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Show Disposition That Boy Makes of His Spare Time Matter of High Importance By WILLIAM LEWIS BUTCHER, N. Y. Crime Commission. Ninety-five per cent of juvenile crime in cities of America is committed com-mitted after 3 p. m. Spare time in a boy's day is the danger period. It is a challenge to us all and something must he done. Psychologist.-tell Psychologist.-tell us the delinquent boy is mentally deficient, but the crime commis sion has found thai only 5 per cent of them arc mentally off. Juvenile delinquency is a misnomer and the real trouble is adult inefficiency To combat the spare time danger the Boys' Club federation hold? open house that the boy of the streets may avail himself of the oppor tunity to build himself up physically and mentally and morally. Taer mg the buck won't get us anywhere, it's a community problem. The greatest insurance America has today is not-in its powerful battleships, its swift bombing pianos or its army. It is our young man hood. Boys are the best insurance and the best investment we can put monev into. Save a man and you save one person, save a boy and you I save a whole multiplication table. |