Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-09
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of special committees by President VII
liam r. Halls
K. D. K,ees Of the Union League Boys
! Club Of Chicago, v. r. McAdam OF tn,
| Montreal (Canada) Boys Home and I
| +. Craighead Of the Little Rock lark.
Club were appointed on the press ant
radio committees.
! W. L. Butcher Of the Brace Memorial
! Boys Home OF New York City was ap
pointed to broadcast reports OF the con
ference by radio each night.
Mr.. Butcher, r. l.. Lowell OF the United
Workers Boys Club of New Heven
Conn. and John II. Witter OF the Chi
cago Boys Club verb appointed members
of the resolutions committee.
GUESTS OF
ROTARY CLUB.
At noon the boys. delegates and other
members of the federation were guests
Of the 7a.iianapolis Rotary Club at q
luncheon. following the luncheon short
talks were made by c. J. Atkinson, New
York Robert r. Butler Of Nashville
Tenn, Charles III Woodhall OF Jersey
| City, y. o.; Reginald Wnshburn or Wor.
cester, Mass Robert p. Kiees OF Cal
acgo and Alexander Campbell OF New
York.
The women delegates who are attend
ing the conferences were the luncheol
guests Of Mrs Albert ]. Beveridge al
her home AZ 1 o'clock this Afternoon.
The afternoon sessions were devoted te
discussions OF summer activities Of thu
Boys. Clubs. Smith Y. Hughes OF Nil
waukee Wis. discussed Camp and Out
Ing activities" The subject OF F.
Thomson of New York was Athlete and
III. TIN T. nj
I Little Rock. Ark. discussed "A Summer
Program Inside the Building
VISITORS TAKE
AUTO TRIP.
At o'clock the delegates were to b.
taken on an automobile tour Of the city
At o'clock the delegates acre to be thu
guests of the indianapolis committee al
picnic supper at Garfield Park Follow
Ing the supper they we're to be enter
| tanned with a pageant and play by tn.
fndiaf polls BOYS Clubs.
At he morning session !. II. Brader OF
the Irene Kapn'man Settlement, Pitts
bHrgh. Pa, discussed the various intel
lgence tests given the boys and the re
suits obtained
presiden: Hail and others discussed the
need of teaching dramatics aud public
speaking In the clubs. President Hall
+ declared that public speaking was OF
great use in Americanization work.
Miss Bertha NJ Hes instructor at. the
Union League Boys Club, Chicago
stated in an address that the plays which
We're the favorlte with the boys we're
those Of Shakespeare and Of Booth
Harrington.
Inspired BY addresses and renewal OF
fellowship at the ''acqua intanceship din
tf. Ius ,t,rb a
ference at the banquet opening the con
| ference last night, got down to bust.
ness in sessions today. The convention
| Is one of the largest ever held by the
federation and is expected to be a mile.
stone in the progress of boys club work
Comparing those engaged in the work
TO salvage corps making the man
hood of tomorrow not broke. parody
but likeness OF that which the Father
OF US all designed us to be-" the Rev
f. f. shannon, ID. D., pastor OF the
Central Church, Chicago, gave the prin-
cipal address. His subject was Sal
vaging the Manhood Of Tomorrow.
The idea expressed by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Every child should pick his
parents go years before he Is BORN" Is a
good one but not possible of accomplish
ment, said nr. Shannon. THE way to
get ahead Of the wrecked manhood Of to-
morrow Is to begin with the boyhood
Of today.
Here is one Of the greatest movements
Of the day, taking human life at the par
ticular plastic moment and molding 1t
with finer ideals"
salvaging of manhood is savieurhood
and "sayiourhood in any form Is about
the finest conception that ever knocks
AT the door of any mind" ba said
Men and women to be successful In
the work of salvaging the manhood of
tomorrow must be men and women of
vision of opportunity, and who realize
the economic necessity Of their labors
declared Dr.. Shannon
UNDERTAKEN HAS
DELAYED COMING.
Those men VINO see nothing In life
but stocks and bonds and still more
stocks and bonds--they are dead ones
for whom the undertaken has delayed
| his coming. On the other hand there
are men and women who are seeing over
the tops Of things into the possibilities
in boyhood. These are men and women
Of vision
Artists of all kinds, sculptors, painters,
musicians, composers have vision and we
all love their works, he said, "but the
finest artists between the sun and stars
is the man who knows how to take these
human discords and make them into
great living melodies"
1.-THE salvagers must be men of op-
portunity, strateg.sts in the great realm
of human saviourhood, because the man
or woman who helps a boy or girl to full
development Of his or her powers for
good, does something at the particular
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