﻿Edmondson : Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime 7 



offers opportunity for a transverse study because it has present 

 in it most of the various racial or national groups now in this 

 country, and now coming to this country; second, in Gary the 

 immigrant population was on the ground as early as the native 

 born Americans of native born parents, so that whatever the 

 community represents is due alike to immigrants and to native 

 Americans; third, a personal acquaintance with the history of 

 the city and with its people, resulting from two years' work in 

 its limits as juvenile court officer, is of great advantage in know- 

 ing where materials may be found and in making access to them 

 easier. 



In order to make a satisfactory study of juvenile delinquency 

 and adult crime in the immigrant population of Gary, these 

 pathological manifestations must be studied in relation t3 all 

 race or nationalty groups in Gary, for the sake of comparisons. 

 And in order t3 understand that part of the population included 

 in juvenile delinquency and adult crime, it is necessary to make 

 a brief introductory survey of the character of the city of Gary 

 and of its general population. 



2. Gary, the Citt 



To the outsider, interest in the city of Gary centers about 

 one of three things : its industries, its school system, or its dramatic 

 growth. Shot thru these interests and dominating them is the 

 larger universal interest — that of the character of the popula- 

 tion which has made these things possible and which in turn 

 has been made possible by them. 



It is very difficult in writing the story of any contemporary 

 city for even a resident of the city to distinguish history from 

 romantic tradition, to distinguish the present of any given moment 

 from the past and future of that moment, and to refrain from 

 entering upon speculations as to the future. Much more difficult 

 is it to write the story of a city which from a population of nothing 

 in 1906 has reached a population of 40,000 in 1916. 



The materials for this brief survey of Gary, the city, are 

 taken from personal knowledge of the city, from personal inter- 

 1 views with men and women who have helped to make the city 

 and are helping in its growth, from official reports of the city of 

 Gary, from official reports of the county of Lake in which the 

 city is situated, from official reports of the state of Indiana, from 



