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TO-DAY

woman steal?

IS THERE A CASE FOR

KLEPTOMANIACS?

by JOHN PREBBLE

"There comes a time when women of most ex cellent character for some extraordinary reason-for which they are to be pitied rather than blamed- find themselves unable to resist an overmastering a shop without temptation to take something from paying for it."

half- Nor matters helpert the

the

*Nomen]

Tregretful sentence was fact that it is not easy to dia-

uttered by the Re. Ungulsh between

pleading An "overmastering corder of Cardiff, Mr H.. temptation" with honesty, and Glyn Jones. He was con- the petty thief trying to escape

mumbo-jumbo of sidering the appeal made by ehind the

kleptomania. the wife of a retired busi- ness man against a convic- tion for stealing worth £8.

coat

And recently another magis- trate, faced with a similar ethical problem, looked at the smartly dressed woman standing before him and said:--

The

urgo, to take something

THE PSYCHIATRIST'S CASE 15 THAT THERE IS no attempt on the part of the courts to accept kleptomania a's an Miction of man, as much as 18 dipsomania.

onc.

"The theft was irrational, "Look at it this way," said She had jewellery of her own. She fucked nothing within ren- вол. It is a distasteful duty I have to perform.”

Happy

and

not in want

LET' US AGREE THAT HARSH ECONOMIC STRESS may drive the most reputable of persons to stealing.

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"Watch children as they run down the street, trying to slep between the cracks at the paving-stones. It becomes compulsion with them.

"They feel that they must not step on the cracks, or an other Occasions that they touch every lamp-post as they run past.

But such a course is not one that commends itself to the psychiatrist.

In analysis this is only super- feally true.

Not long ago

a husband had to make decision whether or not he should appeat against prison sentence on his wife.

He decided, probably not without a great struggle: "It was just, and she will have to serve R,"

a year

cont

He had given his wife £400 "There In a weakness," he

dresa allowance The argues, in such a policy.

She had three wardrobes full of knowa probably kleptomaniac

clothes, including a fur that shy is doing something that worth £1,000. will probably bring great suffer- fog to her family.

She went to prison for teal- "She knows that it may also ing n cheap pair of plucks, mean a prison sentence or a blouse, and a hairbrush, in all not worth much more than hravy Ane.

£10.

"But her fear of such things will not be as strong as the obsessive compulsion that drives her to stea), "And sha will not lose this compulsion in prison,

"She con

be cured if the Is a At subject for hypnosis ur

But suggestion.

unintelligent prevention may drive the com- pulsion Inward and producn dangerous phobias, even mad- ness"

Always say they're sorry

A sordidly common crime

If You've "Too Much Wife," Join The Army.

by

PETER LOVEGROVE

"All you who are kicking your heels behind a Rolitary desk with too little wages and a pinch-gut Master, all you with too much wife, or are perplozed with obstinate and unfeeling parents may apply to Sergeant Hammond, at the Rose and Crown, White- chapel."

nis Regiment is mounted on Blood Horses, and being lately returned from SPAIN, and the Horses Young, the Men will not ka allowed to HUNT during the next person more than once a week."

THUS did the 14th Light Dragoons or the Duchess of York's Own (now 14/20th King's Hus- Bars) once invite young

There came a period before East End Londoners from World War One when the ac- Hackney Marsh to Mile End, cent was on sport. The Sea- and from Bow to Shore forth Highlanders featured a ditch to join their ranks. Youth in football kit and striped

while Jersey,

another invita- This appeal-for farriers tion came even more bluntly

and others camo in a re to the points

"DO YOU PLAY FOOTBALLS cruiting poster which made JOIN THE ROYAL SCOTS. its appearance 150 years Home

Army Football Champions Mt. ago. It went on to point 19:0, 1913,25 In Judia, 1993, 1207, out a number of material specimen menu, perhaps to con- This poster also contained a advantages, and worked up vince would-be Ecccer stars to an irresistible climax that they would get the right

You are quartered in the fer- diet. te County of Kent,, where you have provision remarkably cheap.

Luxurious living to the brave and Fighting Irish:

ambitious la but a secondary ob- jest, elre thousands would repair

to the standard of the Oallant

of being received.

ITH the 1914-18 War, and

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14th, could they obtain the honour until conscription was in-

freduced, the exhortations Those of address and educa- were naturally on patriotism, tion are sure of preferment, your

comforts in this Service arpass responsibility

Kitchener's ail clerks or mechanics, an hospi- table table and espacious bowl of haps the

and revenge. poster was per- most famous of all

punch that will float or sink the time, but there were many

Jittle Corsican chief."

This poster and others select-

others most effective in their ed to demonstrate the varying sex, much as that of the British Lion and his Empire cubs do- trends

Army recruitment tying the Foe, the "Avenge the during the past six Lusitan'a," and appeals generations were revived in a

of

modest little exhibition which the Kaiser slipped unheralded Into Choring announced:

a newspaper

Cross

underground station re-

und

cently. It took a ocrtatn nmount

foot high Kitchener with

one showing. reeling away from

Old

bill board which "Ireland's

Fighting Spirit, Thousands

of courage to slink past a 12. Joining the Colours."

Some attention had already steely compelling eyes, handle- been paid to the call of foreign bar moustache and accusingly parts as an inducerent to join. pointing finger

who is saying The Royal Irish Fusillers hod.

poster depicting a sternly "Your Country Needs soldier vaunting the virtues of YOU," and some Guards NCO'a

Service life to a shabby-looking in fulldress and bearskin at

The

smart

the entrance, but the effort civilian outside on "Optigraphle was worth it Saucy Seventh:

Kinema,"

to be Alms shown Included: Jeanne

F ists with Mary Pickford. The Gorgeous East: sco Baghdad, of Caliphs with the 2nd. Cly most striking RIs.

Life in the Army-In note of this story in pletures England, the Colonies: Egypt

the and India.

ERHAPS the

and catchphraseS was

A DOZEN REASONS MAY BE ADVANCED FOR THIS woman's theft: cupidity, greed, pelfishness, avariciousness,

But if they were symptomatic Own Regiment

shifling of emphasis according After 1918, this was develop- to the times. A hundred years ed into that popular slogan: ago, for instance, it was all on Join the Army and See the Thus the World." Bronzed young soldiers heroism and glory.

drill, Old Saucy Seventh or Queen's in khaki

shorts and of Light Din-

Jauntily pith helmets, marched the 7th Hussars); through eastern teuks, with that Gallont and well- the Temple of Karnak, camels,

www.

of her character they would goons (now

when they were commanded backgrounds showing minarets..

have made it impossible for ner husband to claim on her behalf by that she was a perfect wife. known Hero, Lt. Gen. Henry and other Eastern curiosities.

on- Faget," proudly

The West Yorkshire Regiment, Perhaps the one thing thar Lord will make

for the nounced that It difficult

to prove the correctness of the "Young Fellows whose hearts slogan, which had an undoubted magistrate and the psychiatrist

beat high to tread the paths of

the foreign ata- to compromise on this problem

Glory could not have better op- appeal, listed that the klepio- portunities than now offer. Come tions the Regiment had oc the fact

in 40 years-an fm- forward then, and Enrol Your cupled selves in the Regiment that stands pressiva Illnerary spread over

and where the kind unrivalled,

maniac's crime is sordidly com-

No Kisses:

AS LAST YEAR ENDED AND THE NORMAL INCREASE IN Christmas shoplifting reached

peak, Mr E. R. Guest, West mon.. London magistrate, remarked

treatment the Men over received three continents. Ani, perhaps, I should ada

is well known throughout – the tartly that, in spite of all the that just as for every one male whole Kingdom.“

given publicity

to Cases of

shoplifter there are Ave women,

For those who wanted some- people shoplifting,"

of good character were before the court so for every one genuine klepto-thing more tangible than Glory Cry day.

there are a hundred and Kind Treatment, It added: petty criminals whose crimes, "Each Young Hero on being approved will receive the largest in detall, bear the same

Bounty allowed by Government." to

klepto- tho semblance

There was, however, a catch maniac's.

in t A postscript polated out In all fairness;

must They always say they

ого

sorry and don't know why they "There is this compulsion, an did it. The answer is that they could get away obsessive-compulsion we call it, thought they

with it." But what of the woman of at work in the kleptomaniac.

"The kleptomaniac may have

high moral integrity, with 1 comfortable home, chough

happy home life and no finan clal want?

One day she steals. It may be a breach from

friend, a coat from the rack

in a store. She is charged, sentenced.

a

clothen and money, 4 ligh standard of moral behaviour. Yet one day she feels this irresistible urge 10 pick up something and walk oft with

"Why does she feel this urge?

Court missionaries and proba- There's no one answer. tion officers arely know much they're not criminals." about such cases, The prisoner

seldom turns to them,

The family from which she comes gathers her within itself and endeavours to hido Acars.

He is not

to be envied

the

A case that

always mystifies

Bui

maninc

London Express Serviço,

TOM

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

NEW YORK..

ALL that Sir Stafford creased

British goods.

Cripps will get in dol-

PUT others, too stressed re- gimental traditions, pride of of uni- county, the glamour forms, historical associations. The Lancashire Fusiliers peal contained extracts from a speech by the Duke of Wel- lington and despatches of General Buller on Spion Kop and General Bir Ian Hamilton on Gallipoli. The Gloucester Regiment claimed that their was the "one that fights best, foeds best, plays best and works best." And the Gordon Highlanders published a re- production

of scene

at the raising of the regiment in 1704

Jean, by

Duchess of Gorden, is seen who

On horseback to each a guinea Every town they visited has have become "dopey, sluggish, presenting

Sald our local recruit-but not of and mangy."

the kies sho sales

to have recorded M.F.H.: "You can kill them with is also cald Producers could have taken in a club. We will have to go out of at the same time.

Immediately after World War TO MAGISTRATES SUCH

from the fabulous double or even treble the money business if we don't import some MEASURED DISTINCTIONS Tara

when American success of the if they had had theatres large sharp English foxes to improve Two, a new theme was develop- breed." That's not the fed: the Army was no longer are not always possible

Sadler's Wells Ballet will be enough. Box offices had to turn the determining sentence.

chicken farmers' view,

presented as a career in Itself, away nearly 2200,000,

"Join but as a stepping-stone. Daniel months Mr For 10

So New York is negotiating

the Army and Learn a Trado" Hopkin, magistrate at Mari- around £25,000 worth.

MBASSADOR Lewis Doug-| became the new slogan, and borough-street, has been mak

desperately for another Sadler's the

Christmas the emphasis

tho of special study

next autumn.

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BUT THE PROBLEM A MAINS FOR SOCIETY TU ing face. The magistrate's duty in shoplifter. not to be envied.

Whatever hig feeling about the punishment, he is in all enses aware of the trugle ro- sults.

He confesses that the case * of the respectable thief is still a mystery to kim,

Box-office receipts are esti- mated at more than £178,000, an

for all-time record

nine- weeks season by my visiting company.

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Most of that money went in expenses, promotion, and pronts for American theatres and pro

"I've not heard a psychiatrist Sympathetic consideration of who can give what I would the problem is always clouded consider a round explanation.

that thus seem by the hard doubt that exist in "It would

only most minds, doubt long ago heavy sentences are the expremed ironically by George course,*** Eliot in Middlemarch. "When It is possibly true that s youthful nobleman steals heavy sentence will shock the Jewellery wo

act kleptomanine Into not commit

ting, a similar offenco,

2.30, 5.30, kleptomania."

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NOSY ROSIE IS

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But Britain gets something more than dollars. Nothing since the Battle of Britain has in- creased American good will to Britain so much as the Sadler's Wells company,

HELLO ROSIE

HELLO, NANCY

Jas.

was.on

for home and talks in Washington, mode technical tra'ning, apprentice made it plain that if it is up to him he schools and Trade Union re- Noor charges were

against President Truman. will not retire or give up his cognition of Army trades.

the recent return But, with to full dress of the Guards and Congressmen said that orders job. Said ho: "I intend to return

the Household Cavalry, the to ask people their income vio-

appeal of glamorous seat to next year's census-takers to London in January." late the Constitution. Sald Con- LECTIONS to come in Bri- age-old

uniforms has not been over- gressman Clarence Brown: It tain will be one subject looked. The latest poster, de- gives the Government a price- Washington will raise with Mr picting in simple but thrilling less sucker list.”

Douglas notably, "Who is goines the heads of two horses in ing to win?"

It is reported, full gallop and two shining

UNT masters in Connecticut, though Mr Douglas naturally cavalry helmets with coloured

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