The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-22
Y. M. c. A. QUERIES.
(Contributed.)

Tag day! Tag day! Tag day!
What do you want fellow to look
out for?"
so you can get that dime ready"
"A dime, what for?"
ITO pay for the tag, of course"
what becomes of the dime?"
1T will help pay the Y. NJ. c. A.
secretary for the work he has done
for the boys in the athletic field and
in the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms the past
year"
Where are the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms?"
M the corner of A street and
Broadway, northwest"
What? Do boys go about that
gloomy, God-forsaken little house"
Thank God, they do-day and
highland a great work has been
! carried on during the past two years
in that gloomy God -forsaken' little
house"
Who says so?"
60 hang about that house for n
week yourself and you will"
why don't the parents of Ardmore
put up a decent house for their boys
! if it does all that good?"
They will pretty soon. They are
just beginning to realize the value
| of the Y. NJ. c. A. work"
What has the secretary done in
athletics for the boys?"
Just go over to the High School
and look at the trophies won by our
boys during the time they have been
trained by him. Watch the reports of
the Ardmore boy at Chicago and you
will know more about the secretary's
work for our boys"
IF the secretary is doing all that
for tie boys, in the name of heaven
why don't you give him house to
work in? One that will be some at
traction to the boys?"
"Oh, we'll have building before
long and the secretary is quite good
magnet HIMSELF to draw the boys to
that gloomy God forsaken house.
when they are good and a most en-
/ cellent lodestone when they've been
naughty"
why don't you ask more than 10
cents for tag?"
Because we want everybody in
Ardmore to wear a tag next Saturday
and some would not pay more than
10 cents. OF course, if anyone wish
es to help with more than the price
of one tag, we'll be glad to furnish
him with more than one"
Here, give me dollars worth of
tags for tag day and when you go to
build come around. | was once a
boy and / know the need Of some one
to care for boys when they are out
from home"
How much do they owe to that
secretary yet?"
"One hundred and seventy-five
dollars"
rs that all you owe?"
I'VE still owe on the house and
lot"
That's a big fine lot and the best
place in town for Y. NJ C. A. work
How big is the LOTT"
"One hundred and sixty mine feet
on Broadway and one hundred and
fifty on A street, northwest"
That's not much debt for such
fine lot you are certainly getting
a great deal of good out of the lit
tie house"
I've just been guying you about
that little house being gloomy and
God forsaken.' A boy sand to young
lady the other day that he did not
know what he would do if it were
not for the Y. N. C. A. rooms. That
boy is the son Of one of the wealth
lest men in Ardmore. You'd be sur
prised If | were to tell you his name.
Do you know boy will leave a pala-
tlal home any time to have associa-
tion with young men and other boys"
"And that is where so many well !
meaning parents miss their aim in |
trying to rear boys. They give their |
boys everything on earth except the |
one thing they crave, freedom with
other boys and young men and the .
Y. NJ. c. A. rooms are the only place .
on earth where boys can get this
freedom in safety"
God speed the Y. NJ c. A. work.
1t is saving many thousands of boys
and young men today"
Parents, get behind this work"