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never com» until a permanent policy can be adopted andthen carried through to a conclusion.CHILD CRIMINALS IN RUSSIA.Russia is “infested with pangs of child criminals, -pecial dispatches quote Moscow and Petrograd newspa-1pers as saying. The young people of Russia. the articlessay. are murdering, thieving, carrying on tmffic in drugs1 and indulging in other similar activities, usually the acts, of hardened criminals. To remedy this the soviet government is to form a “children's cheka \ similar to the parent police organization of the Renine regime.It isn't much to he wondered at. that Russian children are reaching the lowest depths of depravity, as they seem to he if the soviet newspapers can be credited with telling the truth even once. The young Muscovites are just like other children in that they are great imitators. In the eots of the bolsheviki they have a precedent for any -ort of crime the can conceive, and childish imaginations can think of everything possible to older people plus a great deal more. That is one of the indictmentsthat civilization has against the Reds of Russio; they hove persistently endeavored to destroy all standards of eonduft and a a result are row reaping the whirlwind of their own sowing.It is also possible that the Russian war on religionVi®has also had a marked effect on the minds of the young. IThe wholesale derision of religion, the Iwn on the teach-:nig of it to young children and the contemptuous treatment bv the soviet officials of all higher precepts of life.• anno' but have made a distinct impression on the children.Already * teeped in th* blood of thousands of victims!of a tyrannou- ruh\ the communists are but edding tothe scort of -■lt;roi.ni- for which they mud ancWer to theworld before ; naming recognition a? a civilized state. « — ' 1I
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Thu, Apr 19, 1923
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