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They are either Wards of the Courts or of some adult on the theory they are incapable of making sound judgments. If they don’t listen to reason, then kick them into line. Rea- son is, naturally, what adults say it is. A parade of Authorities has appeared before the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcom- mittee in nine major cities throughout the country. Police- men, judges, social workers, all adults who know what’s best for young people. In San Francisco, some 4 . the committee for ‘the first time. They were long gone and way out, man, so far as the adults were concerned. Senator Thomas C. Hen- nings (D-Mo.), subcommittee chairman, is a kindly man, one of the Senate’s liberals. He understands youth because “we all remember we were once young ourselves,” he said. Now, though, juvenile delin- quency is ‘fa great national problem — indeed a crisis in some places,” the Senator said. _ Neither the Senator nor any other adult except Orville Lus- ter, director of the Quaker- sponsored Youth For Service, seemed to think it especially significant that the committee could have gone on this long without hearing something from the alleged crisis-causers young people appeared before themselves. By JOHN PITMAN MOSCOW — Soviet law- fers are seriously concern- with the persistence of yenile delinquency and cas- child neglect four decades r the founding of the Ssh “We have long ended with shild neglect as a mass thing“ Y lared Izvestia, the govern- ent organ. “The Soviet ung people have every con- m for work and study. All oors to a joyous life for utive activity are wide to them. Still, it some- 1es happens that an adoles- tf of unsteady character § under evil influences that ight bog him ‘down, if a Iping hand is not stretched t, if he is not forewarned.” oncern over this is seen in “Draft Law on Enhancing Role of the Public in zations, this law. The three pieces of legislation were promulgated by the Legislative Proposals Committees of the two cham- bers of the Supreme -Soviet, and were published in the press. : The people of the USSR are thereby given the opportunity of weighing and discussing these proposed laws, and sug- gesting changes and amend- ments before their submission for adoption by the Supreme Soviet. - The draft law places respon- union and other social organi- workers’ collectives, state and local organs of pub- lic education, culture, health, and social welfare, as well as on the courts, procurator’s of: Affairs. Moreover, the draft law batting Offenses,’’ and in |places the problem within the © model statutes to amplify }context of an overall increase | George Gee G & B HEATING Lid. Gas - Oil - Electric - Plumbing - Sheet Metal INSTALLATIONS — SERVICING TERMS MAY BE ARRANGED “Aals pasties Street CY 9-4919 sibility on local soviets, trade. fice and Ministry of Internal : of public participation in en- forcing Soviet law and social- ist morality. It says: “The measures conducted by the state for education of the young generation in the spirit of communist morals, the all- round Protection of the rights of children and adolescents in our couniry, the organization of an extensive network of children’s institutions, and a number of other measures on a national scale create the nec- essary conditions for doing away with child neglect and abolishing the causes of juven- ile delinquency. Instances of law violation or immoral be- havior among children and adolescents cannot, therefore, be tolerated.” Accordingry, tie draft” law authorizes the government of the USSR and the govern- |ments of the Union Republics to establish Commissions for the Affairs of Minors. These commissions are regulated and instructed in detail in the “Model Statute of Commiss- ions on the Affairs of Minors.” The commissions are to be set up on a territorial, region- al, area, town and district bas- is, and are accountable to the executive committee of the re- spective .soviet which estab- lishes them. Their membership is to include deputies of the soviets,. representatives of so- cial organizations, teachers low the USSR copes with juvenile delinquency: ‘create conditions for ending child neglect’ andeschool officials, health and social welfare officials, and police authorities. Some functions of the com- missions: ®, Screening out children Bane adolescents in need of state and public aid. @ Act to send such minors to school or to provide jobs for adolescents; ® Investigate offenses com- mitted by minors; @ Supervise reformatories, labor institutions for minors, children’s reception centres, and special curative-rehabilita- tive institutions for children and adolescents; @ Supervise minors behav- ior after their discharge from such institutions; @ Intercede with legal ag- encies to exempt a minor from punishment, to commute a sentence, to pass a conditional sentence, or to release him be- fore he has served full time, and to clear a minor of a crim- inal record; @ Control factory and in- stitutional observance of work- ‘ing hours, conditions, and liv- ing conditions for minors. What constitutes juvenile delinquency according to” Sov- jet law? “Socially dangerous acts,” says the statute. And “other anti-social acts’”’ such as “petty hooliganism, peony pro- fiteering and sO on.” The four young witnesses said teenagers should have more respect from adults and assistance in finding a place in the community, including jobs. They found it difficult to in< terject these thoughts because the questioning, though kind- ly, was directed mainly toward such delinquent abberations as car-stealing and gang-rumbles. It was only in a private inter- view after the hearings that the teenagers spoke freely about their job problems. Newspaper reporters cover- ing the hearing also showed the usual adult obtuseness in getting at what the teenagers were talking about. ‘Why Kids Go Bad” headlined The Chronicle, and The Examiner: “SF Youths Tell Senators of Juvenile Gang Rumbles.” “We do not call them gangs,’ Luster explained in in- troducing the young men, ‘‘We call them clubs.” Youth For Services has con- tact with 27 such clubs with a membership of 300 in this city. The young men, too, insisted on calling them clubs. “People call them gangs, it puts them on the spot,” said Perey Pinkney, 20, president of the Aces Club. “Some guys want a little excitement, maybe, a little fame. They do a bad thing— well, maybe not so bad.” The picture of youth on the loose given by the young men was considerably milder than that of adults. It was obvious they do not regard juvenile de- linquency as the problem, al. though they clearly disapprove of excesses some vouth com-" mit. ‘ Three of them, it developed in an interview after the hear- ings, are unemployed. One of them has a part time job. They would all like nothing vgs than a good job. They said most of the young men in the Clubs were unem- ployed. “When a guy gets'a job, he kinda drifts away from the Club. Like he don’t need it any more,” one said. One adult who did throw some light on the problem of youth employment was Muni- cipal Judge Andrew J. Eyman. He testified the “job problem is becoming more and more acute for the laboring lass of people.” December 4, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7