1938-07-06 — Page 6

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MAKE THE PUNISHMENT

S the time coming when

will punishment

be designed to fit the individual type of criminal and not the crime that has been committed; the time when minimum and maxi- mum penalties will be

FIT THE CRIMINAL

The case of the Brighton father who ill- treated his young son received great publicity in Britain. Indignation at an act of cruelty blinded the public to an important aspect of the case.

This article suggests that there are better ways of treating an offence than “making the punishment fit the crime."

criminal causes is becoming a reasonably oxaet science, how. near are we getting to the stage when punishment will be made to fit the criminal rather than the crime, will be designed to have a curative effect, not to be a deterrent through fear?

Magistrates are

and more leaning towards the idea that they have a duty to the de linquent rather than towards the authority of the position they occupy. Evidence of that is to

more

These are all important steps towards arranged according to the degree of moral restraint shown at the moment of opportunity. rather than ac- for that final step in giving your car cording to the law that has tional and organic disorders and was producing a nervous condi-, be found, if nowhere else, in the that smart different appearance, use been broken?

just the plain pain they bring. tion in which a sense of right increasing attention which is WHHZ WHITE TIRE COATING.

The question is. the outcome WIZ WHITE TIRE

Pain, in that respect, is à curi- and wrong was ceasing to have being shown throughout the country by county magisterial alves your automobile that sought of a series of discussions that ous thing. Some people are not any significance.

have just concluded in London aware that they suffer pain A case of unnatural practices organisations in preparing syl- with the return to widely scat since it is so much of their daily was cured, not through the labuacs of their meetings to the tered districts in the provinces life, as exampled in another counteracting of wrong sexual question of including lectures on of nearly 30 doctors who are respect by the recent discovery ideas but through the removal the medical aspects of crime- convinced that the fundamental of the boy who had a constant of a malignancy which made the and also to the use that some basis of practically all erime is ticking in his head and did not man shy of associating with benches are making of experi to be found in the medical his- know that he was abnormal. The women and. therefore resentful enced psychiatrists to catch out tory of the criminal, interpreting subject may not be conscious of life; fraud had its beginning the sprucer who is prepared to the word medical in its widest that the pain suffered is the ex- in a warped acquisitiveness try, anything once to avoid sense-to cover the physical and ception, not the rule, but it has brought about by a hyperchon- punishment.

The Home Office, as part of its mental condition as developed a mental effect all the same.

driacal fear. The fear removed, there was no repetition of the new consideration of the penal thought of the need for fraud. code, has appointed a committee The doctors themselves wore

causes of representative of general prae-

And the cases of cures I have to inquire into the titioners and medical officers of And crime appears to have its just quoted are not merely child delinquency. The causes, health concerned with the lower birth mostly in such medical dis- examples of treatment of people in most cases will be found to be strata of provincial industrial advantages to the leading of a charged with first offences to environment and ill-health. Let normal life; though unconscious whom their delinquency is not us seek then to fit punishment to Magistrates and probation pain is the extreme example. yet a habit. They refer to con- the criminal, and much crime officers, by suggesting for re- This fact has emerged from sistent criminality over a period will be prevented.

It seems that we can arrest the mand certain classes of delin- cases investigated among the of years where discovery has quents for observation, and au- lower stratas of society, the been avoided and success might desire for wrongdoing before it thorities of approved schools by police courts and the slum areas he thought to have completely becomes habit. Let us do so, so putting into practice the treat- of places such as Birmingham, deadened the moral fibre. ments recommended as the re- Wolverhampton and Liverpool, jsult of diagnosis, not of the as well as London.

crime, but of the mental and

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1938.

CRITICAL DAYS AHEAD

Under the guns of a river fleet which is slowly pressing up the Yangise, supported by squadrous of bombers and pursuit planes, Japanese bluejackets and men of the regular army are advan- cing spectacularly from success

A

better

by upbringing from birth.

life.

A shop-lifting mania was

physical health of the criminal, cured following a cure of a tune- Then, if it is correct to claim co-operated in the investigations. tional disorder in a woman which that diagnosis and treatment of

that the experimenter in crime does not become hardened, but, instead, a useful citizen.

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SYNTHETIC WARFARE

trained apposite

M.

shell-shock the opposing army by wireless counterfeit. and, by causing

Gramo-boots, reduce them to a state of help-

less sauve qui peut,

The Chinese Knew

It was claimed that the science to success, their ultimate goalcies, causes and cures has now of diagnosing criminal tenden- Hankow. They fight forward reached a degree of exactness relentlessly, with unquestioned which permits a form of treat A ingenious Frenchman has just patented an alternative method. courage and with a ruthlessness ment for the delinquent to be re- of conducting great wars. It is most Battles by worthy of

by" the cause.commended

that such a thing should Before them, fighting back with psychiatrist with almost the happen just now, when to many to be going in constant same facility

people seem as the ordinary dread of battle, murder, and sudden

phone Needle every bit as

much gallantry, medical practitioner advocates death on a mass-production scale, and

Admiration for M. Baze's ingenious their hope still high, their con- the use of bismuth when he has quite appropriate that the distin- By "AN OLD STAGER"

theory must not, however, blind us fidence in their leaders still diagnosed indigestion and guished inventor should be a country-

to the fact that I la ns. ancient as unshaken, despite their repeated bromide when it is insomnia. man of Jules Verne, the volatile Shattered Morale the hills, though only in the present writer whose romances thrilled so

of mechanical miracles has it reverses, go the Chinese armies One main point stands out as many Victorian and Edwarlan school-

ogo However far twentieth-century been feasible to give it a convincing of recently trained peasants and the fundamental to be looked for boys.

culture may appear to have strayed practice. Solomon's dictum about clerks and students. And ever the reason for

apparently in all diagnoses of

The name of this inspired French from the naive Christian principle of there being nothing new under the a criminal ten-inventor is M. Baze, and, not to beat turning the other cheek, human they draw nearer to a final dency. It is the resentment about the bush, his proposal is that nature is not so inherently wirin un applies even to Mr. Broze's in-

vention. that it will insist on mighty battle which may spell factor in the life of the delin- future international affrays should be and sadistic

The Chinese, who were sophisticnt- settled by unadulterated noise. bloc

bloodshed if its ambitious hopes can ultimate disaster for either side. quent, since practically without Baze's idea is to equip the fighting/ be safely realised without it. Thus ed philosophers when the rest of the Yet, as these two contending exception offence against the law forces with mechanism of such trans- we suddenly envisage something re- World's inhabitants were still intel- #88883SSSSSSSSSSSSnations, both powerful in arms or consideration of offence re- cendent loud-speaker wireless power markably like that battlefeld condi- lectually papted barbarians, invented

ceives its primal urge from a that the mingled and

uption for which so many humorists in gunpowder. And they employed it by the awful sound of its explosion. admit to be the greatest test

He will reproduce, life.

These the thunder

spirits constantly It reinforced their fiendish war cries, scale,

of an

part and either has ever had to face on.

artillery barrage,

the voiced their hope that the next war and fearful masks. the battlefield, the comparative

deafening zoom of millions of aerial would be fought with inflated blad-parcel of their system of producing risks each runs

engines, the crashing reverberations ders on hoopsticks, after the manner in the enemy's ranks that desirable become more

of thousands of light and heavy Gulliver describes not for cohflict, condition of mind described by scien- apparent. The reason for the The resentment against life tanks, and the intimidating, sibilant but for overcoming mental lassitude, tinc Freudians as inferiority complex, Chinese confidence becomes

which produces the criminal has whistle of myriads of machine-gun in one of his post-Lilliputian travels. but more vulgarly and pointedly been found to be attributable not bullets.

There is nothing logically absurd known as blue funk. clearer. China willingly admits only to environmental upbring-

in this loud-speaker idea of modern

Even our most up-to-date military Though It WBB apparently M. warfare. Victory under present that her finest fighting men, hering circumstances surrounding Baze's original intention to employ dillons belongs, almost training does not exclude a stronge modern troopa newest war machinery are clus-childhood, bereavement, lack of this terroristic orchestration as an the side that can shake most effer stratagem. When

come to the hand-to-hand charge, adjunct and reinforcement to existing tually the morale of its antagonists, whether cavalry or infantry, they are tered about Hankow. There parental control, slum atmos- fighting mechanism, there can be If M. Baze's wireless orchestra can ordered to raise the most diabolical she will make her greatest stand. Pheres-but by ill-health, badly little question that, if his idea is achieve this, and succeed in putting orde

shout that they can possibly Im- balanced gland conditions, func-given the fullest possible expression, the wind up the enemy's hosts by its prov

provise. When regimental

drafts all such dangerous and lethal acces- terrife onslaught on their nerves

In sories would quickly become super-through their cars, it will fulfil its were being put through the hoop nuous.

scleatifle purpose perfectly. It will the circus at Etopics, and charged over trenches with fixed boyonets against formidable arrays of dummy Backs, they lost marks if they did not omit blood-curding yells of frenzied

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A victory for her here will not| end the war, perhaps, but it will

the defeat of a cess. Japan, on the other hand, is Japanese army operating far fighting time. In spite of the from its bases, with long lines fact that General Doihara speaks of communication still threaten-warfare, that would not do for glibly of ten or twenty years of ed by thousands of guerillas, Japan, Even five years of war and the whole occupied country would so injure that nation in hostile in the extreme wherever the economic field and in the villagers or peasants are left-markets of the world that sho alive. And this army which would conceivably find it im- possible to recover. And to Japan will risk in the throw rule an occupied but still un- against Hankow is a vital one in conquered China will require her China campaign. Its every yèn's worth of gold and serious defeat would be apt every ton of trade Japan · can Ito threaten the whole find. She can afford to lose no

of

more on this adventure. machine in China, needs a quick victory, or she and China will not be slow to may find that she will be forced pursue any advantage. With to fight an ever widening circle what terrible relentlessness the of enemies. That, of course, is Chinese can fight in victory the the chief danger inherent in the Japanese will remember from China war for Japan. To re- capture desired markets, to find such scones as Taierchwang.

the money with which to pro- Defeat for the Chinese, on the secute one

campaign, Japan other hand, will mean no more may be forced to and no less than the loss of Han- others. Perhaps that is kow, and the weight of another prospect to awe the Nine- Japanese victory against the Power Pact signatories. In moralo of her people. It may be any event, taking a broad view, looked upon as a disaster, such China has reason to approach a loss. But it will not be the battle for Hankow without decisive. Thero ja still a vast trepidation, but rather with hinterland beyond and below renewed hope. Except for the Hankow which can be stoutly terrible price that must be paid [dofonded. And the Chinese are in victory or defeat, China might' aware that avery day they can anticipate the battle of Hankow prolong the war, that much with something Vory different nenror are they to possible suc from apprehensiveness..........

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By Lichty onslaught.

"How could you think of canceling our trip to Europe when Tue- gone and told everybody about it!!!

It was

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Just the same theory inspired all the now obsolete military panoply of former times. What is the Guards- man's gigantic bearskin for, it not to convey to the quaking enemy await- ing his assault an impression colossal size and tremendous ferocity? Behind all fighting theory reposes this bedrock Iden shafting the op- ponent's morale. Even the profes- sional pugilist has not neglected it. Dempsey used to take the ring for his big fights with a two days' growth of beard emphasising his caveman aspect.

Mass-Produced Panic

Now that International chivalry de- liberately includes the civilian popu- lation in its lethal objective, this science of moral intimidation obvious ly affords fresh opportunity for elaboration. If M. Baze can, cause;

the sinister 2001

zoom of invading

era

to resound

bomb-

above an enemy's

capital, and exactly reproduce the affrighting sounds of bursting high aerial torpedoes, he will and dienstrous panio the fighting front, cripp. enemy's armlos

have

the

accessity

bo lucid

wall ling the efforts of actually in the field.

There must of neces intervals in an actual air raidi-But, M. Baze's imitation ones, being machine-made and amenable to mass production, could bo incessant. Imagine the state of mind, produced on a civilian population in any con- fested town by dwelling-nigift, and By in a perpetual uproar of terrifie Continued on Page 11)