1937-12-13 — Page 30

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Monday, December 13, 1087.

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The Criminals

Deserve

By TANGYE LEAN

TH

HE good-looking and “A girl of seven was left in charge of her little sister, aged intelligent young man two and a half. Presently the faced the Fire Marshal younger, playing on the floor, of Harlem, New York, and upset some water. Her sister scolded her severely, and threat- made a moving statement. ened to tell the mother when she He was charged with in- cendiarism, the purposeful firing of buildings. He said:

returned.

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"This child of two and a half immediately caught up a long knife and struck her sister a violent blow on the side of the chest. The knife penetrated the "Cigarettes have brought me underclothes, the skin, and the subcutaneous tissue around one was the bone I was

crazy for them. And which turned the blow." with this craving there came that other passion, which I can- not understand-an overwhelm- ing impulse to set fire to some thing-and I was forced to obey it. If I see an engine 1 chase after it, no matter how far. I never can stop till I get to the

fire.

"I am a pyromaniac. It is a disease for which I need medi- cal attention. I cannot help it. I am guilty of all the crimes

***

These enses are recalled by a distinguished criminologist in a new book, "The Criminals We Deserve," where he expounds the view that crime is not the result of arbitrary or voluntary wickedness but is determined by the kind of society in which it exists.

There

who

We

This is the famous prison painting by Vincent van Gogh, Dutch impressionist painter, 1853-1890

would diagnose the child's as-

are few people

sault on her sister as anything That happened in 1910, and if "But there was one thing the but the symptom of an obscure it happened again to-day it priest did not know. That man psychological tangle in which would be in a modified form. had grown up in part of the Great thinkers of this genera- charged against me (he had fired the experience of thirty months Those hard-faced men who ad- slums of New Town, where for

9103-A Sailboat in the Moonlight F.T.

Ten Pretty Girls-F.T.

Reginald Dixon,

Jay Wilbur's Orch.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937.

,Wilbur's Orch.

F.T......

Jay Wilbur's Orch.

:

9104-The greatest mistake in my life-Waltz

In an Old Cathedral Town-F.T.

9105-Too Marvelous for words

Sweet Heartache-F.T.

tion warn that the world may be approaching another Dark

Age, and, truly, in the present

{"

9109-in a little French Casino....Primo Scala Accordian Band. trend of events there is much

Will you remember ("Maytime”),

cause pessimism. There is still a power for good abroad, Primo Scala Accordian Band,

however, and while human na- .... Len Green,ture still possesses the impulse

9110 The Merry-Go-Round broke down

Where are you?

4

9112—Moladics of the Month. No. 6

9128-Moon at Sea-Fox Trot

Let us be sweethearts over again.

9132-When the Harvest Moon is Shining

In an Old Cathedral Town,

Whether you live

UP THE PEAK

DOWN A CREEK

Jac Peterson,

OR ON THE CREST OF A WAVE,

Why not

DINE FIRST?

or have a cold supper

nine buildings), but I ought not to go to prison. I can get a doc tor's care and no cigarettes."

He was sentenced to a long period of imprisonment.

Here is another true story:

* "The

Criminals We

had forcibly involved her.

They would see that there was only one solution for society and herself: the skilful unravel- ling of the tangle. They would not, because the situation is so clear, prescribe revenge;

the birch, imprisonment.

minister the law know more

about documents than the hu- sister to be pregnant by brother obvious facts about it do pene- ly more remarked than the death man mind, but slowly the more or daughter by father was hard- trate and modify their be of a child from under-nourish-

haviour..

ment."

A few offences, when no other Always, if we search back far solution seems possible, are re- enough, we will find in the his- tory of a criminal that at some point he was the victim of his

But another child grows up cognised as being beyond the with less obvious troubles. Per- control of the man who practises De- haps when he was four he went them and the proper subject for

scientific treatment.. to the boxroom and set fire to an serve," By Henry T. F. Rhodes, old workbox belonging to his Methuen, 79. 6d.

mankind to a dangerous pass. There are three charities Greed and avarice, frequently which, at this time of the year, the motivating power

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mother.

and says so.

+

"I remember hearing

MOTORING LAUGHS

some

,

And society, having by its sins made the criminal, proceeds in the interest of its own safely to hunt him down. Crime detec- tion costs this country £24,000,- 000 a year, and the hunt describ- ed by Henry Rhodes in this book

environment. It may be that from birth he was forced to Billy Cotton's Orch. of charity and the quality of

But if there should be no dis- sleep in the same room with his unselfishness in any great de-

tinction between the baby who brutalised parenta and five gree, there is still hope for

The thing was dismissed as stabs her sister and the adult brothers and sisters, civilisation. No-one will deny sistance, and they must not be ness-which it was not, but the tain that it is logical or expedient an inexplicable piece of naughti- victim of pyromania, are we cer- that nationalism has brought denied,

clear expression of certain un- to distinguish between them and in the rest of the criminal world? conscious wishes, normal

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behind make special appeal. They are sticks. He is intelligent

for his energies and ambition. tries to explain his reasons to imperial ambition, ride hard the Benevolent Society, the

the official. But he can't ex- years ago a priest in Birming- It may be that he is given an ham declaiming against what he education which instills him York Building

Chater-Road together down the road of time; Street-Sleepers-Shelter Society-plain, he can only describe.- called the deadly sin of incest, with tastes that society will not

and the Sheklung Lepera' nor has the greater enlighten-

"When I set fires," he stam- and it happened that I knew of allow him to satisfy. Christmas Fund. The work of mers, "I simply want to destroy the case he had in mind.

But the point is that his MAZZIVONTment of our generation slowed

the Benevolent Society is well property and see the tenants their pace

one jot. Nations,

run. I want to see the flames "A father still young had gone crimes do not rise spontaneously known, and the Street Sleepers" being human, have all the frail-fund is usually well supported. excitement." He perceives that his eldest daughter. Five child- on

and the engines and enjoy the through a form of marriage with from his soul; they are forced him by an infection from ties of the average man. It is But possibly because of the he is really ill. a medical case, ren resulted from the union. without as certainly as typhoid not reasonable to suppose that pressing new demands upon the interested in medicine, and sen- gated iniquity. It was no chance

But justice is un- This seemed to him like unmiti- or infantile paralysis. they will represent a higher public the response this year is tences him to a fierce term of association forced by economic

circumstances. idealism than that manifested not quite so ready. It would be imprisonment,

a pity indeed if these organisa- by their component parts, men

tions should fall short of their and women in whom the instinct

objective. of self-preservation is still up-

The third appeal, on behalf of

is a mad, fantastic business. permost. But

that there are the Sheklung Lepers, is in a among all peoples individuals class by itself. These

With plaster casts made from tooth-marks, with tho micro- whose lives are dedicated to the fortunate people, many of them A MAN in a huge limousine was street while looking up at an aero-

camera and ita attendant following a 7 hp. car going at plane overhead. Three buses shaved service not only of their country from Hongkong, have little full tilt along a country road. Every him so closely that his beard didn't sciences of "Poroscopy" and now and then the lie car gave appear again for n week, the wind finger-print detection, with wire- bat of mankind, gives reason enough in life to make it bear-hurch and the back wheels rose right from six passing cars raised the nap less and fast cars and for hope that in the end such able. In the past their Christ-off the ground. Finally the owner of on his last year's suit, one five-pas speaker which detects erasures

the limousine drew alongside the babysenger car removed the shine from The mas season has been brightened ear and told the driver pollicly that back of his left shoe, and the drivers on documents by its sensitivity cause will triumph.

by something special in the way he was bound to break his back axle of seven other assorted makes, while to the resistance of paper, with if he went on as he was doing. stripping their gears in an effort to ultra-violet rays and expert ad- In our own small sphere we of food, some little delicacy, and

"Good heavens, man," replied the avoid him, also stripped their vocabu-

fights the are not lacking in this quality of perhaps some small gift, in the owner of the "Intant." "can I not have larics of every known high-powered vocates, society

disease which it has engendered. an attack of hiccough without your adjective. charity. Times without num-form of coloured cloth, gener-interfering?" ber Hongkong's people have res-ally. Approximately

And having got its man, ponded generously to appeals of required for this

justice instead of trying to un- one sort or another, from Poppytreat, or roughly

derstand him in the light of the Two little lads saw an expensive total surrounding circumstances remarked:Perhaps it would be car going down the High Street with Day to the tag day for preven-each one of the sufferers. Thus match to her cigarette, and blandly tion of cruelty to animals. Much for only $198 has been collected. better if cut off your air."

you

the letters "GB" on the back. The (because it lacks the time and When it is realised what the The perspiring driver looked up and youngest asked, "Whit's the GB fur?" cannot occupy itself with any- of this charitable effort is

replied, "Looke 'ere, miss, an Eton "Ach," said the elder, "ye ken how thing but the immediate busi- donation of even one dollar crop may suit your style of beauty,n learner has 'L' at the back, Wellnean) tries to isolate the infec- directed abroad. At the me

means to them, there can be no marks to yourself."

but you can keep your personal re- yon's pit on later tee mean "Gettin' tion by locking him up with

better." ment Hongkong is pouring a

Mrs. Dinks was out with her hus-others suffering from different stream of money and goods into doubt that the public will ren-

The Magistrate was questioning a band for the first time at the wheel. diseases. China for the assistance of pond with generosity and eager girl who had been injured. "And. They were driving along a country

While the only justice, which telegraph "Well," she responded, "if I had been engineers

pole. the wounded and the destitude, nens. All through the months Just where did the car hit you?" road and she saw two Post Office left homeless and penniless by these 700 afflicted people have wearing a number plate it would have "Fools" she exclaimed, "you would was not a lunatic mockery would think that I didn't know how to drive try to heal him of his illness and been badly damaged." looked forward to another war. All auch works are de

The same Magistrate was question-a car."

remove the conditions that gave In another

"Pardon me," he said to the old rise to it from the world. witness serving of the loyalcat support Christmas, the brightest day of ing

"Chauffeur, my friend, chauteur," woman who answered his knock, "do

worthy, the legal corrected and enthusinam. But it must their year. Their disappoint-

"you by any chance possess some lubri-

But to look logically at the The old woman shook Ther not be forgotten that there are ment would be a tragedy that chiffonler, you know, Is an ornamental cating oli?"

head. "Any oll will do," he con- nightmare rovolations of this does not bear consideration. If "Oh, well," interrupted the witness, tinued hopefully, "castor oil, if you book seems like the prelude to problems of a pressing nature

charities of thin sort should fail with a nod in the direction of the have it." "I hinna got any," sold the madness. We get the criminals chauffeur, call him what you like, old woman regretfully, "but I could we deserve, and we deserve them in this very Colony. There are the Dark Age would be near I guess I was pretty near the mark" fix you up with a dose of salts." nll, gelendez scores of cases deserving of as- indeed.

A pedestrian crossed a traffic-filled-

R. T.

DANCE AFTER?

or go to bed early

REMEMBERING THAT WHATEVER YOU DO YOU MUST BE AT THE CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE AT 9.15

ON WEDNESDAY, 22ND OR THURSDAY, 23RD DECEMBER

1

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SEASON —

and think how inexpensive it is

$3, 2, 1 and 50 cents.

Masus. Moutrio or the Ship's Offico, H.M.S. Westcott would be delighted to sell you tickets and wo'd adore the pleasure of playing to you.'

After stumbling over the kerb-stone | A burly lorry driver was cranking on the farther side of the road, the Christmas not meeting with much success. Agracious, those avintors lead dan-

girl at the wheel of an ultra modern gerous lives." n dollar for sports car stopped beside him, put a

$700 is up his engine vigorously, but was pedestrian was heard to murmur, "My

a

cape.

up

a loud

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