European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Yank the army weekly 1945 look at and then dive daintily nose Down into the knocked cration cold by a Dulcet Are the 1945 version of the gals who once mobbed Singer Rudy Vallee and Whinnie ecstatically at the stage door when out walked Francis a no superannuated hunk of Heartbreak who some years Back sported an appalling array of White conceivably his and a Leopard skin a baby faced actor named Van Johnson is the new 1 no singing Star of the Bobby sox film when i see sighed a 16yearold of the Earth not Only it goes Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Are said to be the favorite band Bob Hope and Fred Allen their favorite Terry the pirates is reputed to be their bes liked comic these youngsters of today Grant that their antics by Fudd Duddy often a Little but they want it on the record that teenagers of other generations have been for the kids of today Are understandably a Little revolted when they Are told about the wave of live goldfish swallowing that went on among Young folks a few years these modern youngsters say they even eat a cooked the War is close to most of them have and Many of them in the older boys expect to be in the War All the boys expect to participate in some Type of military most of the teenagers work at Odd jobs after school in War department soda they wrap red Cross sell War Bonds and act As Volunteer guides and clerks in rationing an average of tons of tons of tin and tons of rags Are collected in the states each and school age youngsters Are credited with collecting most of they have built Model which Are used in army and Navy last year they collected enough milkweed pods to furnish the floss for the manufacture of More than a Mil lion life in a 14yearold girl built up so thriving a business taking care of neighbors children for 25 cents an hour that she established an Agency and put her classmates to in a 17yearold a week working part time in a factory manufacturing helmet in a period of 70 he turned 80 percent of his pay into War teenage boys started an Odd jobs washing cleaning at painting fences and dumping they accepted Only War Stamps in payment for their High schools in Denver have held assemblies to discuss the Blac Market their Stu dents signed a to report any use of coun Teriet rationing and the girls agreed to Boycott boys operating cars on Blac Market none of these things is particularly impressive in but together they help refute the View that teenager is another term for problem with nearly every Type of business needing More hired Many of the teenagers quit school and went to work full time As the got More fully under last year the trend away from school reached proportions alarming to in april the decennial census listed 314 aged 14 to in the of which were in the 1415 age by april the census people figured that the number of workers under exceeded and of were 16kand 17 years it was estimated that about half of the Young sters were full time the total has run even higher in the summer when work is at its in july of 1943 and 1944 the estimate of workers aged 14 to 17 was close to during nationwide campaigns were started to persuade students to remain in in some areas students and factories worked out Par time work study under this teachers and employers arranged it so that youngsters could work on the morning shift and attend classes in the afternoon or go to school mornings and work with pamphlets and educators Ham mered at the theme that the teenagers were jeopardizing their earning capacities in the peace time future by leaving school to make easy Money the wartime the government made it Clear that it strongly believed these youngsters should stay for the time at at their books and As a the downward trend in enrolment is being last year several cities their first increase in school attendance since la the talk about teenagers has been accompanied by a justifiable juror Over juvenile during the past several years thou Sands of than Ever got into trouble with the there Are figures to prove there Are plenty of reasons Why juvenile delinquency has kids have had More Money than they were used to parents have been working Long often on night and Haven been Able to exercise the usual parental there int any that War does things to human even on the Home for one it leads some particularly to think maybe they better make while the Sun some Bobby boxers have gone gaga Over ser feeling that it is patriotic to be Victory now and then they display enthusiastic amiability when a Guy makes with a this sort of thing has happened in times of but now there is More of with the re sult that people Back Home Are concerned and beginning to take that the Victory girls Are a minute part of the teen age an expert on what teenagers think and do is for 20 years superintendent of schools at Niles is a City of about in the Middle of prosperous farm its As american As pancakes and and its the Home town of the late ring who is still addressed in care of the cites the Niles by letter writers wanting Lardner advice on matters ranging from Domestic prob lems to where a left handed farm boy has a change to become a big league when Crawford says something about folks in the Prairie country Stop to he int a he Doest think much of Long words that Ordinary people dont about teenagers he says sure there Are problem always have some of them never grow out of Young sters do silly things and have silly and Ive seen grownups Cut Capers that even the High school kids might shy in convinced that boys and girls Are pretty much the same the country and that there pretty much now like they always have there is no doubt that the War has made some of the particularly the wonder whats the use of studying too hard because who knows whats despite the great bulk of the students keep up in their for one boys and girls of today Are becoming More they believe in watch these kids 25 years from be doing a Good maybe than some folks Are doing these youngsters Are con Vinced that the world is too Good a to be messed up with such calamities As and they want to do something about they dont know the believe they Are looking for the the teenagers have Learned the hard Way that the world int All peaches and maybe because they still dont know any they Arent afraid of the lots of them seem to think they have the world by the Tail on a downhill most of them seem pretty sure the know what the score Down to the last Boogie of Dot Patterson of a student at John Marshall High stretches out on a Rug to write to her a Navy chaplain Frank Abruscato and Geraldine Ryan turned themselves inside out to help c scrap paper drive during a Jitterbug contest at Harrison High
