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Show Home Training. Is Stressed By Speaker More cooperation between parents and boys, with the idea of advancing youth in higher ideals and morals, in the homes, was strongly impressed by John G. Giles, of Salt Lake, in a three-hoUr lecture at the high school auditorium Sunday afternoon. Mr. Giles, who is cooperating with the various church organizations in correlating cor-relating plans of churches in centralizing central-izing work and study with boys, gave an exhaustive explanation of the plans and what would result for the betterment better-ment of youth if they were carried out. Lack of attention to acts and lack of association and the training of boys and girls today, the speaker said, is setting a mighty poor example for the boys who would seek higher ideals and a higher station in life for his future. Confidence between son and father and mother and daughter has been slacking, and this practice mu-t be broken if we care for the future of our children. Closer association in the training for better habits, recreation recrea-tion for physical and mental development, develop-ment, good books for clean thoughts, will make better boys for coming manhood and better girls for future womanhood. The Boy Scout movement in Salt Lake was given as an illustration of what had resulted from the plans advanced ad-vanced by Mr. Giles. He stated that during the past seven years the scout organization had grown by leaps and bounds and that today there are 4,500 '"" " scouts as compared with 2,500' seven years ago. |