 What is the purpose of “the break out” instituted by the Youth Board?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1962. They were squareheads one and all, marking moron time in a gray dream. School over, waiting for the draft and all. You got to remember about all these dangerous repressed impulses piling up with nowhere to go, like they say. What do we know about adolescent trauma and like that? Squareheads going around either unconscious or with eyes looking dead from the millennium in the office waiting to retire into limbo. "If you wanta walk. He strode under a sign reading Public Youth Center No. 947 and walked casually to the reception desk, where a thin man with sergeant's stripes and a pansy haircut looked out of a pile of paperwork. Draft call." Finally he said, "So make up your mind, bud. It's a big city and you're starting late. You can get a cat, not a mouse, and some babes are clever hellcats in a dark alley." "A corporal with no hair and still a counterboy. And throw in a Skelly switchblade for kicks—the six-inch disguised job with the double springs." He checked them on a receipt ledger, while Wayne examined the weapons, broke open the revolver, twirled the cylinder and pushed cartridges into the waiting chamber. If he didn't watch himself he'd begin feeling like a pea among bowling balls. "Well, well, you're really fired up aren't you?
 Requiring that all youths commit one violent act as a rite of passage to adulthood is thought to eradicate any violent urges that might occur later in life.
 Requiring that all youths commit one violent act as a rite of passage to adulthood is the only way the city has found to best fight crime.  Requiring that all youths commit one violent act as a rite of passage to adulthood is thought to eradicate any violent urges that might occur later in life.  Requiring that all youths commit one violent act as a rite of passage to adulthood is thought to show what skillset each teen is most capable of.  Requiring that all youths commit one violent act as a rite of passage to adulthood is thought to be the best way to take care of the city’s mouse and cat infestation.