Gang Problems
If our community leaders can do more than “expanded recreational, cultural and leisure problems for young people†with stiffening of criminal penalties, then we are doomed.
Only when idle and rebellious minds and bodies are removed from the streets by renewed application of anti-vagrancy and anti-loitering laws and are placed into compulsory labor battalions to perform some useful labor for society can we expect improvement of the crime and gangs situation.
Some asserted civil liberties may be abridged, but the redirection of parasitic and non-productive energies can salvage a collapsing civilization. No able-bodied person must be allowed to continue consuming, without making contributions, the labor and toil of productive members of society.
EDMUND C. STANLEY
Los Angeles
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