Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-29
Library Gymnasium Movement to be
Given Extensive Publicity During the
Coming Fall and Winter, by State
commissioners
1t Aims to Become Help to the Church.
The Home, and the School Reacbi;ns
And Reclaiming the Boy Who Has
Been lnattentive to All or Either.

game, to swim, or to have a chat with
CHEEKY companions Let the path of
these attractions lead through a well
lighted reading room where good
books and magazines invite him and
while the boy waits for his turn at
the swimming pool, or for game,
he may start a reading habit that will
bless his whole life. At any rate he
Will at least be in a clean, whole
some atmosphere--off the streets
out of the poisonous influence of the
saloon. Who can measure what I'M
told good this home for the street
child viii do We want to save our
children from cigarettes and hood
lumism
QUESTIONS FOR PARENTS.
Here are some of the questions Prof.
briggs suggests for the direct consid-
Grafton of the father ana guardian:
Have You any boys in the commun-
!ty who are street corner loafers?
Are they worth saving?
What are you doing to redeem them
from slang. smutty yarns. and ali
kinds of sinful suggestions?
Do YOU realize keenly that the street
corner is a stepping stone to the sa-
loon?
Have YOU not found out by expert
ence that preaching and scolding sell
dom turn a boy up stream?
Talk alone never took anybody into
the kingdom of heaven.
We must do something, and do it
before the child gets into the street
corner habit. If we want to save him
from far worse evils.
How far down into your pocket are
YOU willing to go to plant on your
Main street an institution to furnish
home for the playful and the stud
ious boys?
Are you willing to vote tax that
means only 81 a year for you. IL YOU
happen to be assessed for $1,000 worth
of property?
VIII your boy sacrifice one excursion
or four 80 cent dance tickets each
year TO have such public home for
him and his companions?
EXPANDED GYMNASIUM.
Prof. briggs doesn't want his friends
to get the idea that he favors a gym
nasium of dumb bells, chest weights
and tiresome drills. He wants 1t to be
& play room for all sorts of healthful
games. to have an outdoor track in add
dition, and to furnish real recreation.
1T means he urges, "handban, bas-
ketball, baseball; it should certainly
have its swimming pool. In word,
the gymnasium means a CHEEKY, social
center where the boys can so and find
companions. and a chance for clean fun
and freedom under proper guidance,
HISTORY OF MOVEMENT.
The movement has history, and this
f. sketched In a brief and concise way.
Books, and the love of them caused
NJ. l. associations to open tree libraries,
Sunday schools to maintain circulating
libraries. and many public associations
to maintain reading rooms. Brigham
city, for Instance, has splendid NJ, |.
A. free library. The Federation of
Women's clubs helped to push the Ii
brary law through the legislature. Mr..
Packard in salt Lake ana Mr.. Carnegie
IN other cities have founded free pub
lie libraries. Through their success the
people have had chance to see the
library idea I'm action.
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The ideas back OF these institutions
were these; A school for the school
less. and this has been so successful
that the library is conceded by all to
have come to stay. The parent can 20
there to get book to cheer his winter