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24 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Mr. LiNDQUisT. A young person seems to be incurably romantic. He has hero worship in his very bones. Of course, we have a number of athletes on our staff. For example, right now working at our place, back from Princeton Theological Seminary, is Don Wihnont, all- American football player, and naturally, these boys flock around a fellow like that. They see this gi^eat big chap and they find out he has a definite interest in them. Well, they respond at once, and get right in and go to work. We have brought back for this staff this very weel^ six additional young men from universities and from seminaries around the country who are at worlv on this matter. If we can face the insecurity of those boys and girls and help them realize that that insecurity isn't the basic condition of their character and of their life, they have a marvelous way of responding. just 2 years ago we had a young man—I have forgotten what par- ticular grade he was in in higli school—but he had a police record— the police got in touch with the director of our weekday activities, Mr. James Ferguson, a former star athlete at UCLA, and he very quietly arranged it so lie would bump into this boy. They got to know each other, and then Mr. Ferguson invited liim over and said, ''Would you like to play basketball ^ We luive a good gym."' And they brought him over and inside of a year and a half that boy had not only left this area of delinquency, but he was a positive force for good. Now he is the associate director of one of our clubs and has signified his intention of going into the Christian ministry. We have 3 young men studying for the ministry now out of the 7& young men, as I said before, who have former police records, and have been rehabilitated thi'ough this program in M'hich we try to place every boy with another person. We don't believe it is possible for us to have the wholesale approach; we have got to work with them individually. But once we get them into the club, it seems that it is just a short while before they are interested in doing something for the club, maybe helping to organize another club, and helping to advance the fortunes of tlie club. For example, three chibs thi_s past w^eek voted to undertake the complete support of several Korean orphans. Chairman Kefauver. You mean the kids themselves? Mr. LiNDQUisT. Yes, the Ivids themselves. The kids who have been in trouble are now trying to help other people out of trouble. Chairman Kefattver. Let's see, Eeverend Lindquist: You have 6,000 in Sunday School ^ Mr. Lindquist. Yes, a little more. Senator Kefauver. And out of that number you say that you form clubs. How many clubs do you have ? Mr. Lindquist. Now we have 27 clubs, but those clubs aren't neces- sarily formed out of the Sunday school group. The Sunday school group, you see, meets on Sunday, and they are a type of person who rarely gets into juvenile delinquency problems. What we are doing is to help to man to a certain extent these clubs with boys and girls from Sunday school; constituting a corps of fellowship to which we can invite the delinquents. The delinquents come in and get enjoy- ment, and, to use the theological term, "regenerated."