AT a meeting of the Belfast Council of Social Welfare, held in the corridor room, Church House, Miss Dora Webb, Northampton, delivered a lecture on “The Boys’ Brigade as a Solution of the Young Boy Problem”.

Dr Andrew Trimble, who presided, said the fund of a boy’s energy might be compared to a geyser, and when this went wrong they called the result a “bad boy”.

If there was a boy problem it was to direct the boy’s energy in the right direction. No scheme for doing so could be a success if they endeavoured to impose on the boy something they themselves had only adopted in adult life.

The boy’s point of view must be considered and many failures by........

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