Show underprivileged under privileged boy needs special attention if he Is to be saved by JOHN HAYS HAMMOND noted engineer during half of a boys adolescent years he has the opportunity to go bad but it requires five years to develop him into a criminal in the category of under funder privileged boys are the boys who are deprived of proper parental supervision it constitutes about two thirds of the entire boy population of this country and particularly those boys whose parents are aliens with no adequate conception of the political and social institutions of our nation 1 owing to the congested condition of their homes underprivileged under privileged boys must find recreation in their hours of leisure upon the streets of the community in which they live the hours of leisure which are nearly one half of the hours of early adolescence are the dangerous periods is ill the boys life the boy in the street is detached the gang gets him and he is e exposed X to the evil M influence fluence of gang leaders usually older and of the pronounce pronounced d criminal type who divert his youthful energy and love of adventure to pranks that soon lead to misdemeanors |