What Makes Criminals?...

isle he cannot commit a crime—

unless it be attempted suicide, and
even then there would be nobody to
arrest or charge him. It is only when
he lives among his fellowmen that a
man can be a criminal.

Further, it is unlikely that a man
on a desert island would want to com-
mit a crime. Because crimes arise from
association with our fellow-men.

Cases are not uncommon in our
Courts where a man is charged with
embezzlement because he wanted to
keep pace socially with people who
had more money than he: or a man

Ip A MAN IS ALONE on a desert

is charged with a sex offence because
he was “led on” by a playful girl who
later shouted for help.

A man faced with the expensive
living of his friends has three main
courses of action: (1) to live within
his means and associate with them no
more than he can afford; (2) to with-
draw from them and find other
friends with whom he can afford to
live; (3) to steal or embezzle in order
to keep pace. Most men do the first
or the second. What makes the odd
man do the third?

Or in the case of the man led on by
the playful girl. He has possibly only

two alternatives: (1) to accept her
verdict that the thing has gone far
enough, i.e, to be a gentleman, or
(2) to try to persuade her against her
will until she becomes terrified.

In the case of the first man and
high living, the matter seems to be
one of judgment. In the case of the
second, a matter of self-control.

But even if the embezzler starts
with bad judgment leading him into
trouble, his matter becomes, also, one
of control when he contemplates the
taking of a criminal step. It may
sound a little like over-simplification

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Mounted Police on Duty at Whatshan Opening

When the huge Whatshan hydro development project was officially op

ened this year, R.C.M.P. members were on

duty in their colorful uniforms. Most of the guests were carried to and from Whatshan tn four big Greyhound buses,

specially chartered. The cavalcade was

led by R.C.M.P. cars and Inspector J. H. McClinton, Kamloops com-

mand, brought up the rear. It was necessary to stop traffic over the Monashee Pass ahead of the buses, by radio con-

trol between the cavalcade and a patroi car an

TWENTY-FOURTH EDITION

Backler and Constable A. Calvert.

hour and a half ahead. Pictured here with the buses are Sgt. L.