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Show "Schools of Crime." "Schools of Crime" is the appropriate title Riven by the Chicago Tribune to the 5-cent theatres with which Chicago is infested. The very " existence of these places is an evidence of the inconsistency in-consistency of our municipal and state laws. The vicious resort and the gambling hell are suppressed by tlu law because they endanger the morality mo-rality of its adult citizens. The 5-cent theatre is not intended for adults, but it is intended for children of tender age. It is doins for them, and in a most effective manner, what the vicious vi-cious resorts, the gambling hells and the higher priced immoral play houses are doing for adults. Ve agree with the Tribune that it is time that the children, too, should receive adequate protection from the poisonous influ-errcs influ-errcs thnt threaten them on every hand. The flve-cent theatres should go. and with them the moving picture galleries and the other "little hells" in which hundreds of the children of our city learn their first lessons of infamy and take their first step to the gruttcr. New World. |