Astounding Science Fiction, August 1955 (British Edition) — page 77: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

TIME CriMe By H. BEAM PIPER Conclusion. It would be impossible to hide a major business enterprise, criminal type, in any ordinary civilisation. But when you can be hiding in any of a googool of alternative time-tracks— A wise parasite never injures its host; a really wise parasite never re- Wustrated by Freas veals its existence. Twelve thousand years ago, confronted with world-wide exhaustion of natural resources, the people of the First Probability Level had developed a method of physical transposition to .other time lines of alternate probability. Since then, they had been systematically and secretly exploiting a near-infinity of parallel worlds in a second, lateral, time dimen- sion. Over the millennia, they learned caution and developed a sense of re- sponsibility and a reasonably high : ethical standard in their dealings with be Bi = a the unsuspecting peoples outtime, and, because some few would always be ev} , = incautious, irresponsible, unethical, ce there was the Paratime Police, charged with the protection of Paratimers out- time, with suppressing crimes against outtime natives, and, first, last and always, with maintaining the secret of para-temporal transposition. VERKAN VALL, Special Assistant to TORTHA KARF, Chief of Para- time Police, is about to start on a long-overdue vacation outtime with his wife, 19 Commicoooks.conn “