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Children Arrested for Playing

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 9.

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Children Arrested for Playing

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The New York "Evening Journal" rightly protests against the laws that make children's playing criminal. It says: "Don't you think it interesting to know that whereas one hundred and twenty-eight children were arrested in a given period for playing baseball and seventy-seven children were arrested for playing 'cat,' only twenty-three were arrested for 'shooting craps,' that is to say, for gambling, which injures the children's morals, and NOT ONE was arrested for smoking cigarettes, which destroys the children's health!" Now if it is wrong for children to play the only place where they can play, then some other place ought to be provided. There is need of such editorials.