Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-21
$500 SUBSCRIBED
TO AID BOYS CLUBS
Board of Trade Committee
Agrees to Back Project
Police Instituted.

With more than $500 in pledges and
subscriptions obtained at a meeting of
the Public Order Committee of the
Board Of Trade last night, Police Chief
Z. w. Browns plan to initiate his Boys
Club movement at No. precinct def
nitely got under way today. The sum
includes 500 pledged in behalf of the
committee by Odell Smith, chairman.
The fund, Maj. Brown said, will be
used to equip two rooms in the station
house at Fifth and E streets southeast
already cleared to provide recreation
and athletic quarters for the youth OF
the community.
The meeting of the trade board COM
nittee, held in the Raleigh Hotel, was
devoted to discussion Of the boys club
idea, with Mrs. John Allan Dougherty,
who personally subscribed 500, as the
principal speaker.
LIpst Sensible" Idea Yet.
Declaring that Maj. Browns idea for
solving the juvenile delinquency prob
lem is the most sensible yet advanced, !"
Mrs Dougherty made an emphatic plea
for greater interest in the plan on the
part of adult Washingtonians.
1T should be the duty OF residents OF
every community to interest themselves
in the children of the neighborhood,"
she declared. Children of the District
OF Columbia are above the average be-
cause ours is not manufacturing city
and we do not have that class of people,
nor are we faced with the immigrant
problem The problem Of our children
is one which Americans in every city
should take up in their own communi-
ties"
Mrs. Dougherty pointed out that
Under the National Recovery Admins
tratiun child labor in the United States
has been turhed loose. This, she said,
coupled with the added leisure hours
provided for those m employment. pre-
sent problems which. it is necessary to
deal with Immediately.
Men willing to Serve.
The speaker informed the committee
of the willingness of Wilton j. Lambert
70 serve as chairman, and OF Robert v.
Fleming TO serve as treasurer of any
BOYS clue organization which might be
formec here TO push the movement.
Mai. Brown, in outlining the need LOT
facilities for child recreation, pointed
out that school buildings Of the District
are not used to full advantage for this
purpose. after school hours the chill
school Fairgrounds and gymna Sums"
he asserted, adding he planned to take
this matter up with the Board OF Edu-
cation.
The police chief said his plan con-
templates the utilization of unused gym
nasiums in several Of the precinct
stations for the establishment OF boys
clubs. He said some of these had equip
ment which might be reconditioned and
used.
The Public Order Committee named
o special subcommittee to confer with
school officials looking toward acquisi-
ton of unused equipment in the athletic
departments of high schools.
Maj. Brown said ne is making ar
rangementS to obtain use Of space in
the Powell Junior High School to estah-
lish boys club in the community ad-
iacent to Fourteenth street and Park
road. Facilities are not available at
the tenth precinct due to the location
there of the police broadcasting station.
The chief Of police said also he is nego-
tiating for the use of market building
on M street in Georgetown for another
in the chain of clubs.
Other talks were made at the meet
ing by Inspector Frank S. w. Burke,
Inspector l.. I. H. Edwards, E. F. Mitch
ell of the National Rifle Association,
Gen. John A Johnston, former Commis-
sioner, and George Ofutt, former pres
ident of the Board OF Trade.
The committee adopted a resolution
pledging full support to the new Dis
trict Commissioners, and also voted to
take up the matter of substituting a
medical examiner for the coroner's jury
system here