Show GRIME CRIME RE REVOLT VOLT LEADERS V SOUND NEW CHALLENGE f TO TRY SUNDAY SCHOOL I i 1 By HELEN Sociologists and criminologists criminologists' arc are joining in V an 4 I chorus in praise of the old fashioned Sun Sun- Sunday school th the Sunday V school where youngsters sat on small brown brown wooden chairs that V r faced a picture chart where Moses led the Children of Israel home through t the e wilderness David David Slew Goliath and Daniel Danl l V V walked out of the lions lion's den without a scratch The leaders in Iti crime detection and prevention are advocating Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day school attendance for boys boy and girls purely n as a crime p preventive Many other measures have failed Christianity is now being mended I The greater number of ot of offenses tenses far and away both petty and serious serious seri serl- ous by boys boya and girls who bord border r the thc age The teens come in for a goodly share Of this group of at youthful lawbreakers lawbreaker ata star ata- reveal re that 97 per cent have had no religious training or tion according to The Lookout a well known magazine of religious I education i. i I Need to Believe Universal Innate in every human being is the need for belief beliet in a Supreme Power which controls the universe and assigns each one a place in the cosmic pattern Without it as our erring youth demonstrates boys and girls go haywire They do not achieve a sense of ot moral and social responsibility toward ow rd society or or God Godor Godor Godor or or anyone anone else bise Moderns have laughed a great deal about the lack of ot worldly wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom dora In iri the Bible Belt Yet all the man-made man sagacity of oC lh the machine machin age has not been able vice rings to still the tat rat-tat-tat of ot machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun bullets to to stop murders and Immor immorality Now as a last resort it it is Is Is being re recommended d i that hat r religion be used as asa as-a a preventive and nd corrective corr Uv E Evil doers i-d i are xe pretty p etty much uch i V classed with the at ls tics Ics reveal tIn In ajl an but a few In In- In stances children n who ha have e h had d early early religIous instruction have held to tode V honest decent de decent ent honest respectable re ways of living iving That early impression impressio ot of God lod as a nice man in a blue robe who sits on n a golden chair In the sky ly keeping records Jn In In a great V book never quite goes away Over V Vand an and over you may be to told 4 that God Gods Godi i Is s a Spirit but you always know better V Figures Tell Ten Story Oh certainly there are re t tens ni of at thousands thousands' ot of p people ople who adhere to strict moral and social cial codes Who ho V have lave had h i no no r religious us traI training ing V There are so many though without ut it who have erred In comparison with the the fe few with It who have hav broken the states state's commandments Those figures are appalling appalling 97 97 out of every hundred criminals have had no religious training If the early influence means nothing wh why arent aren't the figures different V V Not r-ot I long ng ago ago a prominent Amer Amen American lean ican business man remarked I 1 do donot donot donot not belong to any church but I would move away from the city in which I live if it the churches were removed I know t too o well how bow l lawlessness law law- w- w le and nd prime crime w would uld tl flourish property Y would di diminish in value and life Ilfe would be of little worth We have tried many ways without avail vaU to combat the Inroads of ot ma roa- which have hav tes iii lit a adaily dally daily cost tB th our nation of Ot thirty doll ts There is still the primary room the junior room the intermediate room of ot the churches where the chairs' chairs are re re seldom filled tilled on Sunday morning Now at last las the Readers of at the crime revolt are sounding a new challenge Lets try the Sunday school |