2 CONTENTS Page How a Criminal Was Made Julia Neville 1 Coward's Battle La Rue Daniel 8 Live, Learn, and Milk It James Osmond 14 Eternal Requiem Carolyn Wright 17 Southward Ho! Donna Richards 19 Best of Fridnds James Wild 23 The Call of Whispering Pass James Osmond 24 STAFF La Rue Daniel Julia Neville James Osmond Roily Robison Carl Thorstensen Bette Willey COVER DESIGNER Joyce Watts 3. HOST A CRIMINAL WAS MADE The story of an Ogden youth who became a hardened criminal before he was twenty-one. By Julia Neville James N. Martin, a habitual criminal used to explain to the Sociology classes of Weber College, during his brief vacations from jail, that a fellow was all right as long as he did not lose his sense of balance. But James was afflicted with a social disease called psychopathy (the inability to distinguish right from wrong) which made him lose his balance, and fall into the pit of crime. In his autogioggraphical sketch, he explains it this way: "Fortunately for me, I have not totally lost my vision; also I am able to peer over the edge and see into the distant past with a clearness of under standing, that may enable me to start building the steps out of this pit, that I so thoughtlessly forgot to build, while digging down." This autobiography was wirtten in 1931, when James was 31 years old, and just a short time before he died a suicidal death. Perhaps his family back ground and child hood training, could be partially blamed for his lack of social responsibility. His mother died when he was still in diapers, and unable to defend himself against the bludgeonings of his older brother. And by the time the stepmother entered the hime, his brother used as his peroggative, the principle of superior strength to gain what he desired from James. James soon accepted his father's new wife as his mother, but the older son remained defiant for a long time before he accepted this woman. Thus Jim remembered as his pleasant memories of childhood, the few times when he was able to outwit his older brother. The father of the house seemed too lenient with both James and the older boy. He seldom inter-