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Show THEY'RE THEYRE ' CALLED CRIMINALS CRIMINALSF CRIMINALSI CRIMINALSi9 F I i9 ; ; * . y , sS ' ) $ W c csS it 6 Y Yn n / ' fix II , I Ix x . , .r- .r .ra - a tinrl t tt tx t x 5 5 ' y / ed edOO OO 4 k / x ld . - - - - . _ . . - - - ' ' ' ' Delin Delin- Delhi- Delhi Delinquency Delhiquency Delinquency 'Juvenile Juvenile Delinquency Is 'Public Public : - - ' quency , Say Child Specialists SpecialistZj ! ; Parent Parents Parentsand Parentsjind ! ; and Authorities Authoritie : ; Held RespcnsEbEs Respcnib Respcnibe Respcnsi6e RespcnsEbEsBy Respcnsi6eBy $ [ e By JOSEPH W LaBINEIT LaBINE LaBINEDT HAPPENED m ill in a midwestern mldwestern commumty community commumtyJIm communityJim communityJim DT IT JIm was a farm youth who wanted good clothes clothescandy , . . candy and cigarettes His position in ill life made such 1m lux luxuries luxunes . unes uries impossible but Jim J1m found a way Occasionally he d dtake dtake dtake take ( not steal ) a chicken from his h1s mother s flock sellmg selling sellingit sellmgIt It to the village v111age meat dealerJIm dealerJim dealer dealerJim Jim began having havmg the luxuries he desired His dad dadbought dadbought dadbought bought him h1m an old car and Jim J1m instantly mstantly became a hero heroamong heroamong heroamong among the community commumty s younger crowd But one luxury luxuryled luxuryled luxuryled led to another and eventually Jim was taking ( not steal stealIng stealing stealing Ing ) more chickens When his mother's mothers ' supply began dIm dImImshlng dimLnishing diminishmg Imshlng Lnishing Jim J1m used to take chickens ch1ckens from nearby farmersEventually farmersEventually farmers farmersEventually Eventually the meat dealer became suspicious SUSPIC10US and had hadJ1m hadJim hadJim J1m Jim arrested At seventeen this th1s boy who wanted nothmg nothing nothmgmore nothingmore nothingmore more than a few luxuries luunes ' { was sent to the reform school schoolfor schoolfor schoolfor for stealing chickens ch1ckens Who knows what may happen when whenJIm whenJim whenJim JIm is freed9More freed9 freed freed9More ? More pertinent still shll perhaps is the question queshon of who whoIS whois whois IS to blame The neighbors pity p1ty Jim s parents and mor mor- moralIze moralize moralize - alize about his deplorable delinquency delmquency Perhaps it was Just Justunfortunate justunfortunate justunfortunate unfortunate circumstance , maybe no one is to blameIn blameIn blame blameIn In crowded Boston the investigator Investtgator will w1ll stumble on a asomewhat asomewhat asomewhat somewhat similar slmllar problem That staid old Massachusetts city cJty is 1S battling battlmg the menace menaceof menace'of menaceof < ' of younga youngthrill young a ' thrill thnll thieves "boys boys " boys and girls who steal au automob1les automobiles automobiles tomob1les tomobiles for break neck neckmldmght neckmidnight neckmidnight mldmght midnight rides ndes in a mad madheedless madheedless madheedless heedless and puzzling puzzlmg search searchfor searchfor searchfor for thrills thnlls The cars are not notstolen notstolen notstolen stolen to sell but are usually usuallyfound usuallyfound usuallyfound found abandoned or wrecked wreckedwhen wreckedwhen wreckedwhen when the JOY ] oy riders nders have fin finIshed finished finished Ished with them What Whatcauses Whatcauses Whatcauses causes this peculiar mental mental"kink mental"kink mental"kink mentalkink "kink kink " " in modern adoles adolescents adolescents adolescents7 adolescents7But cents ? ' But the most fascinat fascmat- fascmat fascinat- fascmatlngand fascinatmgand fascinating - lng-and lng and mg-and mg ing - and probably , funda fundamentalphase fundamentalphase fundamental mental-phase mental phase - phase of Juvemle juvenile Juvemledelinquency juveniledelinquency juveniledelinquency delinquency is the boyI boyt boygang boygang boy I t * gang " a group of neigh neIgh- neIghborhood neighborhood neighborhood - borhood youngsters who whojom whojoin whojoin jom join forces tor for well weU meant com compan companionship companionship pan panionshlp ionshlp ionship and often end up behmd behind behmdpr behindpr behindpr pr son bars More than one ChIld ChIldpsychlatnst childpsychiatrist childpsychiatrist psychlatnst psychiatrist seeking seekmg the basIc basIccause basiccause basiccause cause of child crime cnme has placed his hisfinger hisfinger hisfinger finger on the old y , wooden ooden shack shackwh shackwh shackwh wh ch s ts is unnoticed on a v \ , acantlot acantlot acant acantlot lot a hangout for boys who have haveno haveno haveno no other source of recrea recreat recreatwi t on Kept Diary of Loot LootOne LootOne LootOne One PS psi ) } chiatnst chlatnst chiatrist living bvmg in m an east eastern eastern eastern ern city purposely frequented an anarea anarea anarea area where gangs flourished flounshed H s sstory sstory sstory story makes interest mterest ng read ngFIrst ngFirst ng ngFirst First ot of all a11 I had to gain gam the theboys theboys theboys boys confidence contldence by taking takmg part In IntheIr intheir intheir theIr every day activit es After that thatit thatit thatit it was merely a matter of observa observatlon observation observation observationThere tlon tion tlonThere tionThere There were t vo smart boys m in mth inth inth th ths s particular gang who obtaIned obtaInedtheIr obtainedtheir obtainedtheir theIr start from steal ng rag They wentinto wentinto went ! into a store and , wh yh Ie le Joe attracted attractedthe attractedthe attractedthe the manager s attent on Tom 1 J ft fted fted fted ed eda a green record book This "as as was "astheir wastheir " wastheir their d ary after a fash on m.h mh in . wh ch chwas chwas chwas was kept a complete record of the thegang thegang thegang gang s criminal cnmmal activit esA esA es esA A few months later I succeeded succeededin In gctt gett ng possess on of that d ary aryby aryby aryby by telling tellJng Tom about a survey I IIntended Iintended Iintended Intended to moke make An intl'rvlew intlrvlew interview intl'rvlewwas interviewwas Interviewwas ' was arranged at a do dovntown vntoyn vntown , ho hotel hotel hotel tel where the boy was made to tofeel tofeel tofeel feel h s importance by the g ft of ofa ofa ofa a cigar He handed over the d try ary < aryI tryI I can tell te11 you it was rich with withcrimInal withcriminal withcriminal crimInal escapades escapadesTh escapadesThat escapadesThat Th That nquenciBut tt < s juven Ie le del nquenc nquency nquencyBut ) But in m the mmd mInd of J Edgar Hoo Hoover Hoover Hoovor ver director of the federal fcderal bureau bureauof bureauof of investigation there s another an answer answer answer swer dayhave Hooverho Hoover \ who \\ho ho \ may some day have to cope with adult cr m nals nalsho nalswho nalswho \\ho ho who \ are today child cr m nals Thais calls callsIt callsit callsit It publ c delinquency ! H s analysis is not w thout log cWhat cWhat c cWhat What s the ( he Cause Cause'Our CauseOur ' " Our youthfulcriminals youthful criminals of to today today today day say sa > ) s Mr Hoover come from fromhomes fromhomes fromhomes homes broken by death or dlvorce- dlvorce divorce- divorce dlvorcefrom divorcefrom divorce divorcefrom - from homes where d scipl sClpl ne was wasoften wasoften wasoften often an unknown factor - from fromhomes fromhomes homes where there was 1 I ttle ttJe or no noopportunIty noopportunity noopportunity opportunIty to see an anything ) thing but the thedrab thedrab thedrab drab side of Ie Ieor 1 te fe teor feor ! -or or - from homes where parents by their o 0 vn lazl lazt lazlness laztness laziness ness lack of common sense d sre srespect srespect srespect spect for law or bad example care careless1y carelessly carelessly less1y lessly tossed their ch Idren ldren into mto the themaw themaw themaw maw of crime cnme cnmeThe crimeThe crimeThe The experience of several cit cll es eswho eswho eswho who have approached child cnme crime cnmefrom crimefrom crimefrom from an intell mteU gent viewpoint vlewpomt bears bearsMr bearsMr bearsMr Mr Hoover out . . Chicago while far farfrom farfrom farfrom from a crime cnme free city has aIded aIdedboys aidedboys aidedboys boys to go stra ght by g vmg ving vmgthem vingthem vmgthem them proper attentIonChicago attentionChicago attention attentionChicago Chicago park polce pol ce are a sepa separate separate separate rate organization from the regular regularclly regularcity regularcity clly city pol poi ce department and are aretrained aretrained aretrained trained to encourage juven Ie le ac actlVlt actwit activit tlVlt twit es on city sponsored play playgrounds playgrounds playgrounds grounds A soft ball ba11 instead mstead of a agun agun agun gun is their mottoThe motto mottoThe The Parents Parent . ! . Responsibility ResponsibilitySo So much tor for fo.r for the publ c s part But Buthow Buthow Buthow how about the parents from "horn horn whom "hornevery whomevery " whomevery every child must get his fundamental fundamental tundamen fundamen tundamenItal tal background7 background ? ' Psychiatrists Psychlatnsts pomt point pomtout pointout pointout Ital out that many a youngster has been beenforced beenforced beenforced forced into mto a lfe 1 fe of crime cnme becausea because a . , . . , he was misused at home and had hadto hadto to look elsewhere for recreahon recreation recreationWhat recreationWhat What many parents forget say the thespcclalists thespecialists thespecialists spcclalists specialists is that the phys cal fact factof factof factof of fatherhood or motherhood does doesnot doesnot doesnot not endow a man or woman with wllh su supernatural supernatural supernatural pernatural qualities The art of par parenthood parcnthood parcnthood enthood cnthood has to be learned the same sameas sameas sameas as anything anythmg elseLlstcn elseListen else elseListen Listen Llstcn to Dr Paul Popenoe noted notedcounselor notedcounselor notedcounselor counselor on family relations who whofeels whofeels whofeels feels proper parental treatment win will wind willd willd d ssuade potential child cnmmalsThe criminalsThe criminals cnmmals criminalsThe The first thing thmg tor for a parent to todo todo todo do is to keep the emotions of anger angerand angerand angerand and severity on cold storage A Asurgcon Asurgeon Asurgeon surgcon surgeon can t give away his h1s emo emohons emottons emotions hons ttons when he has a serious opera operatIon operation operation tIon to perform and a parent can t tgo tgo tgo go blind blmd with feel ng when he has a aproblem aproblem aproblem problem to deal with in m relation to tohIs tohis tohis hIs children childrenParents Parents need pat ence in deal dealmg dealing dealing mg ing with their youngsters They Theycan Theycan Theycan can t treat their children as some someth someth someth th ng to be kicked about or locked lockedup lockedup lockedup up in m the closet They are human humanbeIngs humanbeings humanbeings beIngs When they misbehave their theirachon theiraction theiraction achon action must be considered as a asymptom asymptom asymptom symptom the same as a fever or an anache anache anache ache and not a cause If parents parentsgo go into mto causes they very likely WIU will WIUfind willfind willfind find themselves to blameIn blameLill blame blamettill ttill \\In In \ Lill Delinquency Decrease " ' ' ' The problem of o Juven juvenile e delm delmquency delmquency delmquency quency is especially especlaUy pertinent pertment right rightnow rightnow rightnow now because soon thousands of ofschool ofschool ofschool school children will be released for forthe forthe torthe the . annual .mnual mnual vacat on many of o ( them themleft themleft themleft left to their own mgenu ingenu ty to find findsummer findsummer findsummer summer recreat on But each year yeartlus yearthis yearthis tlus this problem becomes less pressmg pressing pressmgbecause pressingbecause pressingbecause because more communities are m in mstltut institut mstitut stltut stitut ng comprehensive playground playgroundprograms playgroundprograms playgroundprograms programs tor for children of all ages agesDes agesDes agesDes Des gned to keep youngsters busy busyall busyall busyall all day these activities encourage encouragehealthy encouragehealthy encouragehealthy healthy bod es clear heads and-at and at andatnightdrowsy andatnightdrowsy and - atnight night-drowsy night drowsy - drowsy eyes that welcome welcomesleep welcomesleep welcomesleep welcomesleepToday sleep sleepToday Today s teen age generation is a aproblem aproblem aproblem problem because public responslbll responsibil responsibility responslbllIty Ity for juvenile delinquency delJnquency dehnquency was not notrecognized notrecognized notrecognized recognized unt 1 a few years ago agoWho agoWho agoWho Who can tell but that tomorrow s syoungsters syoungsters syoungsters youngsters aided by the healthy healthyrecreatIon healthyrecreation healthyrecreation recreatIon their communities now nowsponsor nowsponsor nowsponsor sponsor will WIU foresake crime tor for a anobler anobler anobler nobler bie life life9 life9It ? ' It s poss piss ble so long as we re remember remember remember member the trouble isn t Juvenile juveniledel juveniledel del nquenci nquenc nquency ) but public debn delin debnquency delinquency debnquency quency quencyo 0 o Western Newsp Newspaper per Union - . , . . - r : : : r \ \ 1Ftfs : ; b s sb sn sw n w G ( tae a ab d k kb b y ( b rt / va a R Rd Rail ail aila v\ v \ { d a I It t r rti ti : ' ' & n t t tt e ? - t . , r rr rT ru rr rt4 r T u t4 r ; * I , , qqq qqqI I : c ; : tt ttMiss * I ' J\Ilss J Ilss Miss \ Genevle\ Genevle GenevleI GenevieL \ % I . Owens ( left ) 1'7 17 ' anll and 'IIrs IIrs Mrs ' r E : bel lief Strouse 'on on con ( ' essed the they ) had kll hil ed \ % llIiam Sillam ( Barhorst Barborst Sohl Soh ! 20 who a blls bus driver ne tell ted th therm in ba a holdup that m only g $ 10 The killIng took place at BellevIlle , N J |