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              Accent on Youth Placed at Session Of ???Y??? Older Boys ; /J.////J9. . \ Dayton Greenly, Bloomsburg, Named President at Conference Here BOYS HEAR SPEECHES OF YOUTHS??? CHANCES 160 Boys from 15 Communities Attend Annual District Meeting in Town Dayton Greenly, a junior in the Bloomsburg High School, was chosen president of the Older Boys??? Conference of the North Central district which concluded its tenth annual meeting here over the week-end, the sessions being among the most successful in the history of the district and attended by more than 160 boys from fifteen communities. Other officers are: Donald Zerbe, of Jersey Shore; vice president; William Kellerman, of Bellefonte, secretary, and Robert Meyers, of State College, treasurer. After an all-day session Saturday which included an address by Dean Harvey Andruss, acting president of the State Teachers College; a business session, recreational period and motion picture lecture on ???America the Beautiful???, the conference concluded yesterday morning with a worship service at the First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Dr. S. A. Harker, pastor of the church, gave a splendid message on ???Adventures with Christ.??? The auditorium was well filled for the service with the members occupying a reserved section. Adventure is in the blood of humanity, especially in that of youth, the minister said in his introductory remarks. Youth, he asserted, must have confidence in itself. He spoke of the detriment of over-confidence but said that the youth who is to succeed in his adventures must have confidence in his ability. The greatest adventure and the most thrilling, he told the boys, is the spiritual adventure, or adventures with Christ, Dean Andruss in his address of Saturday morning, on ???Adventures in Responsibility,??? asserted ???while we people of an older generation can tell you how to do things, only one person in the world can ever really make you do them???and that person is you.??? Saturday???s Sessions The program on Saturday opened at the high school auditorium with R. Bruce Albert, of town, leading,the singing. Frank Kocher, of Espy, a col- ( lege student, was at the piano. Richard Kromer, of Milton, the president, presided,  Lock Haven Hi-Y conducted the de??? ??votions and Dean Andruss delivered his address. Discussion groups occui pied the remainder of the morning with the leader: John Wagner, the Rev. B. H- Heller, of town; Albert Hauke. Lock Haven; the Rev. D. L. Bomboy, J. Claire Patterson, L. P. Gilmore, of town. I The officers were named during tne afternoon session. Then came a recreation period. Six communities had teams in the basketball tourney???Jersey Shore, Williamsport, State College. I Sk Haven. Shamokin and Bloomsj burg???and Shamokin for the second consecutive year took the honors. 1 A number of the boys were in charge of L. P. Gilmore who took them around to various manufacturing plants and other places of interest. James I. Hoffman, of Lancaster gave an address on ???America the Beautiful with the address accompanied by colored motion pictures of the world s M fairs in New York and San Francisco and of scenes taken as he traveled between the fairs. ???. v The Bloomsburg Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y I entertained the delegates at a delightful party in the gym to conclude the program Saturday evening. Games, dancing and delicious refreshments were the principal features. Dean Andruss Speaks Dean Andruss spoke in part as follows: . v ???Today you are in America you are in the future???you are the young men and women of America. For years you have been poring over textbooks. You have been learning what the great minds of the past have seL down for your guidance. You have been preparing yourselves to take your place in the world. Now you are about ready to take that place and you want to know how to do it. ???What is Youth? Youth is not a time of life???it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips, and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a i vigor, of emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. This ???*, often exists in a man of fifty more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin but to i give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair???these are the long, long years ' that bow the head and turn the grow- , ing spirit back to dust. Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being???s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike thinks and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what is next, and the joy and the game of life. We are as young as our faith, as old as our doubt; as young as our selffilled with envy too, for he would be saying to himself, ???lf only I had this man???s youth!??? ???In these remarks, I shall attempt to outline some of the things you must know, if you are going to get along in this Adventure in Responsibility. This knowledge is not the sort of knowledge you have been taught ir* school???but these things are just as true, and just as vital to you as the multiplication table or your A. B. C???s. ???But one thing you must remember, i While we people of an older generation can tell you how to do these things, only one person in the world can ever really make you do them??? n(j that persor is you - l ... . : j ???Have you ever stopped to realize | how rich you are? You may not real- \ ize it, but you are richer at this mo- i ment than Owen D. Young, or John D. Rockefeller, Jr., or Henry Ford. If you | walked into the office of one of these f famous men, you would probably look j; at him and envy him his position, his wealth, his experience, hig place in the world. But do you know what he would be thinking, as he sat there looking at you. His heart would be with envy too, for he would be saying to himself, ???If only I had this man???s youth!??? ???Yes, make no mistake about it. You have on your side the two most powerful allies on earth???youth, and time. And if you harness these two allies, and treat them intelligently and make them work for you instead of / against you, they may raise you to! pinnacles of success higher than you j have ever dreamed of in your dizziest' | and wildest imaginings. ! ???But how are you going to achieve ail this? By realizing, to begin with, that your adventure has only begun. From now on you will have to unlearn many of the things you believe you know, and you will have to learn many things which were not taught in school. It is inevitable that you will make mistakes. But by those very mistakes you will leam too. So do not let them discourage you. Say to yourself, instead; ???lt is not a mistake the first time. It is not a mistake until I commit the same blunder twice. One other thing. Remember that i you are now going forth to take your ; place in a world of men and women, j Your success in this adventure will depend to an overwhelming degree on your ability to get along with these other people. And it is from your | study and observation of them that you will complete your education. For as j Emerson said; ???Every man I meet is imy superior in'some way. In that, I 1 learn of him.??? j ???Success is eighty per cent character and personality and twenty per cent knowledge. It is more important to act intelligently than to think intelligently. How you treat people is more important than how you think. Many people have asked me if a college education is necessary for success The question is utterly ridiculous. Many are the men who have never seen the inside of a college, but who have gone right to the top in the business world. Don???t be discouraged if you are unable to go to college???it is not necessary for , success, ???Certainly, get all you can in  way of a formal education in your youth, for it will make it easier for you to obtain success???provided you j don???t rely too much on it. A college education ought to train your mind, broaden your life and develop your confidence; all of which should help you make more money in later life, ???Your adventure in responsibility must look to the future as living and learning as you live.???