Look magazine clipping 'Summerpower! Canada gives youth its head' filed as 164-497-1A13
Document date 24 August 1971
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164-497-1A 13
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SUMMERPOWER! CANADA GIVES YOUTH ITS HEAD-AND BREAD
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On their summer jobs: Les Ballets Modernes du Québec (above), and the crew from Ontario's Farm Lab Theatre (right), who are turning an old farm into a children's theater workshop.
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BY IRA MOTHNER LOOK SENIOR EDITOR
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fare rights and sea gull control, dental hygiene and sex information, and bankrolling troupes of actors, danc- ers, marionettes and tumblers. To some nervous citizens, "Oppor- tunities for Youth," linchpin of the summer youth program, seems a scheme to subsidize radicals or slip hush money to the vocally abrasive young. But a good many students are happily working for the first time with- in a system they doubted had elbow- room for the likes of them. The idea was to get kids—high school, college and graduate students —off the streets and out of every- body's hair without them slopping over into the job market. Canada's un- employment figures have been sprint- ing a shade ahead of ours, and even when the economy is blooming, there are never enough summer jobs in Canada, any more than there are in the U.S. Neither country has much need for young hands these days, so more youngsters stay on in school longer. Many need summer pay to pick up part of their educational tab. But there are fewer tables to wait on, bells to hop or lives to save for the seasonal amateur. Both the Canadian Government and ours take on student summer help. But young sunshine bureaucrats pick up only part of the slack. The emphasis on our side of the border is now busy- work for the poor and potentially troublesome. Most jobs are with the Neighborhood Youth Corps, a pov- erty program that gives work experi- ence to youngsters from families be- low the poverty-line. Each summer when school lets out and turns youth loose on the land, there is less for them to do and less they find worth doing. It figures that young people will start to slip out on a society that has so little use for them. So the government of Canada has taken step one toward easing their annual angst. Canada is underwriting under- ground newspapers, paying for ven- tures called Gorilla [sic] Radio and The Kundalini Yoga Workshop, but mostly for day camps, wilderness camps, drug-crisis services, drop-in centers, dropout centers, programs for wel- fare rights and sea gull control, dental hygiene and sex information, and bankrolling troupes of actors, danc- ers, marionettes and tumblers. Canada hasn't followed our lead. Canadians haven't had our summer troubles and don't like means-tested benefits (where you've got to prove you're poor). Their new summer plan is pegged to what Ottawa officials call "changing life styles of kids." It includes travel, language training (to encourage bilingualism) and Oppor- tunities for Youth, work young people plan and run themselves. Government types agree that "the kids want to do a lot of things that have to be done out in society and aren't going to be done by business or government."
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48 LOOK 8-24-71
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DB Cooper-22112
Serials: 164-497-1A 13