The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18

So with you. cocl1y young shaver. Get
into the Battalion club Of st. George's q,
for example. and two weeks in camp
somewhere in the county Zone of the
greatest Joys that can befall a real boy)
VIII be your portion. Indeed, father,
mother. boy, girl, II your lungs are cry,
you arc at your wits ends how to get It,
turn 10 the nearest institutional church
moro than likely just around the corner
and perhaps the next day you VIII be
greedlly snining salt air or luXuriosly
rolling In the long. sweet-scented grass
clothing some fnr-away hillside
Penny proyident banks clinics day
nurseries, cobbling classes, wood yards,
coal clubs. lodging and boarding houses,
/ flower missions, coffee and SOUP booths
legal aid societies, civic clubs. Red Cross
auNiliarieD. toy missions, diet kitchens,
excursions to art galleries, museums, fac
tories. etc, homes for aged people, church
services, clubs and classes for children.
whose mothers are dead or Ill. Sunday
afternoon church socialS. free beds. en-
dowed cots and college scholarships, nre
to be included among the means en-
ployed by the institutional church In It's
efforts to look after the whole man and
all men.
Thousands Of Persons Taken Care Of.
That the work is not in vain a glance
at a few statistics shows. Last year tho
stan OF ST Georges received over ten
thousand visits and mado nearly thir-
teen thousand: sIxty-four visitors are
from the churchs free circulating library
The Mems club has a membership OF
$50. and 125 applicants for membership
rollment in the Trade school exceeded
$50. At Its Long Island seaside cottage
over five hundred persons were taken
care of for week each, and 1900 for
sui Bartholomew employment bureau
gets positions for about two thousand
persons yearly. The number Of consul-
fR In Itg oil nj
twenty-five thousand. AS far back rs
seven years ago its loan association re-
ceived over $4,000 and disbursed over
$4,000 at much lower interest rates than
the poor borrowers could have got else
where Yet the association is so man
aged that 1t pays Its running, expenses
In the average institutional church not
few OF the various departments pay
for themselves. For example except
when such extras as repairs to the club
rooms or new apparatus are not neces-
sary. the Mems club of St. Georges
meets all expenses out Of the dues and
the receipts from the billlard-rooms the
game being charged at p cents an hour,
The dues are So a year, payable quarter
ly, and Y additional for the use Of
locker In. gymnasium work. These are the
only charges all else being gratis. even
soap and towels.
ASK, and 1t shall be given you"
This may be said to be the motto of
tho institutional church, But what 1t
gives Is not given in way to increase
self-respect. Except In extreme cases,
sCmc slight remuneration is usually re-
quircd- The initiation fee OF tho Girls
club. st. Bartholomew ls 20 cents. the
monthly dues like sum, but consider
what n member gets In return-use OF
the clubroom, @ library, physical culture
instruction, lectures helpful talks, enter
tainments of various sorts. literary In
structlon. the right to participate In penny
Troyident and mutual benefit funds, and
the privilege OF Joining one class a week
In either dressmalting, drawn work, or
system sewing For a small additional
fee she can receive instruction in stenog
raphy typewrtlng. and system cutting.
And as already set forth, membership in
the club entities to two weeks at the
clubs summer home In Connecticut,
besides accommodations in the clubs
city boarding house.
The fees ut Temple college. Philadcl-
pnla where upward OF thirty courses,
IN Guiding law and theology. are offered,
are all nominal, and about four thou
rard students take advantage of the
eral opportunities offered them both by
6ay and night 10 obtain a collegiate
education for next to nothing. Temple
college is authorized by the Pcnnsyl-
Vanln Legislature to issue degrees and
the boy who gets his legal degree from