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Show A Problem of Youth Who is it that thinks crime will pay1? Who believes that it offers "short cuts" to independence and prosperity prosper-ity ? The answer is the young men of the nation. Two-thirds of all arrests for crime are of persons between be-tween the ages of 15 and 2-1 years. Those 19 years of age exceed all other ages in the number of arrests. This proves that crime entices the young rather than the mature. ma-ture. Tho Department of Justice, which sponsors the above figures, has also indicated that their reports demonstrate dem-onstrate that native-bom whites, which also includes immediate im-mediate descendants of foreign-born, commit more crimes than the foreign-bom element in our population, compared compar-ed to the number of each. Another fact found by the figures of the Department of Justice is that in the crimes of burglary, robbery, and assault the number of Negroes arrested far exceeds the number of whites, even allowing for the difference in the. number of the respective groups in our population. |