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Show I BOYS' PROBLEM THRESHED OUT I AT MEETING OF ROTARY CLUB Lack of Fathers and Older Brothers in Activities of School Lads Decried by Speakers; Plea for Co-operation of Dad With Sons Made by Rev. Carver With the stat?ment thai hut one and throe-tenth per cent of the hoys In the public schools of Ogden crer in the Erarluatlnff class of thf .... Iiigh echoo' and that (.tgden was fac-H fac-H ins an educational problem thai was a man's .lob. the Rev. Jolin Edward Carver principal speaker at the Ro-l Ro-l rry club dinner held nt tho Weber club last nlRht. deilered an impassioned impas-sioned pa fi"r ?ratcr interest and co-operation among the male parents par-ents to further the Interests of tho bov students President Henry Anderson of tho Rotary club presided and ftuests at the. dinner were principals, supervisors supervis-ors and teachers of the nty and coun-1 coun-1 schools Among: other speakers woie Miss ina Craven, p-inHpai of the Pingree school; W L Underwood, principal Of the Madison 9chool; A. M. Merrill, principal of tho idn High school and W. Karl Hopkins superintendent of tho gden City .schools. William CJ King, dialrman of the Rotary committee on Boys' work, also delivered a brief address during which he outlined the alms of tho committee and staled briefly in general gen-eral terms what it purposed to do In th near future In introducing Rev. Carver 'President 'Presi-dent Henry,'' called the attention of tro guests to tfio fact that there were H approximately 1400 Rotary clubs with a membership of R6.000. fruit the) members had shown a keen interest1 In all kinds of movements that pertained per-tained to the welfare Of hoys throughout through-out the world and that the slogan of I the organization was service ahoe self. EDUCATION IL PROBLEM. After stating that there tfere 4 3 7 3 boy students in the public schools of "gdcn with bill 69 of (hat number In the graduating class of the high school and the chances of some oT which for graduation were lm. he. stated that ('gdnn had nothing to boast of in the way of education fori hoys He stated emphatically that the city was confronted with an educational ed-ucational problem and then presented I a chart to show wnat the Rotary clubs! throughout the country wore dolnir! along the same l.ne calling attention) to the fact that the same problem was found In other pl?ces He traced th beginning of the interest in-terest in the problem by the Rotary clubs, stating that tt was first presented pre-sented to the members at the 1519 convention at Atlantic City by speakers speak-ers interested in the boy problem and the crime problem. He told of visits of sociologists to Sing &ing prison in New York and interviews had with Lefty Lewis and Gyp, the Blood, notorious characters electrocuted there for murder, how it was shown that both had been good boys until they had reached the ag of 16 years, which nge. Rev. Carver said, was the critical age. and bow after that time without th proper environment they hsd l.e, r.me criminals. crimin-als. I He pointed out that betv een the I ge ej 12 and 16 years, usually term-l ed the adolescent period, it behooved I the parents, especially the father, to I Pay a great deal more attention to the , boy during which period of his llfo I he was in need of a g". eater under- j Handing, because it was during T7lat period that his mental and physical habits were belntr farmed. ! MOTKKTiS IVFLVFNCE The attention and influence of the mother, he said, were greatest up to1 12 years of age. after which the fath- er's influence was greater with the' boy. It was after the ago of 12 and up; to the age of 16 that the gang idea and hero worship idea prevailed with! boys, he said, and he pointed out tbati the gang idea, (he spirit of co-opera-1 tlon was absent among the Chinese, as a general rule, illuf rating the difference dif-ference between the Mongolian and I the Caucasian races In developing his subject Rev. Carver Car-ver traced the activities of the great men of the world, calling attention to J the youth of Sir Isaac Newton Mil- ; ton. Napoleon and other leaders of the world. He touofted upon the plans adopted by the Rotary club of th New Or-1 leans, the procuring of books suit-1 able for boys, the establishment of a revolving loan fund as an aid to Veep! boys in school that were without the' financial backing and the need at I Ogdn for somthlng of the same sort After telling of the Rotarv club of Ottawa, Canadv invading the school rooms and its member being told that H wa9 the first visit of business busi-ness men to th schools of that plac In years, he startled his hearers by osklnR them how many of them had been Inside one of th public schools In Ogden where their sons were being be-ing educated In the post ten years. As an Illustration of what could lie accomplished by more Interest among the fathers and greater co-oporatlon. he said that In the smalt town of Swnnee. Oklahoma. fi5 per cent of the students that were in the public schools hail entered college. Ho cios--il his address with a plen for greater great-er interest r.mon the fathers in the t-ducatlon of their sons OUT OF SCHOOL ACTIVITY. Mips Ina Craven spoke on the ' Misunderstood Boy.' which phrae sh said she believed wits as tnuch misunderstood r.s the hoy was supposed sup-posed to be S-he stated that in her opinion the question of environment after school bourn had much to do with the making of the boy's character and sugKOsled that (rre:iter supervision bo given to his activities while he was out of school Principal I nderwood spoke on the subject of flh.it Rotary could do to aid the public schools of i pgden. Ho stressed the thought that It wos of greater importance to the parents of 1 Igden to look at least .as cloSOly Into the education of their boys as lnco the growing of animals, pointing out to them that they took great, ln'erest in the stock show and In the premium prem-ium animals, that many of the fathers attended the boxing contest.,, that they took their out-of-toyn friends to visit the various plant and manufacturing man-ufacturing establishment In Ogden, but had failed a-s far as he knew to visit the schools of tr-. my and look into the. question of what was going on in them. He stated thT Ere dii no! believe in the idea of an incorrlg.b'.e boy and that what ;he ',oy needed was real friendship and understanding of his aims and amblms. He also warned parents not to try to make ;i preacher preach-er out. of a boy designed bj the creator cre-ator to be a business men He closed clos-ed his address with B ple.i to those present to visit ihe schools more often of-ten and take a greater interest. In the boys. MKRRILL SPEAKS. Prln Ipal Merrill read paper on the t of th- un Jerfinanced boy at school He touched upon what had been done In th Boy Scout move-men', move-men', and sterssed tho Idea that the 6u (' ess of the future depended primarily pri-marily on the education given to the y uth of the countrv. Practically all iubs in the country wer- seeking to aid the youth of the nation, any he qur ted Emerson In support of the idea that therM was 'is much opportunity In America today as there ivcr was and more. He stated that the first duty of all good citizens was to maintain an optimistic op-timistic attitude of mind and stated that failure was due in a large nieas-ur- to lack of Will -tower He sug-c sug-c sted that the business men of Ogden Og-den do more towards the employment of students after school hours, calling call-ing attention to the fact that there were many things that could be done by boys b which they could earn money. He also suggested a greater interest among tin fathers for the competitive games of their sons POINTS OUT LACK OF INTEREST. Superintendent Hopkins delivered a brief talk on the lack of Interest of fathers and elder brothers In the games of the vouths. He said that they wore conspicuous by their absence ab-sence at the football games scheduled sched-uled between Ogden Hljrh school and the other school! when those games were played In Ogden He called upon the members of the club to attend the jgden-Weber football foot-ball game at Lorin Farr vk on November 10 or 11 in a body and by theli presence to .-.how the ftiidents In botn Institutions that they were Interested Inter-ested In what was being done along the lines of athletics. Following his 'dlk it was decided that ' President Henry ' and Alex; Brewer should head two rontlngcntj to be made up of the members of t h -Rotary club t attend the game. ' President Henry" announced at tho close of the mectlnjr that James Dour-las Dour-las would he chairman of the meet-fng meet-fng to be held at the club on Wed-ntsdav Wed-ntsdav next at noon Music was furnished by a male quartet composed of Joseph Fecnellus. Jed Ballantyne. Jerry Klornp and Walter Wal-ter Stephens, accompanied by Zola Ballantyne. The quartet .sang th" Sextette from Lucia' arranged for quartet, 'Thou Art M Own Love"; a medley' of popular pop-ular airs and as on encore that brought a burst of applause, the comic song. "I Don't." |