UPLIFT WORK.
REFORMING THE CRIMINAL. A NEW’ YORK SCHEME. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGIIT. NEW 1 YORK. March 28. A unique attempt to reform the New York criminal will be made by the Marshall Stillman movement, an organisation which has done social uplift work for many years in the underworld of tfce city. Mr. Alphens Gear, a son of the founder of the movement, announced that low dives will be supplanted by social centres, headed by college men from Yale, Princetown, and Harvard, who would be good mixers, able to play games and to talk to gangsters in their own language. Only brawny two-fisted collegians will be chosen, and they must be adept in the work of self-defence and. able to instil admiration through athletic activities. Mr. Gear hopes, moreover, that the attractiveness of the social centres will induce misled youths to join with the college men in the new activities, whieiT are designed to give healthier interests. The centres will also extend aid to worthy ex-criminals who desire to return. to‘ lawful wavs. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 March 1926, Page 5
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176UPLIFT WORK. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 March 1926, Page 5
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