Show A pica pair r aars itous the other night a man inan from froin now york made m ade a pica plea before the montgomery rotary club borbos for boa bos s in this plea elea ho he said some mighty truthful things that are not alas though thought about by fathers who were once boy wo lye have ev evry ay reason to believe but who have so far forgotten their boyhood days that it is hard to realize that they ever really were boys one olle of the points the speaker b bt out was on the juvenile courts that have been established in ill many towns ho said that the tile juvenile court was pointed to as a splendid agency for bettel boys and that other institutions wera cited as examples of what Is being done to make manhood of tho the youth of the land then he lie showed most forcefully that the great work needed to bo be done for boys was the keeping them t hem out of institutions giving them the right outlet for their boyish energy so that they would not get got into the court and find a landing place in this institution or that institution lie urged for the boja boys playground and recreation rooms managed by people who understand der stand boja and take the boys viewpoint TiOw POint and rea lizet that the boys code of morals orals iti Is dif different terent from the code of manhood this is a great truth most of oui out uplift movement in charity and nn correction starts at the wrong end the aim of the tile thinker on such subjects is is to help make people independent of charity and remove the feces nl ces qty for courts and institutions of correction this in short is the old doctrine that an ounce of pi is worth a pound of cure the juvenile court often does a great and good work but a greater und far better work could be done lor for hoys boys before they reached the juvenile court in speaking of the boys code of the speaker called attention to tho the boy ethics that prevents him irom giving a pil p il 11 away way he ile said that the teacher who tries to make one boy tell on another is forcing a boy not only to lie but forcing him to disobey a code of morals th that t is high er than mans code thy tho code that calls for absolute loyally ir to a friend lie declared tint the teacher who indulged in such suell tactics is committing wrong against boyhood and that under any circumstances should ever eser wrong t boy the speaker brought out other sensible points about bos bo s lie urged for jor tetto not a patronizing or attitude but the tile attitude of understanding ander Jer standing ing boys and putting yourself in the bo boys Is place with his code of vior and not our 0 n co cot 4 hat jou SOU thoughtlessly force upon h incidentally shoved moni 1 gom try v where here she slie like man za other uther places 13 3 way back in her treatment of our boya he ile showed shoed that the boy is sot ut only our most valuable aset asset in point of sentiment but eit iri ill point of dollars and cents 1 he ile showed that the boy is the hope of the tile town or city and the districts and that the dimes climes of ignorance vie c commit against boyhood are numerous nume ious montgomery Adver advertise |