Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-11
DAILY REyEW BsBEE FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE IT, 1908
The Y. M. C. A. OF TODAY

game of citizenship has been run ming for two years with all manner | of exciting complication.
 Boston. New York and 8 dozen oth- CT cities have schools for chafYeurs. in which, no doubt. the students ar. taught the rare and difficult art of ! going slow. Troy has class of ten |nationalities learning American his tory. New York has $100.000 build ! ing for Frenchmen only. Dekalb has school for Americanizing Films. Denver has set on foot health farm In a handsome park of six ty acres 1t has a town of tents. so that the weak-lunged young men who have climbed to Denver in search of pure mountain air may sleep out of doors and recover their strength. You will find no fads or frills There is no class of Byzantine archi. | lecture or post-Hegelian philosophy. The association deals with flesh and blood young men who are battling in world of rough realities. It is as practical as load of bricks. What II like about your work" said Presi- dent Roosevelt. "is that you combine religion with common sense.'
 No matter where young man goes the association is on his trail He | will find 1t among the paper makers of Maine. the coal miners Of Pennsyl' yania, the quarrymen of Vermont. the cotton mill workers of the Carolinas, and the gold miners of Alaska. The latest idea is the movable associa. tion, which follows the lumber camps. The average secretary is a sleuth. He tracks his prey to its hiding place Every week little meetings are held in fiagman's shanty. an en- gineer's caboose. coal mine. a bat. ltleship, or the Dull pen of street car barn.
 Sometimes the association follows the flag; sometimes 1t goes ahead Not long ago. in a blaze of mission ary enthusiasm. it took forty of its
 young men and sent them as adj vance agents into ten foreign coun- tries. It is in Cuba. with President Palma as a charter member; and in Hawaii and the Philippines. About three hundred Americans and natives eLter the Manila building every day and agents travel through the camps scattering books and magazines among the home-sick boys. Pa. day tomorrow. Come over with talking machine" Is a message offer sent bv army chapiains to the Ms
 niia association. Ard so many young man is amused and reasoned with. until his self respect is stiffen' ed and the danger line is crossed :. l When the Russo-Japanese war be-, gan the Young Mems Christian asso- citation asked permission to accom-. pany the Japanese army. No said lthe minister of war. We need no missionaries" After some days he changed his mind and allowed six secretaries and six native helpers to go to the firing line. From the first these men with the four mystic let iers on their caps became popular lwith the army. Concerts were given eyery night with talking machines land music boxes. Manhattan Beach was the favorite tune. Hundreds oi lietters were written for illiterate sol idiers. The great Kodoma visited the association tents and expressed his lapproval. and soon various generals iwere wiring. "Send more of youl menf" A check for s50o0 was re
 ceiyed from the mikado and todd,
 the association is an established Jap
 apese institution. tested under fire and proved to be true blue.
 The association stands for sanity I.emperance and good will in all
 things. Spirit. Mind and Body" is Its motto. While financiers are con
 solidatiDg banks and anaalgamatins
 corporations. it piods ahead with its
 yigantic scheme of building up [ world wide young man trust.' Il has powerful and generous friends
 ,nd a reputation for social usefulness (which is yearly increasing.
 If I had my life to live ovel
 again.. said John wanamaker. "Ps i've twice as much to the Youn' Mems Christian association. It is al Investment that never disappoints-