Show HELPS TO SUPPRESS CRIME influence of the on thal slums or great cities london is abolishing her criminals by the condition g which create them man is a creature of environment viron ment to a greater degree than most persons or most understand sociologists have proved time and again that the undeveloped human and animal will remain undeveloped just so long as lie is in alie midst of undeveloped surroundings place him among the educated things even though they be but educated refined and perfected bricks and mortar and he will feel their influence with a rapidity that is not less than amazing to the student the experiment has been tried in the slum districts of new york city the construction of some model tenements on east fourteenth street reduced the crisafe record of the neighborhood by a considerable sid erable percentage although they did not reduce but rather increased its population and did not change its at all the old buildings which the new dwellings thus replaced had been of a character to encourage filthy and morbid living and so de celop crime the new buildings were of a nature to encourage cleanliness and normal homo life and so develop morality philadelphia was overrun by thugs and highway robbers and the general genus tough her dark alleys narrow and gloomy afforded countless opportunities for assaults and hiding nooks for criminals by and by the city introduced the electric light into them all and presto came a change crime had dropped fifteen per aunt by the time the system was completed even the men who urged the improvement were amazed boston herald |