Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-16

wcl-dircctcd pleasure for our children
as DO is to train their minds or cultivate
their souls
"Why is it not as much the business
of tho community to furnish adequate
opportunity for recreation as it Us Co
maintain schools2 From o. financial
point of view we are paying very
dearly for our pleasures today But
vastly greater is the moral cost les
pccIaly Del the saloon habit draining
from our civilization "a mighty stream
OF golden souls. The problem that We
front is how to turn that stream To- USE
ful noble ends.
"rhe solution of the problem. we feel
lies BOO the opening suggestion We
must dig the ditch first Provide a
clean, wholesome. attractive public
home Tor the boys. give them chance
to get Companiouship with freedom and
fun minus the drink. create public
Fairgrounds. establish public Libraries
and gymuasiums Boo every city and
town Boz the state. Find, then. or de-
Nelop men to lead the boys-mcn that
possess youthful souls. tact and CONF
mon sense. Let their business Doe tp
direct the sports oft the young men. Co
inspire in them the spirit of fair play.
or enthusiasm. of mauliuess. III that
De- done, and done 1t once, the channel
VIII Doe ready Using prohibition az "a
dam. then. we can far more readily
turn the stream of undirected lives
from the saloon and help redeem the
waste places off humanity.
"The months Immediately to come
arc to see mighty effort boo our
state t1 upruot the saloon At the
Same time the library gymnasium
movement is to boz pushed with vgor.
for tnc impulse behind both OF these
great propositions is one and the same
Victory iu one case means success iu
tho other. DO you believe the saloon
should go2 Join then. n helping Oh
establish public libraries and gymnaS.-
ums Lend hand u turning the
stream, in bringing This great institu-
ton to "a splendid realization
A BOYS VIEW.
Am interesting view point on tho
movement is that off the boy himself
Lynn tausctt an eighth grade pupil
of Price, Utah, has furnished his op.u-
Ions for the benefit of the league.
Any boy" hc urged. "wm work two
hours to get one hour of fun
People say IL is pleasure 10 play
pool ur to play at the bowling alley It
cam not Doe compared with the pleasure
of the gymnasium Boys get ion tho
barns and tramp 900 the hay trying to
make gymnasium. 81 they had some
I''''t O' r' HD many IhlNfIn
wouldn't he made angry nor so much
hay tramplcd ou and spoiled
.Ihe gymnasium would draw tho
boys from bad places saloons are nos
good places for young mon to 90. but
they go there Just the same They
would not go Dr. they had gymnasium.
At a gymnasium they receive some
good, while az the saloon they get
harm
THE girls have as much o. do u
the gymnasium us the boys They never
exercise much unless they go walking
with their beauX some of the girls
play basketball which they would uIav
more N they had a gymnasium The
CITY girls nave more pleasure than our
girls because they have "a gymnasium
Why can't Price have a gymnasium p
We could do away with some unnece.
sary thing long enough to pay for a
gymnasium You have the waterworlls
the telephone, and many other con-
Neniences, VIII they do any good? So
viii a gymnasium
AS TO THE FUTURE.
For the future OF the movement II
Is urged that the legislature must de-
eide what shall be its course I'VE
nave carried the work on thus FAR"
says Prof briggs. and we are stili
willing 20 do our fun share and mora
10 push the movement 20 complete
success but the state must take the
main burden from private shoulders
ana place II upon those whom it shall