The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-08
WOMEN URGED TO
BE BIG SIST Err
TO DELINQUENT
Safeguarding Girls and Plans
for Their Recue Discussed
by Federation
BILLBOARDS ARE OPPOSED
Friendliness Best Weapon to
Use to Teach
AmericaniZatiOn .

villages or NOrtn DdkOCa Was uuucl
consideration of the federation OF
North Dakota clubs at the sessions
of the last day of the meeting which
were resumed this morning at the
Presbyterian church.
The discussion OF juvenile delin-
Quency came in the report Of the de
partment /on health which was given
by Mrs. Ray n. Dickinson OF Minot.
'Be big sister Of some girl was
her admonition to the delegates IS
it easier" she continued, ito have a
tree grow straight, or to Strengthen
out a crooked one?'
Her report follows in part,
"The second phase OF the Depart
ment's work, that with Girls, opens
up to many possibilities we can only
touch upon few. There are so many
avenues Girls Clubs, |. w. c. A.,
Parent-Teacher Associations, Organ.
lied Glass work, the High School, the
Florence Crittenden Home, the School
at Mandan, the Juvenile Court Work.
the urging of the appointment OF a
Police matron in more Of our North
Dakota towns-every way we turn
comes up the question OF safeguard
ing our girls. Surely our C.uo Wo'
men do not fail to do their part in
any or all of these avenues of oppor'
tunity, hear You say. Well, lets
see Are we seeing to it that the
girls all over our state in general are
having the right kind Of good times;
or are we so engaged in our own af-
fairs that we have no time for these
very important things right in our
own little corner?"
Are We Self Satisfied
"Are we so self satisfied that we
think we have done our whole duty
when we have given a Five Dollar bill
to the Florence Crittenden Home?
Would it not have been far better If
we had thought a little more about
some of these girls one year--tWo
years-three years ago, and thrown
open our homes to some Of them ton,
yes, they come from your little town
and mine, as we'll as other places in
the state) so they could have had a
good wholesome time than to forget
about them until in some cases, alas,
it is too late? Is it easier to have a
tree grow straight, or to straighten
out a crooked one? Girls are just
bound to have good time-it seems
an inexorable law of life, and if they
can not have the right kind Of time
in. the right kind of an environment
some of them are going to have the
wrong kind of so-called good
time B 3..
Have No Homes
And so many Of these girls have no
homes worthy the name-just place
to eat and sleep, but cannot bring
their friends in for good time and
it is by no means confined to just one
corner of the earth-the same condi-
tions prevail everywhere. Mother
too tired or too busy or too something
or other to allow the girls to have a
good time, father too sleepy or too in
different or too groucy or too forget
full of his own youth to tolerate lit
tie wholesome noise, and the girls
drift away to other homes for their
fun. Isn't it pup to us mothers, as
Club women, as good Americans, as
Christians If You please, to throw
open our homes to the girls just
around us, and help to tide them past
the formative years to the ripper years
of womanhood's wisdom? After all it
resolves into a task for the individ-
ual Club member-through our Social
Service Committees this Department
is trying to arouse the sleeping men,
bers. and they in turn say get the
message across to others with whom
they come in contact. Wei, what are
we going to do aobut it: .
Tho Individual Duty
Will YOU do YOUR share as an in
dividual among the girls right around
You? Be big sister to some girl.
Many of the Clubs could organize a
Cirlss Club on the order of their own
with similar constitution and bylaws.
u would teach the girls many things;
parliamentary laws, different methods
of procedure, confidence in them
selves, creates an easy manner in adj
dressing meetings, is of. educational
value in dozens of ways-and best of
all gives them something to plan for
work for and think about besides
some of the undesirable thing. The
best way is to combine work and play
= little social affair along with the
program perhaps or alternating with it.
Things They Like Best
In my own girls Club the things
they like best are the things they do
for some one slse-and after all being
of service is the BIG thing nowadays
isn't it? The trouble is not in finding
enough things to keep the Club busy
the trouble is there are so many
things to do it is sometimes difficult
to select a few. But the girls will
soon tell you what they like best
and when their fingers are busy at
some important task, a we'll thought
out story or good book or a CHEEKY
sermonette with a laugh in it or a
beautiful poem or even a jingle of
your own will not interfere with busy
fingers, but will add flavor to the
meeting, and while you may think
these are small things if you have
never tried them--I KNOW they have
their value in later years-and may
be the means of helping some girl to
better life. Is it worth while? Or
if you want to have the boys included
or even boys Club like the idea
(ContiONod m paoo