Show I. I y I Detectives I Q 4 4 Q By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The detective with the big cigar has the means of putting jam on the jokesters jokester's bread for years I suppose that hat like Ille the mother law the stingy Scotchman the henpecked husband and the flivver he will continue to do so 80 And nd perhaps it is as well that he rates as he does In the mind of the lay public It sufis his purpose admirably to be he thought a boob He rather invites InviteR It one is led to suppose or long ere this he would have come out into the open and declared himself for what he Is an expert in the most complicated profession in the world the science of human nature We e call him a detective He Is really a criminologist crimi- crimi and more more than that He Ire Is a student of psychology psychology particularly particularly in crime psychology People People Peo Peo- pie often otten resent the presentation ot of crime in its various arlous phases In the newspapers rs and shudder when the evening t paper comes with news of another murder mur mur- der tier trial The Th public forgets that for tor the enormous percentage percentage percentage per per- who are ore not Interested in trials of crime there is also a very small but important very percentage percentage per per- who ho are reading every word These are ale the criminal class clas themselves They miss nothing you may be sure of what goes on at a trial have I never murdered anybody and am not at this minute thinking of murdering anybody but hut I should hesitate in this day and age to contemplate any sort of crime crime Criminologists pathologists pathologist psychologists all know lenow how our minds work worl better b than We know lenow them ourselves They know th subtle cunning of the criminal and what he would do when he lie finds himself in iii a corner before he ht knows it himself Every Even murder case or robbery robber ease case brought to h light ht makes us that much safer It is the red signal signa of warning to those who would Interfere with the life lICe and ind freedom of their fellow I men Detectives who have to be he a bit o of all three throe comprise our great standing army almy of protection |