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Show IfTLE Creek If "Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man aoweth, ' that shall he reap." So wrote Paul the Apostle in his letter to the Galatian Saints. If we believe what we read in the papers the lost few days., considerable reaping is going on in the nation's largest city, of seeds sown over the past fifteen or sixteen years. Juvenile gangs of so called "punks" have about taken over in shameful defiance of the law in New York City. Robberies, muggings, assaults and even murders are becoming almost comanonplace. Nothing lite it has beon seen before In any city at any time, or in any place. All this did not happen by chance. These young terrorists were once cute little kids. It's what society has done to them in a few short years, that has made the tragic change. To begin with, they were spawned by parents who are members of under -privileged minority min-ority groups Puerto Ricans, Negroes, and "poor whites." The better areas of the city and the better opportunities for employment employ-ment were closed to them. Secondly, what education they gx)t was received through the methods of "Progressive Education," Educa-tion," for which New York City was notoriously famous. Under 'the progressive system, ''free expression" ex-pression" was the order of the day. Children did entirely . as they pleased, lest, according to the educators, they became fi-ustrat-ed. In the third place, there has developed in New York City as well as In other places, a disrespect dis-respect for the law and the of ficers who enforce it. Two specific spec-ific examples will illustrate the point. In a recent baseball game featured fea-tured on television, New York was playing Cleveland in the Yankee Stadium. A ball was hit foul and 'rolled near the guard rail of the grandstand. A teenage boy leaped over the rail and grabbed the ball before the third baseman could retrieve it. According to big league rules, any spectator who goes on to the field to catch or pick up a batted ball is promptly ejected from the park. If this rule were not rigidly enforced, the fans would soon be all over the place and play would be impossible. Well, anyway, a policeman took the young wrong-doer by the arm and a scuffle ensued. Did the adidt spectators support the officer? They did not. They stood up almost to a man and cheered the boy and jeered the policeman. Another story as reported in the paper last week tells of a policeman attempting to arrest the ringleader of a New York neighborhood g'ang. He was a tough customer and the officer was having a rough time making mak-ing the arrest without hurting the boy. The only consideration the policeman pol-iceman received was a barrage of pop bottles thrown by adults who were watching the arrest. Paul, the Apostle, was dead right In what he said two thousand thou-sand years ago. And folks in New York City, Chicago and even in Pleasant Grove could do well to take a second look at the quality qual-ity of seed being sown every day. So long 'til Thursday. |