Street-land; its little people and big problems . s manyforms of juvenile delinquency. There are 58 STREET-LAND times when a baseball game on the street be-comes irresistible in spite of the fact that it isagin the law. Every dont restrictingplay necessarily means broken rules and brokenhearts. Immigrant children, ignorant of the lawsof the land, are most likely to break often their parents suffer the court summons—in the name of the com-monwealth to answer to a complaint—maybe merely a matter of form to some, but to animmigrant mother it comes like a shock. The child w
Street-land; its little people and big problems . s manyforms of juvenile delinquency. There are 58 STREET-LAND times when a baseball game on the street be-comes irresistible in spite of the fact that it isagin the law. Every dont restrictingplay necessarily means broken rules and brokenhearts. Immigrant children, ignorant of the lawsof the land, are most likely to break often their parents suffer the court summons—in the name of the com-monwealth to answer to a complaint—maybe merely a matter of form to some, but to animmigrant mother it comes like a shock. The child who transgresses should not bemisunderstood. The boy himself is not alwaysto be blamed. Neither are his parents. Astudy of street gangs makes clear their influ-ence on delinquency. The East-Side gangsters—Gyp the Blood,Leftie Louie, and the rest of the band—mightall have turned out Rabbis if they had remainedin their native land. It was the new environ-ment that undid them. The synagogues thatthe fathers of these notorious gangsters built. TIT Children Arrested in One Month. Which Shall Children Cease Playing ? Shall the Law be Modified^ Shall wc provide more play space ? Over half the arrests were for playing games,
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