The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-23
ROTARY TO BACK
BOYS WEEK HERE
Boys Week and "Back-tO-
School" Campaign On
Next Week.
PLAN PROGRAMS HERE

The Kenosha Rotary club has pledg-
ed itself to a full measure of boys
welfare work for the coming year,
Plans are now being. made for the de-
tails of this program and considerable
stress is being placed on summer
camping as the manner by which the
Rotary club can best exert an lnfiu-
ence upon boyhood which would com
bine wholesome entertainment with
bodybuilding energy In connection
with this program he club has en-
dorsed the celebration in Kenosha of
international Boys Work and the
"Back-to-Schoop campaign which oc-
ours simultaneously during the week
of April 26 to May 2.
Pointing out the real purposes Of
the celebration before the club, J. w.
McClinton, director of the Better
Schools League, a national organiza-
tion prompting the cause Of better
educational facilities, directed to the
club a communication which declares
among other things the debt. the
elders owe to boyhood.
Dedicated to BoyhOod.
ain worldwide Boys Week, an in
ternational event is observed at which
time we may dedicate our thoughts
anew to the youth of the world, to the
young of our nation and to the boys
Of our own firesides. Amongst all the
weeks set aside for certain reminders
of our duties in a busy age this is
perhaps the most significant, for it
inspires in us reflection upon topic
of utmost interest; it bids us take
stock of our attitude toward youth,
of our duty to give to our boyhood
every opportunity for self-develop-
ment and self-expression of those
latent qualities within. Happy is the
nation and happy the home that shelf
ers sturdy, eager, budding manhood
"Boyhood is the period of growth
the Green Apple stage'-when char
acteristics are formed soon to ripen
into a personality of maturity, and
the capacity to assume proper citi-
zenship and a position of usefulness
in the economic structure of society.
Are we giving our boys all the oppor-
tunities to which they are entitled;
are we developing their character,
their intelligence, their physique and
safeguarding their environment to the
full in these days of modern thought,
modern methods and modern facili-
ties?
''To the glory of our time can it be
said that our boys come to an age far
different than has been the privilege
of boys of other days? Their nature
in the raw may not have changed, but
what a different world is theirs in
which to work and live and play! A
broader conception of eduction con-
fronts them; the environment and re-
sourcefulness of a marvellous period
surround them, opportunities hun
dred-fold multiplied have opened to
them. All that remains is to give
them the right equipment, the Glad
hand and the proper impulse and we
shall have a wonderful human product
of a wonderful age.
"If it be true that as the twig is
bent SO will the tree incline, it is also
true that as our boys are trained and
developed so will our nation be-so
will be the world. 1t is opportune,
therefore, that during this week we
should give special attention to the
"Back-to- School" campaign, which car
ries with it the challenge as to wheth-
er we are doing our fullest in backing
our educational institutions; whether
we are needing the necessity for aug
menting our educational facilities and
safeguarding the quality and the tenn
permanent Of the teaching staff. Only
by interesting ourselves in our edu-
cational agencies can we feel assured
that boyhood will be given every pos
sible chance for development in order
that sturdy bodies, fertile minds and
moral worth may be created. Thus
and thus only do these agencies be-
come an institution for the promotion
of progress and the establishment of
international good will"
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