Elijah Adlow

According to Police Commissioner Francis Adams there were 12,470 arrests in New York City last year in the 16-21 age group, an increase of 15.8 per cent over 1953. Lawlessness and lack of respect, which are prevalent the country over, are the direct result, says ELIJAH ADLOW,Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, of what has happened to American communities since the turn of the century. Can the trend be reversed? A native Bostonian educated in the public schools and at Harvard College and Law School, Judge Adlow has had to sentence many of the young offenders who have come before him in the course of his twenty-seven years on the bench. The cases which he cites are all true.

JUDGE ELIJAH ADLOW is completing his twenty-fifth year in the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. In that quarter of a century, he has witnessed some changes not for the better in American morality. This is the Somethin a-For-Nothing Age, he says, and there is no clearer demonstration of it than in our attitude toward claims. All but one of the instances he describes have occurred within his own court.