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Show WORST CLASS OF BURGLARS Educated Professionals Are tin Smoothest and Olvt the Follce Most Trouble, The chief (unstable of Liverpool ll of the opinion that education Is refining re-fining the latter-day criminals, nnd a prominent criminologist Indorses thlt view Says the rhlef constable In his an mini report The burglar nvnlds vlo lenie whenever possible, nnd choose when occasion offers more subtle formv of niguer) Hill kes If to bo drend oil less than llallles. and the latter It to lie found less than the nrconv pllshed scoundrel who lays far-renrh Ing plans to swindle a whole romniu nil) Men who 50 years ago would hnvi been burglars or highwaymen nre today to-day bogus company promoters ana well-dressed swindlers of vnrloui kinds Their profits nre rnhnnied nnC their risks diminished, nnd I have nc doubt that this Is one of the fruits ol modern education For education, like all other things hns Its dnrk side An Inevitable re suit of n little learning Is to doveloc hypocrisy where tho moral training ti not commensurate with the merely In tellertunl culture e child of to-day, whosv ethical ng Is neglected nnd who has Inherited In-herited criminal Instincts, Is Isunched on xiclet) with a better equipment fot n career of (rime Ills education has made him shatper nnd fuller of devices, de-vices, ll gives Intelligence to his fraudulent fraud-ulent Instincts nnd widens his radlui of practice Criminals of this kind nre the most dangerous to society because they ere the most Insidious As the twig Is bent mi tho tree In dines Insist on tho moral and roll solus training of children as well nt upon the purely Intellectual tralnlnc of children " |