Durham, Sept. 6—More young men are in the prisons of America than are in the colleges and universities, with 286,000 in prison and 250,00 in institutions of higher education, Willis A. Parker, field representative of the National Playground commission, told members of the Durham Lion’s club at their luncheon last week.
“Settle the problem of the boy’s leisure time and you have made a man. Ninety per cent of the mischief into which a boy gets is from undirected expenditure of leisure time. Legitimate pleasures will keep him growing along the right lines and it is up to us to see that the boy is afforded the opportunities to make the most of his extra hours,” Mr. Parker said.
From page 5 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 6, 1926
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