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Show times, sentenced indefinitely to Elmira Reformatory for selling narcotics. That's the brief case history on Rocco D'Agostino as the police have it. But G. M. White has uncovered a tragic story of a broken home, neglect, and poverty in "Do You Remember Rocky?" for the Profile of Youth series in the October Ladies Home Journal. Today Rocky is learning a trade " " along with other young criminals, although he would have preferred to go to Sing Sing with older, better-known criminals, because he had heard it was "tough" at Elmira El-mira and he was tired of being bullied. Born in the New York slums, Rocky never knew his father, who had been deported to Italy after .. two convictions of assault one of them brought by Rocky's mother. Poverty dogged the family, and his ill mother and six brothers and sisters often went hungry on their small Home . Relief , allowance. allow-ance. At public school Rocky's teachers remembered him as "a pale, thin boy, small for his age, and poorly nourished," "socially immature," "loses interest easily." Outside of school, he was beaten and bullied by older, bigger boys, although he was never punished at .home. His only trip outside the city was two weeks at a boys' camp when he was nine. He played truant when he finally fin-ally got to junior high school and held many jobs for short periods ' of time. His teen-age social life was centered in the Spanish-Puerto Spanish-Puerto Rican section and a street corner brawl led to his first arrest. ar-rest. Four months later he was picked up with a gun in his possession. pos-session. Then he turned to narcotic nar-cotic peddling, an easy way for him to get money and into jail. Rocky asked the court for mercy but Judge McClellan replied, "What the defendant has done not only affects him, but everybody else. Who is responsible, I cannot say. I wish I had the answer. I wonder if anybody has." ADVICE TO THE MALES By Ellen Talancon The Daily Utah Chronicle of Monday, Oct. 1, gives the following follow-ing advice to males: Girls don't expect you to read Emily Post, but they hate to stand in front of a door waiting for a fellow to open it, when he comes along and sks, "What's a matter, jou weak or something?" There are common courtesies that girls appreciate such as opening open-ing of car doors, helping when being be-ing seated, rising when they enter the room, and letting them go ahead of you. "When you are telling your life story, don't be conceited about it. Be subtle about implying you are a superman." - Don't brag about previous conquests; con-quests; the girls say they "aren't particularly interested." Then there is the coupe casinova. He takes a girl out for a coke, then parks someplace and tries to squeeze it out of her. When a girl says "no" when asked for a goodnight good-night kiss, the fellow should accept ac-cept her answer. And furthermore, "After a first dale the boy shouldn't assume the girl is his personal property." A reply to all this: One male student stu-dent came through with this mag-. mag-. nificent no sequitur: "I don't like gills who squeeze a toothpaste tube in the middle." |
