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Show Delinquency and Play ; A New Jersey city reports, through the Playground and ' Recreation Association of America, that 500 boys were or-: or-: ganized into a municipal baseball league and given playing fields. The cost of the repairing broken windows, which had been $150 the year before dropped to. $17.70. This would seem to indicate that, if boys can be given something interesting inter-esting to do a chance to play, to work off their surplus energy there is less delinquency. And, since we adults are ' the ones who can give them these things, it also would seem j that when we have a high juvenile delinquency rate it is pretty much our own fault, i . |