The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-04-03
Large Attendance at
Community Club Ban
quet Last Thursday Eve.

majority of our criminals are young
men; most of them boys. 1t is the
duty of the various institutions work
ing for good citizenship and morality,
to do everything within their power
to change these conditions.
Modern social and economic life
has suffered a radical change with
in the past generation. Parents are
spending more time in their business
pursuits and the young people them
selves are offered more leisure time
through the absence of sufficient
chores at home and lack of proper di-
rection of their, activities
"The school is making every eff
fort possible to meet the new demands
but is seriously handicapped on &C
count of the short time during which
the child is under its jurisdiction
At best the child spends but five or
six hours of his day in school, and
only an average of about 100 days
during the year. Modern conditions
give the child too much leisure time
without the proper direction of that
time.
"One of the greatest forces to rem
edy this condition is suggested organ
lied activities as the Camp Fire Girls
and the Boy Scouts. These organi-
cations recognize the fact that a
|child's time may be occupied so as to
satisfy the instinct of play, and at
the same time teach the child to be-
come useful citizen. Thorough the
medium Of the school it is possible
for us to direct the young peoples
activities for part Of the year, but
during the three months of summer
vacation we are doing nothing. We
are offering no definite program for
directing the energies of our young
people. No matter how much good
may have been accomplished during
the nine months Of the school year
there is some lost if we permit our
young people to run wild for three
months, their energy undirected, and
the gang spirit permitted to result in
vicious habits, instead of being direct
ed into proper channels.
''It would be possible for the vari.
Gus institutions of a community like
this to, cooperate efficiently to
Solve our problem. 1t is not the re-
sponsiblity of any one person OF m
stitution, but it should be made the
concern of every individual. and in
stitution."
Mr.. Falk said, in the few brief
minutes of his remarks, that he could
not offer a definite program but that
he would like to see steps taken
which would give Sank Centre proper
playground supervision and the di-
rection of our young peoples activi-
ties during the three summer months
"The only way it can be done prop
erly is through the medium of prep.
erly training full-time paid workers to
handle the work of the Fairgrounds
Camp Fire Girls, and the Boy Scout
organizations. l am sure that the
board of education is willing to CO.
operate with the city authorities, ana
| sincerely hope that the Community
Club will sponsor the idea ana see
that it will be carried out successful
Is" said Mr.. Falk.
The stunt committee arranged with
Mr.. Morgan to have some of his Boy
Scouts put on a boxing exhibition
There were three bouts, each lasting
two rounds. Elmer Bradley and Ed
ward Peterson opened the program
with lively encounter; James Cliff
and Leo Miller followed and gave q
fine exhibition of sparring. Cliff
proved to be the best trained boxer
on the floor. Walter Moynihan anC
Carl Fischer ended the fight card with
two rounds of very fast floor work.
These boys showed that they are re.
ceiving training in the art of self de.
tense, and everyone present got q
whole lot of enjoyment out of the
evenings entertainment.