don’t try to run it instead of letting young people do their
own planning.”’

‘“Tune in for Teens’’ was the idea of a 17-year old Houston,
Texas, boy. Hisclub, begun ona shoestring, hasa soft drink
bar, a thirty-five cent cover charge, and a profitable juke
box. The owner’s mother is chaperone, and most of the
work is done by customers.

Communities Initiate Programs

Many good programs have originated with public and
private community agencies, with clubs, schools, churches;
with local officials or public spirited men and women, with
newspapers and radio stations. Experience shows, how-
ever, that even where adults take the lead, youth wants a
voice in the program from the beginning. The most success-
ful projects have had the cooperation of teen-agers in both
planning and operation.

City Government Takes Steps
' The mayor of Bainbridge, New York, called a town meet-
ing to propose a curfew law. After talking it over, the
gathering decided instead to appoint a five-member youth
committee to consult with teen-agers.

Out of their suggestions came a social center, a swimming
hole, and a series of dances. The boys and girls helped to
put the center in operation, took a hand in building the
swimming hole, and managed their own dances.

Young people in San Diego, California, found themselves
high and dry in a war-jammed city, until the community
came to their aid. Public officials, schools, business people,
church leaders, the PTA, city government, and the recrea-
tion department joined forces and, as a start, converted four
vacant stores into recreation centers.

When the city council of Atlanta, Georgia, voted down a
$25,000 budget for youth recreation, two dozen civic groups
appeared before it to recommend more money rather than
less. An appropriation of $63, 000 was mae passed.

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