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Evening star., 1953-09-06
First Precinct
Area: Las squore miles.

Area: l.46 squore miles.
Population: Is, ,7o5.
Percentage Of precinct arrests Of ju-
veniIes. Jonuory- June. 1853: rs.
Slums in the precincts north
east corner include such notori-
GUS spots as Myrtle and DeFrees
streets. Rents range from $42 a
month in the eastern section to
$40 further west. The average
adult has completed only gram
mar school and earns less than
$4,000 year. Complaints reach
ing Juvenile Court last year show
the rate of delinquency at about
103 per 1000 children east of
Fifth street and 90.3 per 1000 be-
tween Fifth and Fifteenth streets
N w.
Arrests of juveniles, particu-
larly for petty thievery. doubled
in the first six months of this
year compared with those in
the same period last year. Ju-
veniles were arrested for three
purse-snatchings and there were
complaints that juveniles-not
yet caught-were the offenders
in several other robberies.
So far this year, 43 juveniles
have been caught shoplifting
mostly in downtown department
dime and sports stores. Their
loot has ranged from clothing
to knives. Among the 80 house.
breaking cases in which juveniles
were arrested. have been several
store entries on New Jersey ave-
nue. in the 500 and 700 blocks. A
10-year-old forced his way into
department store show win
dow three times. There were SO
juvenile arrests for felonies and
159 for misdemeanorS during the
first six months of this year.
Among recent cases: A Is
year-old was arrested for posing
as newsboy and making col
lections at four places. Two IS
year-olds admitted stealing six
purses in theaters and breaking
into three places. One of them
carried a pistol with which he
said he was planning to shoot a
policeman. Two girls, one aged
IL, got into a drunken fight over
a man in a Ninth street bar. The
older girl already was on proba-
ton to Juvenile Court for lying
about her age to get drinks.
Three boys were arrested for a
yoke robbery. One of them told
police. he had been taught to
roll" drunks by his two uncles,
one Of whom was stabbed to
death in a fight. the other killed
in bank robbery.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Fifth Precinct
Area: ~ squore miles.
Population: 5l,292.

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Population: 81, l,292.
Percentage OF precinct orrests Of iu-
veniles, Jonuory- June, 1853: 9.6.
In this area southeast Of the
Capitol, the average adult has
completed up to a year of high
school, earns between $4,000 and
$4,000 and pays between $35 and
$50 rent. New elements COM
ing into the area brought teen
age fights which residents say
are being settled through joint
efforts of police, civic leaders
and boys clubs.
During the first six months
Of this year. there were Is rob-
berry cases involving juveniles.
Last week, a man waiting at a
bus stop at Fifteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. was
jumped by a gang and robbed
of SIS and an old man sitting
in the park on Pennsylvania
avenue between Seventh and
Eighth streets Sc. had his purse
snatched from his hand. Dur
ing the first half of 1853 juve-
niles were involved in 81 house.
breakings, hitting business places
on Eighth and Eleventh streets
and Pennsylvania and Independ-
ence avenues Sc. A grocery in
the 1900 block of B street Sc.
complains of boys stealing, fight
ing and bothering customers and
dairy in the unit block of L
street Sc. had to hire private
detectives to keep youths from
stealing batteries from dairy
trucks. A gang of rowdies hangs
out nightly in the 600 block of
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. The
precinct had II aggravated as
saults by juveniles in the first
half Of this year-the third high
est reported from any precinct.
Juveniles were arrested In SO
felonies and 86 misderneanors.
Among recent cases: A 16-
Evening star., 1953-09-06
The Cold Facts

Here are some of the cold
facts of the rising tide Of
juvenile delinquency:
Juvenile Court - During
the 1853 fiscal year. 5.032
complaints were received
against 1920 children. an
increase of % per cent in
complaints and 18 per cent
in children over the previ-
Gus year..
Metropolitan police-Dur-
ing the first six months Of
this year, juveniles were ar
rested in 1850 felonies. COM
pared with 1906 during the
same period last year, and
IN 1,311 miSlemeanorS, COM
pared with 1905 in the same
period last year. The total
of felonies and misdemean-
ors was 2.861 in the first half
of this year, compared with
2.711 in the same period last
year.
Park police-A total of 6l2
cases involving juveniles
during the past year, a 81
per cent increase over the
previous year.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Little Coordination
Amonq Groups Concerned

Although public and private
groups have been concerned with
various aspects of the problem
of juvenile crime for years, there
is little or no coordination OF
effort.
A case in point is the 14th
precinct. Here, juvenile crime
has matched the rapidly SWELL
ing population. The precinct
now has one of the highest
juvenile crime rates in the city.
Churches in the area tried and
failed to reach a solution. Police
got little cooperation from par
entS. The civic association tried
for a police boys club, won the
enthusiastic Endorsement of Po-
lice Chief Robert v. Murray, but
had to have a building. The as
sociation tried and failed to have
the old Benning School-now a.
warehouse-released, by school
officials. Use of this building to
get boys off the street was re-
fused despite the fact that school
vandalism in this precinct is
among the three highest in the
city.
Senator Hendrickson, Repub-
lican, of New Jersey, who heads
a special investigating commit
tee on juvenile delinquency. has
talked of making Washington
one of his points of inquiry be-
cause of the rise in juvenile
crime here and the idea that
the Nations Capital should be a
model for the country.
He will find here no organ
ized mobs. taking direction from
a single leader and kicking
back" a share of the loot. He
will find. instead, shifting gangs,
varying in size, usually with one
boy more aggressive and hard
ened than the others in tenn
porary command, with the cir
cumstances of the m o m n
determining whether the gangs
are combining or working sepa-
rately. He will find the juveniles
moving in groups to steal, just
as they move in groups to go
tn a nlavor0lnd
He will find little dope addic-
ton. some drinking and some
vice. He will find that house.
breaking and car stealing are
the most frequent crimes COM
mitted by juveniles. an increas-
ing number of robberies and
city-wide vandalism. He will
find that boys still considered
juveniles in the eyes Of the low
are old offenders who look and
dress like adults and spend their
loot on drinking. gambling and
women.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Third Precinct
Areo: 1877 squore miles.
Population: 49.S64.


Population: 49.s64.
Percentage Of precinct arrests Of ju-
VeniIes, JonuoY-June, 1853: So.
The riverside area west of
Twenty third street produced
| the greatest rate of complaints
to Juvenile Court per child pop
ulation Of any tract in the pre-
cinct last year although police
and residents say remodelling
in Foggy Bottom is quieting the
area Here, the average adult
completed less than half a year
Of high school. averages $4,000
a year and pays $40 a month
rent. Complaints were at the rate
Of 1913 per thousand children.
The ne1ghboring area east of
Twenty-third street. where the
average adult completed nearly
a year Of college. earns $4,000
annually and pay SIS rent, was
the area with the precincts low
est rate Of juvenile complaints,
with 20 per thousand children.
A one-youth crime wave
boosted juvenile crime figures in
this precinct this year. He ad-
mittedly accounted for more
than half the 81 housebreakings
reported in the first half of
1858. OF the precincts 153 ju-
ven1le offenses cleared by ar
rest in the first half Of 1858,
there were IS felonies and 68
misdemeanors.
Among recent cases: Two IT.
year-olds, picked up late at night
at Eighteenth and Massachu-
SettS avenue were found to be
carrying a % caliber revolver
and an open knife, respectively.
Two boys, aged nine and 10, were
caught at 1870 am. as they
started to break into an Eigh-
teenth street store for the fourth
time in a month. Their previous
loot included seven dozen small
flashlights which they said they
distributed to friends. A boy
visiting from the Second Precinct
shot himself through the head
with stolen gun in a fatal game
Of Russian roulette. Last week.
Park Police rounded up half a
dozen Foggy Bottom youths on
charges Of Systematically looting
honor-System newsStands In
government departments.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Fourteenth Precinct
Area: 7.2I squore miles.

Areo: III Squore miles
Population: IS, ,l69.
Percentage Of precinct arrests Of juvs-
niles, Jonuory- June. 1883: 81.
Half this precinct has six times
as many people as it had a
decade ago. The other half has
tripled in population. More than
10000 children are now living In
the precinct and 500 more hous-
ing units are about to go up. In
the lower section of this precinct,
the average income is $4,000 and
the average adult has completed
high school. In the upper Sec
ton, the average family has a
$4,000 income and the average
adult has completed nearly three
years of high school.
The precinct had the second
highest percentage of juvenile
arrests in the city during the
first half of this year. The two
tracts making up the precinct
were among the six in the city
from which the highest number
OF complaints against juveniles
reached Juvenile Curt in fiscal
1858. But because of the large
child population, these COM
plants were at the rate of 20.3
per thousand children in the
lower section of the precinct and
at the rate of 33.9 per thousand
in the upper section.
School officials ,all this one of
the three worst areas in the city
for school vandalism In some
weeks as many as 200 school
windows are broken. The GUS
todian at Smothers School,
Fourty fourth street and WASH
ington place NE, is told not to
pull down the shades to save
them from being torn by flying
rocks and glass. Juveniles were
arrested in 1853 housebreakings in
the first half of this year-nearly
three times as many as IN any
other precinct during the period.
In the first six months of 1853,
juveniles were arrested in 1874
felonies and 70 misdemeaners.
Among recent cases: Three
boys broke into bakery with a
hacksaw and two wrecklng bars.
A $3.50 housebreaking IN the first
block Of Thirty-dfth street NE.
was solved when police learned
a nine-year-old and a 12-year-
old were dispensing $40 loans and
had given one chum $40 Tor Q
rusty pocket knife
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Ninth Precinct
Area: 4.o3 squore miles.
Population: SO, ,326.

Area: 4o3 squore miles.
Population: IS, ,326.
Percentage Of precinct arrests OF iu.
veniles, January June, 1858: 9.S.
This Northeast area is thickly
populated with children. Their
parents have completed a year
or more of nigh school, on the
average, and the average family
income varies from $4,000 in
some sections to $4,000 in others.
The average home is valued at
$4,000 and average rents range
from $42 to $50 a month.
During the first half Of this
year. a higher percentage Of
juvenile arrests were reported
here than in any other precinct.
Evening star., 1953-09-06

year-old was charged with a
$1,311-safe-cracking in the 600
block Of Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. A l7-year-old was accused
Of receiving stolen property. He
cashed a $500 bill for the safe
cracker.
Evening star., 1953-09-06

Of the arrest. police spotted q
record player stolen from Gar
field school. A 16-year-old was
arrested on rape charges after
girl told police he dragged. her
into a car, drove to parking
lot and held her while man as
Saulted her.
Evening star., 1953-09-06
Second Precinct
Area: LIS square miles.
Population: $3.50.

Percentage Of precinct arrests Of iu-
veniles. Jonuory- June, 1853: 81.
At the western end of this
precinct live families where the
average adult has completed
high school and a few months
Of college and earns $2,733 a
year. Here, complaints to Ju-
venile Court last year were at
the rate of 20 per 1000 children.
Further east. the average adult
has not completed grammar
school, and the family income is
about $1,000 q year. Here, the
rate Of complaints to Juvenile
Evening star., 1953-09-06
AREAS OF


THE NEIGHBORHOOD STORY-Here by precincts the
in which Juvenile Court reported delinquency
the highest number of complaints in fiscal 49, The percentage
figures show each precincts proportion of the cy juvenile
arrests the first half Of 1885, with the period 1852
in parentheSes This 1851 per juvenile
arrests The remaining 1873 per by the WOmenS
Bureau, Detective Bureau and others.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-02-20

iron Curtain escapes Unidentified they have kin In Soviet
controlled Europe) HAS, the Hebrew Immigrant
Society," West Berlin to be registered for over
fleeing from antESemtls Eastern
Europe among erowds into the west
finding refuge In other parts
Europe, In lands beyond the sea-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-02-20
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA

childhood, in Washington Heights
upper Manhattan, telling me
about his religious school expert
ence and how he would cut ses-
sion sometimes when he felt the
need for recreation "a game of
stickbalD to be more pressing
than education. He smiled rue
fully, recalling the sharp sting of
the rebbe's rebuke.
But he got a good Jewish edu-
cation at the Hebrew School of
the Washington Heights Congre-
CATION and he is deeply grateful
for Il. He was bar mitzvah there
and dahvens well to this day: for
many years after his bar mitzvah
he donned his t'filin daily. He
knows and enjoys the Hebrew
chants. Every Jewish child" he
said thoughtfullY. Should receive
sound religious training. He
should know his peoples history.
their setbacks. their triumphs-
he should be proud of his hertz
age" He paused. II shall certain
ly see TO it" he said with resolu-
ton. that my two sons. now aged
six and three, know their Juda-
ism and all il stands for"
That this is no empty promise
may be cleaned from the fact that
Captain Garten, throughout his
Army career, has participated in
religious services wherever, when
ever and as often as possible. 1t
is a career. incidentally, which
began with his enlistment in
April 1912, shortly after his grad
uation from C.C.N.Y., and, with
the exception of a year, from
Dec. 10 to Dec. Al, has continued
to the present. A veteran of
World War II, in which he was
wounded three times, he holds the
Silver Star Medal, three Bronze
Stars. three Purple Hearts, a
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-02-20
A Hero Speaks His Mind
On Many Matters
BY CHAPLAIN list Lieut) MEYER BLEcH

Capt Melvin Garten of Brooklyn, recommended re-
Gently Congressional Medal of Honor the nations
award for gaanry in combat is the subject of this
article by Chaplain Blech The chaplain serving with the TX
Corps Korea sought Capt Garten Corps headquar
and interviewed him for the weekly Jewish of
America Chaplain Bechs article presented by The South
Jewish Weekly cooperation with the National Jewish
Welfare Board, which through its Division of Religious Ac
tvites services the ITO Jewish chapans fulime
of the American military Chap
lain Blech who has been Korea since October 1852
graduate of Yeshiva University left Mivie n. j.
pulpit to THE EDITOR
TX CORPS HQ. KOREA
"Shalon Aleichen. landsman!"
With this classic wonderfully greeting Captain Melv
Garen. BrookYnite and tremendous combat hero. made
welcome Smiling friendly relaxed. he sat at desk bearing
legend Generals Aide looking for all the world though he
been desk all his fe would have strained ones creduliY
if this mans well to be told th
just few short months back he'd caxed edaltudded tal
with incredible against odds
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-02-20

We got acquainted quickly.
talking about the States and then
narrowing it down to the Big
Town. The captain recalled his
Evening star., 1953-09-03

When Templeton Jones got bill for
$40 from his own doctor, and $42
bill from his cat doctor, he thought
that veterinarians had come into their
own at last, and he was right.
Veterinarian doctors have to put up
with bites and scratches. f1eas and
worms, and patients which resent them
very much.
They must try their best to treat
creatures that mostly fail to cooper
ate, or to understand in the least what
is being done to them.
The human patient of the general
practitioner may help with recital
of symptoms, but old Bozo, the dog, or
Tom, the cat, has little if anything to
offer except a hostile exterior.
The cat, in particular, is subject to
host of diseases.
Modern cats mostly live indoors. and
this no doubt has an inimical influence.
On the other paw, all outdoor cats
are subject to traffic hazards, poisons,
dogs and various unfriendly humans.
so that few of them live much beyond
four years.
The, cat kept indoors can do better
than this. especially if he is given
brief intervals in the outside.
Pneumonia is the greatest danger.
perhaps, to the average house cat.
Distemper is bad enough. but pneu-
monia is hundred times as bad.
{ Cats let out for time each 'day
Evening star., 1953-09-03
Letters to The Star.

and not baby sitters. 1t develops men
and not weaklings. It breathes the
spirit of altruism and not self love and
Self-pity.
The downfall of nations is written
in dissipation, Self-indulgence, animal
pleasures. The shreWdest of the Com
munists could plot our country'S ruin,
not by espionage or by conversions
within our ranks to their crackpot po-
litical theology, but by the destruction
of our moral fiber, promoting the belief
that no animal appetite should be
curbed in the slightest degree if we
are to be normal" and not suffer
from Illustrations"
That doctrine is as old as the devil.
The innuendo, the inference in the Kin
sey report is that the self-indulgent are
the happiest and most normal. What
does it all have to do with love, deep
and lasting human affection? Shall we
conclude that it is in harmony with
natural law to abase the man and exalt
the beast?
Does the Word of God contribute
to our Illustrations and inhibitions? In
the description of the final day of
reckoning on this planet, this Word
contains the simple statement: "He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still,
and he that is filthy, let him be
filthy still; and he that is righteous. let
him be righteous still: and he that is
holy. let him be holy still"
by "filthy?"
Evening star., 1953-09-03
Half Century of Good Work

In your issue of July 90 there ap-
peared an editorial entitled, Good
Work Over so Years."
Since it was my privilege to be one
of my fathers representatives charged
with the responsibility of establishing
the General Education Board, and
since was connected with the board
officially or as a director from that
time on until my retirement therefrom
by age limitation some Is years ago,
your article has meant as much to
me as know it would have meant to
my father were he living. The fact
to which you call attention - namely.
that the more than $500 million which
has been dispensed by the board dur
ing this 50year period represents but
a small fraction of the contributions
which are now made in a single year
for Similar purposes by the Southern
States hemselves-brings the deepest
satisfaction to those of us who have
been related to the work of the board.
The editorial closes with this signif-
icant paragraph: 1T will be remem-
bered, too, for the habit of mind about
the organized dissemination of knowl-
edge which it has taught Americans.
In 1902 the average citizen did not
think of education as being his busi-
ness. Today we all are aware of our
responsibility
This is, indeed. very high tribute.
In my fathers name as well as on
my own behalf, thank you warmly
for it,
John d. Rockefeller, Jr.
Evening star., 1953-09-03
Secretary Dulles Speaks

Secretary Dulles spoke some unusually
blunt words in his address to the American
Legion convention in st. Louis.
In brief, what he was saying to the Com
muniSt powers and to Red China in particular
was: First, that if the enemy should resume
the war in Korea he can no longer count on
the privileged sanctuary" of unmolested bases
beyond the Yalu River; and second, that if Com
munist China should attempt open aggression
in Indo-China such action would have grave
consequences" presumably our own interven-
ton in force To give these two pin-pointed
warnings foundation, the Secretary of State
set forth two broader concepts of American
foreign policy today: One, that aggressors
should not again nliScalculate in the sense of
believing the United States will stand by
indeciSively while powers hostile to the free
world enlarge themselves by the conquest of
small nations; and two, that we consider Asia
and the West Pacific an entity, a single
aggressive front" in terms of Chinese Com
munist military design, and that violation at
any point-which might mean japan or
Formosa, as we'll as Korea and Indo-China-
would invite retaliation on the broadest scale
What Mr.. Dulles has said here represents
not so much a new policy of intended action
as it represents new policy of placing our
cards openly on the table. There was tone
of decision about the SecretaryS composite
warning that indicated the Eisenhower admin
istration has made it's studied evaluation of
the threats to peace in Asia and taken its
position on how to cope with them If necessary
The Communists gambled that we would not
intervene when North Korea attacked South
Korea, and they lost that bet. But they
Z gambled again when Red China entered the
war that we would not retaliate against China
itself, and they won that bet Their strategy
of gambling and of probing for soft spots, has
led to justified fear that the next theater of
open aggression might be Indo-China. They
have been given plain notice now that there are
no more soft spots along the Asiatic-West
Pacific front and no assured sanctuaries
behind it.
It is probable that Mr.. Dulles address will
be attacked by Communist Spokesmen as a
belligerent effort to serve an ultimatum on
"peace-loving" powers. If so, the sham of such
criticism will be obvious. 1t is the Communists
themselves who have taught the hard lesson
that peace is not had by merely wanting it.
or seeming to accept the role of a doormat." ;"
If the Communists bring good faith to the
political conference on Korea and genuinely
wish restoration of peace in Indo- China the
battle for peace" in Asia will have taken
significant turn for the better.
A little more air in the front tires is what
the filling station philosopher describes as the
poor mans power steering.
Evening star., 1953-09-03
This and That

should be carefully dried If rain
comes up, and should never be permit
ted out on cold. wet days Warm wet
days, all right. but not the cold ones.
Some cats, like some people, have
little, if any, common sense.
Templeton Jones once had yellow
cat named Quincy that liked to settle
down, its paws folded under it, in a
pool of water.
This is not recommended, Of course;
such cats are best kept in, and the
others carefully wiped off with towel.
Drying a cat is difficult, as any one
knows who has tried it.
A large absorbent towel is best, and
this must be applied as well as the
animal will permit, beginning with the
head.
The head and throat are dried first,
then the chest, then the abdomen. Cat
that point the patient usually begins
to kick)
The back may then be wiped of,
after which one returns to the head,
the throat chest and stomach.
The wet animal is not to be allowed
to lie in a draft.
Today's cats, as a group. are an un-
healthy lot, all right.
The old saying about their nine lives
comes down from an era in which all
cats lived outdoors, and often caught
most if not all Of their food supply.