The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-07-16
Nationwide Study
OF Recreational Life
All Leaders Seek To Discuss Best
Way To Find Outlet For
Leisure Time Of Youth

A nation wide study to improve
rural and small town social and
recreational life is to be a major
activity Of All local leaders and
members in the next few months.
The program seeks to discover
the best way by which youth Of d
community may use its leisure time
and thus offset tendencies common
today which are destructive to the
development of the finest manhood
and womanhood.
Guides for the study are being
distributed to $4,000 state, county
and local club leaders Of the United
States by the National Committee
on Boys and Girls Club Work which
is launching the project, and has
secured for its sponsorship the
Radio Corporation Of America and
affiliates, National Broadcasting
Company and RCA Victor, which
provide prizes valued at approxi-
mately $4,000 to successful con-
testants.
The guide is in the form of a re-
port blank and calls for information
on such activities Of All Clubs as
contests and personal growth OPP
portunities as indicated by school
records, reading habits, music par
ticipation and use of radio, church
and secular programs. Other de-
sired data is on picnics, camps,
tours, public entertainments, dis
cussion groups and community en-
terprises like park and playground
development, libraries, fire proven
ton and cooperation in local fairs.
Conservation and social service in
all of their aspects complete the list
of subject for which information Is
desired.
REPORTS of local clubs are to be
completed and filed with county ex-
tension agents for the selection Of
county champion club early in
Oc+ohar. The records If the county,
winning clubs are to be submitted
TO the State Club Leader in time
for the selection of state champion
club bv November 9. State reports
In each Of the four extension divf-
sions Of the United States will be
Judged to choose a winner therein.
and one Of these four will be named
national champion club.
County winning clubs each re-
ceive handsome year book to
record its activities. The leader of
each county champion club re-
ceive gold medal, and its respec-
tives county extension office sill
yer plaque. The state winning club
receives a library of 120 Victor
records selected for recreational
use and an RCA Victor record
PLAYER. The leader Of the club re-
ceives a $1OO RCA fully equipped
radio set.
To each member of the four
regional winning clubs up to ten
members Of their leaders Is awarded
AN all expense educational trip to
the fifteen National Club Congress
to be held in Chicago November u.
December 5 in connection with the
International Livestock Exposition.
The members of the national
champion club receive gold medal.
and to their county goes combina-
ton RCA radio phonoeraph and 461
selected Victor records valued at
s155O. Two $500 college scholar
ships complete the prize list which
are to be awarded each to boy
and girl participating in the con-
test who best tvpify the detectives
of All Clubs. The scholarships are
to be presented in June. 1887 in
Radio City, N. Y. by Mr.. David
Sarnoff, President of Radio Cor
poration Of America, who also pro-
vides a trip for each recipient and
chaperon. ;.
No fee or obligation of any kind
is required of contesting clubs and
leaders and they are permitted to
enlist the aid of local representa-
tives of the sponsor as well as in
dividuals and organizations in COM
piling reports.