Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1937 — Page 11

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THURSDAY, APRIL 22,

YP'ITH IN CRIME IS HELD SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEM

Over Half Reformatory and Prison Inmates 15-25, Prosecutor Says.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Thomas J. Courtney, militant state’s attorney who more -than anycne "else was credited with breaking the strangle hold of Chicago's million dollar crime syndicates, believes that the “young punk,” the high school boy or girl who turns to crime, is his next great problem in law enforcement. He tells about it in the following story.

By THOMAS J. COURTNEY Cook County State’s Attorney .

CHICAGO, April 22.—No more important problem confronts us today than the serious problem of youth in crime, The cost of crime in the United States has reached gigantic figures in dollars. If we attempt to compute the cost in human values, in the wreckage of lives, in innocent victims, in the blighted future of felons, in human material lost and wasted, we will find it impossible to state the cost to the individual, to the family or to society. A tragic development of our day is reflected in the fact that more than half the inmates of reformatories and prisons are between the ages of 15 and 25. Dividing our prison population into two-year age groups, the largest of all is that of young men and women 19 and 20. On the calloused professional criminal on trial in the criminal court, none would waste sympathy. A different reaction occurs to the picture, sorrowful and pitiful, of the youthful offender at the bar of justice to the tragic scenes of boys and girls who go through my office every day in the Criminal Court Building of Cook County to be started on their way to jail.

Calls Picture Appalling

Automobile thieves, robbers, burglars, rapists, felons, murderers, before they are old enough to vote— an appalling picture to contemplate. The “young puhk,” as the police

call the youthful offender, is not only a sad and tragic phenomenon of our time, but is such a serious problem that attention must be focused upon him without delay. He is a product of the broken home,

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the poverty stricken family, the lack of moral training, the indifference! and selfishness of parents. He is a product, if not a victim, | of heredity and environment. The |

development of character in the [strike which closed the Tip Top youth of our country is fundamen- Creamery here Feb. 23 was settled metally the responsibility of the 54: night at a conference in the

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home, the school, the church. Young criminals, the “punks, learn too late that the supposed glamour and romance in crime are! wholly false—they learn too late; that there is more excitement and | adventure in clean games and! sports.

Cases Follow Same Pattern

What happens before a boy or! sit-down strike of 13 employees, will reopen within 10 days.

girl is brought into court charged’ with a serious crime? Most of their histories are monotonously the

. same.

First there is a small robbery or | 8 misdemeanor. Nothing happens | to them and they try something else, only something to give them extra pocket money. Gradually they join others in more serious crimes. Finally, they are caught and it is too late to save them. When they come from prison, in spite of every effort, they may be hardened criminals. Last year 8715 persons were com- | mitted to the Cook County jail. | Nearly 4000 of these were under 30. | More than 1600 were under 21. A regrettably large percentage were | between 17 and 23. Were it possible, I would bring every third and fourth year male high school student into court once or twice a year during the progress of a criminal trial. There would be demonstrated to them the cost of crime—not in dollars and cents— but in human suffering and wrecked lives. Some parents may rebel at the thought of their sons and daughters being potential criminals, and might be resentful if they were invited to attend criminal trials. These parents might well be confronted with criminal statistics which disclose that many ¢riminals come f1om good homes—i:omes where they have had the advantage of loving parental care, comfort, education and ample spending money. We have demonstrated in Chicago that the predatory youthful gangs can be broken up; and that the “Fagins” who would teach our youth the steps in crime can be jailed where ‘they cannot carry on their nefarious activities. I am firmly of the opinion that with the vigorous leadership of our law enforcing officials, plus the cooperation of a citizenry aroused to the seriousness of this problem, the crimes of youth can be minimized and the “young punk” eliminated. (Copyright, 1937. by United Press)

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Olcott of Akron, O., at the Indian: apolis Athletic Club last night. Walter J. Pray, Indianapolis, was runnerup. Two other former winners of the trophy. Dr. E. J. Hunt, and “Mory Glick, Cleveland, competed in the play.

Various events in the tournament will continue daily this week until | the closing round Suncday. s

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