HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE U.S. Congress. Senze. 2 COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION PURSUANT TO S. Res. 74 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE TO NATIONAL DEFENSE 93447 PART 4 WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 1 AND 2, 1944 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: 2 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 ns, Dr. John H., high school principal, Pittsburgh, Pa... 1598 Clifton, Ruth, technical adviser, RKO Pictures and inventor, "Moline 1589 1547 Eddy, Vocational Foundation, New York, N. Y... 1558, 1561 George, Vocational Foundation, New York, N. Y. 1554 Ilma, Viola, executive director, Vocational Foundation, New York, N.Y.1545, 1570 1562 John, Vocational Foundation, New York, N. Y... 1567 Jones, Mrs. Walter S., president, Juvenile Protective Association, Jack- 1607 McCarthy, Claire, director, Community Recreation Association, Rich- 1605 McGehee, Graham, president, Teen Town Club, Jacksonville, Fla 1609 1564 Schramm, Judge Gustav L., juvenile court, Allegheny County, Pa.. 1600 WARTIME HEALTH AND EDUCATION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1944 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, SUBCOMMITTEE ON WARTIME HEALTH AND EDUCATION, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call of the chairman, Senator Claude Pepper, Florida, presiding. Present: Senator Claude Pepper, Florida; Senator James M. Tunnell, Delaware. Also present: Randolph Feltus, Staff Director. Senator PEPPER. The Committee on Wartime Health and Education, set up by Senate resolution, is continuing this morning hearings previously begun on the subject and in the field of juvenile delinquency. We are quite pleased to have here this morning Miss Viola Ilma, who has brought with her several people who are peculiarly well qualified to speak on the subject from their own experience. Miss Ilma, will you begin by reading into the record such statement as you may wish to make? First state your name and address into the record. TESTIMONY OF VIOLA ILMA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VOCATIONAL FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, N. Y. Miss ILMA. Viola Ilma, 122 East Twenty-second Street, New York City, executive director, Vocational Foundation. Senator PEPPER. Miss Ilma, your prepared statement will be entered in the record at this point. (The statement referred to is as follows:) STATEMENT OF VIOLA ILMA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VOCATIONAL FOUNDATION Vocational Foundation welcomes this opportunity to bring to your committee the fruits of its experience and to add its testimony in support of proposed legislation to deal with the problem of juvenile delinquency on a national scale. I am bringing to testify before you six boys whom our organization has had the privilege to help. The story of their lives is a more eloquent plea for the recognition of this national problem and for meeting it constructively than any summary of the work of existing stopgap organizations. As the founder and executive director of Vocational Foundation I have come to point, not with pride but with humility, to the work our organization has been able to accomplish during the 5 years of its existence. The struggles it has faced, the difficulties under which it has functioned, its very inadequacies as a social agency emphasize the extent and the acuteness of an evil which no private agency or system of private agencies can possibly cope with. It is unnecessary for me, I am sure, to expatiate before this committee on the importance, the urgent necessity, of support and proper guidance for youth in a democracy. One of the soundest and finest features of American democracy has been its concern for youth-its education system, its health program, its dedication to the principle of equal opportunity for all. But among the many lags in |