Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-27
EDITOR
4 GOING CONCERN.

1 Making good citizens ~ as important a WORK aS
making sugar or canned pineappIes. isn't il !?
Recently the leading sugar men Of the territory
mel in fourday session here closing with field
survey Of Holt caterpillar tractors. Spadng deep
tilling pows II 100 cane and other things devoted
10 making sugar.
! We desire in lk;. manner, though without a trip.
TO take Star Bulletin readers, for brief survey Of
an institution devoted to making citzens-the Boys
Clubs Of Honolulu ""# II: -.
| In 1914 the boys clubs were, 50 TO speak.
all in short trousers. They had just started swing
ing along The four then existing clubs had a mem
hershp Of 40, with average monthly attendance
Of $50 and number of meetings 80 .~.
Two years -now-there are II clubs The
membership is just under 50O-490 to be exact
The average monthly attendance is 1000, not count
ing visitors and there lot Of visitors. The
number of meetings a month is 10
Now for just a rapid-fire glance at some of their
laetivitics
KauluweIa clubhouse, % by 40 feet, has had to
grow 10 take care Of its Iusty, healthy ambitious
youngsters 1t has been rebuilt and is 46 by &c feet
The new Kakaako clubhouse home of the Kak;i-
ako Mission club the Kakaako boys club, the Star
Bulletin club and he Nuuanu boys club is 81 by
30 feet with hanging galleries on both sides, thus
adding TO the floor space. @ - -
Samuel w. RobIey is boys work secretary of the
T. VI. G. A. There are three assistants TO look after
the Young citizens-,John Comes. at KakaakO; II.
Alexander. responsible for Manoa and also relieving
Mr.. Robley at Kaimuk. James Kauanui is the lead
er at Kaulnwela, and big Jim" with a disposition
like the morning sunshine, is valuable asset also
in the work al Camp No. .. -
Yes Surprised Reader. the boys club idea is tax
ing hold at Camp. That tenement settlement dis
trict famous in police and vice annals, is being re
generated. The boys, cflbworS there is big factor
in it.
At the Boys Industrial school, there is special
line of work "Sam" Robley, that human dynamo
goes out to Waialee once a week, leaving Honolulu
on Wednesday at noon and returning the following
morning. Superintendent Frederick Anderson,
Juvenile Judge Whitney and others personally in
terested in the work at the school are emphatic in
their praise of the results accomplished there by
Mr.. -RObley since he'began last January.
The physical program of the boys club is story
of success after success. The men in charge have
got grip on the young citizens-the grip of faith
and boysh liking the grip of wholesome play clean
sport During the coming year emphasis will be
placed on the mental development of the boys, and
this feature will be under the direction of the
tive committee
:
Bulletin asked him the other day to say why he be-
ieves in boys club work. Anyone who knows Rob
ley knows that he'd pick up challenge like that in
minute, and he came back with the following
IF you want to keep the boy at home, make the
homo attractive
IF you want TO keep the boy in your club after he
joins make the program attractive and beneficial and
he is yours the finish
when he is right fight for him, if necessary When
he is wrong reason with him; IL necessary, do the
reasoning in the back room If he goes back you
tell him first before you tell anyone else, and he will
think more of you and do more for you
It's great work and the only come back is that fell
lows in it seem to get younger the months fly by!
The reason why this editorial is written is not
merely to tell what the boys clubs doing, though
the SarBulletin is very glad indeed to do that. 1t
is also to say that The big, fine, forwardloOking pro
gram which has been outlined for next year calls for
a budget of $4,000. Mr. Robley already has raised
almost $4,000. He is determined to finish the $4,000
before the first Of January.
Is Honolulu with him? Is Honolulu with the linen
and women who already have backed the boys clubs
generously? Needless question! The first of Janu-
airy ought to see Robey, his smile twice wide as
usual with his budget oversubscribed thousand or
So Well guarantee the surplus will be well spent.
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