The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 13

if! THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 13. 1954 ad 13 i Back-f o-Church (Move Initialed Continued From First Fage jsumably asking; "If not, why not." Whiting said the posters Police Break Up Teen-Age Mob Continued Fretn First Page rounded up ret ently there for act of delinquency and hoodlumism. Lt.

Jo6eph O'Neill, commander of the Juvenile- Aid Bureau of the 1 ft 'k I Ar -i t' I 7 f' I Police Department, will assist Kronbar in cor ducting the confer' ences. "The parents of these through the permission of Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons, would be put on every police ve-j hide in the city. They also will be 1 placed in stores, civic associations. churches, schools and on PTC' trolleys.

The conference, to which heads; 'of churches and youth orgamza-j jtions have been invited, has been' I up for 8 P. M. Monday in the lodge headquarters at 1626 Arch st. Invitations to attend the con-! erence have been accepted by the Rev. William D.

Powell, executive; secretary of the Philadelphia! Enclosures to Fit Any Style Tub or Shower Cuitom-md, cu(tom-instli4 lor discriminating komt cwmrt. Lrt aur cipcrh k'p you without Srg or ebligition. Call BAring 2-0501 said Kronbar. "must be made made aware of. the seriousness of what could hi.ppen in outbreaks such as the one last Wednesday Or Oor Ird'i fri.vf night." -The importance of auch confer ertfes was underlined by O'Neill, who reported that his agents.

In their investigation of the recent Council of Churches: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Rilley.

archdio-1 cesean director of the Catholic) Youth Organization; Rabbi Leon1 S. Lang, spiritual leader of the West Philadelphia Jewish Com- outbreak, had run into a wall of uncooperative silence on the part of the youths involved and equally baffling attitule on the part of parents. imunity Center; the Rev. Luther Cunningham, Civil Service Com-I miasioner; Judge Leonard M. Prop-' per, of the Juvenile Court; Francis Almost every one of the youth's mothers, when questioned, showed a "completely protective' vfhtude toward her particular child, O'Neill reported, and a refusal to believe OIL or GAS Automatic HEAT BY DELCO THE LEADER that her son was in any serious trouble.

DEFENDED ET PARENTS The 14-year-old woodworkers above are James Oliphant (left), of Brandy-wine and Theodore Matthis, of 38 1 0 Wallace who put finishing touches on articles made in the shop of the West Philadelphia Boys Club at 3512 Haverford ave. The quoit pitchers at left are Charles Maurer, 1 1, and Eugene Bannister, 10, members of a club for younger boys in another section of the city. Indifference Seen Root of Crime s. Bosworth. of the Friends Neighborhood Guild; Nochem S.

Win-net, former Municipal Court Judge and chairman of the Crime Prevention Division; and Mrs. Walter Craig, co-chairman of the Philadelphia Clean Up Committee. CURFEW BACKED Whiting said Gibbons. District Attorney Richardson Dilworth and other heads of law enforcement agencies also will be invited to attend thtm rnnforanp. "In almost a 11 cases, the parents told us their child had admitted to them that he was there, but had said he had no part in the fight.

O'Neill said. "They accept the boy's story and" will not try in any way to find our. if it is so. In that way they are failing completely Continued From First Page any number of quartettes "choral societies." jGauchos, the Haverford Tigers I "There seems to be a general; The lodge official asserted the and! but, as a rule, work off their energy1 apathy about this problem, is behmd" in sports and social affairs under, talfr Jjw? curiew th? end to cooperate th the law enforce meat agencies in quelling this proper supervision. All too often.

I iinai mey nave sent a teiegram to thing." though, Jones' most important oomeumes wnen one ot my ooys councilman aui urtona. spon O'Neill described the youths STREET CORNER WORK Most of Jones' work is on "outside," on street corners, contact with one of the Junior eets into trouble with the Dolice 01 me ordmance, to express the in PRE-TEEN 'SPORTSMEN' his views on the subject rluhmpn rnmp n-hpn thi mpmhpr Hnier Ktnrp nH inu nthpr niof can even nna nis parents at can't even find his parents "Our primary purpose," Whiting jT. lanos juvenile court taken into cusi ody, without exception, as "cop haters," who hold loyalty to the sang above any respect for the law. and who "clam up" under questioning as proof of their allegiance. The few who ne mceiy to una ooys Between it -when I first started." Jones re a knot of re-leaders to 'O- nome i nave to iook tnem up in said, "is to weave a taproom.

sponsible spiritual ana 17 wnat ne tries to ao is WOrked mostly with kids! were generally agreed that there become evident through chronic or was no one clear-cut solution for continued absence from school, the problem of juvenile delinquen- All truants do not become involved cy or gang warfare, and that only in other types of delinquency, but PARENTS CLOSE EYES operate, with the police in curbing this rising tide of juvenile might have talked, he added, ap "When teachers ask the parents' closer cooperation between such all of those who are otherwise de parently refused to do so out of to come to school because their simc tluWB "ctuic uicy i between 15 and 17. Now we try to gravitate to one or another of thej bring tnem at 13 or 14 and work vicious gangs that are always on with them they're 19 Ifs just "L1000111 for recruits. a quesUon of work, work, work. The clubs might meet any here: trouble is. things seem to in an empty store or the cellar of get worse houses are more crowd- iKy riownl taf only $1.00 wk! iiimolci by ngitrd end kdd kaatinf ciparttl Call day nighl.

W7 7860 Subvrbm mtiat call callxt Hasting Division of DELCO WINDOW CO. 64S6 M.rlat Sfraaf agencies could do much to ac- fear of reprisals. child is in trouble, the mother iue uuu muui hnthPrPrf PpnniA rlnu 0I the police officer and the church linquent have also been truants. "Sometimes the help of the prin cinal. teacher, counselor, attend complish an improvement.

"As far as the solution to this Wednesday's rioting, said the Juvenile Aid Bureau head, broke ior youtn nome training, ne continued. "We can't do the job cn- nuuse. nicy uuhsi ph than si or nni. t-o-r. their eyes to this civic cancer.

They're like ostriches, putting prooiem is, concerned, there is noiance officer and other specialists, one answer," observed President SUch as school doctors, nurses and giamorous name a meiiiueri tho Falrnn th tuely. but will cooperate to the I i 1 uieir neaas in ine sana fullest extent." moving into the neighborhood, i There's so much to do and not enough to do it with." iiiuviiik 1 1 1 1 Lim nr ynnnrnnnn Judge Hazel Brown of Municipal psychologists, has not been enough Doesn't Jones ever feel like Court. "The only way to attack to help the child in trouble. Only il Receives tounci giving the whole thing up? "WTiy, of course not," he "Over the years, I see enough im-, provement among the boys to WHO IS TO BLAME? Who is to blame? Jones couldn't list all the reasons. They are social.

Plan for Parkway I make me want to keep going. It Deputy Mayor Michael J. Byrne, economic, they are in the make-up out as a showdown between allied gangs brought into West Philadelphia by "The oBttoms," who control the southern part of that district, and "Thft Tops," their longtime rivals fror.i the northern part. GANG ALLIANCES "The Bottoms" have been outnumbered in lis local rivalry for some time, investigators learned, and formed alliances with gangs from South Philadelphia, North Philadelphia, and the central city to bolster their ranks. "The Tops" retaliated by forming an alliance with what O'Neill called the the firm authority of the Juvenile Aid Bureau of the Police Department, or of the Juvenile Court, may be of service to these young people." Judge Leonard M.

Propper of Municipal Court agreed that "the juvenile delinquency problem as whole can be met, and well met, if the home, the school, the church. this problem is through the full cooperation of everyone involved the churches, schools, welfare agencies, and the courts." Judge Brown pointed out that her court always had enjoyed the full cooperation of the Juvenile Aid Bureau and other agencies directly involved, and that they were doing everything within their little cowboys mighty discouraging some- in the absence of Mayor Joseph S. of the individual boy. "Walk around thin netehhnrhonrf lune5' t0 a Doy go to jail ana Clark, yesterday sent to City h. then come back to the same awful will shop at Council the proposal of the Phila-Ithese peope hve in he advifies i home life he had before and start delphia Redevelopment Authority -Most 0f them should have been omg bad all over again.

to redevelon North Trianele No. 1 torn rinu-n inn nn Th I "But then, every once in awhile. and our community resources are power to combat a situation of! kept on a strong and high level. along the Benjamin Franklin need education, the parents as well one. of th maks something By community resources, he ex aUare.

nliinarl -T UA i as the chiiaren. They need to go anu JUU nun, uwjuc to church. you na( a llttle 10 do uiln il and Parkway, into a four-building modern apartment bite. I "Woodland Avenue Gang," 'hoselcol-XSLQRS ACTIVE We need more places for small jeei ue tnrowing your chest ation facilities, and sufficient probation officers for the Juvenile Court." "Counselors in all secondary territory in uie soumwesi part oi the city borders on that of "Thej Council will hold a public hear- groups to meet and work together, out Bottoms. The existence of these schools, and counseling teachers in about half the elementary possibly in December, to act, instead of big dance halls that at- Judge Propper centended that ententes explains the fact that 1 Ssjj "I 14 "the formation and operation of the proposal.

The area con- lrat't D18 crowds ironi rival gangs, verv sDecial i cerned is bounded bv Callowhill That's how trouble like the riot in Dr. C. G. ALGASE DENTIST PLASTIC PLATES MADE IN ONE DAY Lu specialized service and help juvenile gangs is a One boy hirh mn the proposed Vine st. express-est rruiaaeipnia starts ve addresses from all sections of c.

Iype 01 Wey school adjustment," she said. gavi will get sore because nis girl is way, 22d and 24th st. The plans wynnewood and must be broken up by the the city, the lieutenant said. I 1 i call for a sale of the land to the dancing with another and he Tne attendance service. re- SOt MARKET The battle began alter.

dance jsponsibie lor tne enforcement of iPolice Department. The police Triangle for con threatens to 'wash voir i WAlMt 241.1 First thing you know, the whole. n. in xiuioj BMiuiBnu, school and child-labor laws, seeks, not using enough men to combat I struction of an 880-unit, 8100 and Spruce as members of th AAA to help those whose problems have this form of delinquency gang is fighting. M.i i tl mm i iwn' wii t.

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