Show S LYNN FAUS FAUSETT BOY SAGE 1 OF PRICE WRITES PHILIPPIC ON THE GYMNASIUM 9 R at the request of A C nelson state superintendent of schools last a t 1 I thursdays tribune publishes this piper paper on founding a school gymnasium written by lynn fausett aged 15 cars and son of mr and mrs G A fausett of price read at the recent commencement exercises of the public alsch heM the tate state superintendent considers the paper the beat he has ever seen on t arta subject the age of the writer taken into consideration the gymnasium is a place where boys bos and girls can lan go 0 for amusement the building Is is divided into different rooms eacel each having a spec 3 iti ial exercise besides tha baths iseball la diamonds tennis courts racetracks race tracks etc should be provid provided cd some persons will say my boy can use the trees for a trapeze the fence for a vaulti vaulting nv bar andt and the hoax ax instead of a punching 4 ing bag why this sort of exercise exercise good enough for the boys I 1 may j just as a veil irell ask why domant the price IrAm commercial mercial club meet in urn bowery just juit outside why wh v dont the boya boy go in swimming in the canal just above aboe town it ia not the proper place then the trees ire not in thu the pi cioper oper place for th the e trapeze some will say that the street is a good enous enough h race track for them years wears ago the school hd hod a circular track built when it w was as just t marked out almost the entire sc school us oa was running including some of the girls when wa leveled the track it five minutes until etwas it was packed racked as hard as a rock now novi what nak made the boys want to rin it H was the race truck track they would U er run so hard on th the street estreet now tell me that the street will an awer the purpose of a race track you know how much harder a man will work woric when he likes it than when he boys and girls are peculiar creatures there must bo be pleasure in sight but not that alone the gymnasium gymnasium rt represents presents in a vigorous mind ind I 1 well wel I 1 ai a healthy body then a gymnasium is an incentive for drawing boys to school do you yoi think n s boya would loaf around when there is pleasure in sight any boy would work two hours to get one hours pleasure beope say it is plea pleasure sunti to play pool or to play at the bowling alloy alley it cannot be compared with th the of the gymnasium boys get in the barns and tramp on the get hay y trying to make a gymnasium if they hed had some other p alae haec to go so many fathers no t be bocade made angry an ry nor so much hay tramp tramped d on ana and spoiled the gymnasium would duld bivs the boys from bad places saloons are not good places for young men to go vo bat they go there just the same they would not go if they had a at a gymnasium they hecei receive e some good while at the saloon they get harm the girls have hae as much to do in in the gymnasium as the he boys they never exercise exer cibe MU much ch unless they go walking alln with their beaux some 0 of f the jr 9 play basketball all which they would woul d PI play ay more if they hid had a gymnasium the city girls have more gleasure pleasure than our girls because they have ave a gymnasium why cant price have a gymnasium bi um we could do away with some unnecessary thing long enough to pay for a gymnasium you have the waterworks water works sp the telephone boue and many other conveniences will they do you any good so will a gymnasium |