Reformed Criminal Urees: PROHIBIT PISTOLS TO CURB CRIME * By HERBERT EMERSON WILSON * (e(e HIS IS A STICK-UP!” How often we hear of those words, used by some pistol-whipping punk when he enters the store of an unprotected and frightened merchant. If I were a politician I’d introduce a bill to do away with the revolyer— the instrument of destruction, the all- powerful menace that encourages hoodlums as well as_ professional crooks to carry on their nefarious rackets. Revolvers have always been, and now are, the main disturbers of so- CO-OPERATE WITH OUR OFFICERS Delta Drive-In Theatre * 342 No. 5 Road Phone DU 2710 LULU ISLAND, B.C. CO-OPERATE WITH OUR OFFICERS Richmond Excavating Co. * 840 No. 3 Road Phone DU 2920 LULU ISLAND, B.C. JACK PHILLIPS. ee | Page Forty-eight Views of an ex-criminal on the outlawing of revolvers are expressed in this article by a native of Canada who became “King of the Safecrackers’”’ in the United States, paid for his wrongdoing in prison, and now lives on Vancouver Island. ciety’s equilibrium, constantly keep- ing the law-abiding citizens’ nerves at highest tension, because of the bold- ness with which gunmen and rack- eteers invade Canadian homes, mer- chants’ premises and banks, and stick up pedestrians on the streets. A bill prohibiting the sale, use or ownership of revolvers should, in my opinion, apply to all fire- arms less than standardized rifle and shotgun lengths. Moreover, the manufacturers of toy COMPLIMENTS OF ... SMITH BROS. * Phone YO 4919 2061 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. CO-OPERATE WITH OUR OFFICERS SHIRLEY’S Turkey Ranch 820 No. 6 Road Fulton 7017 LULU ISLAND, B.C. T. M. SHIRLEY. PAINE HARDWARE LTD. * 80 LONSDALE AVENUE * NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. Herbert Emerson Wilson revolvers should come within the pro- hibition. This would make it rather difficult for the would-be stick-up man to simulate a real revolver. The gunman, stripped of his sole protection, his “rod,” becomes docile, harmless, cowardly. The paramount purpose of prohibi- tion of revolvers would be not only to render the active criminal helpless, but to impress on the mind of the CO-OPERATE WITH TRAFFIC RULES / Penny s Beauty Salon MR. HESSELMAN, Manager * 1934 MARINE Phone Yo 5152 NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. THE SHOULDER STRAP