After they graduate the dogs are
used mainly for tracking and search-
ing. Lime and again their acute sense
of smell, sharp eyesight and active
intelligence have succeeded where
human ingenuity has failed.

Distinguish Valuable Articles
from Worthless Ones

Even the dogmasters are at a loss
to explain some of the dogs’ accom-
plishments, such as their ability to
distinguish valuable objects from
worthless ones. In one case a dog
without being ordered, took out after
a dollar bill that was being blown
about by the wind, although he ig-
nored the old newspapers and other
debris that was flying around. Another
dog, turned loose at a picnic rubbish
heap, retrieved an undamaged cup,
the only unbroken object in the pile.

It is almost impossible for a crim-
inal to escape detection by a searching
dog, or to throw him off a scent once
he has found it. During the war
POWs, escaping from an Alberta con-
centration camp, attempted to cover
up their trail by sprinkling pepper on
the ground. While this succeeded in
throwing the dog off the scent he
continued scouring the country until
he picked it up again and eventually
found the men lurking in a barn near
the border.

One Dog Worth Two Men

Generally the Mounties consider a
dog to be worth two men and there iS
only one recorded case of a Mounted
Policeman coming to harm while
working a dog. This occurred while
Constable Rhodeniser and a_ posse,
with Dog Tell, were pursuing an
armed killer in the dark.

Tell had cornered the fugitive and
was waiting for his master to come
up. As Rhodeniser did so he flicked
on his flashlight, which momentarily
blinded the dog so that he did not see
the man raise his rifle and fire.
Rhodeniser fell, mortally wounded.
Later Tell again cornered the killer
and held him until the posse arrived.

Altogether the Police Service Dogs
of the R.C.M.P. have an honorable
and envious record. Only once had
they reason to be ashamed of a P.S.D.
constable; that was when Dog Egon
developed a taste for the moonshiner’s
mash and ate up the evidence in an

excise case. ye >

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Convicts Help Those in Need Outside

Inmates of Atlanta establish fund to send donations
to destitute living beyond prison gates

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By H. M. FLINTON
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CONVICTS’ welfare club,
A operating in Atlanta Prison,

extends its charitable activities
to those in need in the outside world
and has found the resultant publicity
has gone a long way to improving the
lot of prisoners with a hostile public
in the United States.

The information is obtained from
“The Atlantian,” published by con-
victs to give inmates an opportunity
for self-expression and to provide
them with a medium for discussion of
public problems.

The convicts’ welfare idea started
eight years ago. A convict read of a
destitute family outside and sent $10
to help.

“Of course this doesn’t surprise us
but it seemed to surprise the general
public when the news got abroad,’
one of the prisoners writes. The pub-
licity the prison welfare organization
has won by its outside gifts has re-
sulted in some people deriving a new
conception of what the word convict
generally conjures.

“However, despite the publicity in
the matter of bettering our public re-
lations there is still a long way to go,”
the writer says.

Examples of how the prisoners use
their welfare fund are given:

A young woman approaching
motherhood recently lost her hus-
band. He was shot while being held
up! Complications relative to his
widow’s support ensued due to the red-
tape involving certain benefit laws.
Her needs, however imminent, could
not cut, or hasten, the workings of the
law. But, ironically enough, imme-

*

A farmer in Port
Elizabeth, South
Africa, stated in
his will: “Yo my
wife I leave her

lover, and the
knowledge
was

that I
not the fool
she thought I was.”
And he added: “I
leave her also the
pleasure of earning
a living. For thirty
years she thought
the pleasure was
mine—she was mils-
taken.”

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T. E. ROBINSON and G. L. LAUGHTON, Props.

Reasonable Rates

diate aid was extended by a group of
men that—as a group at least—would
be, and quite understandably so, des-
pised by this woman. “Just what her
reactions would be if she knew this,
we will never know; nor do we care,
for through us immediate succor was
provided for both mother and infant,”
the report says.

The next case is a bit closer to the
prison inmates. It involves the family
of one of them. This man’s sister is
married to a man who had been a good
provider until . . . he recently went
blind! The young woman is, herself,
confined to a wheelchair due to a back
injury. Four small children add to
these complications.

The Welfare Agency in this help-
less family’s community is unable to
extend but eighty dollars monthly;
half of that amount is consumed by
rent.

The young woman’s brother con-
tributes some twenty-odd dollars each
month toward their support; his en-
tire monthly earnings from _ the
prison’s industry where he is em-
ployed. His contribution but swells
this family’s (—-four growing children,
a blind man and a crippled young
mother—) income to a little over one
hundred dollars monthly.

When word of this situation
reached the inmate committee of At-
lanta’s Welfare Club, it was decided
that something should be done. Re-
sultantly these folks are now the re-
cipients of fifty dollars disbursed from
the prison welfare funds at intervals
so regulated as to not jeopardize the
money allotted them by their local

agency. > >

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