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Show Criminal Youths of Country Recruited From Homes That Are Divided By PERRY T. ALLEN, Springfield (Mo.) Attorney The modern youthful criminal is not the product of poverty an! n-nnt, but the result of unrestraint. They seek the thrills, look fpr some new experience that will offer a "kick" and do not falter at the most brutal and nauseating crimes. They are pfidefu! of the notoriety given thrra because of it, and glory in their misdeeds as an accomplishment which places them ahnxe the other mortals. Eighty per cent of the youthful criminals of the United States con from divided homes homes that were broken up by divorce or abandon-V- ment. The others come from homes where the break exists, hut where it t5 not shown publicly but known to the child. To meet the world, coming generations must be prepared individually, individual-ly, Fire is necessary, but the child, to know that it will burn, need not be draped through the flame. A child taught from the day it is born ; until it reaches the age of twelve years the meaning of discipline, the dif- j feience between right and wrong, and is given the correct example by bii , pirents, krtii no other course but the right. - . . t ' |