American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-03-21
Boys and Girls Clubs
Prof. j. {. Hogenson Gives Clear Ex.
PLANTATION OF Work TO Be Done.

Last week Prof. ]. c. Hogenson Of
the Agricultural College was In Pleas
ant Grove and visited the schools In
behalf OF the organization of boys and
girls clubs.
The boys and girls club work now
benig organized throughout the state
is part of the great Industrial move
ment promoted by the Agricultural
College and the National Department
OF Agriculture, of which Prof. J. G.
Hogenson has direct charge In Utah.
There are about 10000 boys and girls
In the state now actively engaged In
this great cause.
Its primary object Is to get the boys
and girls Of the state interested In ag-
riculture and home-making. Many
boys and girls feel that when they
grow to manhood and womanhood they
want to get away from the scenes and
work which engaged their attention
while they were boys and girls. This
is due largely to the fact that boys
and girls do not fully understand the
ordinary tasks which they have per-
formed every day All that they I'M
derstand il the hard work. the druid
gerry, side They see nothing beautiful,
wonderful, elevating or inspiring; yet
when thoroughly understood there Is
no work where there are 80 many
wonderful and interesting things to
learn as In the farm work and home
work which our boys and girls per-
form on the farm and in the home.
The club work gives to the boys and
girls a four-square education. II
trains the head to think, to plan and
to reason. II trains the hands to be
useful, to be helpful, to be skillful. II
trains the heart to be kind, to be true
10 be sympathetic. II trains the health
to resist disease. to enjoy life and to
make for efficiency.
Tho motto of the club is, ITO Make
the Best Better" That means con-
tinual progress, so that they will be
able to do something better tomorrow
than they are able to do today.
The lines of work which the boys
and girls of Utah may take up are
First, potato growing, one-half acre
second, sugar beets, one-half acre
third, mangel wurzels, one-half acre
fourth. onions, one-hfth acre: fifth
tomatoes, one-tifth acre; sixth, peas
one-fifth acre; seventh, cabbage, one
fifth acre; eighth, cucumbers. one-fiftl
acre; ninth, celery, one-ffth acre
tenth, corn and pig work, one-eightl
acre of corn and feeding two pigs
eleventh, poultry work.
The girls may take up-First, brea'
making; second. flower gardening
third, canning of fruits and vege
tables; fourth, sewing.
With such an army Of boys and girl
working along improved lines OF agrl
culture and home making, 1t is boun
20 become great and important facto
IN the rapid development OF our stat'
Utah now has the champion boy PC
tato grower OF the United States, an
with our natural advantages and I'm
proved facilities there Is no Questio
| out that we can win In other lines q
| we'll II we VIII only get In and worl
The club work will bridge the ga
which has always existed between IN
school and the home. In other word
| IL will cause the child to Thinks an
act In terms OF the home.
There are 29,300,00O persons In IN
United States engaged In gainful o.
equations; of these l0,50O,O00. or
per cent, are engaged In agricultur
and 100000, or 20 per cent are eI
gagged In domestic work. 100000, {
per cent are engaged in the so-calle
| learned professions, such as doctor
and lawyers. Our schools In the pat
nave spent nearly all OF their time
training the boys and girls toward a
1 per cent to the neglect OF the 81 p'
cent. A change must necessarily CON
and Il has come.