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Show It; There would be no bad men if it 5 were not for bad boys, according to the philosophy of Judge Benjamin Barr Llndscy, father of the Juvenile jj Court of Denver, Colonel Llndscy l goes further in his philosophy and jj asserts bad boys don't have tho j right chance to be good. Iarft If The bad boy usually is a sans ia8 by" 0n r lh sansr beconies Am leader by force of his fists and by hlg fearlessness. Tho others like to j follow in his steps and do ns he dl- M h rects. The boy gang is held to- 3 Kether Just liko the wolf gang or a ?S ? Suns of gunmen. It Is the nghting jSJ I man who is boss of the sang and '" i tho one who directs their activities. - US Go Into any city in the United 2 S States and make an Inspection' of M alJeys and the following facts will Si bo revealed: Wjjj ; Boys congregate there. There they Kee big men silting around 'can-ning 'can-ning beer" and talking of their W j past bad deeds. The boys look on sJlt 'i"d admire. Tho boys want to bo iJUiV big and talk big. They llnd the M H b5S, coarse men in the alleys are I moro friendly than the polished lijS.j man out in the sunlight on tho m ;? street. One of the big men will UM i throw away a half consumed ciga- mi rette. Ono of the boys will dive for tlie cigarette and place it to his tl t llPs and draw violently on it. It jjj ' may fail to light. Running to nn- j3 't other boy the little fellow will call jiH' i out: iW $ "Gimme a light." iitL 'j There is much sociability in tho JjSl :? "light." Two strangers meeting on -tfr tho street will become friendly when j: one asks tho other for a match. IW58 town from one switching yard to another on tho side of a box car. Later on If he belongs to a real tough gang he must not be afraid to steal small quantities from the box car. About by the time tho boy becomes be-comes a regular thirty-fourth degree de-gree gangster his pot ambition Is to become a bandit. His chief desire is to own a revolver. Ills courage is of the negative sort He docsn t dare show fear becauso he will be Ii f Among the boys matches are lux-3 lux-3 urles. Everybody doesn't . have 1 them. The boy who has a match l or a lighted cigarette off of which I a light can bo taken Is the friend 4 of everyone. "When the little boy reaches a fij big fellow with a clgarottu and gets K a light the big boy Bays: e "Say, runt, you don't smoke, do K you-r Kj The runt sticks out his chest JK Proudly and says; gwty "Aw. 1 have had that habit for a , long time. Bill." The runt didn't havo the courage 0i to say "Bill" before, but with tho cftft smoke of a cigarette curling out of &H his mouth ho can say Bill without dflEI u tremor. That is the Initiation of jSBEf the boy into tho gang. He soon InBb finds he can associate with the big 9k fellows and plan daring stunts. To Cflftr a real boy ono must never "snitch' on another boy. If tho. Be! P1Ic catch him . connected with a JflP; Bang of wrong-doers he must never 'JMs know who did tho act the police are Investigating. He must not bo 'iT &fraid to bum his way around tho m laughed at. Ho doesn't dare not to light with the gang becauso he will be ostracized. Ho doesn't care to toll what goes on In the allev becauso he will be called a snitch. REVERSION TO CAVH -MAX TYI'12. Tho reversion to the cave man typo is In evidence among gang boys. Their actions originally aro play. They want to play Indian. They dig holes In the back yards until their )urenls drive them out of the yard , and then they hunt a neighboring place that Is secluded. "When their legs grow stronger they will travel for miles to dig cavs and play they are fighting Indians. In-dians. They always want to shoot. Tiny want to kill things. They shoot at birds and instead of being told that the birds should not bo killed they aro yelled at and instructed in-structed angrily to quit killing the birds. Until tho last few years the authorities au-thorities and the grown-ups fought the gang Idea. They didn't believe boys ought to belong to gangs. They believed, that a boy who would play Indian was damned with tho original orig-inal sin, and that the only way ho could got away from tho original sin was to sit through all his waking wak-ing hours with his eyes turned heavenward. But boys don't want to turn their eyes upward. They want tho freedom free-dom of colts. A farmer never tries to make his colts bo good. He turns them loose in a big pasturo where they can run around and kick each other. Boys want the same liberty. They want to run around and kick each othcli playfully just like tho colts, In the last docado tnc gang spirJL. of the boy has been dfrccted'lnt'o' ryy-' . . 1 the boy scout movement and similar organizations. Tho boys are encouraged en-couraged to organize, but their organization or-ganization is directed. The moat criminal gangs of tho country doubtless would have been changed had the mombcrs bden given something beside gang Ideals to grow enthusiastic about. Tho gangs begin with tho littlo group of boys who gather in an nreaway and shoot craps or organize against a teacher thoy do not like. Thoy learn where every peach trco- in the neighborh.oo.d- is and'-they go thej:a-Jo''-get"'vhat does' not belong Ji-to' them. Out In tho little country town the watermelon patch Is tho object of the raids of tho gang. Never did a band of Indians organize organ-ize as thoroughly to massacre a colony as tho small town gang organized or-ganized to descend upon a watermelon water-melon patch. Tho mildest watermelon water-melon thieves of tho small towns only took what melons thoy could cat. They would break the biggest melons and cat out the hearts, leaving tho rest for tho crows. Tho next move was to becomo destructive destruc-tive anUtcar up the"' vines; - Tli'e city gangstcr develops tho same way. His. wrongs at llrst aro small. Ho first broaks Into tho schoolhouso and tinkers with tho furnaco In tho basement and Tfyi breaks the steam pressure register. He conceals the fact that he broke tho register and dares anyono of the witnesses to' "tattlctalc." Then he steals scraps to sell to the Junk man. That was the beginning of the downfall of Harvey Van Dyne who, with several companions, all young men, was hanged in Chicago. At the time of Tils trial his mother said. "Harvey was a good boy. Hi3 father was dead and Harvey took tho responsibilities of supporting the family. I can't understand how ho should becomo a desperado. Ho had pood bringing up. Ho must havo had somo bad ancestors." It was tho gang that worked tho downfall of Harvey and not his ancestors. an-cestors. Harvey associated with a gang in his boyhood. Ho learned to steal junk and was novor caught. "When ho becamo older ho was thrown into tho maelstrom of Ufa before ho was ready and forced to earn a living for his mother and himself. He fell easy prey to ono of his old boy gangsters. He Joined tho new gang and entered on a life of crime. BOY GANGS MADE BY INTOLERANCE OF YOUTH. Intolerance of youth by persons who no longer aro young, Is responr slble for tho gang boys, according to 13. M. Barrows, special Investigator Investi-gator of the Peoplo's Institute of Now York. Barrows spent years in New York's "Hell's kitchen," studying study-ing how crimlnuls were made. Barrows attacks tho pollco sys- Failure I of the I Cities I to Provide I grounds for I Boys 4 Drives I Them to I the I Alleys for I Amuse- I ment tern of nearly even American city which places an innocent fun-loving boy on tho piano of a criminal and subjecting him to arrest. Ho blames tho parents for not taking care of the children and at the same time asks the question, "How can. they take caro of tho children when they nave to earn a living?" Poor, tired mothers chase their children out on tho -street. Mr. Barrows in his work on tho West Side, found the whole boyish community definitely and elabor-atcly elabor-atcly organized into a vast defen-slvo defen-slvo league of tens of thousand of members, who, however, thpy might jH spilt up into gang units to war among themselves, united instantly in tho face of the common enomy tho law. None the less the report discloses that the number of uhll- IH dron arrested in Now Y'ork in one jH year amounts to 12.00Q. Out of 103 jH arrests vhlch wcro Investigated, 1SS H wero found to bo due to tho per- verted desire of the child for play and onb' two to vengeful motU'es. Samplo polico complaints arc giv-on giv-on as follows: "Charged with throwing a hard rubber ball about a public place. IH thereby endangering tho safety of persons in the place." "Charged with annoying and In-tcrferl In-tcrferl wick others and endanger-big endanger-big their safety and property by playing with" a hard ball on apub- IH 11c "Charged with another with play- H Ing on the sldowalk of a public street a game callod pitching pen- H nlcs, thereby obstructing tho side- H walk and interfering with and an-uoylng an-uoylng persons on the public strcot-" H |