" HOOLIGANISM."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—May I make a suggestion through your columns respecting the " Hooligans " of whom we have heard so much lately ? It was hoped that through the spread of education crime would diminish, and that the manners of the people would greatly improve. To judge from recent reports in the newspapers this hope has not been realised. It would surely be of service if we knew in what schools the juvenile offenders who are brought before the police Magistrates bad been educated, and what amount of education, as tested by the standards they had passed, they had acquired. Might I therefore suggest that the Magistrates should be invited to ask questions by which these facts might be elicited, and that publicity should be given to the knowledge thus obtained, so that steps might be taken to warn the schools which are responsible for the education of the offenders ?—I am,
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