One out of five! Why? You can’t lay it to “ underprivilege.” In terms of creature-comforts, Ameri can kids, as a whole, are the most privileged of all kids. The boy who robs to get a new four-barrel carbure tor for his hot rod is not underprivi leged. The tricky kid who slugs a woman for her purse in order to buy a “ pop” from the comer heroin ped dler is not a fugitive from starvation. The vicious gang that beats a crippled boy to death for “ kicks” is not strug gling for dignity. Last summer Judge William J. Obermiller of Whiting, Indiana, a Chicago industrial suburb, found him self confronted by a group of youths, aged 17 to 19 who had been drinking and fighting on a beach. The defen dants ran combs through their luxuri ant hair, snapped their fingers and talked “ bop” talk. The rest of the gang filled the spectator’s benches to listen and laugh. The procedure in such cases had been to parole the defendants to their ineffective parents. Suddenly Judge Obermiller got a different idea. He summoned three This is the advertisement which, investi gators believe, resulted in mailorder sale of the rifle used to kill President Kennedy. Such ads appeared in several magazines which circulate among gun enthusiasts. husky policemen to spank the ring- leaders. Then he ordered the ducktail haircuts shaved off and the defendants to spend the next four weekends clean ing up the beach under police super vision. This was not according to the script. The finger-snapping stopped abrupt ly. The young spectators slunk away. The beach was cleaned up and delin quency rates dropped fast. Recently in Montana, Judge Lester H. Loble of Helena cut the kid crime rate by junking the rule of secrecy. The press was invited to name names. The courtroom doors opened to the public. Parents of wild youngsters suf fered the humiliation of being identi fied with their crimes. When Judge Loble gave a kid one more chance, he didn’t make a speech about the Pilgrim Fathers and George Washington. He had a shorter one. He’d say, “Next time you coine here, bring your toothbrush.” They got the message.
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