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Show ME CRIMES WHEN WEATHER BEK Alienist Declares Saloon Is Greatest. Danger to French Nation By Dr Jacques Roubmovitch, Famous French Alienist. PARIS. July Mare crimes arc committed In sprineilme than n i'li other seasou. Abrupt spells of heal provoke in weak minded people crave mental troubles which specialists in menial pathology have denominated p yrhoe belloalque Nature's fermentation, tho awakening of vital forces. QgercJgO evident action on, the human organ Ism Such phenomenons vary accdrdln to 'he country, however. In France ih months of April, May and Juno are. iu progressive order, the months in which criminality Is most Intense. After Kprlng come? summer, bin an tumn curiously enough, exercises h c alming Influenc, on dlsequllibli i l brains. In southern Russia the month of August Is ihe most to be feared, due In my opinion to the BZCCMlve heat of that period. HEAT ENGENDERS THIRST Thus the Influence or ihe sun on till criminal montalltv may be said to h established. It Is, however, not tho so!e influence, and alcoholism max be t-aid to be the donilniinj; cause ot crime, inebriated minds being far more influenced In ho. weather than In Cold AKn lion i i.nouiwl,.i-u iI.Ifl I and thirst often means crime. The greatest dnnger to the security of the individual In France, as it waB in America before the wi.-e prohibl tlon law, Is tho saloon, which In I'aii siun argot Is termed the, "blstrot." Before Be-fore the law Of 1880, there Were JA . 000 places where liquor Waa BOlfi 0 France Just before the war the cen sus showed 4S0.0OO, with 31.000 In Paris alone This number since the war has greatly Increased. There is in these statistics i-ome thing frightful when one considers thai of 100 Crimea In France 66 arc-committed arc-committed in cafes or aabaret or u.' outside them. Alcohol i makinR frightful Inroads into the mentality and sanity or F ranee. ln Br.ttanny and Normand) 10,000 quatts of fiery liquor ;( 100 per rent prooi are frequently drunken In yih lagea of less than 1600 Inhabitants Children nourished ofienr wlih a Crude brandy than with milk, arrive Intoxicated at school is t io be a.-tonished a.-tonished at them thai tb .r mentality does not remain noimal, and that 1 rime Is a natural consequence? CRIMES ON HOLIDAYS Another sign Of WO crimes inj France, 58 are committed Sunday qighl or the night of a fete-dav One hundred and fifiv-elcht criminals are proved alcoholics against 47 who are not, I'uring the pant year not a single to al abstainer luu been arrested This however, is not a valuable indication HS ioi.il abstainers are a rarit in France. Minos, without exception crimes of passion anil Jealousy are committed under the im I nee of liquor j Crime wa. v ill not he abolished I in France until t hr iloon Is closed J |