Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-13 | Page 1 | Boys Make Criminals

' 'criminals Great City is a Demoralizing Demora-lizing Place for the Country Boy Chicago. Oct 1 ".' "The most staggering stag-gering ta t that confronts the student ot the criminal courts of Chicago, is the tact thai from 05 to 70 per cent of the criminals going through the . courts are mere boys between the ages of and 25 years, the surest evidence ihnt this great city Is not developing morally an rapidly as It Is phvsically and mentally," said Municipal Muni-cipal Judge John R. Newcomer last iilgln in an nddivsa t-j tlie Concordia league . "One great reason that this Is true i.. that the churches of Chicago are not doing the work they ought to do ' for the upbuilding cf the city and in I looking out for the young boys and men. "We must not expect that the fresh blood thru- comes pouring In from the eon n try will keep Chicago's moral mor-al balance The very first blood to ' conlract the great immoral contagion In the wicked city Is in the veins of the buy who comes from the country and who does not, know what confronts con-fronts him in the great city."