K.O. UPLIFTERS.
FOR NEW YORK GANGS. NEW YORK, March 28. A unique attempt to reform the New York criminal will be made by Marshall Stillman. The movement is an organisation which has done social uplift work for many years in the underworld of the city. Mr Alpheus Gear, son of the founder of the movement, announced that low dives will be supplanted by social centres, headed by college men from Yale., T’rincetown and Havard, who 'could be “good mixers,” able to play games and to talk to the gangsters in their own language. Only brawny two fisted Collegians will be chosen, adept in the art of self-defence, and able to instil admiration through athletic activities. Mr Gear hopes, moreover, that the attractiveness at social centres will induce misled youths to join with the College men in the new activities, designed to give healthier interests. The centres will also extend aid to worthy ex-criminals who desire to return to lawful ways.
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Grey River Argus, 30 March 1926, Page 5
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