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Show UN'S CLUB LISTENS TO JSLEJORESSES Dr. Go wans, v the Rev. Mr. Rice and Commissioner Keyser the Speakers. TALKS ARE INTERESTING Meeting" Is Held at the Commercial Com-mercial Club and Well Attended. Subjects of civic and moral interest were discussocl at the monthly mooting of the St. Paul's Men 's club at the Commercial club last night. The speakers were Dr. 15, G. Gowans, superintendent super-intendent of. the state industrial school at Og-dcn; the Eov. h. W. Rico of Garfield: Gar-field: and George D. Ifoysor, city commissioner. com-missioner. Dr. Gowans spoke on "Some of tho Responsibilities of Citizenship." Tho standard of public and business morality moral-ity ho said was much lower than the standard of private morality. Tho individual in-dividual was responsible for the public standard of tho community. The family fam-ily is tho unit of society and the future fu-ture of tho children depends on the standards of private and public morality. moral-ity. Dr. Gowans devoted some time to moviutr pictures, which, ho said, if properly censored, wero of great educational edu-cational -value. Tho trouble with them at present was that they were made to minister to tho sensation-loving and sentimental sen-timental adult, without, any regard to their effect on impressionable children. Ninety-fivo per cent of the children in industrial schools, said Dr. Gowans, came from unsatisfactory homes, made so by the indifferenco of fathers and mothers. Leadership Discussed. . The "Rev. Mr. Rice devoted his remarks re-marks to ".Leadership." Modern conditions, con-ditions, he said, were such that there wore few all-around mon in the world. Modern socioty was not making heroes. Passing on to tho question of man's work he said that no man had a moral right to hold down a job unless he felt that his labor was worth something to his fellow man; that there was no dignity dig-nity to labor when a man lost the sense that it was his contribution to the world. "Unless wo can realize this question of public service,"'" said he, "wo will enter upon one, of the greatest great-est of revolutions." In this revolution, the speaker said, the leadership would devolve upon the middle class. Commissioner Kcyscr told what was beincr dono by the city in tho way of public parks and children's playgrounds. play-grounds. He took up the different parks in turn and doscribed in detail the improvements that were being made in each. The city's legal department, depart-ment, he said, was preparing to draw up an ordinanco providing for tho parking of streets. Intentions of the City. Commissioner Koysor told also Wlhat trees and shrubs were best adapted for the city and said that it was tho in-loution in-loution to liavo the city present a beau-tiful beau-tiful appearance by i01o, when large crowds wore expected lo pass through to and from the Panama-Pncific exposition exposi-tion at. San Francisco. In ordor to increase the attractiveness attractive-ness of Liberty park this summor, Com-missionor Com-missionor Keyser said that his department depart-ment of tho city government was trying try-ing to arrauge for daily band concerts or at least semi-weekly ones. When the lease on the Warm Springs was. terminated four years from now ho hoped either that the city would bo able to do something with tho prem ises, or, if not, that' it would lease the springs for a long term of years, that a sanitarium might bo established there. Bill boards, ho said, were an ej'esore but there seemed no way to. get, rid of (hem except by public sentiment. Commissioner Koysor advocated supervised su-pervised play grounds for children and hoped that a bond issuo would be made to establish many of them in the city. |