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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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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

CAMTM

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

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