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Page Sixty-four

THE CHILDRENS HOUR

By Barton Braley

Between the dark and the daylight,
There comes from each radio
tower
A series of gentle broadcasts
That are known as the Children’s
Hour.
And the girls and boys are gathered
To listen with bated breath
To Educational Programs
Of murder and sudden death.

Then the air is athrob with sirens,
As the ears of the Little Ones
Tune in to the soothing echoes
Of ‘“‘Gats’’ and “‘tommy-guns.”’
And the eyes of the kids are popping
As they listen and wait perplexed
By the Educational Problem
Of who will be rubbed out next.

Grave Alice and Laughing Allegra
And Harry and Dick and Tom
Hear music of sawed-off shotguns,

Accompanied by a bomb.
They quiver and shake and shiver
At the tender and pleasant quirks
Of a gang of affable yeggmen
Giving some “‘punk’’ the works!

And they listen in awesome silence
To the talk of some mobster
group,
As they're opening up a bank vault
With nitroglycerin “‘soup.”

Oh, sweet is the noise of battle
To children’s listening ears,
As the guns of detectives answer
The guns of the racketeers.
And these Educational Programs
Will make the youngsters cower,
And the night will be filled with
nightmares,
Induced by the Children’s Hour!
—Reprinted from
THE REFORMATORY PILLAR

THE CAPTURE

HE HAD struck again. For
months we had sought to effect his
capture, but he was too elusive.

Elaborate precautions had been taken
to foil his raids. Doors and locks
Were as nothing to him. We even
wondered if the mighty vaults of the
Bank of England were sufficiently
massive to keep him out.

Obviously he was a connoisseur.
His depredations were confined only
to the rarest articles. J was begin-
ning to get an ‘‘inferiority complex,”’
and my professional pride as a detec-
tive was in grave danger. My family,
knowing that I had used all my re-
sources in attempting to meet the
situation, was losing faith in me.
Fellow members of the Department
were not inclined to be sympathetic,
in fact I was taunted repeatedly with
my failure to catch the miscreant.

Finally I adopted the ruse,
prompted by desperation, of using
cone of my most prized possessions
as a lure to the prowler. We had
entertained that day at my home, and
I publicly exposed this priceless gift
sent to me by a friend in Europe. [|
knew the thief would learn of it,
so I waited up that night concealed
in a corner of my living room. The
hours rolled by, and as three o’clock
sounded on the dining room clock. I
heard a very gentle sound, indefin-
able, but very real. I knew the
prowler had fallen for the stratagem,

and that he was now reaching for
the loot.

My hand crept towards the elec-
tric light switch, then hesitated. [|
waited. Then through the stillness
of the house there was a harsh stac-
cato sound, and I flooded the room
with light.

The trap had done its work. The
mouse was dead. But my gorgon-
zola

Novel Training for
Police Horses

Three horses were recently “‘re-
cruited’’ (another is yet to come) by
the Hull Mounted Police Section and
to accustom them to all sorts of noises,
radio sets have been installed in their
stables where the animals “‘listen in”
to the programs at all times of the
day, except at feeding times.

Band music, crashes and gunfire are
particularly welcomed by their train-
ers.—(The Garda Review.)

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