The Washington times., 1923-01-11
Who Makes the "CriminaIs?'
Did This View Of It Ever Occur to You?

Much horror aroused by depravity
Many plans less appropriate making the air
Many good men, politicians and bishops who spend
the summer at the seaside willing spend few day
wipng CRIME off the earth
What is cRnTE9 Who are the CRIMNALs7 Who makes
the criminals?
Do criminals vcousy voluntarily arise among us eaget
TO lead hunted lives eager to be jailed intervals eager
crawl IN the dark dodge policemen work stripes
shame? Hardly
WIN you kindly and patiently follow the lives, quickly
sketched, OF boy and girl?
Born born in hard luck her father mother or both
victims Of long hours poor fare bad air and little leisure
while three Or four little brothers and sisters die and 60 back
TO kind earth
She craws around the halls Of tenement GOOD deal in
the way. She Is hunted here and chased there
She cold in winter summer never well cared for
She gets little socaed education addressed and ashamed
beside the other children she glad escape education
No one at home can help her No away from home
She grows up white sicy like potato sproutinp il eel
lar At the Of fine street she the carriages pass
lng with other girls IN warm furs or IN fine cool
With poor shawl around her and with heels run down she
peers N at the restaurant window to see other leading
Steadily she has impressed upon her the fact absolutely
place for her certainly no comfort for her.
9ne iinds work perhaps Hours as long the daylight
At the end Of the day aching feet aching back systepn i'll
Ted not enough earned to live upon that pros
WHAT'S THE CHARGE orT Fl En- : : - -
"Disorderly conduct Your Honor
There's the criminal good politicians women and
bishops that you hunting ardenty.
THE BOY
Same story, practically.
He plays the tenement staircase off the staircase
Ae plays BAH IN the i caught BY the police
Re swings on the area railing trying to exercise his stnted
muscles cufed again. s s - $500.
IN burning July with shirt and trousers on goes swim
TO Sths society, - 80 = 'A,- 1s''A'1 =
few months in sort Of seidecent imprisonment treated
turned over on It's back In the market 4
He escapes, to begin the same life
he tries to work
What do you know?"
II don't know anything; nobody ever taught me-
He cannot endure the discipline hours daily
shovengit takes education ins discipline only the
education Of the early pick and shovel
loose in city full Of temptation ne had no real start to be-
gin with and no effort made repair his evil be-
ginning.
WHATS THE CHARGE oFFICER9"
attempted burglary; pleads guilty
Three years in prison since il is his first offense'
good burglar not get caught Patiently the State boards
MN and sdnost .s him to be tr;srase criminal
politicians and benevolent women
Dear bishops noble women good men and schem;nu ro
ticians, listen to this story:
In the South Sea Islands they have for contagious
= man or woman stricken with loathsome disease such
smallpox is seized isolated and the individual
smallpox patient are earnestly scraped with shes-unt
the patient dies hurts the patient good dealwthout
ever cOsebut 1t relieves Of
ragged good ones who WELD the sea shells
You creatures hunting crime in great cities
are like the South Sea Islanders their treatment Of smallpox
You ardent WELD reforming shells and you
very earnestly at the sores well developed.
40 40. desire LEI to decry your earnest efforts.
But you get tired Of sCrapng with sea shells try
vaccination or better STILL try take care of youth to
give sucn chances and education to the young save
them from the least profitable of all careers-CRME
Rich good nice bishops comfortable benevolent ladies'
every man and woman Backwes Island everv wretched
with any Of you = eO F
scrape away with your shells try also to give few
more and few better chances youth to those whom Won
hunt as criminals in their mature years ~" "
God creates boys and girls, anxious to live decenty
YOUR SOCIAL SYSTEM makes criminals and fills iaI.
whats Fair Business?"