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Show some For five years the tests were conducted and for three more-yea- rs exposition of the theory by Lombroso himself and ' Dr. Goring and his aides were engaged in correlating their lowers. ding to the theory the criminal is a distinct type who information and formulating their conclusions, wor with The life history of three thousand convicts were ascertained with physical and mental stigmata upon him. the greatest care. All classes of convicts thieves, burglars, forgers asis is always on heredity and a necessary implication The criminal begets the sexual offenders, incendiaries and murderers were questioned and ne is born into the class. land if the child of a criminal or of criminals escapes the investigated for stigmatic record. For each of the three thousand ninety-si- x statements were taken and thus 278,000 distinct facts it is luck. 99 a long time since we read any of Lombrosos books and we were listed. Dr. Goring comes to the conclusion that his findings explode the the theory somewhat. For example, we forget whether. If the transmission of acquired characteristics, but this is a Lombrosian theory. He found stigmata, to be sure; but after eight oint that deserves attention. If a criminal is produced by years of inquiry he has formed the opinion that the marks are disjfvt&nments and not by heredity he has only an acquired criminal tributed in equal proportions among those within and without the Since Lombrosos time there prison walls. He discovered that the students of Oxford and CamjSctlto transmit to his children. much discussion as to whether acquired characteristics are bridge bore the stigmata as frequently as did those who came under foXtojfsible. We believe that scientific opinion today leans to the the Lombrosian classification of the criminal type. Thus the investigator reverts to the old theory of a weak frySiat they are not. human nature.. which is also the normal human nature. Some are :e it was not, if our memory serves, the theory of the Lombrosians A child more inclined .to evil than others because of their special stigmata g: the criminal type invariably had criminal parentage. stigmata, but and the weakness of the will. Jpjpjjjently normal parents might have the tell-al- e To state Dr. Gorings theory briefly, the criminal is a normal e Usually could be traced in the childs more or less remo' ' ; r' person with an inclination to the line of least resistance ; one whose will to resist evil is feebler than that of the average man. so the theory went, and it led to queer developments in prison The measure of personal responsibility differs in every person Some reformers held that there was nothing to do but criminals up for a lifetime. Others believed thait the criminal according to the relation of the will to inclination. In fact, innumerte deemed an invalid, but this was rather inconsistent, for if able elements are involved, but one element is not involved the criminal type, for, according to Dr. Goring, there is no such type. is of the criminal type moral Reconstruction is impossible. The The champions of Lombroso, we feel, still, have some ground to Jjrylof curable criminality would seem to fit in better with .the ijoveries of the British home office, for the net result of the inves-tio- n stand on. It is perfectly demonstrated that there is an insane type, or rather types of insanity, and competent observers have noted is that the criminal is a normal person gone wrong. Dr. rles Goring, who conducted the tests, defines crime as an abnormal types that tend toward crime. It would be idle to deny jisuai act committed by a normal person. the existence of certain perversions, physical and mental; but are do not wish to consign the Lombrosian theory to the not these rather unusual deviations, the exceptions that prove the ban! as if it contained no truth ; nor do we wish to give the impres-j- i rule? that we indorse without reserve the conclusions of Dr. Goring! On the whole, the investigations by the prison department of the ,1 incline to the view, however, that the. entire question has been British home office seem to indicate that the criminal type is a jpentd and that Dr. Goring has made out a good, although far from scientific myth. ect, case. . i mA HERES CRITIC WITH SURPRISING STORY ABOUT GAMBLING rubbering around off their bcats'as it was generally understood Salt Lake City, Utah, March 10, 1921. Editor The Citizen : After reading your article on the gambling that gambling was not allowed in those places. The ordinance said iestion in your issue of March 5th, I am still wondering how yoft so and that was sufficient, or should have been, but to make assurii be so unappreciative of the honest efforts of our city commission ance doubly sure, orders were issued that patrolmen must not leave id the commissioner of public safety in particular. You remind me their beats, if they had suspicions they must report the suspicion Detectives received orders that they must j the fellow who in examining the doughnut could see nothing but to the purity squad. e hole, for, to say the least, you are very dull of comprehension. not make arrests on gambling charges, pass that up to the parity valuable informaNow, the fact is, if you will permit me to put you right on squad, because the detectives would be sure to get tion from gamblers and denizens of the underworld. In fact, as soon is matter, that the permission granted to certain people to con-iwhat you call gambling hells was agreed upon after a careful as a burglary or holdup was committed the underworld, gamblers and all, would hasten to police headquarters to furnish a description of udyof the situation by the commission several years ago, and wa desire the criminals to the police, and they did, (not). Mic as a preventive measure, to, in reality; kill the burning the young men and ladies to gamble; in other words; the opening After working out the protection end of the game and getting these dry (?) cleaning establishments was permitted on the things started, other obstacles presented themselves, as for instance, ' who related to the commissioners the it would look suspicious to have the doors to these clubs locked, fggestion of an man of and if they were hot locked, some curious person might wander in notorious surc-thin- g e pry j of Soapy Smith, the enver, who defended his business by claiming to be a public benefac-r- , and' sec a sucker (this is a term used to designate the difference because as-hsaid: They never come back a second time to between a moneyed player and a smart gambler), buying checks, y place to gamble ; I break them of the habit in the one treat-en- tj (of course the sucker never sells any checks), and it might cause and in addition, I stop and hold a lot of transient money from talk and maybe trouble if checks were sold for money at the tables; so they invented the dark room where Mr. Sucker steps in and aving the country and put it in circulation here. in So it was that these establishments were put in operation, but separates from his money, receiving checks (no, not bank checks) with which he returns to the table and sits into the pastime protect them from harm, from nosy police interference, the return, stud-hors- e poker. This is a perfectly harmless game, ganie called ca of the card club license plan was conceived. lie wont stand for the big mit, he will have to lose his By this there would be no excuse for policeman to go and if : ct ! old-tim- er one-tim- e plan f. -- |