The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-07
FOR BOYS.
Probate Judge Hayden viii
Adopt Denver Plan.
Five Organizations Are to Be
Made at Once.
SOMETHING TO Do.
This Is to Be Supplied in In
nOcent Amusement.
Soliciting TO DO
Judge Hayden Will Go to Den.
YER for Pointers.

As part Of his juvenile court system
il Topeka and Shawnee county, Probate
Judge Hayden has decided to organize
five boys clubs in the city, not only for
the youngsters pertaining to his tribu-
nal, but all of an idling or lettering
nature.
Formal arrangements viii probably be
made up next Saturday, when Mrs. No
Bile Prentis viii talk to the juvenile
court class at the county court house.
Mrs Prentis is one of the women in
terested in the movement
The Ministerial Union and the Wom-
/ ans Federation recently took up the
matter of forming boys clubs with
Judge Hayden, and the formal plans
are now in the making. Five different
/ clubs will be started and their various
! territories viii be districted Each part
of Topeka viii have a club. There viii
/ be central organization, a sort of
| general headquarters. The plans carry
( the provision to centralize or localize
each club to itself as much as possible,
| that is have the people of each district
pay attention practically to their own
/ boys club. In this way it is hoped to
obtain an acquaintance between the
/ people living in the same district with
the boys who ought to be given special
! care.
Money viii be raised to equip each
( club room with various sorts of amuse-
/
/ slOns, programmes, amateur recltals,
/ and different things will be regularly
! scheduled. Good rooms will be rented
/ for each club. The expenses will all
/ be borne by the general organization
4 which is being made up to look after
/ the matter. Besides the Ministerial I'm
I ion and the Woman's Federation, about
4 25 of the most prominent people in the
/ city have personally pledged their sup
/ port and interest IN the movement TO
| Judge Hayden. He viii have a meet
/ ing of these people very soon, and at
4 that time arrangements will be perfect
ed. Next. week Judge Hayden will go
/ to Denver and spend several days in eX-
aiming the boys club system in vogue
/ there under the direction of Judge Lind
| say He will study its different phases,
/ as he did the system in Chicago recent
! ". He will then give the benefit OF his
| ideas to the people here at work on
/ the matter. An early completion OF this
excellent movement VIII be made.
Denver has a splendid system said
/ Judge Hayden this morning. perhaps
/ it is not quite as good as that of Chi
/ cago. I viii go there next week and
/ spend several days in looking 1t over
/ The idea has been so successful ana so
/ beneficial of results, that we VIII begin
\ if in Topeka We will start out with
/ five clubs, one in each of five different
I districts One central club Will also be
/ maintained. There a great many people
! in this citV who have already interested
/ themselves in the matter, and are will
/ ing to give both their attention and
! money to the movement. Boys not only
/ from the juvenile court will be cared
for. but all who have tendency tow
ards idling or loafing about. 10 give
/ them a good healthy amusement a
place to get together, where they are un-
! der excellent guiding influences, VIII
without doubt have a permanent infiu-
| ence upon their making The Ministerial
/ Union sent for me some time ago and
We had a conference over the matter.
The ministers will do everything in their
power to help the matter along. The
/ Womans Federation is of the same
promised to push the matter to compile
/ ton. It is one of the best things that
This city can interest itself in.