Teen-age boys and girls often help in recreation programs
for younger children. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, they
serve as aides in playgrounds, city parks, and settlement
houses.

Youth employment bureaus are popular in many commu-
nities. The Girls Cadet Corps in Arlington, Virginia,
opened a bureau through which mothers may find girls to |
stay with their children while they shop. A teen-age
manager keeps a chart of available girls. Other successful
bureaus have been opened in Raleigh, North Carolina, and

Nevada, Missouri.
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The Junior Citizens Service Corps, sponsored by the Office
of Civilian Defense, provides many opportunities for war
service. These include recruiting blood donors, victory
gardening, messenger work and scrap collecting. The corps
enrolls youngsters under 16; above that age, they are eligible
for the U. S. Citizens Service Corps.

The Baltimore, Maryland, Youth Mobilization Committee
recruited teen agers to help with all the war drives. They
saved the Eastern Maryland asparagus crop. They give
valuable service in child care centers. And Boy Scouts
above 15 serve in hospitals, working night shifts and Sun-
days in accident wards.

Provo, Utah, organized a work-recreation program under
the sponsorship of the City Recreation Council. Work in

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