Show GOV EXPERT VISITS BOX ELDER CO I 1 on january 18 miss florence E ward of washington Washing D C paid a visit to box elder county miss ward is assistant national leader in boys and girls club work to prof 0 if benson slie she came ot box elder county in the interest ot of the boys aud and girls club work of our schools her visit was arranged for by by supt bupt jans jensee n three meetings were were she scheduled for the day the first one was held at ten in the morning at the box ilder elder high school where boys and girls gathered to hear her talk on the value of boys and girls industrial and vocational work sloe she held the boys and girls in rapt attention for an hour as she showed them thein the absolute importance of 0 ds da aiding definitely upon a course tor for life and then to set out with a fixed determination to give themselves the ic wl make theny s skill tul tal ln ut he thing they expect tor to do the speaker showed the girls eirls by striking exa example and experience how every girl is destined to be a home builder and how she should so shape her school work to prepare herself tor for that life she said it was the nat nature ure of woman to want to nurture and that she should prepare her self to do creative and constructive work w which I 1 11 PAI would satisfy the nurturing instinct she discouraged the idea of girls training to do mechanical work such as type writing telephone operating shop work etc it was well to know I 1 liow how to do these things but in addition to these the girl should have her III interest centered around work ork connere od ed with home life which is of a creative balura the speaker urged tile the boys bays and girls to do away with the fanciful and fri vilous things and devote themselves to tile common sense things of life she said that happiness is to be found only in ones work and unless we can find happiness in that which we chose to do our lives will le void of happiness liap the speaker said that every boy ni nid aid d girls work should bring them financial returns she showed by the use of carefully worked out charts how all of this can be made a reality with the boy and girl by coming in III contact with this industrial work which is being taught through our oar schools 1 gos 1 ier her charts showed how tills this homo school project work nill v all give tile the boy and aid girl I a decided interest in ill home and farm work and how it dignifies dignified common everyday things of life the work being of such a constructive nature that these common place things lose icse their seeming drudgery and instead it becomes a pleasure to do them there are science and art in ill home and farm life and if our boys and girls can be lead to see this side tit of it that kind of life will become fascinating and attractive to them and they will be satisfied hippy happy and suo sue in it tile speaker quoted figures to show that it is a fact that 92 per cent of the people of this oils great state earn their living by tile the labor of their own handa Is this not a most wholesome condition tlona and nil do wo we need any further argument to show why industrial work should lie be taught laught in our schools and I 1 why the human hand should be trained ed to aci do skillfully fully the work of life miss ward has a very pleasing and foree ful manner in presenting lier her subject matter she is very capable and is into her work heart and soul the boys and girls of box elder county have a warm place in their hearts for her she will always be highly welcome in box elder county |