The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-05-23
NEED A TARGET BUILDING
The Work of the Association Has Been
Advanced Along Many Lines and
Many New Members Have Been
Added to TIE List.

NnflSllan ASSOCIATION closed May l..
The annual report which has been for
warded to the international and state
headquarters shows a year filled with
activities, which have more than tax
ed the capacity Of the old building
and made it necessary to conduct.
many features outside. The member
ship has grown from 355, the humber
reported last May, to SAT, an increase
of l39 men and 90 boys, or total
of 1872 members, being a gain Of 81
per cent. The educational work for
foreigners enrolled 124 different men,
of these 26 were Lithuanians, "a
Poles, % Italians, 20 Russians, Aus
TRANS, 6 Hungarians, and the remain
der made up Of a few each of Ar
menians, Danes, Hollanders, Firms,
NorwegianS and Swedes. All the men
except who were in the classes last
year and still living in town entered
school and took advanced instruction
in American history, civics require
ments of naturalization, natural re-
sources of the country, their uses,
geography, grammar, letter writing
and simple arithmetic. Two Of the
men, with the desire of further train
ing went to the college of Valparaiso.
Glasses were conducted at three points
outside of the building and enrolled a
total Of Sc men. A class of the
Italians was held in hall on Rowland
avenue during the fall. Three classes
were conducted at the Chicago Brass
Company and one at the Weiskopf
school building. 21S class sessions
were held with total attendance of
20S2 men or an average of 9 at each
class session. The service of the asso-
citation to the aliens has not been CON
fined to the educational work alone,
but has included socials at the build
ing for the men and their friends,
and calls upon those newly arriving
to render what assistance was needed
and to help in securing them employ
ment Opportunity has thus been af-
forded many times to befriend fell
low who was sorely in need of help.
The tuition from the students made
the class work something more than
self supporting this year. From the
vantage ground of confidence of these
men and experience in meeting their
needs the association is in position to
render a much greater service to them
and the community by arranging prac-
teal talks on hygiene and sanitation,
citizenship recreation and working eff
fciency. The value of these talks
could be made more direct and enter
tanning by the use of stereoptican
or moving picture machine.
General Secretary Crossman states
that the Y. NJ. c. A. occupies neu-
trail position on immigration, but in
asmuch as these men are numbered in
our population, believes that the best
interests of the community demand
that they be trained in good citizen
ship.
Two classes for boys and young
men were conducted at the building.
one in grade school subjects for fac
tory bows, and the other in mechanical
drawing. Twenty-three were enrolled
in these two classes which held rs ses-
sions, with total attendance of TIC.
Further 102 different boys were en-
rolled in Eve Bible classes which met
at the building weekly and had to-
tai of SO sessions. 40 boy scouts have
been meeting weekly at the associa-
tion for instruction in peace scouting
and who 60 out frequently on hikes
and camping trips. 6 meetings of re-
Hgious and moral nature were held in
the building attended by 313 boys and
10 IN the schools of the city reached
2155 boys. The garden work started
year ago finished with an exhibit in
the building to which 800 boys and
girls brought what they had raised of
vegetables and flowers. II prizes were
awarded, all being given by the mer-
chants of the city, This season the
association is working under the di-
rection of committee representing
the schools and to date 624 boys and
girls are making gardens.
The social instinct Of the boys has
expressed itself in the formation Of
clubs, three of which have been or
gained and to accommodate them
with club rooms it has been necessary
to appropriate some of the dormitories.
The refining and uplifting influence up
on the boys of these clubs has been
most marked. Fifty books loaned by
the public library have been N con-
slant circulation among the boys.
Work was secured for fifteen, prac-
tical talks, entertainments and soeials