Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-10
CriminalsA Are AlwaysStupid
Us Wei as Criminal
And Therefore Good Reader We Need Not Fear That the
Criminals VIII Ever Rule.

The other day some blew open the safe in small
pooffce stole the money and escaped motor boat while the
postmaster stood firing his revolver into the night vainy trying
waken bold chaos
gentle lady read of the writes perubed to
this newspaper Without trying look for original expression
she asks What are coming drifting? What
hope there honest people when thieves have motor boats
automobiles The thing know they will be coming
down arsp and stealing clothes off the lines and chill
the grass holding them Wouldn't the
world be better off did have of these Inventions
which be useful thieves than anybody else?
WouIdn it be good idea to make law against selling motor
flying machines thieves
make law against selling them revove and other deadly
Weapons
lady let the combination criminals
inventions disturb you Criminals are nearly always ulmnded
They have their little pleasures while they last and they caught
end We speak Of the smafy criminals, of coursethose
that commit the crimes punished with Imprisonment There
other of cmna-bggcr and backethat last longer than
the small saebowng plckpoket criminals But in the end
The very biggest criminals caught and punished
In Cromwcs day the people of England caught and dealt
sufficiently with the big criminals of England
day the people France caught punished
outraged the big criminals of France.
Sometimes violently sometimes quietly and thoughtfuly the
people that big criminals up
Justice.
As criminal flying machine his smoke
less nose revolver his automobile motor boat yacht what
don worry about him
The criminal of the that dsurbs you always foolish,
weak and vicious. He lasts long
Murderers caught nearly awaysand newspapers pay
especial attention the crime and compel the police
Murderers caught imagination and inei-
escape Justice And the
tellgence DOES NOT COMMIT MURDER execu
ton of convicted criminals and Nearly always you the
criminal quiet during the night preceding DEATH slept
peacefully ate ham and eggs the morning and
serene mumbng the words that good religious gentle
recited for him
Murderers die easily and caught easily BECAUSE
HAVE NO IMAGINATION
Imagination would make them realize the horror
of public execution Imagination would realize the
vastnes the strange puzzle of the unknown
made, by DEATH THE PRESENT
The criminal does not the horror of death for he lacks
agnaon And because he lacks imagination a criminal and
because he lacks imagination HE IS CAUGHT.
Therefore, do because criminals buy boats
Intelligent will catch them in boats that faster
And do worry the criminas-the men
and finance that buy senator's and them little
criminal uses his slung shot and his revolver
The big criminal. like the little criminal, imagination
He does not know the peoples temper realize peoples
power He plans, plots and thriveS while
the wall like the thief the
chine the yacht
Civilization and society safe because INTELLIGENCE is
HONEST Men that really because their
pride their determination to have their approval them
honest
Character honest Education develops charactern that
fact lie the hope and comfort of civilization