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Show r BOYS UNO SIS I GOING IB LOCI P Will Attend Sessions of Sec- Jiv; bnd Annual Club School llf Coming Week I r L - ' "I -r LOGAN, April 17 The second an- i j' nual boys' and -girls' club school for ! Utah will be held at Logan,' at the - Utah Agricultural College from April 1!; - 10 to 2-1 Inclusive, according to an an- ,j. jt nouncement by Dr. M. H. Harris, ' state loader, in club work. Two representatives rep-resentatives from each high school in ' Utah will be eligible to attend as of- ' .' flci'al representatives of their respec- ' f1 ' je. tlvc high schools. These students will I be chosen" upon merit from those sen- I . fc lors In agricultural and home econom- Ej ; ics. Choice will bo made by each J ' county by a special committee K" I made up of the county agricultural . agent, the county superintendent of iV J schools, and the high school teachers it in agriculture and home eonopiics. ft' i ' . Each representative, in order to be (f t chosen for this school, must pledge i ' himself to lead a club of at least five" j"' members from now until next Oc-'j Oc-'j Lob.er. These clubs may develop var- , ' ious projects, such as hog-rislng, J; ...;.. corn raising, poultry, canning, or some, . ' . other branch. Club members will re-J , J ceiVe complete training for this pur-'. f . pose while attending the club school , . ' . at tlie college. 1 1 , Ail students attending thij club . ; . I . school as official representatives wlll. ! j have railway fare paid to and from . ',' .'. Logan and will receive free lodging p ' ' while at the College'.; Meals' will ben j. ' ' furnished by the college at cost.1 i ! K l The college is urging that high jfc ' school' seniors who are not chosen asl. Jfr, While they will not have their ox- Eafr penses paid, still they will roceive val-t&T val-t&T 'jj-f uable instruction which will moke the , . trip worth their while. 1 , i (' f - The annual club schobl movement ? ... was Inaugurated last year by the ; Utah Agricultural college as an aid i I " to the boys' and girls' club move- J, , ment in the state. The first' school ,s t: j'. held proved the Idea, a valuablo one. fe " Nearly one hundred and fifty enthus- 'ii fc, iastic high school seniors spent two j ; R weeks at the college In valuable club ij S activity. This year an even larger at- j tetjdance Is exj)ected. j fiR The Importance of the boys' an! i 3? T girls' club work in the agricultural j j ; problem of the nation is thus set forth ' , r byfe. M. Smith, chief of all extension Iwqrk for the United States for the ' : north and west. - ' . f'Boys' and Girls'" club work is a : . permanent feature of agricultural ex- i tension work. Any community which- i 1 fails to enlist the 'interest .and assis-"j-V tancc of boys and girls in developing i its plan for agricultural and rural j;! betterment falls signally in utilizing ,j I one of the most effective' agencies! -A there is In extension work for arous- Wmt m an( maintaining interest0 in bet-1 ujjwLjrt tor agriculture, and for developing In ' i its young people a love for rural life. 1 t "- Boys and girls respond if given worth J Tf while tasks. They like to do a man's 'I 13; ' work. Ajid in accepting responsibility r5l1f for doing;iai piece of work in a cornea corn-ea munity-1' they are enlarging their ho-XI ho-XI fjf . rixon and fitting themselves for in- jl, creasing usefulness as citizens. Ex-j Ex-j j. 0 tension -work without boys' and girls' 1 U club work In any community is little 1 J ii moro than half efficient; Club work !J helps to meet a community economic (T need and 'makes for Increasingly ef-jt ef-jt ficient rural leadership developed 'out of the community itself. We build peril per-il ' . ' manently when we take our boys and If , , girls into our confidence and work out jl ' our' plans in partnership with them." i H net |