Arizona republican., 1913-03-30
|. A. ROLL
 REACHES 5O0
Wonderful Progress of the Membership Campaign It Is Thought Will Do Much to Assure Women $ Asso- citation for Phoenix

With about four hundred and fifty
 girls pledged to join. the promoters of the Y w. C. A. proposed for Phoenix are starting their campaign for aid from the business men with ali the assurances of success When a1y organization can start out with nearly half a thousand members, it must have gone through some very business like preliminary stages. W hen the organization is effected there will be more than $4.000 al ready subscribed and in order to put the project through it will not take so much more that the business men need worry.
 The finance committed of eight members, well known and public spirited women of Phoenix is hard
 on the track of funds. Another com mittee of similar size and member ship is out after members for the
 \. W. C. A. The work of these two
 committees alone has been responsi-
 tle for a tremendous increase in the sentiment for the association. If the
 plans are finally carried out. it will
 undoubtedly be due to sthe efforts of these women.
 great many difficulties have aris-
 en in connection with the promotion
 of the Y. w. C. A. The argument
 has been advanced that while the
 mens association is still unpaid for
 and in debt, Phoenix ought not in
 eur any other similar burdens Mary
 J. Moore, the organizer of the asso-
 citation answers to this, Gan we let our children go without school train
 ing because one school building is
 in debt? think not Why should
 girls be deprived of the shelter of
 the Y. w. C, X. just because the
 men's association is not solvent?"
 The plan is to make the girls an
 rual dues amount to one dollar. It
 is because the women are asking
 only dollar for membership. hoping
 to get in the association all the poor
 CT girls. that they need the help
 of the business men This they
 claim as one of the strongest argu-
 ments. and also advance the claim
 that the girls association will be
 open to more people than the mems
 because it is cheaper
 To those who say that the time is
 not ripe for a Y. W. C. A. in Phoe-
 nix. the organizers say that now is
 the very time to get the thing start ed. While Phoenix is young. il needs the association the more If this attempt to organize the Phoenix Young Women's Christian association ST f+il hp mi will be many years before another plan is advanced as far as this one. and a great deal of valuable labor will be lost. Quoting Miss Moore, There are many years of anticipat- ed prosperity and wealth and growth ahead of Phoenix, ard nothing pro- viGed for girls.
 Other cities If the size of this. and really much less progressive, have done this thing and Phoenix can and 1 should do it. We have canvassed l the city widely asking for snaii con l tributi0ns in order that it shall not l b d burden on q certain few whose generosity is taxed almost to the 1 limit by repeated calls for assistance from all sources, but is it not a 1 widespread movement, in which all . should be interested, and does il not through it's wonderful work for the 1 girl demands universal cooperation ard sympathy?'
 | As was set forth in The Eepubli- l can before. the plan is modest. At ! first there will be lunch room 1 town and a boarding home in the residence district somewhere