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Could We Be To Blame?
Every day we read in the city papers of another horrible crime of kidnapping and rape. Here lately, the stories shock and distress more and more frequently.
There are bound to be reasons •why such horrible crimes seem to be on the increase. It gives pause for thought that maybe just average citizens are partially to blame.
Could it be that today's apparent lack of modesty in Hie dress of women is contributing to such crimes? We see children in little sun suits, and we think that the sun is good for them, but at what age should they begin to dress more modestly?
Clayton Rand tells the story of an incident in the Deep South of some years back. A colored man was being hanged for rape, and he was asked if. he had anything he’d like to say before they strung him up. “Yes,” said the colored man, “you wjjite men tell your ladies to be more careful how they act in front of us colored men.”
At one time? after a little girl had disappeared and foul play was* suspected, a city paper reported that “all known sex offenders were being rounded up.” It should not take long to round them up: ope should be able to walk down the hall and call each one from his cell, and there would be good proof that he was not guilty because he shouldn’t be turned loose <. on the public. The flagrant manner in which sex-criminals are turned loose may be another reason why <we have these sex crimes.
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