Arizona republican., 1901-10-07


 The last issue of the American Jour- nal ofsSociology contains an interest
 ing article on a success A full boys club in San SUCCESSFUL Francisco. This club BOYS owes it's beginning to | CLUB efforts of a group of | young men. one of whom was Gellett Burgess. to do some thing for the poor boys in one of the crowded district sof the city. It was formally organized in 1895 as the Co., lumbia Park Boys club under the man agement of Mir. Sidney s. Peixotto. His motto is strong work" Applied to the club it means work that gets hold of a boy. keeps hold of him, and counts in the development of his char ecter, or. in other words. individual work. Here are a few of the essential features of organization and manage | ment:
 1. There is concentration on boys work. g. There is the right kind of a man at the head of it, who gets to know all the boys personally, makes the club his business, puts his life into it. and keeps personally in touch with | al it's departments of activity. 3. The boys have a separate individual house or home for themselves. f. All the members are divided into smaller clubs. and these again, on every meet ing night. into still smaller groups in separate rooms, where they are under the direction of selected workers. ,. Attention is paid to individual needs as far as possible in the gymna sium. under a paid instructor who devotes himself entirely to physical culture for boys. 6. The very best opportunity for individual work is given through the careful organization, direction and supervision of the boys games, sports and ecreation, in base ball track ath- letics. charades and dramatics. cross country walks. outings and camping excursions. as well, also, as in the 1nili- tary organization '. The individual cub itself is not to large and unweildy for the personal management of one director
 Two of Mir. Pe'votto's Ideas deserve more than passing mentiop-his scheme for training boys who show talent for the arts and crafts. and his plan to in terest the older ones in politics and the betterment of the neighborhood:
 His ambition is to found first an art press. This would not be directly connected with the club, and yet would have it's offices either on the club premises or in close proximity to them. Here young men of talent would be gradually trained in artistic printing and origina. designing from early boy hood. Such plan. if backed by capi- tai, could undoubtedly be made a pro- fitable venture at the present time right from the start. He would afterward the arts and crafts by the establish ment of strong workshops near the club. ''I want to see the boys hold to- sether as they grow older says MT. Peixotto, and show them how they can make their living together, just as they have had their pleasures together. good half of the output of the club would be in pretty good shape for in dustrial work. In two years there will ct i"cAly -iiNe CiuO DOyS at the LICK and Wilmerding polytechnic schools in San Francisco learning iron-working and woodworking trades. It would be d fine thing to have them come out all skilled worlSmen.'' This is one of the strong lines of development to which MT. Peixotto looks forward.
 Another line of endeavor which he has in mind is the future opening of q second club house for the o.6er boys. These boys could be interested in poii- tics and the betterment of the neigh borhood. The whole problem is to keep hold of the boys in their larger and more manly interests as they grow elder. just as you take hold of their boyish interests when they are boys" This plan, Mir. Peixotto thinks. would be the realization of the settlement problem. force of twenty trained boys would be irrisistible in the neigh bo1hood- It is impossible to establish such a thing. but it is possible to grow or raise one.'