New Britain herald., 1923-04-04
COMMUNITY DRIVE
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it up. The Boy Scouts represent the best families in the city. The organi- zation is teaching boys respect for au- thority. This respect has fallen in high school and other boys. The studies the Boy Scouts pursue com plete the training they get in the high school They follow up any special line in which they are inter- ested and 90 become proficient. It gets their minds centered on their future training and is better for them than wasting their timo at dances or betting parties.
 The Boys club caters to another kind of home where things are not always as pleasant or attractive.
 Tt provides q home for tho boys I see hanging around the moving pic lures. Some pictures are not 1t for the growing boy with the plastic mind. It is not good for boys to be hanging around the streets. They learn to shoot crap and other bad habits. Gambling leads to stealing. The Boys club saves hundreds of boys of this type"
 The speaker here gave considerable information about the Boys club, its workshops and its physical depart ment. He said the club is giving boys better training on the principle that a community Is no better than it's in habitanta
 He paid tribute to the workers in the drive, stating that community work Is the very personification of Christianity. He cited an instance two weeks ago when the City Mission teIephoned him that a sick man whom she had visited necd- ed the services Of a priest. Tt is a fine thing to notify the clergyman of whatever religion the person belongs to, when his services are needed" he said. Tt Is wrong thing to take away from person the religion in which he or she was baptized. It makes hypocrites of them. More CO., operation between Protestants and Catholics will make a Kingdom of God on earth and not hell on earth. IT Will bring us new paradise"
 Tomorrow the workers will be the guests of the Rotary club.
 Rev. Charles Howard Mills who speaks at the fourth luncheon tomor- row, when the workers will be the guests of the Rotary club, is a retired minister who at one time had charge of the largest Congregational church in the Middle West, being located in St. Louis. Following the resignation of the Rev. Emory Bradford of Mont clair. N. J., he came east and took charge of that church.
 While in Montclair he interested himself in the establishment of a pen sion fund for retired ministers and was instrumental in raising fund of S6.000,000. He now is secretary of the Congregational annuity fund for retired ministers.
 He represents the national council office of the Boy Scouts of America, New York city and is director of the department of publicity.
 Mir. Mills has spent many years in different parts of the country in boys work and in the chautauqua and ly- ceum lecture field. He was associated with two of the largest boys clubs in the country, Columbia Park Boys club of San Francisco and Hull House Boys club of Chicago. He was direc- tor and superintendent of municipal recreation in Los Angeles. Chicago, Grand Rapids and Kansas City. He organized the first official troop of Boy Scouts in the city of Chicago over IS years ago. He is a man of virile character and a powerful public speaker. He is former Rotarian of Kansas City.