There are a number of youth organizations which do a vast amount of good work for boys and for girls in this way, but as voluntary organizations depend upon private gifts and donations they cannot cope completely with this problem. Nevertheless, their methods and their experience are of the highest value if this work is to be extended and developed, The Board of Education, therefore, has issued a circular inviting all local education authorities to set up youth committees, on which there will be members of the local authority itself and also other individuals connected with youth organizations, so that there may be close co-Operation between the education committee in any county and the organizations which are already working on the youth problem. It may take a little time to get this machinery working effectively, but the local authorities are asked to set up these youth committees without delay so that some effective work may be done in the course of the summer and a real programme of activities of healthy and educational value can be arranged by next autumn and winter, This new movement can be commended to you because you have the problem in all its aspects. You have, to begin with, an important and extensive rural area which is in the main Welsh speaking, You have in addition coastal towns with a greater mixture in their population, and lastly you have an important industrial area in the east, There have been periods when Denbigshire was prepared to take a lead and give an example in educational progress, and the years of war, horrid as they may be in many ways, may give this, county an admire able opportunity of showing how a difficult but very important task can be tackled successfully.
It means money, but not vast expenditure. It also involves what may be sometimes more difficult, a real spirit of ce-operation, and, above all, it implies a belief that our youth, particularly those whose needs are not otherwise catered for, is of first-rate value and importance, and no trouble is too great to ensure that we give them that measure of health, mental efficiency, and happiness which we do secure for a substantial number of their more fortunate brothers and sisters in secondary schools or elsewhere.
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