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Daily Times-Gazette, 19 Jan 1953, p. 14

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14 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, January 19, 1053 PEACE AND DANGER IN INDO-CHINA bind Two members of the French Army (T receive a warm welcome fr villagers in Pays Thai, French Indo-China, as they take time out from the rigors of war to play with a pair of in- fants. A scant few miles away, French troops (above) wade 4 across the Black River with sup- plies held high, on the alert for the twang of a sniper's gun that spells sudden death in the steam- ing jungle. Communist-led Viet Nimh guerrillas use the heavy foliage for cover. Central Press Canadian | Four Types of People Commit Bulk of Crime There are four groups of Cana- dians who commit a major pro- portion of the crimes that keep our courts busy and our prisons full, according to Dr. Robert O. Jones, professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University; and our present system of legal procedure does not deal adequately or wise- ly with these people. In an article, "Crime Is a Major Industry Here," in the current is- osue of health. Dr. Jones sum- marizes the four criminal types as follows: 1. The mental defectives, who have not developed enough intel- ligence to allow them to under- stand the general rules of society --they see something they want and can't appreciate why they shouldn't be able to get it. These people are very easily led into crime by smarter people who use them to do the dirty jobs and frequently shove them into the position of getting caught. 2. The psychotic, or insane, who because of upset feelings inside them have developed false beliefs about the people around them. They may believe very strongly that other people are persecuting them and in this situation it doesn't seem unreasonable to at- tack the persecuor, perhaps even in a way that will kill him. Not a few murders occur under such cir- cumstances. 3. Then there is the individual who seems to have some defect in that part of his character called conscience, These may be people of good intelligence who are cer- tzinly not mentally ill in the legal sense of the word; but they never show the ability to take responsibil ity or to appreciate how anti- social their acts are. These people are, technically, called psycho- paths, or people with character disorders, and a great many com- monly repeated crimes are com- mitted by them -- such as signing false cheques, swindles of all sorts, profitable impersonations, and sex crimes. According to Dr. Jones, the facts now show that locking this sort of person up in jail for six months or six years is prob- ably not going to make any dif- ference to him, The only thing that may help is to confine him for an indefinite period to a place where he can be given all the ad- vantages of modern psychiatric treatment. 4. en -there is the group of persons who have minor emotion- al disturbances. they don't devel- op false beliefs, but they may be uncomfortable and guilty within themselves and feel as if they need punishment. One way to get punish ment is to commit a crime and make sure you get caught. This neurotic sort of criminal ¢an only be helped with adequate treat- ment. If public opinion can be swung round to a new viewpoint that does not regard any change in the punitive "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" attitude as equivalent to '"'molycoddling'"' and "making crime more attractive," then Dr. Jones has some specific shiggestions to put forward. "If this change of attitude were accomplished, then the«next thing would be provision of psychiatric help -- consultation services in the various courts, and especially in the juvenile court, where treat- ment can be most effective," con- cludes Dr. Jones. "It would also mean observation services, so that the psychiatrist would have oppor- tunity to observe the prisoner for a period of fime in proper sur- roundings. Once this has been done we should have treatmnt facilities for suitable patients. This is not revolutionaty. The Archambault Report suggested it years and years ago, but I think to date there is one psychiatrist in the whole Canadian penitentiary gys- tem!" Nazi Soldiers Unite Under Old Generals By HEINZ WEISSENBERGER FRANKFURT, West Germany (Reuters) --The one-time soldiers of the Wehrmacht, former "Luftwaffe aviators and men who served .in U-boats and pocket battleships are banding together in ex-service- men's unions. The older generation--who re- member the disgruntedly former corporal who plunged the country the world into war--is afraid of history repeating itself. Key men in the new unions are a few able generals seeking to weld the many organizations into a co- ordinated whole. : Their success is striking, for the unions already are a considerable political factor even though they started with none of the popular support enjoyed by their predeces- sors after the First World War. Most Germans were bored. They had had enough of war. All they wanted was food, clothing and a roof over their heads. Today, however, economic re- covery and Western Allied en- <couragement to rearm have re- vived the oa Prussian 'pride of many ex-servicemen, especially the regulars. They talk nostal- gically of the 'good times with the army" and of how they fought for six years against '"'almost the whole world." IRON CROSS Among the unions are former members of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa Korps, "Green Devil" parachutists, Waffen S.S. men, "frogmen,'" pilots, members of the 'Legion Condor" of the Spanish civil war, alpine troops, members of Hermann Goering's pet' unit "Grossdeutschland," and, the latest and most glittering, bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, most coveted Ger- man military award for bravery. The most powerful of all is the Union of German Soldiers. Its membership is not known. Its leaders are in contact with the government and they influenced its decision' to restore to former pro- fessional soldiers most of their pensions, abolished by the Allies after the war, ICE BREAKS, 2 DROWN SYDNEY MINES, N.S. (CP)-- Two teen-age boys were drowned at nearby Little Pond Sunday when ice broke under them while they skated on. thin channel] ice. The bodies of Lorne W. Peck, 18, and Henry Dawe, 17, both of Little Pond, were recovered, - ' Living Fossil Rarity Not So Rare, Really By JOE WING NEW YORK (AB--If you got excited over the discovery of that "living fossil" fish in African waters, here are some facts of life you should know. - Another kind of living fossil is a dime a dozen along the Atlantic coast of North America. Lurking in the globe's few re- maining "lost world" regions there may be, according to one re- searcher, living fossils that would knock your eye out. You can choose your own defini- tion for a living fossil, but the popular idea probably would be an animal alive today and quite' simi- lar to one known also through fossil remains. » - That is the way it 'was with the South African fish obtained by Dr, J. L. B. Smith, famed ichthyologist. In the Jurassic Age, some 130,000,- 000 years ago, this fish, classified as a coelacanth, had reached an evolutionary peak that enabled its distant offspring to evolve into"the familiar forms of higher animal life that people modern continents, But somehow a few coelacanths were left behind. In contrast, the living fossil of the Atlantic coast is anything but rare. Known as the horseshoe crab, although no actually a. crab, it, too, is a relic of the Jurassic Age. Stories of sea serpents sighted in Scandinavian waters in the Middle Ages came early under sus- picion. But by 1892 a Dutch pro- fessor, A. C. Oudemans, was brave enough to round up the evidence in a 592-page book. In récent years reports on sea serpents have been even more common. On ancient Babyon's gate of Ishtar a "'dragon" was depicted in bas relief that might have been a form of dinosaur. About the time the abs relief was uncovered, an explorer brought back from Africa a report that a beast "half dragon and half elephant' lived in the swamps of Liberia and preyed on hippos. In 1913 a German expedi- tion in the Cameroons heard about an international reputation for these long neck and tail. In South America, fossils attest the former existence of the giant sloth, a heavy-boned beast far larger than the slender, sleepy animals that are the present-day sloths. It is supposed to have become extinct thousands of years ago. Imagine the amazement, there- fore, of a scientist when he re- ceived from Patagonia a chunk of hide not more than a dozen years old and reinforced with tiny bone discs--the hide apparently of a giant sloth. FRACTURES SKULL GODERICH (CP)--Peter Lazet, of Londesboro district, is in Clin- ton Hospital with a fractured skull as the result of a traffic mishap Friday night on the county road between Auburn and Clinton, four miles north of Clinton. Lazet was returning home from the RCAF station at Clinton when his car went out of control and crashed into a tree. SALLY'S SALLIES N # Copr. 1933, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. *Fhis certifies you are qualified to work as Santa Claus the ds ca year "round EVERYONE AGREES . . . FOR DEPENDABILITY, RECEPTION & PRICE IN TELEVISION IT'S RCA VICTOR 21 INCH You get tremendously-impressive picture quality in this new super-powered RCA Victor. Extra circuits, improved Cascode Tuner, RCA Victor's exclusive "Magic Monitor", "Golden Throat" tone. . . all the features that make ost popular are yours to enjoy in a magnificent console cabinet in your choice of finishes. RCA Victor the world's Budget Terms as low as $600 DOWN, MEAG 5 KING ST. WEST lis TELEVISION deluxe =) $5450 In walnut Slightly higher in limed oak or mahogany. * $600 per week. PHONE 3-3425 Archibald signs Arch and is called Arc INDESTRUCTIBLE' Winnipeg Cartoonist Outlives Almost All His Pen Characters WINNIPEG (CP) -- Cartoonist Dale is known around the Winnipeg Free Press as "the indestructible man," a title gained by outlasting almost all the char- acters which have sprung from his acrid pen and drawing board. Now 70, he gives no indication of ever quitting the Canadian poli- tical scene from which most of his themes are taken. For more than 50 years, government officials, their foibles and policies have been the subjects of his lampooning. e. Some older Canadians will re- member his work from their child- hood, especially Doc Sawbones, Old Man Grouch and other immortals of the Doo Dads who first appeared in the old Grain Growers' Guide. A WITTY SCOT Most of his cartoons, conceived in an atmosphere of cigaret smoke and sharp Scottish wit, have cen- tred on Western Canada. A short thick man with spec- tacles and green eyeshade, he star- ted his cartooning at 17 on the Courier of Dundee, his birthplace in Scotland. In 1908, after a spell' on a Glasgow paper, he left for Canada and a homestead in the Touchwood hills of Saskatchewan. Hands blistered by the plow handle changed his mind about homesteading. He came to Winni- peg and worked two years on the Grain Growers' Guide, then moved to the Free Press. TRIP HOME A windfall from the real estate boom of 1910 provided a trip home where he worked for the Manche: ter Guardian. At the end of ue First World War he left for the United States and put his Doo Dads vinto a syndicated strip. After five years he returned to Winnipeg and moved his drawing board into the Free Press. He has been there ever since. Of all the political figures to ap- pear in Archie's cartoons, he liked best to draw the late R. B. Ben- nett. Another favorite was Mac- kenzie King. Agriculture Minister James Gar- diner still is one of the most-cari- catured figures on the Free Press never forgiven the person who "did him in" on one Gardiner cartoon, Archie showed Mr. Gardiner in the cartoon standing on his head when all around him was right side up. Through some quirk, the cartoon got in the paper upside down, indicating that Mr. Gardiner was right and everyone else wrong. Despite an occasional ferocity in his cartoons, Archie is a peaceful man. It always surprises him when someone reacts violently and starts calling him names over the tele- phone. So far he hasn't been harmed physically but he's had some close calls. Long experience has given him an effective technique for dealing with callers. As soon as the caller --who usually refuses to leave a name--stops for breath, Archie re- minds him at least he had the courage to put his name on his cartoon. Then he hangs up, rolls a cigaret and goes back to the drawing board. . Britons Love Their Fireplaces But Beef About Fog They Cause By ROBERT F. S. JONES LONDON (AP)--Every winter evening Londoners sit toasting their feet in front of the cosy open fires so beloved by Britons. And every winter Londoners spend some of those evenings grumbling because their trains and buses have been bogged down by fog. At last it's beginning to dawn on them that those cosy fires have a lot to do with the soupy fogs--but so far there doesn't seem much can be done about it. Twice recently large chunks of British life were brought to an abrupt standstill by the worst fog in 30 years, with airliners grounded, trains running hours late and automobiles and buses jammed head to tail along main roads. The total cost hasn't been totted up yet, but it's bound to run into millions of dollars--not counting the extra laundry bills Londoners had to pay to get the dirt and grease washed out. Airlines were the biggest suf- distance flights during one week- end--and it costs BOAC $42,000 dollars every time one of its trans- Atlantic planes is held up. CAUSES KNOWN It cost a lot in frayed tempers, too, and got Britons asking 'how can we stop it?" ferers financially during fog shut- downs. More than a dozen interna- tional lines had to postpone flights for as long as 48 hours. British Overseas Airlines, for instance, postponed 19 of its long The chemists and scientists re- plied "nothing--yet." There's little the chemists and scientists don't know about fog-- except how to stop it easily. They know it's caused by what the experts call "a condensation of moisture always present in the atmosphere." Shake this up with a few hundred tons of assorted grit, dust and specks of coal and you've got the famous London "pea-souper.'" It clogs in your hair and on your clothes. It sticks in your lungs. People shuffle past it like shapes in a nightmare. At the Greenwich fuel research station to investigate air pollution they think they've got the problem nearly licked as far as industry is concerned. But the householder still sits in front of his fire and doesn't bother about half his fuel bill going up the chimney in smoke. Dr. E. T. Wilkins, of the research station, . said there were about eight tons of smoke per cubic mile hovering over Greenwich during the last fog. Britain's nationalized coal indus- try is busy on the problem at its research station and there are hopes that within a few years the smoke menace may be eliminated. More Overpasses Solution To Rail Xs TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario traf- fic safety experts, discussing the federal government's decision to investigate the problem of level- crossing accidents, today said the solution may be the construction of more overpasses. "That is the best solution," sald one expert, "but they keep telling us they haven't got the money for overpasses." Provincial safety organizations examining causes of level-crossing accidents for several months found the most common causes are cars stalling on tracks, insufficient warning signs, obstructions such as trees and signs, and neglect of drivers to heed warning mark- ers. Director Warren Hastings of the Ontario Motor League said better signs are needed at some crossings. He also said the railways should clear away obstructions from the | approaches. Russell Byers, Ontario Safety League director, believes most crossing accidents are the result of poor driving. '"The motorists think about some- thing else, not trains or crossings." / ENFIELD HELEN M. STINSON i Correspondent i ENFIELD -- The January meet: ing of the Women's Association was held at the home of Mrs. hod | Bowman with a good attendance! During the program, the Bible reading was given by Mrs. J. Har: ris, Readings were also given b; Mrs. G. Bowman and Mrs, L Simpson. Piano music was enjoy. ed from Bruce Bowman. A very worthwhile paper on "Character" was ably presented by Mrs. A. W. Prescott. Donald Prescott and Petew Voss have accepted positions in Gener- al Motors in Oshawa. Mrs. Fred Taylor and family, Toronto are visiting at the Stark home. : Mr. Mervyn Hobbs, Enniskillen, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ormiston, Ebenezer, were Sunday guests of Mrs. H. J. Ormiston. Miss Lois Ormiston has accept- ed a position in Brooklin. : Mr, and Mrs. Howard Gross, Columbus were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bowman, Mrs. H. Stinson and Marian are visiting in Toronto. BOAT UPSETS, 29 DROWN CALCUTTA (Reuters)--Twenty- nine persons, including many wo- men and children, were drowned in the Calcutta port area Satur- day when an excursion boat cap- sized. The boat was carrying 38 passengers and four crew mem- ers. HEAR BETTER OR PAY NOTHING! 10-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE! ENITH. "HEARING AIDS THREE GREAT MODELS| See Classified Telephone Di for nearest dealer. 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