The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-05-21
BOYS WEEK IN KEY WEST

Mother" has long been claimed and universal
ly conceded to be the prettest word in the English
language And it may as truthfuly be said that
"boys" and girls" are two of the most vitality i'm
portant monosyables uttered by the English speak
ing people of the world today-for the boys and
girls of today will be the fathers and mothers of
the future, and upon them viii devolye the man
agement of government affairs, the welfare of So
ciety and the great causes of education and
Christianity.
Girls are just as important as. boys, and per-
haps more so, and they too will perhaps be given
week before very long. But it is the fitting OBJ
servance of the approaching Boys Week that the
whole country is intensely interested in at the
present time, for this wisely suggested movement
of the future
Whatever discredit may be flung at the
by the so-called 'reformers,' it must be acknowl-
edged that the men have succeeded fairly well in
building the country up to what it is today, and
regardless of the increasing claims of feminine
equality and superiority it is quite safe to predict
that the weighty burdens of the future will rest
upon masculine shoulders as they have done in
time past, and it is but proper that they should.
So, anything that is done to aid in the de-
vclopment and training of the boys of today VIII
result in visible benefits to our country in the
decades of the future.
Boys the material are made of. There
is not man living today but who was boy,
whether he be president, governor, a great states
man or an influential citizeA So it well behooves
to take excellent of the boy. His training
for life cannot be commenced too early nor can
it be continued too long in the proper way.
The Rotarians of the country cannot be too
boy directly to the attention of the American peo
pie by designating May 1929, inclusive, as Boys
Week. There have been few movements of equal
magnitude. There has never been an appeal for
a. worthier cause.
Every one in Key West should unite whole
heartedly and harmoniously in sincere and APP
propriate observance of Boys Week, and thus aid
materially in the noble cause of making the world
better and brighter for the generations of years
to come.
An interesting and instructive program COW
ering every day of Boys Week has been worked
out and announced by the local Rotary Club COM
mttee. Every citizen should familiarize himself
or herself with the numbers on this program and
help out in its rendition in the most impressive and
effective manner possible, for the making of men
is the most highly important and imperatively
sentia line of business ever known to the civilized
world.
While the majority of the boys in America
ceive instruction and training every day of every
year. in the home, the school and the church. yet it
is well to have this special period set apart when
men and women who have devoted their lives to
the welfare of the boy come among us and give
advice and information, either from the plat
form through the columns of the press, that win
be wonderfully helpful to us in our constant con
scientious and prayerful efforts to rear our boys
in such way that they will be representative men
of the future.
We welcome Boys Week. It's success cannot
be greater than the cause merits.