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Show Teenage Police Cadets Now Working in Many Large Cities More than a dozen American cities so far, including Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, Cincinnati, Detroit, New York and Pasadena are hiring teen age "police cadets" who work part time in station houses to see whether they are fitted for a police career. The apprentice policemen do not make arrests or carry guns. They earn $1.65 an hour for 20 to 35 hours work a week, and usually are going to the police academy and attending college too, Karl Detzer reports in the Readers Digest. The idea, started in England in the 1930's is being recommended in this country by a little known Chicago group which specializes in bright ideas to make local government more efficient. These efficiency experts are members of 22 affiliated organizations organi-zations all with headquarters in one building at 1313 East 60th St., Chicago, including American Municipal Association, International Interna-tional City Manager's Association, Associa-tion, Public Welfare and Works Associations. The number 1313 according to the article's title is the Magic Number for Better Local Government." Consultants from 1313 helped Fort Worth improve garbage collection, col-lection, and Omaha revise its charter. They guided Alaska in writing a state constitution, and Newark, N. J., and New Haven, Conn., in slum clearance and redevelopment re-development programs. When East Bay Municipal Utility District Dis-trict at Oakland, Calif., cut insurance insur-ance rates on its vehicles through on the job driver training course the Public Personnel Association at 1313 spread the word to other cities. The article lists several other ideas for greater economy and efficiency being spread by the experts at 1313. . In the cause of freedom, we have to battle for the rights of people with whom we do not agree; and whom, in many cases we may not like. Harry S. Truman. |