Show BILLION LOST ON CRIMINALS caring for vicious costs more yearly than nations wealth grows washington this country spends 6 annually on the crim inal pauper and vicious classes and the annual increase of wealth Is only 0 o does not that look as it the public were bankrupts this statement was made in a lee ture by dr charles J bushnell who Is conducting a model public play ground here he Is a graduate ot heidelberg university and an author ity on civic matters dr bushnell s figures are taken as he says from reliable sources and represent years of careful study he challenges anyone to disprove their ac curac he and his wife have made a special study of what they call the social illness of the united states continuing dr bushnell said why the that this nation spends every ear on its crim inal cases equals the amount spent on all cherches chir ches public libraries the oung men s christian association the salvation army public hospitals asylums for the insane and all institutions ahe average tac tory hand earns a year while it is estimated that the average crim lual costs the public at least 1 a bear |