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Show I FOR A LIBRARY AND GYMNASIUM. M A short time ago Tim Rki'Uiiliuan men- M Honed Logan's need of a public library and j gymnasium, a sort of Y. M. C. A. That neces- i slty doesn't grow less, and while men and women t arc worrying so strenuously about reforming M everything In sight It Is to be regretted that M they donot set to work on preventatives. Why M wait until a boy has contracted vicious habits, B become a bad man, and then try to reform him? M Why not provide for his earlier years, save the M boy from himself, and save the almost useless R effort to reform u man gone wrong. H The normal child demands two things M companionship and a chance to let out his sur- H plus energy. If wo do not furnish him an op- portunlty for these, he makes It too often to fl our sorrow. The gymnasium supplies tho nat- M ural needs of the child, and a gymnasium In H connection with a good reading room or library H makes a combination that catches and saves a M great proportion of the boys In connecting H the gymnasium with the library the great M thought Is that tho gymnasium would be a H , gathering place for boys who have not already B acquired the book habit. While such boys are I waiting for a chance to swim or for a game, ( r other physical exercise, they may pick up a good book or magazine or otherwise Interest I themselves, At all events they will be In aj purer environment than they tvould llnd on the street corner; and some of their precious hours may be snatched from the bad and put to good use. The law in Utah permits a one-mill tax levy for library purposes and, a ouc-mlll tax for gymnasium purpose. Why should not Logan levy that tax and then solicit endowments for the erection of such a place as Is needed? Here's a chance for the Commercial club or the Woman's A, O. club |