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Show I: IVftIV HDBSON ARRIVES 10 ATTEND IfETIi : OF CLUB LEADERS Ivan Hobson, assistant in chargo of boys and girls club work in 11 western west-ern states, with headquarters in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, has arrived in Ogdcn 1 and will be here vintil Monday evening while investigating conditions of the local boys and girls clubs of Weber i county. He arrived in Ogdeh today accompa-i accompa-i nied by M. H. Harris, state club lead-I lead-I er. and will attend the Boys and Girls 1 Club Leaders' convention, to be held i tomorrow at the farm bureau offices in the federal building, i County Club Leader A. J. Taylor has announced that representalivcs from all sections of the county will be in attendance at the convention tomorrow. to-morrow. Western Clubs Rated High. Regarding the development of boys and girls club work in the Untied States, Mr. Hobson said that western' states, while their membership is uoi as great as eastern and middle western west-ern organizations, had closer orgunl-i zation and had been rated very high1 as among clubs for boys and girls of i the United States. He stated that there were two ten denotes maniresied at present which seemed to insure the future of club work. One of these is the installation' of .permanent club leaders for each county, instead of having a new leader appointed each spring. Youngsters Deeply Interested. The second lendency is the reali , zation of people in rural communities of the value of teaching the children along lines prescribed by the club leaders. Through this method, thoj communities are greatly developed ind the youngsters manifest an inter-' i est in the civic and social welfare of the places in which they live, lie said that extension work was at pro's- ( ?nt greater than ever before but thai greater strides were anticipated "with-! in the next year or so. i Enrollment during the past year, with the emergency appropriation done away with, has fallen off but wiih ' 350,000 members in organizations of western states, excellent results aie expected. The big aim of the boys i and girls clubs, he said, is to improve f through demonstrations and oth:r I work the efforts of boys and girls. Il nn |