The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-01-30

good things about the Y. w. G. A.,
too numerous to mention.
All the churches have different /.
kinds of entertainment for the young /
people where everyone is invited. |
Pastors and church workers should
make a special effort to invite the
girls who have no home. In the
larger churches, where they have
their dining rooms and Kitchens,
one night of each week is devoted to
the young women At these meetings
supper is served and after supper
they take part in Bible discussion.
Some enjoy this and some do not.
So let us try always to give them
the enjoynents that draw them to
God instead Of from God.
The churches should always have
a reading room.
The library should be centrally
located to give the downtown work.
ing girl rhance to read if she
chooses. Perhaps she is too tired to
walk so far and will aturally do
without. Or suppose she has been
sitting all day and would like to
play game of tennis or basketball?
Would it not be nice for her to get
her friends together and have n game?
Why should we not have little space
i'm each ward for this purpose?
Parks are badly needed. Each ward
should have at least as much as one
block of land for a park. which
should be well lighted, attractive ana
properly seated. Would it not be
fine to have a library in the center
OF each Of the parks?
Why cannot Ardmore have these?
Let us work to this end. This will
give both young and old chance.
\ few years ago one often met
someone who could say. II have
never been to q motion picture show.
but you never meet that person now.
The picture shows are patroni2ed
more than anything else, both by
young and old We should be very
careful what kind of picture shows
our girls and boys are seeing Mo-
tion pictures make a more vivid inn
preston on the mind than do hooks.
If that is the case, then the pictures
should be as we would like our lives
TO be, especially the principal char
acter in the play--pure clean and
noble.
Mr.. Warren Durham Foster ot
Boston is the head Of an organization
which makes movies strong force
in the communities lie began ms n
means of teaching East Side mothers
how to take care of their children,
boys how to play, and unfortunates
how to begin again. They We're as
tonished at the amount Of good this
was doing. Pretty soon he gave UP
his house TO house visitations and
organized a concern called the Com
munity Motion Picture Bureau"
"Why did YOU give it such name
/ as that, and what are you going to
/ do with it?" he was asked. "It's n
| good name" he replied I'VE want
to help communities to help them
selves, and the name tells our aim"
We must have clean scenes if we
want clean boys and girls. We have
very few in Ardmore for these work.
ing girls who spend much Of their
evenings in the picture shows. The
picture shows could do so much good
in building the character Of the
young people if they would only leave
ont the unclcan. At this time they
are doing more harm than good.
TRUE GROWTH.
t is not growing like tree
In bulk, doth make men better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hun
drod years
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and
sere.
\ lily Of n day is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night
In small proportions we just beauties
see,
And in short measures life may per
feet be.