HOPE FOR YOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 12

HOPE FOR YOUTH

]No aspect of llic unemployment problem has caused more serious concern to the thoughtful than the clanger of loss of youthful morale. Adults can be helped over the depression, and when industry recovers most of them will be ready to take their places again. But youths may lose I heir valuable training time, and be unfitted for work when work can be given. We do not think this great danger has been overlooked, hut the difficulty of finding a remedy has perplexed those who are most anxious to help. Now an opportunity is afforded to those who will help. A Y.M.C.A.-Rolary committee has prepared a plan by which some of the youths will be given a period in agricultural camps. Particulars arc given in our news columns today. It is not expected that all the boys will afterwards find work on farms or will prove suitable for country life. But it is hoped that many of them will; and the rest will benefit physically, morally, and mentally by the camp experience. They will be given new hope, renewed confidence in themselves, and the knowledge that someone is interested in their welfare. As an experiment alone the camp is well worth the small sum that the public are asked to subscribe to make it possible. It will be conducted under the best possible conditions with the Departments of Agriculture and Health co-operating heartily with the skilled V.M.C.A. leaders of boys. Leading practical farmers are giving support and help. In every way the plan is one which may be strongly commended to the public support.