WHEN CRIMINALS GROW ACTIVE. This is tho season of the year when tramps and other vagrants, including the vicious element of society, wander over the country out of mere curiosity and this is the time of year when the crim-inal crim-inal element commences to reconnoitcr for loose change. The police force already has commenced a clean-up among the men about town, who have no visible means of support and who too often include the thug and highwayman. All strangers without money or' friends and poorly clad are not holdups or criminally inclined, but the honest fellow found stranded is invariably able to convincingly explain away his predicament to the officers of the law. The slinking, sneaking, slippery fellow with evasive eyes, who grows bold and loud when questioned, is the one the police should not lose sight of nor fail to overlook in their round ups. These clean ups of the floating population arc as necessary to a city's security as are house cleanings essential to sanitation in the homes. The jungles should be searched for the haunts of the derelicts with the same energy that Bwana Tumbo went into the lair of the lions in Uganda, and when tho hobo is met with he should be haled before the police magistrate to explain, and, failing to explain, made to do some useful work, either on the streets or on a rock pile. Wo do not sanction harshness or brutality or high-handed police po-lice authority, but there are times when vigilance is demanded and the rough element must be handled without false leniency. Keeping all hoboes in restraint and under surveillance limits the chances for the criminal element to commit offenses against the peace of the community and, therefore, the police should be encouraged en-couraged to demand of all vagrants an accounting.