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ALEXANDER B. GEARY
LAW BUILDING
TELEPHONES
JAMES L. RANKIN
12-14 E. 5TH STREET
2646-2647-2648
NOTARY PUBLIC
MATTHEW RANKIN
LAW OFFICES
OF
GEARY & RANKIN
CHESTER, PA.
June 6, 1929.
Hon. George W. Wickersham,
Law Enforcement Commission,
Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Wickersham:
To begin with, I am convinced that you told the
truth in your address yesterday.
For some time, I have been inclined to believe that
our compulsory education laws, as they exist, contribute some-
what to the criminal class. In this State, a youth, until six-
teen years of age, is prohibited from working and compelled to
attend school. There are a large number of boys not bent toward
a school education, and in addition to avoiding study, we find
them loitering around street corners, pool rooms, etc., with the
result that when they arrive at sixteen years of age, they have
not been trained to work, and it is practically impossible to per-
suade them to work. From that class, come many of our hold-up
men, gunmen, etc.
You have probably noted that the greater part of
the criminal class is made up of young men.
ABG:ALH
Very Gy truly,
B.
Geary
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