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Hope for 1948
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conversations. They may give you a lot of ribbing, but they're really smart and sweet too, under that outer covering, if you use a blow-torch.
We've nothing to worry about from this generation of teen-agers today. I don't thinli the country is in any danger at all, if we can all bring up oui" share and leave it in solid order for them. They'll follow through okay. . . .
But I hope that parents will invest more time with them, more thought, and more financial assistance too in the maintenance of such important youth organizations as the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., the Boy and Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, groups such as the "Teen-Agers' Clubs" in Long Beach, the Deputy Auxiliary Police in Los Angeles, and others that are guiding their youthful energy into constructive channels, fostering the preservation of ideals, teaching them responsibility and initiative and making them strong little junior citizens. They're our whole security, these kids, and they'll pay plenty of interest on the rich principles •of their heritage, America . . . where the "three Rs" still stand for reading, writing and arithmetic . . . and not those others . . . rags, riots and relief.
I was never a teen-ager myself, having been born at the age of 21, but I did belong to the Y.M.C.A. when I was young back in Cleveland, and used to drop in there a lot, on my way to the pool hall. I'm on the Board of Managers of the North Hollywood Y.M.C.A. now and I know what they're doing for our youth.
I've visited the well-organized "Teen-Agers' Clubs" in Long Beach, with their "Canteens" which provide, among many other advantages, a "front room" for the less fortunate members living in short-of-housing communities, and a social meeting place for teen-agers to listen to the latest records, dance, bowl, and on some occasions to listen to lectures given by noted authorities on glamor, sports, and the like. "What do you enjoy most at the Canteen?" I asked one husky, clean-cut member. "Just congregating," he said. "It gives us a place we need — just our own."
LET'S hope for more widespread recognition of such adult-advised groups the coming year, and for active sports programs such as that offered to the "D.A.P.s" (Deputy Auxiliary Police), who are also instructed by the Los Angeles Police departments in traffic safety and the functions of city government. They have a sports program which includes four kid football teams, the "Junior Dons," which I sponsor, Mickey Rooney's "Fighting Irish," Jimmy Durante's "Schnozzolas," and Al Jolson's "Sonny Boys," who play at intermission half time between the L. A. Dons' professional games in the Coliseum. I sit on the bench with my team and have repeatedly offered to play, but the Captain always puts it this way, "Wait until the last of the third quarter. Coach, and if we're still ahead *. . . come on in. . . ."
But I'm plenty proud of my "Junior Dons" let me tell you, those twelve and thirteen-year-olds like Louie, our goodnatured Swedish tackle, who works a paper route after school, and Vincent, who's of Mexican descent, and cuts lawns and does odd jobs to pick up his extra change. In fact, of all
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