Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-24

things, and succeeded in applying
this to the Y. M. c.. A. / was with
Mr.. Ward in some fifteen campaigns
and have since conducted five or six
others. These campaigns always
succeed. Success breeds success.
Men, / want you all to get into this
movement and play the game" as
big-hearted, unselfsh citizens; but
even from a selfish point of view
you cannot afford to stay out of it.
| nave met thousands of business
men in these campaigns and they
always appreciated the opportunity
given them to serve their city. |
have seen busy men give day after
day to this kind of work, to the APP
parent neglect of their business. On
the other hand, l have never heard
of a case where the business seem
ed to suffer. l will take that back.
We have had u great many rhysi-
clans lined up in these campaigns,
and | remember m who worked
especially hard, and at the close of
the campaign he came along and
said, "What am l going to do, my
patients have all recovered?"
| hope you will all see to it hat
o have a full team of ten men
never mind If you have twelve. If
you know Of some fellow who is go
ing to stay away tomorrow noon,
see that he comes here. Every man
here tonight should be here tomor-
row noon. Come if you car only
stop a little while. Come and show
yourself, and do your part toward
encouraging the others. Again, If
you know some man who is not
here tonight, and ought to be here
on one of the teams, get hold of him
and see hat he comes tomorrow, so
that he can take part in the game.
We shall begin the meetings
promptly, allowing twenty minutes
for luncheon and twenty minutes
for reports. A friend of mine in
Massachusetts, chairman of the
Business Mems Committee In the
Boston campaign, has a motto
which I want to pass On to you to-
night. He is the head of a large in
surance company, and his motto is
"go see" In the Boston campaign
he told his committeeman never to
use the telephone or letters in Sc
curing subscriptions but to Ego see.'
We are all going to remain here for
about twenty minutes that the
teams may select the names of the
people they wish to see for sub
scriptions. They will select these
from lists prepared and tomorrow
noon the cards will be delivered to
the captains at the tables. Remem-
Der. you are to see only those whose
cards you hold. In this way we
shall avoid annoying people by hav-
Ing several approach them. If there
are people you wish to see, whose
names are not on the list, come
here and have a card made out that
we may protect the party from
other canvassers.
We have a corps of assistants
here in the Office and If there is
anything you do not understand,
kindly ask questions and we will
gladly explain.
| want you to remember that the
Y. NJ. c. A. Is an organization for
which you don't need to apologize.
1t is IN organization that has al
ready demonstrated it's worth and
effectiveness in thousands of com
munities.
You viii meet some who will
criticise you and throw cold water |
on the project. To those let me say,
1T Is good to criticise, but better to
construct; good to destroy things
evil, but better to build and plant
good things; good to know what
not to be and do, but better to know
what to be and do; good to be mega
tive, but better to be positive: good
to deny, but better to affirm; good
to reform, but better to inform. |
"One formatory Is better than ten
thousand reformatories,H said Hor-
ace Mann. one Of the greatest of
our American educators.
Meet at $50 Tomorrow.
At the noon luncheon today the
campaign committee voted to hold
tomorrow's meeting at 6 80 instead
OF at noon on account of Col. Roose-
velts presence in Perth Amboy at
the noon hour |