Evening star., 1953-11-25
Youth Probers
To Study Action
OfU.S.Agencies
Senote Unit Hears
Lurid Testimony on
Juveniles Drug Use
BY Miriam Gutenberg

temporary HaIC TO lCS hearings
late yesterday, after lurid testi-
mony from q series of witnesses
about the effects of drugs or
teen-agerS.
Chairman HendrickSon indi.
Gated that subsequent hearings
will shift from the method OF
skipping about the country fol
testimony to the method of es-
tablishing a pattern to show
what is being done and what
needs to be done about various
elements of the problem.
He said he wants to have the
hearings on Federal agencies ano
on national voluntary youth
serving agencies before the sub
committee starts it's hearings or
the Districts Juvenile problems
on December 10. He said he
hopes to have as a witness or
the youth-serving agencies for.
mer President Herbert Hoover.
Same Problems Everywhere.
The four-day set OF hearings
ended yesterday, he said, have
shown:
1. That people in all areas OF
the country are faced with the
same problems and the same
needs and in some cases are try
ing the same solutions.
2. That, while offenses COM
mitted by juveniles in a parti-
cular area may be new to that
area, juveniles elsewhere in the
country are doing the same
things.
3. That serious research into
the basic causes of juvenile
delinquency has not yet pro-
duced substantial solutions but
has demonstrated "the fallacy
of any and all quick. easy
panaceas."
4. That the effectiveness OF
certain time-honored programs
for reaching boys and girls most
vulnerable to delinquency is
questionable.
Heavy Dope Use Questioned.
Senator Hendrickson said he
has the personal feeling the
extent of dope addiction and
''goof BALI, use among the Ma
tion'S juveniles is exaggerated.
This comment followed teSti-
mony by two witnesses on juve-
nile use of sleeping pills and
stimulants.
George P. Larrick, deputy
commissioner of the Food anc
Drug Administration, testified
there is a definite Relationship
between the illegal sale of dan.
gerous drugs and cases of juve.
nile crime.
He said the two types usec
were barbiturates, commonly
known as sleeping pills, anc
stimulants such as those sole
under the trade name of "ben.
zedrine."
Oklahoma City Drive.
Robert o. Cunningham, OF
Oklahoma City. a member of the
State Legislature, described a
cleanup drive conducted in his
city over the past year.
He said investigators found
$50 boys and girls using "goo1
balls" and another rs using
other drugs such as morphine OF
heroin. Most of them did not
come from poor families, he
added.
Talk about wild parties" he
exclaimed. They had them"
He described raids in which
the youngsters were rounded UP
from sex parties and "goof BALI
parties in pads" He defined a
pad as an apartment rented
usually by a girl, specifically for
the parties.
Urges More Funds.
Mr.. Cunningham said Congress
should give the Food and Drug
Administration and the Mar
cotics Bureau more funds to help
enforcement of present laws.
He suggested drug manufac-
turers be required to put serial
numbers on all drug containers
so they can be traced back when
found in illegal situations.
Another witness. Mrs. Lynn
Stratton Morris, chairman of the
Committe on Use of Narcotics
among teen-agers of the Wei
fare Council in New York City
called for an education program
to show children the dangers OF
narcotics.
Like venereal diseases Il
years ago, like tuberculosis AZ
years ago." she declared, "nC
progress was made until the
public was made aware of the
problem"
She said that. before such ar
education program began ir
New York'S schools, known mar.
cotic cases among school chill.
dren numbered $50. She sale
that was down to almost moth.
ing" now. adding she felt the
education program was respon.
sible.
Another witness, MSgr. Johr
O'Grady. secretary of the Ma.
tional Conference of Catholic
Charities, said juvenile delin-
quency "is intimately bound ur
with neighborhood and commu.
nifty disintegration."