both adults and juveniles, especially for the latter. Although 

 the Y. M. C. A. has a growing boys' club organization, and the 

 Y. W. C. A. provides recreation for women and young girls, 

 neither agency can begin to meet the entire needs of the city. 

 Both of these agencies require a membership fee, are religious 

 in character, and do not reach the poorest in the community. 

 The Free Industrial School is located in the district where boys' 

 and girls' club work is much needed, but at present it does not 

 meet the existing need because there is a lack of volunteer work- 

 ers and the present management is unable to handle the situa- 

 tion. Last summer in one locality, seventy boys were brought 

 together for an evening's entertainment, with but little effort, 

 by a boys' club organizer temporarily at work. There is no agency 

 in that particular locality which adequately meets the needs for 

 boys' club organizations. In several sections of the city, boys' 

 gangs now flourish. Such gangs seek their amusement on the 

 city water front where influences are bad, or have their camps 

 in the canyons revelling in indecent stories, cigarette smoking, 

 and crap shooting. The city through its Board of Playground 

 Commissioners, and its school centers yet to be established, must 

 meet this need for wholesome recreation. Otherwise, the com- 

 munity's children must be left to the tender mercies of the com- 

 mercial amusement places such as the public dance hall, with 

 their questionable influence for good and frequently most cer- 

 tain influence for evil. 



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