Arizona republican., 1909-05-17
Of Local Interest
SANITARY FOUNTAINS FC

SCHOOlS-It is earnestly hoped that
 not only the children but their elders will wax enthusiastic over the pro- ject of providing sanitary drinking fountains for the schools, through the medium of the tag sale. Friday and Saturday will be tag days, when all children who wish may engage in the selling of tags that will be furnished to them at the Hageman store on North First street, or by Mrs. Mary A Thompson at $50 North Second avenue There will be a number of prizes offered for the most clever salesmen ranging from cash prizes of s1 each to a $50 Racycle on exhibition at Griswold's bicycle store. The chil- dren will work for the prizes as well as the fountains but all will surely be interested in the securing of the sanitary fountains.
 RAILROAD MISSIoN-J. G. Hayes, formerly secretary of the r. M. c. A.. yesterday delivered a good address at the Railroad Mission on the subject, Seed Sowing and Harvesting" There is now a debt of $240 on the mission building, in the form of a note at one of the banks but for some time past the managers of the mission have been trying hard to raise enough mon
 ey to pay this debt and expect to be able to do so today. They were only s2O short last night and if they can scrape up that much more today from liberal minded people they will take up the note and put the mission out
 loh. ha fc plete but it is enclosed and in use and as indicated, practically paid for. The next step will be to raise little more money for it's finishing and furnishing. They will do this by easy stages just as the purchase of the lot and the erection of the structure to its present shape has been done, a little at a time, and the work to date representing the total of the co-opera- tive work of small contributions. The management is grateful to all who have contributed to date
 4 "YoUNG MAN" TRuST-A gen eration ago the Young Mems Chris tian association was commonly re- garded as a society whose chief pur- poses were preaching and prayer. Today almost every one knows it bet ter-knows it as a powerful organiZa- tion that works for the good of so- ciety in a hundred different ways, all of them highly practical. So null tiform is the association of today, in so many fields are its vast energies at work, that it is not easy to de- fine or describe it in a sentence. An intelligent foreigner might well in quire, What species of organization is this? Is it a real estate corpora tion, a gymnasium, university, a church, a hotel, or recreation club?' You may call it any one of these. and give good reasons. For instance, in North America alone it owns thir- ty-one million dollars worth of land and buildings. It's yearly income is more than four million dollars. It has more than five hundred club houses, enough to house the whole population of a city like Pittsburg. Every week, on an average, it puts up a new building, Look at it from another point of view, and you will find that it has more than thirty three thousand students in its schools, about as many as the eight biggest in America can show. Its diplomas are accepted by hundred colleges. Plainly 1t should take rank as a university, and a most practical one. for it trains it's students in use full trades and finds them employers when they graduate. Last year 1t