Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-24
BOYS WEEK NOW
CELEBRATED ALL
OVER COUNTRY
Spirit Of Loyalty And Devotion De-
I veloped In Youth OF Nation On
Whom Future Rests
WEEK TO BE OBSERVED
in POCOMOKE MAY l TO s

The origin. and development Of
Boys Weeks are well known to those
who have been interested in boys and
Boys Week during the last five years.
However, the facts are emphasized
again because we have found a con-
stantly increasing interest in Boys
Week, and that interest carries the
idea into the hands Of thousands of
new readers every year. The genesis
and genius of any movement always
compels the interest of mankind and
the history and development of Boys
Week is not an exception.
Boys Week came out Of the Rotary
Club of New York. The New York
Rotarians putting their heads to-
gether with the Boys Workers Of
New York discovered the solution Of
their problem. Rotarians being good
business men knew that propaganda,
publicity, and advertising are essen
tial requisites in good business enter
prise and so out Of the night, as il
were, when both Rotarians and Boys
Workers were in state of doubt and
speculation, well-lnown boys work.
er suggested the BOYS WEEK pro-
gram; First, just suggestion of a
Loyalty Parade, then a program in
the rough, then a larger program
worked out by the Rotarians and
Boys Workers together, and finally
q glorious realization made possible
" the cooperation Of Boys Workers
With Rotarians.
The first Boys Week aroused the
metropolis. One million people liter
ally stood still on one Of the worlds
greatest boulevards and watched o
<undred thousand boys march by in
> monstration Of their loyalty to the
1eals of the nation. .t.
The citizens realized more than ever
before that the boy life Of the world
constitutes the raw material for in
dustry, commerce and citizenship and
that the boy, taken by himself, is far
more important and valuable than o
transit system, q successful theatrical
eenson, the winning Of Q baseball pen
nant, or cricket championship, So
c'el prestige or business triumph. s
Following this frst Boys Week,
Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City and
Newark, proved the effectiveness Of
the one-week drive to give publicity
to the boy. The subsequent spread of
Boys' Week among the nations has
made it a world wide movement which
crews with every succeeding year.
EHe boyhood Of America constitutes
one Of the greatest national assets.
|A keen realization Of this fact on the
phrt Of the people will make this as
at Of still greater value to the future
E America. i
BY instilling In the younger gener-
lion IN abiding love and admiration
national ideals and institutions
3 realization Of the responsible
d and obligations. as we'll as the
vileges Of citizenship, many organ
tions and institutions are contrib
be- something Of .inestimable value
the stability and moral standards
he nation.
nce its initiation in 1920, the plan
evoting one week in the year,
p IS Boys Week, has steadily in
sed IN favor until the movement
spread TO practically all Of the
cities Of the world and is sup
q by every type of organization
ing for boys. The National Boys
Conmittee numbers among its
ers distinguished men in all
Of American life; church, state,
Pnch, industry, education, army,
being brought together to co.
se all organizations, creeds and
represented in the American
Il the structure upon which
are rests. That structure will
or weak as we develop the
loyalty and devotion in the
the nation. This is a re-
ty and an obligation of each
d and it is well for the COM
i as whole, to think for
Z week in terms of the boy,
q his future, for his future
of the world.