Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — FRANCE TO HAVE BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS [ARTICLE]

FRANCE TO HAVE BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS

France is considering the adoption of Uncle Sam’s methods of teaching better‘ fanning and home making to boys and girls. Representatives from tbe Fi'ench High Commission, lately of this country, made a point of studying carefully the methods of the Federal Department of Agriculture and the State agricultural colleges in conducting boys’ and girls’ clubs. Much of the information thus collected has been widely reprinted by the French press, accompanied by editorial comment expressing the view that, the man and woman power of France having been depleted or disorganized by war service, France for some time to

tome i will be dependent in large part upon its younger population for its food supply and suggesting the formation in. France of a nationwide system of boys’ and girls’ elubs patterned on those in America. It is expected that these clubs will grow staple products —garden produce, ‘wool, farm grain and forage crops, poultry and farm animals on farms not devastated, the very soil of which must first of all be put in condition. They will stimulate production by the young people of France through organized contests not only in farming but in home enterprises such as bread baking, garment making, cooking, and home management.