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JUVENILE DELHSTQUENCY 69 think, 15 social group clubs or gnno;s, as some people call them—they are going to become social groups—but they have many other groups also—there are a number of these groups that would not come to our boys club because they looked upon it as "sissy." 80 we sent out workers, just as the group in the probation department does. AVe sent out workers to those hills and to the east-side area, and met these groups right on the streets. One of these groui)s met last December m a locker room of a playground clubhouse, and that is as close as they would get into an agency program. This is a gang on its way to becoming a social group club. They are shown here in this picture working on a poster in our shop, on a poster for a dance they are holding. And here is their way of making a contribution as a group. This is~their tirst attempt at a constitution. This is their club which we are helping them to form. Chairman Kefauver. What you have been showing us are the ele- mentarv rules written out by the boys themselves ? Mr. tuTAK. That is correct, for their own behavior as a group. This is the first step that we are taking to help them, from within them- selves, learn what are acceptable social values and attitudes and be- havior patterns. Chairman Kefauver. This is very interesting. Mr. TuTAK. December 1954. A-1. Ice skating. That's the date. And then the next group. 15 cents a w^eek for everyone. Rules on the bus: No spitting outside of the bus or car. Xo holler- ing or yelling in the bus. No swearing, profane or abusive or ob- scene language. No pushing when skating. Who may join club. Little Clover only. Only 25 may join. Club is to have'a membership card. Club meets on Friday night. The name of the club is—they didn't decide on the name at that time, but they have it on the poster. . . Here is another club. The Cobras up in Happy Valley. This is a ganir. Thev wouldn't come to the club at all. And here were some riiies that they made for their first camp trip to Sequoia. Incidentally, for the teenagers—a teenager goes to camp that is sponsored by^our group, he himself will take the opportunity and the effort to think and plan and organize his own camp group, and even ]:)lans so far as to set the fee. For instance, the Cobras went to the Sequoia farm last summer, and here is the way in which they planned that trip. Chairman Kefaitver. Well, it is too long to read, l)ut No. 1 is no smokinir in the bus except at breaks. No alcoholic drinking before or during trip. No night prowling in cabins. No kiiife-throwmg at each other. I think you might make a copy of that and give it to us. (The copy referred was not received prior to printing.) Mr. TuTAK. Here is another group. Incidentally, this grou]> meets every Tuesday night. They met last night again. This grou]-* was started, incidentally, by a group of six junior high-school girls who were referred to us by the junior high in our comniunity. They were such a disturbing influence that the girls' vice principal asked us it! we wouldn't work together with the school to help these girls develoj) some acceptable social pattern of behavior. These girls call them- selves by the name of "Killerettes.'' The club name has been changed now. It has become a coed club. And we just took that out of their