Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-10-16
i-.r WILL YOU
DO WITH THE "Y".

have correct moral notions that will
control life actions?
Indifference to these questions will
beget immortality in the community
as surely as the sun rises and sets
Morality is a positive thing, not
negative. There is no such thing as
negative morality, neither is there
any royal road to morality. Desirable
conditions in this line are to be won
: and maintained only with that labor
and care that excellence always ex.
acts.
While we appreciate efforts such
as those of Judge Ben Lindsey and
those other giant reformers of youth.
gone-wrong, yet we are sure that
| here in Payette, as in many other
places, the ounce of prevention is
worth the pound of cure. 1t is a
| fine thing to reform young people
after they have gone wrong, but it
is an infinitely finer thing to prevent
the wrong, and the consideration of
means and methods to train them in
the right should claim RIGHT NOW
the best thought of the entire COM
munity. Wrong ought not to exist
in the community. There is no excuse
for it, and the responsibility for its
existence belongs not to the young
people themselves, but to the com
munity as a whole. If the community
will make adequate provision for
the needs of young life, the prob,
lem will be largely solved. If the old
er people of the community are out
of harmony with the young people |
it is because they are lacking in |
sympathy for young life. The prob i
lem is largely how to develop the
will to do right and furnish condi- |
lions to reduce moral instruction to
actions Much of the wrong in the
world is due to ignorance and many
a boys life has been changed for
the better by heart-to-heart talk
with a wise, earnest man such as it
Is proposed to secure for the "Y" if
1t is re-opened. Furthermore, amuse
ments for young people should be
conducted under good environment
Young people have a right to and
must have recreation and play. The +
Y. M. c. A. should be made the recre-
alton center for the community. The
business and professional man needs
'ecreation and play-he needs it as
IN element of efficiency in his bust
less.
We are face to face with a big
problem. Shall we, like men and wo.
nen, set ourselves to the serious task
If solving the problem, or shall we
eek to hide behind the assertion
hat good home is better place for
boy than boys club in the "Y"
+ all homes were perfect, then would
uch institutions as the Y. M. c. A.
'e useless, but we are compelled to
leal with that which is actual and
lot with that which is ideal. There
no weightier problem than that of
estoring to the home, in the face of
he materialism which belongs to
he home, but in the meantime, what
t the young people?
Reasons for the "Y' are limitless
hall we reopen the building for
ne business of making character and
God citizenship? Shall we get man
Tho is big enough, physically, men
lilly, morally and spiritually to tie
he homes, churches, schools and all
usiness interests together to back
lie 'Y" as a community center for
i things that will promote the well =
ire of the Payette Valley? n
Boyville and Manville are too far "
part in Payette and not many men
e at home in both places, but those Is
no are can do anything with the n
'ys. The trouble is that we adults
not commonly understand boys. y
alf of US, to be sure, were boys "
lrselves once upon time, but when
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II work, we did not merely put w
yay childish things,''-we went tn
rther and forgot them. The diff nr
lty seems not so much to be that pa
have forgotten the incidents of
yhood as that we have lost its
cling. No, the trouble is not with
e memory, but with the self. There ne
70, 1t costs distinct effort for nc
'st men to put themselves In the ="
US place. If the men of this com. 4,
unity will consent to play the big on
other' role to the boys of the com, ter
nifty through the medium of the hir
M. Q. A., the problem will have tat
md solution< 1t will be worth hal
1t costs and much more. tor
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