RODACKER SETS THE STANDARD FOR QUALITY AND SERVICE

Mel J. Rodacker

W. R. NELSON, Manager

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so highly developed in the young? Playing
Indians and Cowboys, Cops and robbers,
soldier, sailor and so on, reveal that de-
sire to do things, to get action.

YouTHFUL Spirits Must Have OuTLet

Most of us are lamenting the juvenile
situation, but how many are actually
doing something about it? Service organ-
izations have come to the rescue and
developed all sorts of juvenile activity
to allow the youngsters to “blow off
steam’’ and thus release the pent-up effer-
vescence with which neither home nor
school room can cope. What would hap-
pen to a shouting and arm-waving young
Indian bursting into the living room or
class? He would soon be subdued, and the

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DAWSON CREEK, B. C.

energy thus pent up would probably burst
out somewhere else, and who knows, per-
haps in an undesirable direction.

A few of us, however, are realists, and
give form to the pious thought. Harry
Twist, a constable of the Burnaby District
Detachment of the British Columbia
Provincial Police is one of these. Con-
stable Twist is not a child psychologist
or reformer, but he does understand boys.
The juvenile situation in Burnaby, a
municipality of some 38,000 people, had
become a matter of grave concern to
teachers, parents and municipal authori-
ties alike, in common with civic centres
throughout Canada. The constable also
realized something would have to be done,
and knowing the best way to satisfy
juvenile pugnacity, he solicited the aid
of South Burnaby Lions Club. This
organization, sensing the possibilities be-
hind Constable Twist’s idea, agreed to
assist in financing his project.

UNDERSTANDING Boys First REQUISITE

In a short time, Constable Twist had
formed a club for boys of between 10 and
18 years with the object of teaching the
manly art of self defence, and the gen-
tlemanly tradition of the Marquess of
Queensbury. In short, Constable Twist,
who is himself a boxer of no mean ability,
having won the Western Canada Middle-
weight Championship in 1927, gathered a
group of about twenty lads and started to
train them. His success has far exceeded
his fondest expectations.

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Not only does his sports club keep the
boys off the streets, but it develops then
into men to be reckoned with. He insists
that they keep regular hours while iy
training and get to bed early. Skipping
both light and heavy bag punching, and
regular physical training that would db
many a tired business man the world of
good, are afforded the youngsters through
Twist’s efforts. Unaided, he tackled this
problem last December, and devoted mos
of his off duty hours to the lads of his
club. They, in turn, respect their devoted

friend and will do anything in the worll |
for him. As a man, a trainer, and asa
police officer, Harry Twist has accomp- |

lished a great deal.

The club had no ring in which the
youthful boxers could spar, so Twist

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