Show council for crime prevention effected the garden city council for crimo crime prevention ir was ts effected with the following officers john hodges president ErnestW ernest wot Of finden vat v tee president lathel gibbons seere secretary tary 0 W V pope chairman ot of committee on oil leg legislation csati 1 on and law en arden pape chairman of 0 committee on oil teacher training and guidance of youth P A spence chairman in of committee on leisure time activities mrs L IA cook thair chairman mati of committee on oil public information and publication royal pope chairman of committee on employment of over school age on january 17 when 11 superintendent 11 reuben wilben D law was over and gave us a talk filled with sadness on the role our nat nations lons youth is playing in the present arc sent rime crime wave that is as sweeping our country among other things it he read from radio kadio talks by charles 11 II skidmore the following tale annual cost of crime in tile united slates is thirteen billion dollars la I 1 this is one fourth the present tinn nanual al national income and tour four times our total expenditures tor for education the mime crime situation in this country Is so serious that thab it app approaches roachel a mn ml jor crisis in our history a crisis which will dete determine whether the nation is to belong to normal citizens or whether it i N to be surrenders derd completely to gangster gangister rule twelve thop thousand mand americans are being every year in this cour country one every forty five minutes day and night year in and year out according to population nine times limes as mally many people are murdered in the united abates as in england twice as man as in italy the preat great bulk of crime is a youth problem and its beginnings gs are nealry always found in misdirected childhood the average age of criminals finals is about twenty sibree three dr george kirchway Kird iway studied hundreds hundred of autobiographies ot of hardened criminals under 23 27 and 30 years of nee and was struck with the fact that nearly marly all of them started young youn the investigations of ot Irvin W W hai pern paiit in new york show that the majority of offenders against law are I 1 re youthful unmarried have had but little tl elementary school education and hail had found their recreation in the streets or in resorts of unsavory repute they are social misfits and 81 S per cent of them are unskilled in any vocation filin what has already t bolen been said you have formed a good reason why there should be made a definite drive against crime the one place to begin is in in the home tue bjone is as carev ns as possible in ili the cl chads illUs life the method is to be one of constructive edu education cahon teach the young people atle right living from the start and ind they are apt to give little trouble liter later on oil in ili life the thoughtful parent and the satisfactory home will ivill reF respond to this kind hind of if program aroki am rut but bl how ow may the uns home and the maladjusted ted cirild be Pro properly PellY con s I 1 d ered and dealt with in III the whole pic picture ture of lawlessness they are somewhat like th the e bid bad apple in the basket continued next week 3 |