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Last week New York State called on Medicine to help break up this criminal educational system, and offered a new institution to work in. The New York State Training School for Boys formally opens at Warwick, N. Y. Oct. 1. The school already contains 170 boys whose troubles range from incorrigibility to thievery, lust and murder. By Oct. 1 they will have 330 companions...
...Into Warwick will troop some 30 doctors from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Manhattan. Under direction of Columbia's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye and with the advice of Professor Frederick Tilney (neurologist) and his colleagues, the platoon of doctors will function as a pre-gangster prophylactic unit...
Close records will be made and kept for each of the 500 Warwick boys - their physical disorders, their nervous systems, their psychological and mental states. Said Professor Tilney last week: "A large number of factors contribute to making the criminal. Many have important neuro logical aspects. One of the leading questions which must be investigated in this work is, what is the brain's adequacy for the purpose of social adjustment. ' The human brain may be rendered unfit to social adjustment by disease or faulty development, by improper training in the home or in the school, by harmful...
Sample task at Warwick: to prove to the boys that gangsters are no heroes. When Owney Madden, Manhattan thug, beer-&-whiskey runner, and night club operator, recently returned to Sing Sing (probably to escape competitors who want to maim him), Warwick boys wrote him letters which were sympathetic and full of hero worship...
...show base motives on the part of the lover (Monroe Owsley), persimmon-mouthed Helen Twelvetrees is made (unlike Rose Allen) a three-million-dollar heiress. Cad Owsley's villainy is further pointed by his having changed his name. The girl's father (Robert Warwick) and brother (Robert Young) see through his disingenuousness. Helen does not. To force a marriage, Owsley takes her to a hotel overnight, confronts the father next morning. Wild-eyed from an all-night search, the brother is knocked down by the suitor, gets a gun and shoots...