Show I r Criminal Self-Respect Self I t 0 4 0 San Francisco Francsco Chronicle To 10 the the the pride that hat fills Jack Rhodes Rhodes' heart that he Is pre eminently a safecracker may appear unintelligible But prisons have hare their codes no less than the world outside Rhodes wa was sent up for tor burglary and stealing a suitcase Now he has written Witten Judge Charles O. O Busick that the pettiness of the offense interferes with his social standing He lie wants the Judge to set him right with his mates by giving him his true title as a safecracker par excellence Life LUe will be pleasanter santer then Even among the criminal al th then n. n there is a pride i that lifts one man above his fellows s and a scorn that makes make'S another sh shunned n ed The statute may not define these degrees of ot contemptibility but they aril are recognized by the persons who commit crimes That there Is also some recognition of ot this even among those who have hae never committed any crime and have no sympathy with criminals is shown by tim difference difference dif dlf- dif dif- ference terence in the public attitude toward the chivalry of ot the open road outlaw and the cowardly assassin The jit of ot It is th that t this desire to excel I is turned in the wrong direction Jack Rhodes evidently evidently evi evi- evi- evi dently is not without some self respect Readjusted Readjust Readjust- ed his ambition might easily win for him the praise Instead of the condemnation of society But we have no answer to the riddle presented by his cussedness It may be pathological Criminologists haven't given a clear answer to that as as' asyet yet A- A |