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Show SAVE THE BOYS, SAVE THE NATION That the way to stop crime is to prevent boys from growing j up to be criminals, is being stressed by many educators and crimin- ologists. That the habits formed in youth make the citizen so that I adult education can seldom or never make him anything different, is confidently believed by many in a position to know. David I. McCahill, Pittsburg worker among boys says: "One unprincipled boy in a neighborhood can undo by his ideas and leadership all the teachings and examples that other boys bring with them from the best homes. The problem is not to subdue the courage of the 'gang leader,' but to guide it in the proper direction. direc-tion. I would like to see a non-sectarian, self-governing boys' club in every community so attractive that boys will be glad to spend their time together in healthy companionship. If such clubs were organized, organ-ized, invisible but general supervision of the boys' would take place and the problem of the priviledged boy would be practically solved." William Lewis Butcher, New York City, secretary of the United States National Boys' Week, says: "The challenge of the boy is to find your place beside him as a friend and as a counsellor. He is the person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit in the halls of parliments and occupy the benches of your supreme courts. If you make leagues and treaties he will have the management of them. All your work is for him and the fate of the nations and of humanity is in his hands. I commend this picture to the pulpits, the school teacher, politicians, pol-iticians, social workers, and to those who boast of their nation's majesty, wealth, resources, and power. "Habits formed in childhood are faster than colors dyed in wool. The American crime bill is $5,000,000,000 a year, $3,000,-000,000 $3,000,-000,000 for crime against property alone. When you add to this the $2,000,000 it costs the American Nation to protect society against crime, then contemplate what a wonderful investment it would have been to' spend this amount in safeguarding the lives of boys and girls. |