New Britain herald., 1930-07-19
CHICAGO BREEDS GANGS IN STREETS
Youths Copy Wealthy LaWbreak-
 CTS, Seeking Success"

Copyright 1880, NEA Service, InrJ
 Chicago. July 19.-While police. men, detectives and private investi. gators by the dozen scurry arourI in a desperate effort to get Chicago's amazing crime situation in hand, 2 gray y-haired little Scotchman sits i~ his office in Northwestern Univer. sity's Law school and coolly remar5; that gangland is never going to be suppressed that way.
 This man is Judge Andrew Brure professor of constitutional and crin- inal law at Northwestern, president Of the American Institute of Crim. inal Law and Criminology, and on@ Of the foremost authorities in the nation on gangs and the reasons tol them,
 Judge Bruce peers out from be- hind his glasses with eyes that sec beyond the present into the futur1, teyond the gleaming spires of Michi, gan boulevard and to the sodd aI slums back O the yards; beyond th7 llysterical furry of the moment provoked by the latest gang murder 10 the long years of patient, inteli- gent study and hard work that must ccme before Chicago's gangs will dia
 I asked him simply. Why is 2 gangster ?" And in what Juds' Bruce said I not only learned abou gangs and crimes; learned some thing. I think. about Chicago as ; whole. and about America.
 The whole thing" said Juds' Bruce, lis a question Of enviroHme9 and example It is an incident il the migratory nature of our popula. ton; an incident in enormous anc sudden growth of our cities; an incl. dent in the fact that we have very large number of foreign born clti. zens whose children are largely ua, able to adapt themselves to th2n new environment.
 Poverty ard Congestion
 Gangs are chiefly to be found i. the tumble down. changing, areas 0. the city, where on account Of power tv and perhaps in order to be neal his work-which is an incident O poverty. since he cant pay raIlro1- or street car fare-the newly arrlvs st immigrant Centers. And it isn't O21 the immigrant who settles there but also the men who wander fro,1 city to city for work, and the doHr and outs of our American civiliza ton.
 There is one district in Chicago where there are 1900 boys betweer II and 1T. of whom from 45o to 5ol are delinquent every year, The crime of Chicago will be found largely centered in certain areas the down and out, or changing are1s
 The youngsters have no asso. ciates except those whom they tint on the streets They live in tene ments; their parents often canno speak English. and at any rate art hard at work most Of the time, anC it is the prevailing sentiment of the street that influences the children In many of these districts this sen. tirlent is criminal. It looks CT crime as an avenue to success.
 See Anluent Lawbreakers
 The children see the gambler the bootlegger and the owner ot house Of prostitution riding in eN pensive cars; they see men who art notoriously corrupt in public office they see the police conniving will the bootlegeer, and they come tt look with contempt on their hard working parents and to respec' those who have made money bl crime and corruption.
 For years, through our public indifference, Chcagoans have en' couraged corrupt politics. We have shut our eyes to the prevalence o' vice and to the violation of the h. quor laws and have allowed the criminal element to become infuen' tial in politics-and now vice anl crime have us by the throat
 And the trouble with the young ster is that he has lost all respec' for law and for government, on ac. count of seeing violators of the law go unpunished-not only unpunlsh' ed, but actually reNarded-and a'st on account Of seeing so many public officials and police officers them selves partners iQ crime.
 Police Don't Prevent Crime
 The Chicago policeman is not preventer of crime. Perhaps ht cannot be, on account of the fewnes: of his numbers. He merely make: arrests after crimes have been com mitted. He exercises no moral lead ership over the youngsters.
 The youngster first starts as member of a local gang At frs he is merely a rowdy Then he be comes a thief, then a burglar, thel a bootlegger or a gambler - ant there you have another gangster.
 The kid is just a part of the sys tenn. He isn't going to obey laws h. doesn't believe in when he sees mer