Show Give em Clean Recreation I So much has been said abo about t. t Juvenile Delinquency in Ce Cedar ar that a suggestion should not go Jo amiss right now Almost anyone anyone anyone any any- one will admit that the best way to curb juvenile delinquency is to keep the kids busy not only with work but with good clean play Stop and look around our town and you will see that for al almost almost almost al- al most any play the boys boys- have to rustle for themselves there is no provision made to take talce up their time other than at the schools During the spring and summer time there are two things that appeal almost universally to the boys swimming and baseball There are no swimming holes in the vicinity of the town Just give the bo boys s 's an old swimming hole properly looked over by some older person and a good deal of delinquency is done away with No expense would be bd necessary necessary just forget that it might inconvenience some irrigation stream m and let the boys have a swim More children would be reached and given recreation by such a hole than would be by an expensive cement and pool because so few are in a position to enter those regularly A baseball game is a good clean sport that can be handled with f less expense than the swimming It is not necessary to have an expensive diamond and stand etc just clear off a number of I vacant lots that are lying idle around town the value will not Depreciate and things will willbe be considerably cleaner Just assign each afternoon to some M. M MI I. I A. A worker to see that things are run in a clean sportsman like manner The kids will furnish their own gloves bats balls etc and the bases can be bags of sawdust easily supplied Jn In In the fall the baseball vacant lots Jots can be used for football with th the same amount of expense nothing and the swimming hole ole can be used for skating Practically no expense would be attached and just a little time timeo o of i some interested persons persons persons' taken up once a week and before one yeR par has past there will be no need of Juvenile Delinquency talk K at all |