Arizona republican., 1922-05-15
BOYS AND MOTHERS
TELL Of THE BENEFITS
FROM SUMMER CAMP

Merchants say that satisfied Gus
toners are the best advertisements
and some of the most effective ad-
vertising is done with letters from
these customers. In selling the Y.
NJ. C. A. summer camp to the par
ents and boys of the community we
are sure that few words from the
boys who attended the camp in past
years and some of the parents who
let their boys go to camp will be
big factor in helping both parents
and boys in making their final deci-
sion. Some of the letters follow.
What one boy says OF camp:
Last year got out OF school and
I was tired of everything. Did not
have a bit of pep. I talked with Mr..
Reeves and decided to go up to camp.
Il went up on the advance guard,
and worked like the dickens for two
or three days until we got the camp
all cleaned up. Then the rest of
the boys came up. / knew most OF
them and soon was friends with all.
With the arrival of the rest OF the
boys. camp really started. We heard
the bugle at 900 in the morning and
ran down to the river to wash up.
1t is pretty sight. wide strip of
white sand with a few feet of flow
ing stream in the center; past the
other side of the sand green trees
with a huge blue mountain in the
background and at the side of the
mountain the bright red sun slowly
rises. The bugle sounds for break
fast and then good eats with an ap-
petite any one should be both proud
and ashamed of. Then a baseball
game with a team that is sure to
ylrir1 "a INF M q T1d
playing with a water ball till you
laugh yourself into a state of ex-
haustion.
More eats and then you can have
a siesta, in a cool shade, or play the
graphaphone, joke and laugh with
the pure joy of living. AS the sun
goes down everybody gathers around
the campfire and we sing and play
music on such things as combs or
comets. Then we have a quiet talk
by the camp director who gives some
real good advice in the way of get
ting along with everybody and the
right thing. Then everybody goes
to bed and with the mournful notes
Of taps in our ears we drop off to
sleep and happy dreams. Say boy,
| am going again. -. d. Sawyer.
Another boy tells us what he likes
about camp.
THE thing that I most admired
about the summer camp, was the To-
cation away from civilization, in
Gods great outdoors. 1t seems to
me that the most beautiful part Of
camp life wac the camp fire at night,
with the gang singing songs. The
mountains all around rising, made a
most wonderful and majestic scene.
The immenseness and silence made
us think and when we thought about
the size of the whole universe We
would feel how small the earth
really is, and what insignificant lit
tie things men are. / know that it
will always make me wonder and
wonder. ."-Leoi Wolfson.
One OF the mothers writes the
following letter:
"Our son attended the Boys Y. NJ.
c. A. camp at the Garden OF Allah
last year under the supervision of
the Y. NJ C. A. and was much
pleased with the same and is arlx-
ious to attend again this summer.
II feel sure he received some ben
eft, both morally and physically,
from this trip. The discipline main
| tanned at this camp as we'll as the
religious training should prove truly
beneficial to any boy attending same.
Il am sure it is much better for a
| boy to attend this camp than to be
| idle and on he streets.
Il am glad to recommend this
camp as a good outing for boys. =
| Mrs. W. II. Thompson
Another mother says of the sum-
mer camp:
Now that vacation days are ap-
preaching ou thoughts turn to the
/ Garden of Allah. 1t is with a keen
sense OF appreciation, of pleasure
and benefit that my boy has re-
ceived that ! write to inquire if it
! is to be reopened this summer.
Every boy is tired out physically
and mentally at the end of school in
this climate. The camp is to my
! mind the kind of recreation and rest
necessary to help boy for the fu-