The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-10
SAVE THE BOYS.


Moscow has a problem of vast I'M
portance to be solved. 1t is OF great
er Importance than new buildings TOT
the university, good roads OF the
state highway. 1t is question that
affects every home where there is
bow and it's solution will have last
ing effect on the community IN fu-
ture generations. The question is
HWhat shall we do with and for our
boys?"
At the present time number OF
Moscow boys of tender years are IN
the county jail, serving sentences Ior
trivial offenses. Some of them were
charged with contributing to the de-
linuuency of minor. Others We're
charged with playing pool IN pupllc
pool room.
The boys are forbidden to enter
the pool rooms and they are forbidden
to do this and do that. They must
have some place of amusement-some
place where they can do something.
They cannot walk the streets and no
live boy wants to sit around nome all
the time when not in school. Inc
picture shows are their only sources
of amusement at night and these have
been closed at intervals for months.
A real, live, -blooded boy (and
this is the kind that is worth wnlle)
has simply got to be busy. We can
all remember when we were boys ana
we ought to be able to sympatnlze
with these boys who, in few SNORT
years, will take our places, ana we
ought to be willing to do something
to make them better boys and oetter
men. That does not mean to preach
to them. Preaching to boy seldom
gets results. What we ought to 40
is to provide a place of amusement
where they can go without lear OF
arrest, where they do not become OUT
laws by entering the door, where the
word "Welcome" in box car letters
is on the door mat and over the en-
trance and where the word "Verbo-
ten" is never seen.
Moscow can we'll afford to invest
thousands of dollars in a boys amuse-
snent hall, with pool and billiard
tables. bowling alleys, swimming pool,
shower baths and reading room A
place for boys only, where they can
assemble and have their games and
their amusements and can read or
write. A boys club room IN MOSCOW
would do more to solve the problem
that is confronting the parents ana
the officers than anything that could
be provided.
Let us have such a place, with a
manager who knows and loves ana
can associate with them and make
them feel at home. The amount o.
money that is required to build two
miles of good roads will provide such
= place for Moscow. Is not one boy
worth more than many miles OF road
Such a place might be the means OF
saving scores of boys from becoming
worthless and make them good ci6l-
zens. Let us take up this problem
Immediately before any more boys
are sent to Jail for being boys like
we were when we were at their ages
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CHE WHO RUNS MAY READ"
The first election to be held since
the league of nations became an is
sue, shows results that might well
cause those opposing the league to
'.stop, look and listen" In the
Twenty-second congressional district
of Pennsylvania an election was held
last Tuesday to elect congressman
to succeed the republican incumbent
who had died There were two can
didates in the field, Jamison, the re-
publican and Wilson, the democratic
nominee.
Jamison opposed league of ma /
,ions Wilson announced that he fav-
ored the league of nations as outlined
oy President Wilson and made his
on that issue. Jamison
,ook the same stand as Knox, United
states senator from Pennsylvania.
The district is overwhelmingly re-
ublican. II had not elected demo-
rat to congress in SO years, yet Will
on, the democrat was elected by
rood, big majority. Perhaps the fact