Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-07
CAMPAIGN 70 PAY
OFT DEBT OPENED
Movement to Free Y. NJ. G. A..
of Burden Launched at a
Banquet
y
$4,000 IN FIFTEEN DAYS
Desired 10 Take Up $4,000 Debt on
Building and Raise Working Fund
for Fiscal Year - Steering Commit
tee Appointed - Senator J. P. Dolls.
YER Delivers Eloquent Address. y

To raise $4,000 in fifteen days,
4 little more than $1,000 a day, was the
goal set for the financial campaign to
pay OF the debt on the building of the
Railroad Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, and to furnish working
i fund for the fiscal year, at banquet
at the association building Thursday
night The campaign has a double pur-
pose, not only in freeing the associa-.
ton from the expense of meeting the
annual interest, but by Kidding itself
Of the burden in order to open the
way to secure boys secretary and
enlarge the associations work IN that
4 direction
4 Incidental to the opening Of the
campaign Senator Jonathan P. DOLL
yer, OF Fort Dodge, delivered what was
! nrobably the most eloquent address
ever heard In the association build
ing.
Supper, to which 100 sat down, was
spread in the auditorium. and served
by members OF the Ladies' auxiliary.
While the meal was in progress the
Crescent Mandolin club played.
4 Have Good Start.
The association already has a good
start in its effort to raise the money
wanted in three conditional subscrip-
Itions which have been made. George
whitton, D. w. Norris, Jr., and w. "A.
Davis have each promised to give ST.
| 000 provided five men give a like
amount. Secretary Goodell announced
that the prospects were good that two
Of the other five would be secured.
4 The plan to make strenuous effort
to raise the $4,000 was adopted, and
1.-The following committee tolhave charge
OF the details was appointed by Pres
ident N. F. Miller: w. w. Doolittle,
chairman; A. G. Click, vice chairman;
/ C. H. Van Law, A. r. Balch T. I. Was
son, T. j. Fletcher g. E. Wanberg,
lIC. j. Ewing, D. W. Norris, Jr., and G.
c.. st. Clair. The campaign as an
|5nounced Thursday night is to start
very soon, and will close June %.
= -DolIiver on they. M. c. A. ~
In the absence of the chosen chair
man, "A. "A. Moore A. e. Click presided
and introduced the speakers. Senator
Dolliver was the first and principal
speaker on the program He talked for
almost an hour in his Characteristic
|cally eloquent style OH 1.-The z. M. c.
/ a.. as Factor In Good Citizenship"
He was greeted with applause when
The arose, and was frequently inter.
rupted by the clapping Of hands. The
essence OF Senator Delivers speech
| may be summed up in the sentence
that the Y. NJ. G. A. is the most prac-
ltical method yet devised for the up
building of the spiritual, mental and
physical beings Of young manhood.
| Thus il becomes a prominent factor IN
good citizenship.
The senator paid a glowing tribute
| to the work the association was doing.
He said he liked it because 1t seemed
Ito him it came more nearly to grasp
ling the needs of the situation, so far
as our young men were concerned, thar
anything else, and because 1t stands
ready to help our boys at the critical
time In their lives. IIe said the assoc
citation was rendering a distinct serv-
lice in the community. He likened it's
| religious influence to the old fashioned
faith OF our fathers.
II like the Y. NJ. c. A." he contin-
lued, because it keeps that ideal in
view. 1t takes care Of the body, 1t
takes care of the mind and the brain.
and trains them. 1t touches the hearts
Of young men and unconsciously lifts
them higher" E
He said that an association which.
labored under debt was working with
only one hand, that its right hand was
tied behind it, and that it could not
exert the maximum Of Its influence or
do the work of its capacity SO long
as part Of its efforts must be en-
ployed In raising money to pay interest
on borrowed money.
| He closed with an urgent and elo-
quent appeal for the upbuilding Of the
association and the enlargement of Its
work by giving to it not only money
enough to pay its debt, but to furnish
! 1t with a working capital that might
carry it thru another year without
! further effort in that direction.
Other SPEAKERS.
State Secretary w. A. Magee, of Des
Moines, told briefly of some of the
things the association was doing in
Iowa. Its buildings, he said, numbered
twenty three, worth approximately
81, 100000 He said that in the past
six years the work of the association
turnout the country had advanced as
much as it had during the fifty years
preceding, and that during last year
alone $11,000,000 had been donated to
the work.
Another Boost for Marshalltown,"
was the subject of a short address by
Mayor o. L. Ingledue. He character
lied the association as one Of the most
useful Of our factories. He compared
the youths Of the city to raw material
to be turned out as finished product
in the form of good citizens if the fac
tory was given the bonns and, w or41ing
capital it asked for.
Referring tothe. building and it's ac-
commodations, he said, 1T is an an
tidote for the perils and evils of Third
avenue. 1t; is an anEidote for drunk
enness and crime" EIe said it cost the
city more to maintain its police de-
partment than it did the association
G. H. Van Law spoke on "The Mo-
tive Power Prospects and Needs of the |
Local Association" He said there |
were 1900 boys between the ages of |
10 and II years in the city. Ten years |
from now they will have assumed a !