1937-12-13 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Monday, DecemBER 13, 1937.

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The

Criminals

Deserve

By TANGYE LEAN

TH

THE good-looking and intelligent young man faced the Fire Marshal of Harlem, New York, and made a moving statement. He was charged with in- cendiarism, the purposeful firing of buildings. He said:

"A girl of seven was left in charge of her little sister, aged two and a half. Presently the younger, playing on the floor, upset some water. Her sister

scolded her severely, and threat- ened to tell the mother when she'

returned.

"This child of two and a half

Hongkong Hotel to this. Ever since I was a boy subcutaneous tissue around one

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UP THE PEAK

DOWN A CREEK

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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

of the ribs. It, was the bone I was

crazy for

them. And which turned the blow." with this craving there came that other passion, which I can-

These cases are recalled by a not understand-an overwhelm- distinguished criminologist in a ing impulse to set fire to some new book, "The Criminals We thing-and I was forced to obey Deserve, where he expounds it. If I see an engine I chase the view that crime is not the result of arbitrary or voluntary after it, no matter how far. I wickedness but is determined by never can stop till I get to the the kind of society in which it fire.

exists.

"I am a pyromaniac. It is a

We

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

There are few people who would diagnose the child's as- discuse for which I need medi- sault on her sister as anything That happened in 1910, and if "But there was one thing the cal attention. I cannot help it. but the symptom of an obscure it happened again to-day it priest did not know. That man I am guilty of all the crimes psychological tangle in which would be in a modified form. had grown up in part of the charged against me (he had fired the experience of thirty months These hard-faced men who ad- slums of New. Town, where for

had forcibly involved her. 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:

They would see that there

was only one solution for society

and herself: the skilful unravel- not, because the situation is so ling of the tangle. They would

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."

to

10 cause pessimism. There is

A few offences, when no other Always, if we search back far still a power for good abroad,

solution seems possible, are re- enough, we will find in the his- however, and while human na-

But another child grows up cognised as being beyond the tory of a criminal that at some with less obvious troubles. Per- control of the man who practises point he was the victim of his ture still possesses the impulse,

* "The Criminals We De haps when he was four he went them and the proper subject for

environment. It may be that from birth he was forced of charity and the quality of serve," By Henry T. F. Rhodes, to the boxroom and set fire to an scientific treatment.

old workbox belonging to hig unselfishness in any great de- Methuen, 7s. 6d.

But if there should be no dis- sleep in the same room with his mother.

tinction between the baby who brutalised parents and tive 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 expedent an inexplicable piece of naughti- victim of pyromania, are we cor- that nationalism has brought | denied.

clear expression of certain un- to distinguish between them and mankind to a dangerous pass.

in the rest of the criminal world? conscious wishes, normal

It may be that he goes into a are three charities

childhood, abnormal in an adult. This heavily documented book blind alley job, knowing that at Greed and avarice, frequently which, at this time of the year, He grows up and the thing suggests that it is not.

the end there can be no outlet and the motivating power behind make special appeal. They are sticks. He is intelligent

"I remember hearing some for his energies and ambition. tries to explain his reasons to

years ago a priest in Birming- It may be that he is given un instills him

There

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imperial ambition, ride hard the Benevolent Society, the the official. But he can't ex- ham declaiming against what he education which

Street_Sleepers Shelter Society plain, he can only describe.. called the deadly sin of incest, with lästes that society will notTM

Chater Road together_down_the_roul of time; has the greater enlighten- ment of our generation slowed

OR ON THE CREST OF WAVE,

Why not

DINE FIRST?

or have a cold supper

DANCE AFTER?

or go to bed early

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and think how inexpensive, it is

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Messrs. Moutria or the Ship's Office, H.M.S. Westcott would be delighted to sell you tickets and we'd adore the pleasure of playing to you.

nor

MOTORING

circumstances,

LAUGHS

and the Sheklung Lepers'

"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. the Benevolent Society is well property and see the tenants

But the point is that his their pace one. jot. Nations,

"A father still young had gone crimes do not risc spontaneously known, and the Street Sleepers run. I want to see the flames 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 tles 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 and says so. But justice is un- This seemed to him like unmiti- or infantile paralysis..

interested in medicine, and sen- gated iniquity. It was no chance they will represent a higher public the response this year is tences him to a fierce term of association forced by economic And society, having by its sins idealism than that manifested not quite so ready. It would be imprisonment.

made the criminal, proceeds in ja pity indeed if these organisa-

the interest of its own safety to by their component parts, men

hunt him down. Crime detec tions should full short of their

tion costs this country £24,000,- and women in whom the instinct

objective.

000 a year, and the hunt describ of self-preservation is still up-

ed by Henry Rhodes in this book 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 clags by

With plaster casts made from itself. These un-

tooth-marks, with the 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 its attendant following a 7 hp. var going at plane overhead. Three buses shaved service not only of their country from Hongkong. have little full titt along a country road. Every him so closely that his beard didn't sciences of "Poroscopy" and but of mankind, gives reason enough in life to make it bear- now and then the file car gave upper again for a week, the wind finger-print detection, with wire-

lurch and the back wheels rose right from six passing cars raised the nap less and fast cars and

a loud for hope that in the end such, able. In the past their Christ- of 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 politely 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 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," repiled the avoid him, also stripped their vocabu-vocates, society fights are not lacking in this quality of perhaps some small gift, in the owner of the "infant," "can I not have lories of every known high-powered disease which it has engendered.

Times without num-form of coloured cloth, gener-interfering?" ber Hongkong's people have res- ally. Approximately $700 ju up his engine vigorously, but was pedestrian was heard to murmur, "My ponded generously to appeals of required for

charity.

this

If he went on as he was doing.

un allsek of hiccough without your udjective.

After stumbling over the kerb-sione

•

+

the

better if you cut of your alr." the letters "GB" on the back. The (because it lacks the time and

*

A burly lorry driver was cranking on the farther side of the road, the

Christmas not meeting with much success. A, gracious, those aviators lead don And having got its man,

girt at the wheel of an ultra modern gerous lives."

justice instead of trying to un- one sort or another, from Poppy treat, or roughly a dollar for sports car stopped beside him, put a

derstand him in the fight 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 far only $198 has been collected.

When it is realised what the The perspiring driver looked up and youngest asked, "Whit's the G D far?" cannot occupy itself with any- of this charitable effort is

replled, "Look ere, misa, 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, a learner has 'L' at the back. Well, ness) tries to isolate the infec directed abroad. At the mo-

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

but you can keep your personal re- yon's

better 2 on later tae mean 'Gettin' i

tion by locking him up with ment Hongkong is pouring a

doubt that the public will rea-

Mrs. Binks was out with her hur others suffering from different stream of money and goods Into

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 ness. All through the months Just where did the car hit you?" read and she saw two Post Office the wounded and the destitude,

"Well,"

л up she responded, "If I had been engineers

telegraph pole, left homeless and penniless by these 700 afflicted people have wearing a number plate it would have "Fools," he 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 looked forward to another been badly damaged."

The same Magistrate was question-a car."

remove the conditions that gave 11 wliness in another case. "Pardon me," he said to the old rise to it from the world. serving of the loyalest support Christmas, the brightest day of

"Chauffeur, my friend, chauffeur," woman who answered his knock. "do But it must their year. Their disappoint corrected the legal worthy, "you by any chance possess some lubri- and enthusiasm.

But to look logically at the The old woman shook ment would be a tragedy that chiffonier, you know, is on ornamental cating all?" not be forgotten that there are

her head. "Any oil will do," he con- nightmare revolations 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 this sort should fall with a nod in the direction of the have it," "I hinne gat any," said the madness. We get the criminala In this very Colony. There are the Dark Age would be near 1 guess I was pretty near the markt. fix you up with a dose of salts.”

chauffeur, call him what you like. old woman regretfully, "but I could we deserve, and we deserve them Acores of cases deserving of as indeed.

A pedestrian crossed a traffic-filled)

war.

All such works are de-

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wooden-

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