Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-20

GIVEN WELCOME
PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
ARE GUESTS AT BANQUET
"LoS ANGELES LEADS THEM
ALL" SAYS ARTHUR LETTs
Returned Travellers Give Interesting
Accounts of European Trip After
Affecting Greetings by AS
sociation Workers

welcome home," was the slogan
last night at the banquet given to
| Arthur Let's, president of the Y. NJ.
G. A, and d. q. Luther, general sec
retary of the association, by members
of the Five Thousand club and the
| Twenty -Four Hour-a-Day club at the
association building. About $50 per-
sons were present and every man
there seemed imbued with the spirit
of the occasion. An ovation was given
each of the honored guests as he en-
tered the banquet hail. again as he
rose to speak and again when he had
concluded. So profound a feeling did
| the expressions of affection and well
come have upon Mr.. Let's and Mr..
Luther that each almost broke down
completely.
DR.. Andrew S. Lobinger acted as
POSTMASTER and E. H. Emett, director
of religious work, opened the banquet
with a prayer. Greetings were given
on behalf of the secretaries of the as
sociation working under Mr.. Luther
by Robert M. Allan. Irving c. Louis
greeted the travellers on behalf of the
Five Thousand club and A. B. Cass,
vice president of the club. made well
come speech for the board of directors.
T. K. Edwards announced that $4,000
had been appropriated for welfare
work among the employees of the Los
Angeles aqueduct. This work will be
under the direction of the Y. M. c. A.
Make Short Addresses
Mr.. Let's speech was Informal and
filled with witticisms. 1t was enjoyed
to the fullest by all, for he kept ni5
audience in laughter. He dwelt par
ticularly on Y. NJ. c. A. work in for
eign countries, especially England and
Germany In England, he said, tine
work has fallen into an apathetic con-
dition due to giving one man too much
power and too much work to do. he
said that American methods were
needed there. A speech by a native
Chinese, made during the Y. M. C. A.
international convention at Barmen-
Eberfeld, gave Mr.. Let's his greatest
inspiration, he said.
In concluding Mr.. Let's said: "Los
Angeles has the finest building, best
equipment, best set of secretaries and
best board of directors of any asso-
citation I visited. We have set the
pace here in Los Angeles and we are
bidding all to follow"
Mr.. Luther said only a few words
about his trip. He announced that
later he would give a series of talks
to members and that they could get
more from those talks than in what he
said last night. His lectures will be
illustrated with views he secured while
away. Mr.. Luther's remarks were
more of a character to inspire more
earnest work among the members. He
said he was glad to be home and that
his greeting had touched his heart as
he had never been touched before.
'It is worth going away to find you
are loved so much as the greeting L
have received make me believe 1 am
loved by you, my fellow workers" said
Mr.. Luther. 'I have been inspired TO
work harder and I have secured the
| ideas for improvement abroad. LEI 81
get together and make things hum from
now on. We have the field for WORK
and we will make the most of it. J.
know we shall be successful in gettins
5000 members who will work in har-
mony with us by January 1. I'm ready
to do my part"
Following Mr.. Luther's remarks
there were several informal talks by
members under the direction of e. H.
Emett, religious director.