragging wooden psychological, ploughs, whose furrows scratch the senseless patch- work of little fields.
Acrid smoku spirals from cowdung, burning under cook-
ing pets instead of feeding the hungry soil.
No Money
the first place, India cannot find the money needed to complete the Plan, Emaciated cows, sacred and When the Plan was launched unhindered, nibble the frizzled it was known
she tells
morc
none
her
Cowboy rides? TV thrillers? No, cf these is the secret dream of the typical New York City child,
In the Government there is QURPRISE for those who Mrs Jean Shick Grossman, of no longer the energy to stir the S people
sneer at America's culture; the Play Schools Associaton, to greater efforts. In Three The
tìm và British- extravagantly
people queried hundreds of children, planned red stone buildings of
(12,000,000)
secret go to art galleries all flat-dwellers. Their matches; and there are 4,000,000 and museums than to baseball dream-a two-storey house.
They gave three reasons; (1) more Sunday painters than to slide down the banisters; (2) there are golfers,
to have a room of one's own; Lewis Galantiere, art critic, (3) to have a garden to play in. Puthor, and
playwright, pro-
constituent com duced the figures,
What is more, he says, sales
plains to Congressman of artists' supplies have jumped Charles Howell: "I await; with
3,000,000
other.
Voices drone aimlessly behind screens kept cool bý Water splashed upwards now and again by a half-naked servant.
A WOMAN
our
The people are losing cop-from
dollars impatience the day fidence. In a recent poll In (£1,071,000) a year in 1040 to scientists quit making, bigger, Delhi, less than half those ques- 50,000,000 dollars (£17,857,000), moré terrible, bombe, and get tloned thought the Plan would
down to conquering poison Ivy, succeed. Corruption, they said,THAT Congress shooting la honeysuckle, and ragweed on a would sap the national effort.
I still worrying President national scale. You think you The stolid peasants are impressed by new laws. They At chilly nightfall, drums
say that instead of landlords, begin to beat in the worship of taxation would help to all this have officials. Despite legisla was hoped that higher removed by Delhi, they now
that funds, in-
grass, to give a cup of watery cluding foreign loans, fell short
of its cast by £500 million.
milk in return.
It
gods whose dancing postures glimmer in the darkness wayside temples.
Of
gap.
Korean
un-
war tion against the Hindu caste system, 85 milions nearly a quarter of India's peoples-are still degraded Untouchables.
But the prosperity is over,
As harvest time draws near,
And 'Inflation, partly due to anxious eyes search the skies existing taxes, is so great that for signs of rains that
this year millions cannot buy come too late. And when the rice from India's first bumper crops are finally reaped, the crop for years. Indian peasant will have scraped from his acre less than fanner in the world,
often
Ancient India
any
Also, the cost of the dams is rising above estimates, and the gop is growing.
Ray Of Hope
DUT in this gloomy picture D there is an unexpected may Foreign loans to the order of of hope. Hinduism is on the £500 million are unprecedent- march again, may prove to ed. And India's altitude to the be the spiritual stimulant India West does riot Invite more needs for her great tasks, assistance,
THIS is the ancient India of
In his pligrimage through poverty and of Hinduism'a Governmental aid 19 dis hundreds of miles of jungle and centuries of inertia. Nehru and couraged by Nehru's self- plain, Vinabi Bhave, Gandhi's; the Congress 'Party, on their appointed role, in foreign disciple and would-be successor, election in 1951, were deler #fairs, of the Ivory tower is persunding landholders mined to change it all.
give away millions of acres to landless peasants.
pontiff.
They realised that India's low Private Investment is put of productivity could not yield the by the fear of thinly
Vast Burns needed for large hints of nationalisation,
scale technical projects. They
knew the Indian mentality
could not cally be stirred
to
The Conflict
work for progress.
veiled
Noverthelem, they went ahead with plans-a £1,300 milllon Five Year Plan and a 50, Investors.rosent, the hostility of Indian business, Community Development Pro- whose influence in India's Goy- gramme, whose primary object ernment is strong. was to raiso morò food,
to
Sitting meekly on the ground and allowing himself to bo beaten by angry priests, he is even succeeding in 'hla paign against custo
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This vigorous growth of Gandhian tradition may be n ther post to India's path than the faltering steps of the bureaucrats.
Perhaps after alx centuries of Recently a British soap firm palernal foreign rule, first by
refused
15 the Moghula then the British, permission
lest India is Onding her real char-
The Plan- tackled the main was task to harness the fickleness moderniso 14 factory,
of the rains by irrigating the Indian concerns feel the blast peter. land from dams. The Coin- of competition. munity projects, smallow seated,
2.
•
It is likely to be different
almed at improving the farmers So with one hand, India from the India the world has techniques.
reaches for assistance; with The dams are rising; some
other, pushes it away. have been opened and, by› 1980, This conflet prisos; The planners hope 30 million Nehru's own personality
the hitherto known. In the mar
riage "between › Hindulent and Pinning. Hindulan may. be from: transformed, and yet - beconte
and the dominant partner,
Elsenhower's guards.
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