The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-09-23
Meeting Held at Association
Il: Rooms: Last Night Wa. y
Of Great Benefit =. :::'@
RECREATION. COMMITTEE
APPOINTED FOR BEMIDJI
Interesting Talks Are 8 Made
Concerning Conditions
in This Community

by the ReQ .CrOSS IN cOuHecIIoA Will
the survey being made by their Home
Service department was full Of in
terest and to those who are really
interested in the betterment Of COM
munity conditions it gives an oppor-
tunity Of learning first hand what
the actual needs are. s s;
Mrs. H. C. Baer spoke on the work
of the County Child Welfare board
in its various forms and the large
amount of work necessary to be COW
cred in order to render adequate SER
ivce to those who come under this
branch of county work. 4nvestiga-
ton Of such matters as widows pen
sions, delinquent children, depend
ent children, unmarried mothers and
their children, all form important
parts of the work and require the CO.
operation OF all interested citizens:
D. C.. Dvoracek spoke of county
problems: with which his sWorks.a as
County Agent has brought him In
touch, the: various kinds of settlers,
of soil conditions, Of the recreation
needed and the educate of the farm
er boys and girls. He predicted that
IN IuS uOL ulStduC III Oh AA6AA
schools would educate the farmers
children. while they lived at home.
) This would Keep Tor the rural cpm-
munities their boys and girls instead
of sending them away to city to
complete their high school and COL
1ege education. It would have a.
great tendency to increase the num-
Il bersof farm boys and girls who would
remain onsthe farm after they had
received their education. a It. would
elevate the farmers occupation which
is most necessary and it would make
it much easier to keep the boys and
girls of the farm true to the moral
standards by which they lived on the
farm and which many now lose as
soon as they leave home to attend
school and college in the cities.
w. s. Cummings; of the American
Sunday School Union, spoke briefly
on the necessity of the tactful and
motherly attitude required to get into
the homes and into the hearts of the
needy women in the rural cOmmunf-
ties and saw in the present plans of
the Red Cross service department a
solution of many of the rural prob
lens. - H..
Mrs. Werswell, Librarian of the
nor thern division Of the Red Cross
outlined some of her experiences dur
ing the last day or two in which she
made investigation in the country
Wondering Bemidji. She also outlin-
e what she proposed to do in send
in& out literature and. pictures into
the homes of those isolated in the
country.
Miss Barrows discussed the meth
ods-she had used in ascertaining the
present desires of the youth for re-
creation, the effect much of the pre-
sent sO-called recreation has on
young people, stated some of her ex-
reriences in attending some of the
fered the young people of the city
and country and finally she presented
a very practical solution.
- "A recreation board was named
which would cooperate with a sup
ervisor Of recreation, whose aims
would be to provide suitable recre-
alton for both young and old in their
immediate community and not make
it necessary to go a long distance to
find that recreation.
The personnel of the board named
by Miss Barrows and which was
unanimously adopted at the Civic
and Commerce Association noon
meeting is as follows: President of
the city council, president of the Be-
midi association, president Of Gen.
trail Labor Union chairman of the
recreation committee of the Com
munity club, master of the Boy
Scouts, chief of police, city attorney,
Red Cross supervisor, mill represen-
tative, superintendent of city schools, |
pastor to be chosen by board, E. D.
BDyce and Mrs. George Kirk.
Miss Child, Miss Barrows and
Mrs. Kerswell upon invitation of Su-
perintendent Bagby visited the Lin
coln/and High school this morning !
arr have also been invited by Pre-
S1dent Deputy of the norman school to
visit that school and address the stu
dents.
: WEATHER REPORT.