Many of the audience were thankful that the debate on psychology and the treatment of crime was nothing more than a curtain-raiser. Candidly, if it had been the main attraction the audience, as well as the criminals, would have been in a fit state for the caring hands of the psychologist.

Mr. Griffiths opened for the affirmative. He argued on the general line that psychology, when applied to the treatment of criminals, tended to reform them and restore them as "useful and sane units" in society. He did not seem to make full use of the abundant factual and statistical material available.

An examination of the psychology section of the library would have strengthened his case considerably.