, 1923-03-25

pole and their relation q the grow
ing evils OF truancy.
2. Establishing { boys camp In
many places.
.. Financing q motion picture
named Save tho Child" 4 safety
FIRST picture. Baltimore. Nd.
Z. Education OF crippled children
At Glendale. CALI.
o. Finding employment for boys
needing work In order to go to school.
8. Loanins money to worthy boys
and girls seeking an education FOR 10
siye It to them would injure the
children.
Z. Taking charge IN Mexico City
OF the financing OF the public play.
grounds.
s. Maintaining in Tulsa. Okla. a
boys home.
.. Raising IN Richmond. Va, s12..
GOO In less than twelve minutes and
$4,000 OF the $4,000 necessary to
carry on a club in which are enrolled
$40 boys.
10. Promoting boy scout work.
II. Procuring supervised play.
grounds.
u. Raising money for a swimming
pool and bathing pavilion at Des
Moincs, Iowa.
10. Carrying on a back to school
movement.
"a. Providing Rotary Park at La.
fayette, Ind, with its wooded spaces.
open playground and spacious club
house and thus offering to boys and
sirls, a chance TO enjoy outdoor life.
Is. Entertaining at Vincenness.
Ind, $500 children al n picnic al
Harrison Park.
1s. Visiting at Lansing, Mich.
those boys in the Industrial School
who have no friends or visitors 10
visit them on visitors day.
II. Contributing TO a chiidrents
hospital at Bristol. England.
10. Aiding overprivileged pampered
boys-as well as the underprivl1eged
boy.
10. Establishing a farm in the
country for unfortunate boys, Cham
bersburg. Pa.
20. Presenting a new suit Of
clothes and signet ring to a boy at
Boise, Idaho, who saved a little girl
from drowning.
81. Providing funds for operations
for adsnoids ana other ailments on
children without tho necessary means.
%. Adopting a needy boy as his
Rotary son. Columbus. Neb.
20. Sending a m~uslcally promising
boy to a New York school OF music,
Mobile. Ala.
20. Filming members who did not
attend a school election IS. Bay City,
Mich.
rs. Prizes for vacant lot asricul.
tursl products. Toronto, Canada.
&c. Appointing committees to pro
mote better school work. Charles
City, Iowa.
Thus the bodies, minds and hearts
OF the child being trained and
his outlook in life broadened. We
are to provide the means of educa-
ton for the poor but worthy boy or
girl.
We r then to learn from those
who have the care OF the young. in
stances Of the boy or girl. too, who
are specially talented, and provide
the means OF a special education.
Boys and girls can not always be
scooted through the same shoot.
VIII Erwin was expelled from the
University of California for some
prank. They were trying TO teach
him something he could not grasp
with much interest. He went out
and has become one of the worlds
great writer's. Two or three years
ago. he vas presented his diploma.
in the presence of many thousand
visitors assembled for the occasion.
sydney Smith. tells in tho March
American of being sent home from
school at seventeen. because he did
not have the proper adjusted mental
capacity for certain lines OF study,
but did want to draw cartoons.
Through adversely he tramped over
the country. enduring hardships
which would have foiled men OF less
determination in such chosen held.
until he has risen TO the top of his
profession in the United States.
We all know that in this room are
men who are mathematical wizards
or at least find 1t comparatively easy,
but abominate history; there are
others who can reel off yards Of his
tory pages and yet cannot handle
successfully a problem in quadradics;
there arc others who can tell the
make or an automobile by hearing
its engine purr as 1t comes UP the
street and ran take It apart and re
adjust such parts; who would hate
the thought OF trying to delve be-
You'd H2 o IN chemistry; there are
others who can master the analysis
OF substances by OF chemistry
formula who would not be able to
ascertain II their car lacked an ad.
justment of the engine or was simply
out OF gas or oil.
We must therefore. impress on the
teachers OF the youth OF the land this
divergence in talents. They know It
but attempt too often to ht the chill
dren into the same mold or groove.
Another problem Is to ascertain II
the children in our schools are being