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Show A Woman Crime Doctor The new crime prevention bureau bu-reau created in New York City's police department about four months ago has attracted wide attention, at-tention, through its efforts to curb crime by eliminating its causes, especially es-pecially among juvenile delinquents. delin-quents. For fifty per cent of the city's delinquents are unaer 21 and 60 per cent of those convicted of robbery last year were under 21. Miss Virginia Murray, who has studied juvenile conditions for two decades, is director of the women's division, and she has already made great progress in cleaning up cheap dance halls and cheap movies where vice flourishes. Her views are expressed thus: "Crime thrives on bad contacts and bad environment that much we know. How often have we seen living examples where temperament, tem-perament, of father and mother reflect themselves in the offspring'!! "Alcoholic beverages, tea and coffee retard the proper development develop-ment of youth. Habitual use of alcchel dehydrates body tissues and destroys body cells. Coffee, a temporary stimulant, is simply an added irritation to persons with already nervous and highly emo-' tional temperaments, and it would be well to eliminate it entirely from the diet of adolescent boys and girls. Even among adults, if taken at all, t would be better to use it in decafinated form. "Growing boys and girls must have proper nourishment, proper environment and propr outlets for recreation. Supplying these will go far toward eliminating the tendency ten-dency to crime." Other cities might well emulate New York in her worthwhile efforts ef-forts to recruit the forces of youth into an army of proper thinking and proper living men and women. |