Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-27
Wednesday, May 27, 1914.
Here's YOUR Job.

Here's YOUR Job.
Do you know a boy who is leaving
home to struggle with the hardships
and temptations of life out in the
cold world?
Do you know of such boy who has
come to your city or town, and who
needs the real friendship of moral,
intelligent, noble hearted people to
aid him into the trade winds of Chris
tan citizenship
If YOU know of 'one of the least OF
these" there lies your duty, friend.
You have complained that you were
willing and anxious to do something
in Gods service, but that men in your
humble position and calling have little
opportunity to do the big things which
are needed in these days of cunning
wickedness.
First have your eyes open for one OF
these boys. He is not your boy; ne
is not your neighbours boy; you don't
know whose boy he may be, but he is
somebody's boy, and perhaps some
fond mothers heart is yearning for
him and his welfare. Perhaps you
may not be able to lead, or help to
lead, him to wholesome and worthy
manhood, but you can try-and GOD
will know. And the next great thing
you can do is to go and vote for
clean environment for that boy and
other boys.
Everywhere there are such boys.
Everywhere and at all ages they are
being led into paths of evil. What
can you do to turn them to the right!
THAT'S YOUR JOB!
The State Young Mems Christian
Association and Laymens Christian
Federation are directing agencies
manned by Names business men in
terested in young men who are Break
ing Homo Ties. They are protective
rather than detective agencies, for they
act on the theory that 1 ID. of forma-
ton is worth more than 1000 lbs, of
reformation.
II your boy is leaving home, or II
you wish to get further details re-
.garding this work for Maine boys.
write Arthur A. Head, Laymen's Sec,
Waterville, Me.
These men are doing great work.
You can help without spending dol
lar. Read what these men say to
you 1t may mean the salvation of a
noble youth, for YOU to become inter
ested in this work. A circular that
catches you and grips your heart,
carries on its first page only the half
tone cut Of lonely looking, sorely
tried boy, with the words You know
this boy" On the next page it reads:
You may not know the name of
the young fellow on the first page, but
you know him as a stranger in
strange town-and that's enough for
an introduction. Just now he needs
a friend-for as you know the first
few hours in new city are hours OF
crises for the strange boy. If you
don't believe it sit around sometime
in a hall bedroom in a big city, in
which you are unacquainted. Think
where you would go and what you
would do, how you would pass the
time. This boy is like every other
boy, who goes away from home for
the first time to attend school. He is
like every other boy, who is obliged to
go away from home to make his own
way. He is like every other boy, who
is isolated in some small town. He
is just weber your boy and your
neighbours boy may be sometime, when
they have broken their home ties.
He needs friend.
"HE CAN HAVE A FRIEND. He
can have good friends. men of power
and men of prosperity, men filled with
the love of humanity. He can have
friends that pull up rather than down.
He can have friends in any part of
the world, if you will cooperate with
a group of prominent business men,
who are organized to help Maine boys.
These men are Joined together in a
Committee known as the Laymen's
Federation, and they are cooperating
with the State Young Mems Christian
Association. They have an Execu-
tive Secretary, Mr. A. A. Head of
Waterville, who makes it his work to
help boys of all churches and boys of
no church-boys, who are leaving
home He can find friends for your
boy or anyones boy, whenever and
wherever they are going.
"Other boys have found good
friends. A short time ago two Maine
boys from Piscataquis county went to
a big Connecticut city to work. Their
friends notified Mr.. Head and within
two days a Young Mems Christian
Association Secretary called on them.
He found two homesick young fellows
On the third floor OF modest house,
one reading aloud TO the other by the
light of an oil lamp. To these boys
the visit was like a ray of sunshine on
gloomy day.
This visit led to fellowship with
some of the best men Of the city. l..
led to a chance to study by night,