New Britain herald., 1915-06-18

give old Father Time the laugh. ~ The
 boys of New Britain are calling to the
 men of New Britain to be boys again
 Shall we go back with them and dc
 the things our hearts longed to do in
 by-gone days? Then, we will build
 club house for the boys,-a real
 club house with everything in it to
 make a boys heart glad .<.
 Think of the joy of it, being boy all over again. No matter how old
 you are, take flight of imagination
 back to the time when you reveled
 in knickerbockers. and stubbed your
 toe on the village green, and did all
 the things the boys are doing today.
 Think of the "ole swimmin' hole" and how you fished with home
 made rod, pended pin for a hook,
 and a spool of thread for line. Think of the dear old days in school.
 when you looked out the window on
 just such June day as this and won dered why you had to sit in stuffy old classroom when the grass out side was so nice and green. Think of the games you played and all the things you longed for, and how it hurt your little heart when there were some wants not satisfied. How that lump would come up in your throat and at night how you'd cry over 1t all and think what a cruel, cruel world it was. Maybe it was only a spinning top you wanted, or some. marbles, or a hoop, or perhaps a saRihe," or an "express waggin.' But they did look good and you want ed one so badly. And then someone, Aunt Mary or Uncle John, gave you just what you wanted, and you were the happiest boy inSthe world. Oh it was great to be boy and to long for things like boys do. And wqen you got your hearts desire, how you .wor- shipped the donor. Boys are hero worshippers,-more to their glory.
 The boys today are no different from those of yesterday. They have the same desires, the same appetites, the same longings. Theirs is the first chapter in the book of life. It is al- ways the same. Boys are boys. In New Britain today all the boys have united their wants in the. form of d. club house. They want a real place to play. and study, and while away the happiest moments of their lives.
 Are the boys going to get the club house? Are they?"
 Answer:-"They are!' '
 You just wager they will get it. Further. they are going to get one of the finest club houses we can give them. As long as there is a man alive in New Britain who was a boy, "a real boy,-who wants to be a boy, and knows what it is to be a boy. the boys are not going to wait much longer for this club.
 If we have boys of our own, or if we expect some day to look into eyes that resemble ours, or even if we are staid old bachelors we are going to give these boys of New Britain some thing that will be a means of making them better boys,--even better boys than we were, if possible.
 Just think If every man in this city would give a dollar bill, or two dollars, or five, what grand total it would make. And, individually, we would never miss one cent of it. On the contrary, our little mite would be the best effort we ever made for it will come back with 100 per cent. in terest on the day the new club house is opened and the entire population turns out to see what we have given our boys
 Some generous citizens have al- ready donated as high as one hundred dollars each. There are many more who can give the same. Their names will be written forever on the hearts of the boys of New Britain, for this club house is not for the boys of to- day alone; it will go on down the ages and house the boys of tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, until these boys whom we are helping to- day are ready and able to take care of boys of another generation. And the work shall go on, and on, and on, until our little effort has ended in magnificent mansion, and all the boys of the future will doff their hats in reverence to our memories and say, "Well, those were real fellows, those men of 1915."