The Desire for a Feeling of Importance

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found on the bottom of a barrel of household plunder. It is this desire that lures many boys and girls into joining gangs and engaging in criminal activities. The average young criminal, according to E. P. Mulroney, one-time police commissioner of New York, is filled with ego. He says his first request after arrest is for those lurid newspapers that make him out a hero.