Show LEGION AIDS WAYWARD BOYS kansas kama plan pion could well be copied coplai in every section of tho the country oven open a school and you clo clow ae a prison wrote victor huso in kansas an they have opened one that bears tle me orn ominous inous title of the alo con s industrial school industrial too often resemble prisons tills this kansas school however actually Is 18 doing a great work toward taking boys out of bad environment W P maclean MacL can udd and keeping them off the road that almost invariably leads to prison in this as in every forward movement there mere Is a personality around which everything develops one man directing inspiring prompting his hill name Is W P maclean tIa cLean superintendent of the school maclean Is this sort lie rl 1 I was hurt in an automobile accident recently his boys there are hundreds of them ca came individually and in groups very every one of them to the hospital to find out how bow he fared there was no play while lie he was uway from them Mu cLeans school Is just outside topeka lie ile calls it a concocted from the InI tIuIs of hu hugo u s epigram maclean was at in the army and this year lie he la IR commander of the AmerI american caa legion department part ment of kansas it Is through maclean that the topeka legion men reach the lads at al the school you know the sort of youngsters they must have been when they arrived typical bad boas of village age streets young gangsters hesitant at that turning point of youth where a boy faces une one road to respectability tabi lity and another to outlawry and the lutter path Is tiie the more alluring it Is no budge badge of honor to be sent benl to an industrial school most lads arf are shamefaced shanie fined about it but maclean wont permit this ile he has gotten tile lesion legion to step in and help the boys regain and maintain self respect first the legion wen men most of whom belong to capital post no 1 I of topeka have aided the s school hool and the boys by obtaining appropriations privations from the legislature theo then they act as sponsors for the various social organizations izat ions of the school the bond band the athletic teams the singers they pay the boys expenses and make donations in addition the legion helps the boys boss make exhibition trips all over lills souil and kansas and on these expeditions ions the boys are treated royally and soon abandon evarae and hold bold up their heads I 1 the che boys repay the legion by donating their entertainers for legion shows show and by participating in all public ceremonies conducted by the legion cut but it Is an everyday every day ay sort son of friendship too the legionnaires frequently visit the schools and pal around with the youngsters when capital post gives its annual picnic it Is on the industrial school rounds grounds and the boys wait on their guests the boys h a donated their labor in their print shop to the legion the best part comes when a boy or group of boys leaves the school to try his bis luck again in the world A legionnaire of capital post goes to the train with him advises him in a friendly way and probably slips him a tittle little farewell gift he telegraphs to the legion post in the boys home town and someone there takes up the friend ship and sees the kid through the tough period when he Is facing the old crowd and maybe the old temptations again it Is a treat great work for the coming gem ration and maclean of kansas kansa la is playing a big part |