The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-25
BOYS DEPT. ATTY"
Doing GREAT WORK
SECRETARY MlLLER'S REPORT
SHOWS REMARKABLE GROWTH
AND AcTIVITY-RoY SCOUTS
ARE KEEPING UP THE INTER-
EST IN THEIR WORK.

Everybody is interested in boys and
what boys do because it is recognized
that the boy of today is the man Of
tomorrow and las the twig is bent the
trees inclined" so what the boys are
doing today predicates what the man
of tomorrow will be doing in larger
sense
Secretary Miller of the boys de-
partment of the Y. NJ. c. A. has just
turned in his report for the months
of December and January. 1t is well
worth the careful perusal of every par
ent in Fargo. Mr.. Miller says:
The months of December and jan
uary that have passed since the last
report you have received, have been
busy ones in the boys division of the
association. The total attendance in
the regularly supervised activities in
the gymnasium for the two months
amounts to 2,672 boys, on an average
of fifty boys every day. In addition to
these, many boys come to the associa-
ton as spectators, not only in crowds
for the regular high school games, and
other special activities, but at the
times of the regular classes. Every
| day there are from two to dozen non
members on the running track watch
| ing intently each of the drills, appar-
atus work, and games of those in the
class. 1t is only a question OF time
| when they get the money until they
join. The running track is serving
the same purpose as the display win
| dow does in shop and it is a great
factor in getting the boys interested
Feb. IL a count was taken of the mum.
Der of boys entering the boys de.
partment. The total was 442. Prob.
ably over 800 different boys entered
the building that day.
! I'm the physical line aside from Mr.
Harrison's report, ! will add that tn,
grade school athletic and swimminl
tournaments and the Sunday schoo
basketball league that were described
in my former report and were helC
during the holidays were a decided
success. One hundred and twenty Ave
different boys took part in the events
while the entire management was &C.
complished by the members OF thu
boys physical committee and the othe,
older boys of the department. TIL,
| basketball monograms were won BY
the Presbyterian team. The Haw,
! thorne school won both the athleti,
and swimming tournaments. The ex
pense of the four pennants, monogrami
and extra help was practically paid b,
the entrance fees paid by the boys. A
| least five new members came in as
direct result of these activities.
''The six Bible study classes ar,
coming on nicely. The weekly attend.
ance is thirty five to forty. A fai
grade of work is being done. At leas
| three more classes similar to thes
could easily have been organized dur
| ing the past six weeks, IL teacher
could have been found. More than
dozen boys have asked to get int,
classes, but had to be refused becaus,
of lack of teaching force. This, how
| ever, puts a premium on Bible clas
work and helps to keep the fellows ii
who have started.
1.-The boy scouts are not making an!
big show. but they are working. viii
bur Styles has the model patrol. Hew
ison Pollock is getting his filled w
Royal Drummond has a patrol o
younger Fargo college boys. Fer
Monson has several older boys inter
| eSLG0 and is also WOThluS Lu6 SCOu
movement in connection with his Sun
day school class at the Christian
Ichurch. These leaders meet once
week with Leigh Brown, scout msste
for instructions. A large group o
boys are working on the scout tests a
the Broadway M. e. church, under tn
direction of Homer Macnamara. Gu
scouts are as live a bunch of boys a
there are in the association, but sine
becoming scouts they have caused n
trouble whatever, by misbehavior a
the association.
I'm regard to the printing clu
mentioned in former report, I hav
to report that the older boys who frs
took the matter up became discour
aged owing to insufficient equipment
However, club of half dozen young
er boys has become interested and
doing good work. They have don
three small jobs for the association
and some outside work. r. w. Drum
mond kindly refitted their press wit
new rollers without charge to the boy.
They have shown their ability to ru
/ q club and were allowed to organic,
!. Today they adopted & constitution an
rules drawn up entirely by themselves