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Show IN THESE UNITED STATES Youth Council Sets Pace In Developing N.Y. Town By E. L. KIRKPATRICK WNTJ Features the winter to formulate questions ques-tions and work out unbiased answers an-swers to them. Under direction of the council sponsor and the high school social science teacher it has quickened initiative, developed new viewpoints, view-points, broadened horizons and brought needed co-operation in definite def-inite community projects. One of these was a community carnival, which was a financial success and a concrete demonstration of how folks can and will work together. Another was the realization of $1,000 through contributions and a community commu-nity dance for Christmas boxes and gifts to 200 hometown men and women in the service. List Accomplishments. To prove that other communities communi-ties can "do as well as ours," Youth Council members explain that in their farming section of cash cropping, crop-ping, dairying and poultry raising, a dairy manufacturing plant, two fishing tackle factories and a sports wear mill have been established as a result partially of their interest and agitation. As war clouds lift, the council proposes to improve facilities for tourists at nearby Canadaraga lake, which offers boating, fishing and swimming in summer and skating in winter. "While we are planning for things ahead, we are doing more real living liv-ing in the present with due respect to the past for cornerstones to build on," say Richfield Springs young people. A town with a past can live in the present and look to the future, say young people of Richfield Springs, upstate New York center with 1,200 population. popula-tion. This consensus of the town's Youth council, started more than three years ago from a panel discussion dis-cussion on "Young Peoples' Present Day Problems." Some of the charter members as well as their followers were out-of-school young people. On the present membership list are the names of a beautician, bookkeeper, clerk, farmer, housewife, laboratory technician, tech-nician, machinist, secretary, school custodian, telephone operator, 1 stenographer, sten-ographer, and typesetter, so "everybody "ev-erybody gets in and pitches or helps play the field. Each works where he fits and is most needed." 'Stage Annual Program. Chief activity is I Am an American Ameri-can Day program staged annually under the council's direction. Use is made of school band and chorus, American Legion, church groups, town board and boys' and girls' clubs. Highlights of this year's program pro-gram were demonstrations by Cub, Boy and Girl Scouts, remarks by a new voter and an address by one of the town's ministers. This youth group tackles other things as the months come and gb. They "dig a bit into the annals of history" for indication of what's happened to Richfield Springs, which in the Gay Nineties was New York State's most popular spa be-! be-! cause of the healing powers of its ! Kiilnhnr snrinfJ watprs "Thpn vp had hotels filled with visitors, livery liv-ery stables of fine horses and all kinds of carriages that outshone most cars in today's modern garages," ga-rages," an old-timer recalls. Varied Projects. "So," the group asks, "what can we do about what's left with us?" They consider how to clean and make use of deserted hotels and other buildings, explore the needs and possibilities of local industries such as cannery and dairy. Outstanding project is a forum fo-rum to study the creation of good citizenship to world affairs. This reaches 150 youth and adults who meet weekly during |
