Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-01-12
Vocational Club Z
For Ashland Boys

In 0e movement Tor a Greater
Ashland our citizens have expended
great deal of enthusiasm and labor
in promoting the material welfare of
our city and encouraging the devel-
opment OF our varied resources. This
entirely praiseworthy movement is
in keeping with the general support
of progress and enterprise befitting
a community that is preparing to
cope with the new impetus and
broader opportunity that will come
with the completion of the Panama
canal and the beckoning hand of the
Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Surely Oregon will have her lamps
burning. But will that be all, es-
pecially for Ashland? Not if the
good will, the patronage and the
earnest desire of one of Ashland's
biggest and best iraternal and social
organizations can be realized. I'm
der the patronage of the Elks Club
of Ashland has been organized a
movement to be known as ''The Boys
Vocational Club"
Henry George, the great American,
said 81 am for men," The commit
tees motto in this movement is 1--WE
Stand for Boys" Shall the fruits OF
a Greater Oregon or a Greater Ash
land be harvested by an influx of en-
thusiastic strangers or shall our boys
of today become our representative
men of tomorrow? Too ofteHp famil-
iarity breeds contempt and the boys
, n
familiar environment of their home
town. And too often, likewise, the
older and supposedly wiser heads of
their community see little or nothing
to arouse their admiration in the
every day commonplace boy of their
home town.
AS a matter OF fact, Mr.. Citizen of
Ashland, the boys of Ashland are rep
resentatives of the highest and best
type of pure American manhood in
the making. In schooling and pa
rentage they will challenge compari-
son with the best ofsany community.
Having talked to high school boys
in most of our large cities from coast
to coast, the writer makes this state
ment not from mere enthusiasm but
from actual observation and expert
ence.
With this firm belief in the integ-
rity and ability of our boys, we de-
sire to coin this budding manhood
: into its highest working efficiency
place for every boy and every boy
D in his place-find some of the things
: for which your boy is especially fit
, ted by native ability and inclination,
point out the means by which he can
: secure special training and then pro-
} vide the needed encouragement and
opportunity for his start in life.
So much for the vocation. Now
for the plan. The course of talks
. to be presented in this club will be
: of the familiar heart to heart kind
They will embrace three general
:, phases Il boy life:
Eugenics and right living, an in
: PRODUCTION of the boy to himself
: Character building, loyalty to tina
: which is highest and best in hi
: thoughts and feelings. Character
:: the flag which flea ats from the mast
head of his individual secret self
!: Vocational guidance-through whicl
each and every boy may find a life
: work of profit and pleasure-fittinl
: the boy to the job and the job t
|: the boy. This will be our specia
y field of endaavor.
} The first few talks will be giveI
: by Prof. Irving E. Vining. They will
be inspirational as we'll as instructiv,
with view of rousing the boys ap
probation OF his inherent possibilities
and his many chances to make gooC
in the world. Mr.. Winnings broad ex
perience in New York city and othel
commercial centers will enable hin
to speak with authority and assur
ance along these lines and his talk.
will, above all, be practical and di
, rectly from contact with things al
they are.
Mr.. vining will also present thC
latest ideas in vocational guidance
and bring the latest scientific data tc
aid in analyzing the boys fitness fol
any particular field of endeavor
:. These talks will be followed b!
trade and professional talks, to bC
given by representative men in the
various trades and professions o
n daily life. Thus, Banking" will bt
the topic for one evening, Farming
q, another, Law" another, THE Mer
y chant" another, aid so on until the
, leading vocations are presented. In
these trade and professional talks We
will hope to have presented the per.
sonal qualifications demanded, op
:, portunities for positions, rate of ad.
vancement, wages, demands or
health, hours OF labor, special train
ing required apd where obtainable
etc.
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Opportunities for asking questions
will always be given at the close oi
each talk. Subjects will always bC
4 announced ahead and reports made
of every meeting. The club will meet
on Friday nights, beginning January
sixteenth, at seven-thirty o'clock
The meetings will be held in the ban.
quet hall in the basement of the Elks
:. building. All boys OF this or nearby
: communities, between the ages o.
y fourteen and twenty, will be welcome
j Boys slightly younger but OF ad
vanced development will also be ad
mitted. The committee In charge oi
this movement consists of Prof. Vim
ing, Mr.. II. Il. Bagley and Mr.. d