The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-12
Most Enjoyable Event Yet Giys
in the History of the Io.
cal Association.
l.. c. MILLER MAKES HIT 4
IN ROLE OF TOASTMASTE
Responses to the Toasts and II
GIee Club Music Keep Guests
in Good Humor.

Inc annual Danquets of the YounCgd
Men s Christian association OF s.lJse'
Lake, like wine, grow better with aa
The second yearly spread to the mar
bers and several friends was given
the large gymnasium of the handsom
Y. NJ. G. A. building Wednesday eve,
ing and nearly q hundred feasted an
afterward listened with pleasure 10 fb, n
excellent addresses delivered. W
l.. c. Miller acted as toastmastor an
made happy little pokes Of fun at ear
| speaker as he introduced him In N
guests. Mr. Miller fpuIIed 40,
some capital Jokes at the expense
those who responded to toasts tbslurt
made the audience laugh uproarousl7 ~
stamp and shout and roar for more.
fact, Mr.. Miller was faultless in NJ
role.
a glec club composed of Phil Thorn.
son, Art Bowen, Earl Neillson. F
Roberts, Mr.. Brook, Earl Morris, I NJ
G. Verify, c. E. Angel, NJ. N. saItoir,r
Z. S, Davidson, j. H. Wilson and i
NJ. Morley, under the direction of lisk
NJ. Brines. started the pleasure OF tSI ect
evening, following invocation by Dss,-urdt
Brewster of st. Marks, with a losah.,
reference song. Col. C, G. Plummer az ls'
the Utah National guard responded t'iht
the first toast OF the evening, &C. deslt
P.'s Celebrated A A. U. Specific IA ror
Relieving Strains and Moneyites." nh
colonel made a strong plea for ceaI p0''
athletics. The A. A. Q. draws strcr ag
| line between the professional and th JUS
amateur, he said. Keep the young fd,ot
| lows clean; a sound mind and SCUM y
body usually are found together. Than u'n
Is little good citizenship due the sat st0r
from each of us, he asserted. His nr Hld
ularity with the gathering was attessls lnht
by much applause when he spoke Of hi =
| duties III connection with the unbuilt %
ing of the Utah National guard. H'hT
takes much interest in athletics Aan
Following a song by the glee cluia,u
the Rev. Elmer ]. Goshen of the Fir
! Congregational church responded to thfson
/ toast "The Association and It's MenForn
bers, After retallating against ii 10
POSTMASTER for joke Mr., Miller gd,t :
/ off at the pastor expense, Mr., Goshe -.
/ threw aside lightness and spoke in Vsf'
serious vein. He urged living not 70 lha
| thing that otherwise they might noDsr
| have. He enthuscd the meeting an n-'A
long applause came at the close OF thnn
| talk nee
NJ. j. Brines OF the Glee club gave klor
vocal solo that was appreciated by III. .,a
gathering 10 such an extent that thu
| young man had TO respond TO an el "a
| core. -,
Industrial Secretary.
]. r. Thompson. industrial secretafds
for the national committee Of the lslo
NJ. c. A., whose toast was SIT Covers o.
the Earth said he had been givezI,
four times as much as any other speal,-
er because those arranging the pr
"A Ihnnobf NJ would folfa hi thcrfiud
long TO tell ms much as another spealryd
er might tell in one fourth of bis tim =.
"The problem Of the world is the cit
and the problem of the city is II nt
Young man, asserted Mr.. Thompsol .he
Five out OF six young men in the cit 1st,
are away from home and boarding. .
There is only one place the young md!
can 90 and be clean; that is the Y. ME-
G. A. One-half of the young mefs
attend only fairly well; ten per cent o. ;.
tend regularly and five per cent do iht
work of the church. The best orgdaaE.
ization TO help the young man from fal c,
o clock Monday morning until Z Satsrn
urday night is the Y, NJ. c. A. NJ
advice to young men is to tie up viii ia"
the Y. NJ. c. 4. movement and nevef he
leave it, The Y. M. C. A. has the besf1 b;
gymnasium in the country. The armysn
man says that when the Y. NJ c.
comes in it depletes the guard house 1sl
1t has helped the miners; there IS lesF ban
drunkenness among them and more savsssr
ing of salary; the railroads are IN tasHea
vor of the movement. the stronger =
business men of the country are baei~' u
of it. "
The Glee club sang and was forced D
respond TO an encore; then came StelrroE
phen Fl. Love. member of the State lees,d
islature. He told of how bis fatne n.
and mother drove across the PLAIN 'ur
walking most OF the distance bare an
footed, His subject was "What Lsd ,
Means to Be Utahu.' He said ne ma ,x.
been in many parts of the country ou. '.'
Utah is good enough for HIM. = IN
Mr.. Love spoke against reports tnsfiuae
he said, have been spread over TIM him
country that are detrimental to Utal =,
and give wrong impression. he loE ,a'
of attending banquet in New forfslin
once at which he was invited to speaa4bsrar
being introduced as 4 big Mormon ny No,
said he told the gathering that he VA va
not a big Mormon, that the chu,si"ne,
merely tolerated him, but that he di' l
have seven wives Since then he SONG lhay
times has thought that he was negnsr
gent in not stating that be did n%
have seven wives that his hearers mign'
not be in uncertainty as to MIS- sts'u
in that matter
Oscar L. Cox followed with an &c p,n
count of the formation of the y ''f
C. A.. in Salt Lake Mr.. Cox has nn'
prominent part in y. NJ. c: A. vol
here. A selection by the Glee clab r,
closed the evening s programme 80 al
In Salt Lake there are abont l'oH
Y. NJ. C. a. workers and the orga. IT'S
ization is steadily growing. Last ysrsed
the local association stood fifth IN eop han
cational work and II is the sixth IN W as
country IN the membership Of boys, 'sfe
ing ahead of many or the largest ca all
in the country in that line. Vas
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