The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-02
EASTERN MEN BESEiGING SEC
RETARY FOR INFORMATION
ABOUT THE Y. M. c. A.
He Is Looking for Suitable Man to
Manage the Work in WaIIa WaIIa
Two Physical Directors.


the official organ of the Young Mems
Christian Associations of North Amer
lea that Walla WalIa is engaged in
raising fund for the erection of a
$4,000 building for young men.
AS a consequence of the publicity
thus given to the enterprise a few men
who have given their lives to the as
ISOLATION work as profession have
opened correspondence with Secretary
Wilcox asking concerning the open
ings here in connection with the as
ISOLATION. While no official answers
can be given to these letters until after
the Walla Walla association has been
organized-which will not be until af-
ter the building is assured-Mr. Wilcox
is quietly looking for a suitable man to
manage the work here
ter, by a Statesman reporter, he said
that good men are hard to get, there
is such demand for them and the re-
quirements are so exacting. Even af-
ter l find a good man, if he should not
be wanted here, he would probably be
needed elsewhere in the state. We will,
in all probability, need two general
secretaries besides the need which I
hope will be developed here by the
opening of the proposed building Two
physical directors will aso be needed
though one of them is found in a man
VINO has been trained for the business
in the Seattle association. Two other
men will also be needed for small as
sociations where the secretary must
do both the physical and secretarial
work
''The reasons why it is so difficult to
find good men to manage associations
are several. In the first place, the de-
mands are numerous and varied For
instance, the general secretary of the
Walla Walla association must be a
business man who can handle a prop
erty worth $4,000, keep two stores
rented proftably, run a lodging house
and find 25 to 40 agreeable tenants
who will pay their rent He must also
set in motion influences that will bring
several hundred members to the as
ISOLATION building and they must be
required to pay their dues. He will
be the purchasing agent of coal, soap,
electricity, water, and a lot of other
things and see that three or four en-
ployes do their duty. He must also
be man of good address, so as to ac-
ceptably meet business men on their
own ground.
And the general secretary must be
held responsible for the effectiveness
of the physical work which may pro-
vide gymnasium classes for business
men, young men, boys of three grades,
students, perhaps policemen, ministers
and other classes by themselves-on
an average three or four different
classes day. Besides, he must be
able to run a boys department, and
have something going on all the time
that will interest and benefit the
in contact with many mothers and he
must know how to meet them tactfully.
*As the association is a social ma
chine through and through, the sec
rotary must know how to keep things
moving. While in a great city organ
ization, the secretary need not come
in personal contact very much with the
young men, here the work can not so
much be delegated to specialists So
the secretary must be a mixer every
minute of the day
The requirements of the education
al department necessitates that the
secretary know the industries that are
carried on in the town, the require
ments Of the different trades; he must
standin with the labor unions so as
not to get their disfavor in the matter
of training apprentices, but on the 9th
er hand, he must try always to be help
full to the laboring men. Parentheti-
cally. 1 might remark that in many of
the larger cities the labor unions and
the associations cooperate most cor
daily in the educational operations of
the latter.
THE association, being a religious
organization, the secretary must know
how to conduct it's religious activities
as to attract men of every creed and
no creed. Religious meetings and
Bible studies must be so conducted as
to be attractive to men of moral habits
of thinking. This is the rule in asso-
Citations, and men who are not relig-
ious by training come to respect the as
ISOLATION man who is religious, for his
manly character, and mis- dependability
as a friend. if not for his religious be-