The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-04


 And all of these, with big dewy. tender eyes. and hundreds more to help buy a club house for them next Saturday. They need several thous- and dollars as payment on a piece of ground down town, which will cost s10,000. and which faces the park near the Terminal station, where they may play to their hearts content and grow to be wonderful citizens because you have cared what became of them.
 From Boy's Club
 They are members of the Boys club that organization which makes a cause dig deep. Think if you do not serves the type or boyhood such as the Salvation Army takes care of among adults.
 In order to get the money they need. It's to be the boys Tag Day next Saturday, and, when you put your hand in your pocket for this cause, dig deep. Think if you donot find 8 goodly sum there. take out your check book, and go strong. For you are giving character, health, ecreation--and big home-to these little fellows God has put here for you to help out
 It should be a gala day--this Tag Day--because. to save your life. you could scarcely keep from remember ing your own boyhood-and If 1t was filled with pleasant comforts, or if- it was filled with hardships either will give you big incentive to make that purse of yours yield it's utmost. I hope the wind will blow a bit, and that through the streets, many dirty, barelegged boys may go l hope a few of them will whistle For this day, being boyhoods tag day-they should have A part in the occasion. And. no matter how un- derprivileged a boy is, you never in a thousand years can take that mer- ry whistle away from him, anymore than you can take away from him that pleading when 1t comes time to wash his feet at night.
 "Oh, they ain't much dirty. Lemme off tonight, and l promise I'll give lem good washin' tomorrow night" He Forgives Your Crime
 The pitiful part of the whole thing is that the boy will forgive you, even If you give but dime, and are able to contribute so much more.
 My. you have missed the loveliest thing If you have not been up to 6l7 Twenty fifth street. north and vis- ited the Boys club. There 400 boys, Including types of all descriptions. who are filling every sort of childish job from that of running errands to being a newsboy. make that down. town headquarters, like gentlemen do the Southern club. And there. be- cause they wanted the coziness of red fires in the winter time. they have, with their own hands, built a rock chimney. It was a mans job, but as necessity has the habit of doing. 1t gave the boys ingenuity be- yond their years.
 And there. 0. will you grownups listen to this: They have organized a boosters club, a club to boost this town, whose wards they are. Mind you, it's some fight as to who will be its officers, for they must be boys with big conceptions and ideals for the future success of this Iron and coal country.
 The reason n permanent home is necessary" said Dr. Percy Woodall yesterday. Ifs that the Boys club has been knocked about from pillar to post. Rents have been raised until it was hard to know where we would be from year to year. Finally we have been able to get two small buildings erected on our lot on Twenty-fifth street, and here we will have temporary quarters until, through the generosity of Birming-