MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

NEW METHOD WITH CRIMINALS. CHICAGO, August 28. City authorities here are subjecting, known gangsters and guhman to sanity tests, and several have been sent to curative institutions as a result. Such leading characters in the underworld as “Dingbat” Oiberta and “Big Jim” Sallis, however, have baulked the authorities by hiring their own phyohiatrists.

When they were taken to the municipal physchopatie laboratories they presented certificates of sanity, and were released.

Dr. Gilbert Pond, who is examiner for the authorities, declares that many criminals lack normal emotions, and, as a consequence, are unable to associate ideas.

CUDGELS FOR BEER. LONDON, August 28. Jack 'Jones , Labour AI.P. Tor Silvertown, ail industrial .suburb, lias taken up the cudgels for ibeer. “It is time,’’ be declares, “that the: teetotal as well as the other fanatics in the Labour movement were put in their places. “It is time these people who preach against beer bo made to drink a pint. T would pay for it just to see if there was the least chance of making them human.

“The Baldwin Government needs beer badly, and the man needing it most is “Jicks’» the Home Secretary. I am convinced if he had one pint lie would ask for another and would be just as human as the rest of us. “But a man with the Nonconformist conscience and a. bee in his bonnet about beer cannot he expected to bold •lane views about anything.

“If beer is not the backbone of the British nation it at least helps to support the backbones of those who are obliged to bend them continuously during an eight-hours’ day.’