Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-11
DECLARES BOYS
CLUB REDUCES
DELINQUENCY
Is Giving Actual Dollars and
Cents Return to Its Com
munities.
CLUBS MAKE RECORDS

Declaring that the reduction of de-
linuuency and of crime gives dollar
and-cents method of measuring the value
of the Boys Club" Alexander Campbell
Of New York City in an address today be
fore the delegates TO the sixteenth annual
convention of the Boys Club Federation
at the ClaypooI Hotel indicated an arSu-
ment which may be advanced in gaining
the interest and support of the business
men of this country in the Boys Club
movement.
Many of our clubs have established
remarkable records in reducing delin-
quency and have received public recng-
milton In this respect" Mr.. Campbell said.
The most effective method is TO de-
termiue the number of boys within a
club district who are arrested each year
and then compare it with a similar area
and number of boys in section not
reached by the Boys Club or with a
neiShboring city of equal size where there
is not club.
OFFERS SUGGESTION
BOUSINEsS MEN.
The Boys Club Federatio ion has
very important suggestion to offer the
business man 1t is said this country
has material capital and labor. but the
markets of the world are limited. When
matters Of exchange are in time ad-
justed. prosperity will come 10 the
people who are able To- offer goods at the
lowest price. We submit the solution ot
the economic problem lies not in cheap
labor and low wages, but in the Skill OF
trained hands and brains 10 produce
quality in such quantity as to make the
cost Of manufacture less than that Of the
competitors. And vet In view of this
situation, the trade schools of New York,
y
tenth OF our entire boy population have
opportunity for educat. on. have not
enough boys enrolled In all trades to
man the Bethlehem Stee, plant alone.
Education authorities awake to this
situation stand in the doorways Of the
public schools reckoning to boys to come
in. State Legislatures are enacting con-
tinuation school laws TO compel boys to
continue their education. Federal grants
for vocational training have been made
But the thing these agencies are not able
to do is to convince boys of the necessity
of such training
The Boys Club stands in the unique
position Of being able 10 reach the boy
who has passed beyond the door Of the
schoolhouse and who does not take com
pulsOry training OF any kind The Boys
Club is able To provide for him industrial
work of Il nature that will interest him in
the value Of selecting some trade or pro
fession and fitting himself for more
useful career. We claim advantage
over the educator In respect to what n
boy should be taught. but we do know
in the psychology Of interesting boys in
what they should know, the Boys Club
is specialist. This is the position OF
great strategical Importance and to cap
ture the attention of the public In this
e. -
Club In the federation
The speaker pointed out the importance
of making survey Of local industries for
the purpose OF interesting these indus
tries in furnishing Instructors for class
work In the clubs and also Of interesting
the industries which employ boys in Civ
ing the boys an hour or week for
training them to become more valuable.
REPRESENT VALUABLE
INFLUENCE on COUNTRY.
Mr.. Campbell said The BOYS Club
Federation represents no uncertain IN
fuence on the l.fe of the country While
the local club may be concerned with
better boys. the federation's concern is
better Nation through the training of
its boys Each local club as il captures
strategic advantages hy eliminating boy
crime. by building better bodies and bet
ter health. BY stimulating training ard
creating the consciousness Of public re-
sponsibility. strenS hens the CROWN :
power of the federation as il combines
and co-ordiHates rho forces. fashioning
the character Of the Nation
AZ the morning session today. r. r.
Shnurds. architect, ~ Chicago and Tarre
Haute and 0 member of the national
board Of the Boys Club. discussed tho
report of the committee seeking 70
standardize requirements for model
Boys Club building. He made plea
for the minimum requirements, which
be made applicable to clubs Of small
means
other talks were made concerning thn
object, field and future II the Boys Club,
Late this afternoon the resolutions
committee will report and officers also
will be nominated and elected.
The four day session will close tonight
with 4 banquet in the Riley room II the
cIaypool Hotel. Former senator Albert
j. Beveridge will make the principal adj