UPLIFT IN NEW YORK
REFORMING THE CRIMINAL.
* (Australian-New Zealand Cablo Assn.)
(Received 29th March, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, 28th March,
A unique attempt to reform the New York criminal will be made by the Marshall Stillman Movement, an organisation which has done special uplift work in the underworld for many years. Mr. Alpheus Gear, son of the founder of thj movement, has announced that low dives will be supplanted by social centres, headed by college men from Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, who would be good mixers, able to play games and talk to the gangster in his own language. Only brawny twofisted collegians will be chosen, adept in the art of self-defence, and able to instill admiration through athletic activities. : .
Mr. Gear hopes, moreover, that the attractiveness of the social centres will induce misled youngsters to join with college men in their new activities, desinged to give the former healthier interests. The centres will also extend their aid to worthy ex-criminals who desire to return to lawful Ways. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 10
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168UPLIFT IN NEW YORK Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 10
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