"In some of the sumptuous ladies' restrooms in the finest of these places brothel and call house madams sometimes recruit their new inmates.
"These are the fathers and mothers of your future generations. Half of your population in the near future may be prison, insane asylum, or hospital inmates, and a great many of the rest may be atrocious supermen of Hitler's type of moron.
"The best your federal, state, county and city governments can do is to tax alcohol and liquor to the limit, which they commendably do.
"No wonder that
"On December 10, 1945, at Miami Beach, Florida, Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, bluntly warned the nation's police chiefs that the United States is headed for a major crime wave, with juveniles taking the lead in an era of 'Bloody' postwar lawlessness.
"Here, at the convention of the nation's police chiefs, Hoover revealed statistics showing an amazing increase in arrests of bobby-sox girls of 18 and under. Hoover asserted that one out of every twenty-three Americans had been criminally fingerprinted by the F.B.I., whose files, he said, contain records of 6,000,000 such persons. He cited figures showing that persons under twenty-one commit 15% of all murders, 36% of the robberies, 30% of all rapists, 34% of thieves, 26% of the arsonists, and 62% of all car thieves.
"Hoover said arrest of bobby-sox girls under eighteen jumped 198% since 1939, while arrests for boys in the same age group increased 48% for homicide, 70% for rape, 72% for assault, 55% for auto thefts, and 101% for drunkenness and drunken driving.
"Lawlessness has taken on such proportions as to even startle the imagination," he said.
"In Miami Beach, December 11, 1945, President Truman in a personal message called on the nation's police officials to organize a country wide crime prevention drive aimed at the roots of juvenile delinquency. Mr. Truman said in the message read to more than 700 delegates to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Convention that he looked upon the rise of juvenile delinquency as perhaps the most alarming problem faced by law enforcement officers.
"Americans cannot afford to regard that problem passively or to postpone the action necessary to its solution," the President said. "I am convinced that the active cooperation of all welfare, religious and social agencies, civic leaders, businessmen and citizens in the broad national crime prevention program directed at the roots of the evil is the path to be followed and without delay."[28]