Show The Lib Gymnasium or Substitution as an Aid to Prohibition By Howard R. of the University of Utah This state is now in the midst of a stirring struggle for temperance The aroused by the wide-spread and pernicious' influences of the drink are demanding in no uncertain terms that something be done to stop the wast ft of the crime and degradation brought by the all sorts of plans are not my purpose point out the and defects of the prohibitory measures now before our I wish attention to a-movement-that came to temperance wave just ahead of a-movement which means prohibition of a positive sort a movement which J. every every whatever his' views may can endorse and lie should give his hearty This movement promises to displace the saloon by planting a nobler institution to take care of our What brought the saloon What takes young men to Is it the desire first of to Or is it that that natural desire for fun and cheer and Society's Our in have to a great extent looked upon play as born of and therefore have failed to lake hold of side of life amusements for the Our schools lack greatly the spirit of fun or our too often are presided over by like the preachers and the cannot 1 stand the children 's So the hoys' are often driven to seek the street for a jolly good The Saloon Man's The saloon a practical steps good people can't racket I I'll give them music and most entrancing make my houss and meet the toughest of them with the bartender's Rut they shall pay for The result is that he the we good i fathers and mothers wring our hands' and lament the ruin that is brought upon our homes by the drink and degradation that goes with the Time Wake Isn't it about time the great object saloon has been teaching us for these many Tears Isn't it about time ourselves to the common fact must provide the leisure hours of our young people instead of giving their pleasure-making over tb men whose sole desire is to make money out of When shall we ever come to that per cent or more of the crime and sin that we pay so dearly for comes out of the leisure hours of Idleness is the mother of intemperance the breeder of every sin and Why Boys Go Go into our from one end of this country to the Note how many thousands of boys and men are trifling their lives away around the the the shops and all other they can hang The saloons are full such men and boys one great reason why this is the case a boy gave when he answered his who was crying and pleading with him to keep away from these dens of with where else The is only place o y i n e don't go there for their B I hate the But I do he with the boys and J What Is The crying need our is our street They want a place where they get together and have clean manly sports under proper where while they wait fori a chance to swim or a they can sit a comfortable room and temp ed to read an some book or they can be away from smutty yarns and hof And the great that prompted the library movement is to plant just such an institution- as this' offers to be in every town and in this The Library Call it a library-gymnasium if you want call by any other end we Tor is' to evolve and in every community some in- nat will develop that will the that will not only keep the innocent boys now into young manhood from getting lt will already it ways of im we no better forces- d do that than the influenced of well-conducted manly games and attractive Boys Must Have boys will get have AVe can no more stop them from indulging in sport than we can stay for long our We should frankly recognize that the desire for play is natural and The thing that we should do is to give them plenty of chance to have clean under direction that will turn their sports to and we should train them gradually to take joy in mental as well as physical Olean Sport Not be this proper balance the mind and else there may be as one pointed of the heels running at Ilie movement rec-I ize this danger quite as the senator and I they have guarded well the physical sports craze fly insisting that the way to the ball game lead through an reading Yet there in clean sports than might The very that our boys leap to excess matters shows how much the And a half of them do K temperately once in a Shall we therefore deny to the thousands who go to A Do Not we closed our schools in arlier days because a few ruly- boy's upset things because they turned out and what would our school system ever have amounted tot may certainly rest-easy this The of the library gymnasium movement be just as keen correct such may the as the skeptic ready to point them All they ask is a fair chance to develop an institution that will work and will fill this vital need of our young people for something better than street corners-and Not a The Library-gymnasium movement is no private It has come straight from the people The plan of joining these two institutions was first suggested in a meeting of leading citizens in Later the legislature unanimously endorsed the plan by passing a law to give our cities' and towns' the right to maintain A little more than a ago in a convention called by the the plan was also unanimously endorsed by representatives from all over the state irrespective of creed or A Law And by that the measure now pending in the legislature to create a library-gymnasium commission to promote this great was practically agreed For it was voted unanimously by that body of representative citizens to a commission to act till the ing such a commission The legislators- therefore will but meet the definitely expressed wishes of the people in passing the library-gymnasium What It Will But it will do vastly more than It will take a great step towards making whatever measure it may pass It will give our cities the definite leadership they need to direct them in their fight against idleness and More than it will aid greatly the good books it will make the first move by the state to protect our children against the trashy literature that now curses our Why a But why does the state need a separate commission to promote this Why not the task over to the institutions that now These are natural proper questions that any careful law-maker will is Th state must have a district com mission because this a new ant distinct field of There is no objection in the least to harmonizing this educational work with the other phases of education this now being certainly should be and that harmony is provided for by the provision in the bill proposed that the state board of education appoint the at the same time the movement can not be properly attended to if it is given over to men whose hands are already tied with a other educational If we must have men that can pay special attention to this problem else it will lose its individuality and its And there are plenty of able men who are free to attend to these duties and who are willing and anxious to serve their state without other compensation than what comes from the devotion to a great Some of Its This is amply proved by the generous-hearted work of the work for the past two Not only have these people carried the work without money and without but they have met from their own private means several hundred dollars work besides much of valuable time to promote the All they now ask is that the state take the and with its great influence back of the carry it on to To pass the library-gymnasium bill will give first of what the people have asked and at the same time that act will endorse and show a little appreciation for the commission that has magnanimously carried a commission that has work belongs to all the There Is Plenty to There is ample work for a separate The task of directing the work already gun in nearly half the cities in the state will give a commission plenty to do at the very i Already at least twenty of our cities' have taken definite to establish free reading t rooms and Hardly 1 a day passes hut letters come to the commission from all part of r the state asking for definite help i and and the temporary without means even 1 to pay for stamps and stationery s and without a can not possibly give in an effective Mr Exists in Other States W The good books cause JB is thought by other work enough for a distinct Every leading the has such a promote the library within its borders and state has ever so far failed to find plenty commission to Utah be the last to provide for great her Hi What to I What have we done time as a state directly to trw our children in what they Our whole effort has bi to teach children how not That might have the days of the old but in these days literary trash is so becomes a dangerous this giving the child pow j read without guarding him same time against the influence of bad Parents Need This M The can give to build up better the school teachers nM definite help and direction jM their struggle to get the to read proper books all our need this very for understand that a state can see in this the measure j provides for this much demanded help a M ries of mission believes that the of the state senators it a great deal County Towns Lack BooM Another senator who ly opposed the hilt seemed afe lose sight of its vital benefit the country Just told WM ly a certain traveler happened to be forced to MM of this state a a little village cause the river was too mm a Said lonesome I had to three days in a home hook- J there wasn't a single we haven't the least J world that this senator vi ij these a ed against helping people to good books i Jj would have been vote to build a bridge the stranded stranger out feel also that voted against Ilium commission did so f they did not under- aims and j h the high-minded V-f the bill and the great the people ed has made for seh a |