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70 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY notebook. Every club has its own notebook, which is kept in the group chib supervisor's office. That is a copy of a letter which they wrote. I think around a year ago or so one of the local groups wrote it. Chairman Kefauver. Suppose you read that letter. Mr. TuTAK. This is to the editor and it appeared in the Daily News of January 7,1954: We are boys and girls of the Bebops Club. We would greatly appreciate it if you would not call us such names as punks, hoodlums, and ratpacks in your paper, because in our club we have different nationalities and we have respect for each other, not only in our club, but in our State, country, and other countries. Our parents wonder why you call us teenagers such rough names. They are losing confidence in its. In your paper you call us these names and it is getting us in bad with the people in our district. We want to be friends with all the people and we cannot unless you stop calling us all those names. When we walk down the street people call us such names as ratpacks and hoodlums, and by those names we are losing our reputation. M.\RY ESTEVAN, Bebops Clu'b Secretani. There are some 40 members in the Bebops Club. Chairman Kefaiwer. We thank you very much for telling us about this. I think you are doing fine work. Do you have anything else you want to add ? Mr. TuTAK. Yes, I do. I feel that if we consider that nothing in this comitry is more important tlian these kids in any community in the United States, this is perliaps one of the major ways in which we can help all of the people to develo]:) positive and meaiiingful values and attitudes and l^eliavior patterns in our society here, no matter where we are. I feel that we ought to have more money appro})riated for research in tlie whole area of human growth and development, and, further, I feel that we ought to accept this fact: That it is an expensive job to work with people once they have developed these un- liealthy social attitudes, and it is very, very expensive. However, it is more economical to start at wliatever point they are in this negative development, and try to rehabilitate them than to just let them ])rogress backward. Chairman Kefauver. We agree with you fully about that. We thank you very much, and we wish jou good luck in your future work. Mr. TuTAK. I hope you have time to come over and see our clubs. Chairman Kefauver. If we have time we certainly will come. We are about to recess at this time until tomorroAv morning, and Ave do have one other witness, Mr. Eeynolds Ochoa. Mr. Ochoa, would you rather testify in the morning first thing or this afternoon ? Mr. Ochoa. At the committee's convenience. Whatever Avill be convenient to the committee. Chairman Kefauver. We are going to start at 10 o'clock in the morning, but we will start 15 minutes earlier if you Avill come and be with us in the morning. We Avill appreciate that. Mr. Ochoa. I certainly Avill. Chairman Kefauver. If there is nothing else at this time, the com- mittee Avill stand in recess until 9: 45 tomorroAv morning. (Whereupon, at 5: 15 p. m., Wednesday, Jime 15, 1955, the subcom- mittee recessed until Thursday, June 16, 11955, at 9: 45 a. m.)