The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-15
ANNUAL MEETING TEEN-AGE COUNCIL CLOSEDLAST NIGHT Officers for Ensuing Year Installed by E. J. Rowe. J. l.. Alexander Makes
 Address

The annual conferences of the Older
 Boys council and the Older Giris' coun-
 cil came to a close at the First Bap- tist church last night in a joint session.
 when the newly elected officers were
 installed by E. J. Rowe following an
 installation address by John L. Alex ander.
 The officers of the Older Girls council installed last night were Miss Miriam Hostetler president; Miss Mary Malone, vice president; Miss Annie E. Crawford, secretary; Miss Laura Gall lagher, treasurer; district cfairmen,
 Miss Johnnie RiddIe for East Lake. Miss Mary Duggar for Woodlawn, Miss Nan nie Myrtle Price for Avondale, Miss Ruby Barton for Inglenook, Miss Coral Wood for East Northside, Miss Fanny
 Bowers for Soithside Miss Virginia Kelso for West End Miss Adele San ders for Fairview. Miss Grace Huff stutler for Ensley, Miss Nellie Beddow for wylam, Miss Rena Bridges for Pratt l City, Miss Ida Tomlinson for North Birmingham.
 The officers of the Older Boys coun- cil installed last night were: l Taylor Glass, president; Willis Booth, vice president; Ernest Lloyd, secretary;
  chairmen: Leslie Meadows for East
 Lake, Joe Moore for Avondale. Barry Shiftlett for Woodlawn, Weller Smith 1 for Five Points, Rob Hamrich for Southside. Hiram Moore for West End,
 Harvey Mccain for Fairview, Roy Hass- Her for Ensley, Charles Guthrie for Wy lam, MT. Smith for Pratt City, Doc Mo
 Coy for Martin Highlands, Pendleton Watson for downtown, Jack Lassiter
 for Norwood. Alex Griffin for North
 Birmingham.
 1 The feature of the sessions last night
 was the installation address by John | L. Alexander, who declared that the Young Mems Christian association. the Young Womens Christian association, the Boy Scouts. the Camp Fire Girls, and all other organizations of similar character were but first aids to the in- 1 jured. The injured. he sated, are the home the school and the church. which have called in these factors to aid them in their work among the rising lgenerations.
 "The home today is just a place for ! a boy and a girl to board-to eat and sleep" declared Mir. Alexander "The school takes care of his secular edu- /, cation, so-called; the Sunday school and
 the church take care of their so-called
 religious education The average Amer | ican home is not touching its children
 as to their religious convictions Every civilized country in the world has system of religious instruction in it's public schools. But in American relig- Iious education is barred from the pub- | lie schools. l agree with many great educators that it is not right to take
 the taxpayers money and teach sys- , tenn of religious education which might mot be acceptable to many of the tax
 payers, but I contend that an educa- 1 tional system which does not edu-
 cate the whole boy and the whole girl.
 physically, socially and religiously is
 not a complete system. Therefore, the church and the Sunday school can he
 the greatest thing in the life Of the | boy and the girl.
 | That is one of the purposes of these Older Boys councils and the Older
 Girls councils. The church must have
 leaders in the future, and we are going | to get our leaders from the rising gen.
 eration, and they must be trained. l Following the installation of the
 council officers. MT. Alexander deliv cred a farewell address, following
 which benediction was pronounced by 1 Dr. A. J. Dickinson.