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Show I HOW THE SLUMS COULD BE PURIFIED The murderer of the Rexroat woman wom-an Is descrbed by the C hicago Tri-rune Tri-rune as a product of the slums of that great city. " Spencer tells us,' says the Chicago Chi-cago paper, "that murder has been on? of his trades, one of bis ways oi making a livelihood Perhaps a medical and psychological Investigation Investiga-tion will reveal this young murderer, Spencer, or whatever his name Is. to l-e that rare type the born crlm-nal crlm-nal But f'U-n if he was bom with ;i criminal m!nd. society cannot altogether al-together shift the responsibility for ins misdeeds. Spencer is a slum product. Perhaps he is a slum product pro-duct at its worst, but be is what the I sinm Chicago's 6lums Chicago's i underworld has mode him He Knew no father and mother Hla earliest n-collection is of a home for 1'ilendlcss waifs In the heart of the underworld When ho was 16 he was ai rested and since then li has spent the greater part of his life In jails and penitentiaries. He was a high-WO high-WO y man a robber, a btgamisl He is a drug fiend. Tho underworld had Mm well in its rip "When he came out of Jail ho knew of no place to return to but to the glittering dives of t underworld. It required money to live In these dies, I and the only way to get money that the underworld seemed to suggest was through murder "The self-confessed slayer of the Rexroat woman will no doubt expiate ex-piate her murder as the law pre-fvribes pre-fvribes Society however, will not be free from the recurrence of such rnoi:3trosit!es so long as the miasma Which breeds such monsters remains with us, perhaps not even then " There is but one way to overcome this condition which makes for crime in city'?; like Chicago and that Is to draw the congested population away lTom ibe Blums by making possible an exodus to the great uudevelopea areas of the west While there are slums there will be plague spots of crime where the Chili must develoj in an environment environ-ment conducive to wrong doing and grow to be a useless member of society so-ciety or. worse still, a rogue. |