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Excerpt from Juvenile Delinquency (Philadelphia, Pa.): Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Third Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 89, Investigation of Juvenile Delinquency in the United States The chairman. The meeting of the subcommittee is scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning. We will now be in order. I am going to start the meeting earlier because of the number of witnesses we have over the 2-day session. I would like to say before the witnesses are called, during the next 2 days the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, which was created last August pursuant to Senate Resolution 89, will hear statements and testimony relating to the problems of youth in trouble in Philadelphia, and I would like to stress youth trouble, instead of delinquency - youth in trouble. It is hoped that these hearings will bring out the extent and char acter of juvenile delinquency in Philadelphia. Through the state ments and testimony we are to hear, more light will be thrown on the causes and the ways and means of preventing juvenile delinquency. By the way, while I am in this city I almost feel I am a native because I was born and raised just 9 miles from here, over in New Jersey. This has virtually been the shopping center, the educational center of my life. In the time allotted we cannot do more than highlight a few of the pressing problems, such as vandalism, gangs, and perhaps alcohol. We shall also seek statements and testimony relating to the services available to youth, I mean your municipal, county, and State services, the private and public welfare recreation and housing agencies; the courts, and how you run your courts, particularly the juvenile courts, and all your institutions. That is, all the institutions which have a part in the youth program. There are many areas we are not touching. Some of them have been covered at our other hearings in Washington and elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.