Despite many a national survey, the U. S. Youth Problem is still far from a national solution. Last week North Carolina tackled a more modest job: some of the problems of youth in North Carolina.
The Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board, University of North Carolina, WPA and NYA collaborated to examine nearly the entire youthful population of eight representative city and country districts: 44,963 Tarheels aged 6 to 25, rich & poor, white & black. Their report, Paths to Maturity, written by the university's Sociologist Gordon W. Lovejoy, found that:
> More than a fourth...
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