The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-29


they need knowledge of what to do be-
fore the doctor comes instruction in
first aid to the injured. Sometimes it
Is very hard to get them to listen to a
lecture along that line. They need to
Know something about what mosquitoes
and flies do. Men in charge of construc-
ton camps are observing some of these
sanitary rules for the promotion of
health and l find that there is an in
creasingly intelligent use of the screen
where flies are likely to gather They
need to know a bout the water they drink.
These things mean health to a man in
the mining camp and health is his great
est asset They need to know something
about the action of alcohol on their sys-
tenn Men are recognizing the fact that
alcohol is the worst enemy of efficiency
in the industrial worker.
An industrial worker has an intellect
ual need. Educational directors tell US
that not one man in 1000 is fitted educa-
uonally for the work he is doing.
FFIenchinah came TO western city to look
for work in the wholesale district He
failed to get employment because of his
appearance and his inability to speak En-
giish clearly. He got job driving hogs
for Armour. One day he said to COM
paniOn: L believe L will go back on the
farm. His companion said: What you
need, Leo, is better education and
little better command of the English
language. You had better go. up to the
Y. Nj. Z, A. He said; What is the Y
NJ. c. Az He was told where the \.
M. c. a. was, and he went up there,
don't know how he would have Jared IN
Salt Lake City. He only had Is cents in
his pocket but Fred Willis, the general
secretary, personally heard his story and
put him in the educational department
He began to improve in his speech and in
his appearance, He attended the Y. NJ.
G. A. classes, and he would drop IT to the
Sunday afternoon meetings. He kept on
improving, and he was put in charge or
all of ArmOur's hog yards at 500 per
month He got married and one day told
his bride that if he was worth 500
month to Armour he was worth more to
himself He started in business. Later
the old stone Y. NJ. c. A. building was
sold and a canvass started to raise $lOO,-
600 for a new building. The president
went to this man and said: We think you
ought to give $50. The man said 1 can
not do it. We'll, make il $50 then. NO.
Well cannot you make 1t $25y NO,
cannot do it, The president was Disguised
and threw a subscription blank on the
table and said: Fill 1t out for what you
can. Leo filled it out and said: / want
you to understand that all l have and
filled that blank out for $3.50 and will
guarantee S1,G00 more from my friends.
This man today is one of the active di-
IectOrs of the Y. NJ. c.. A, and a sterling
need the elementary and technical train
ing that the Y. NJ {. A. can give in order
TO better them for their present calling,
and give them an opportunity 10 step
higher. Men need the social element in
their lives in order to make efficient
working men. If YOU work at the same
old ching hour after hour with nothing
to Go but go to mess tent or the boarding
place and perhaps the saloon and
gambling game. life gets mighty tiresome
and there is a longing for something that
is clean and recreative. The industrial
man does not take to calisthenics and
similar gymnasium work. He takes an in
terest in wrestling, boxing or fencing
anything that has contest in 1t, like
basketball or vOlley ball, those fellows
take greatly to baseball. They need the
element of contest and recreation ana the
Association can bring them that.
7 believe that the average employer
has an altruistic attitude toward helping
his men. He is doing 1t for humanity's
sake. But there is the argument for the
stakeholder that shows il is a paying
business to safeguard the lives of their
men. and to promote industrial efficiency
Judge Gary of the steel trust is erecting
a 100000 Y NJ c. A. building at the steel
CITY of Gary, Ind, as a memorial. The
employer as well as the employe, JOINS
the Y NJ G. A. in dealing with this
question They recognize that after 60
years of experience which the assocl-
alton has had in dealing with the needs
of men it is capable of doing the work
better than they can.
Music for the occasion was furnished
by Miss Eva johnson, who gave one OF
MacDowelFs selections, and Miss Helen
Hartley, viOlinist, who rendered very ac-
ceptably Chopin's 'Nocturne."