Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-10

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! pose OF selecting the names that each
team is to call upon Ter the new Y. NJ.
! c. A. fund. men Of this city enjoyed one
! Of those inspiring together ban
| quets that always stir them to greater
/ love for their old home town.
! Each captain had his team with him
! a, a special table with the exception
! Of the McCombs' team. which showed
/ up with only two men and minus u
! captain Ex-Mayor Ingledue. vice
| chairman. however. jumped to the res
! cue. seized the missing team, and
| promises TO see that the horse which
E! got away without its rider finishes
| first under the wire.
Cummings Sounds Keynote.
J 3. F. Cummings. as chairman. adj
| dressed what he called the best set of
; men Of the best town OF the best state
i of the best country of the best world
/ that he knew anything about. and
said that he had come thru for the
Y. VI. c. A. because he looked upon it
as great public movement TO erect
for Marshalitown a building which was
TO serve all the people regardless OF
! their politics or of their religion.
( Would Build Himself il Possible.
( r ". McCreery explained why the
+ Y. VI. c. A. had been undertaken al
I this time. Mr.. McCreerv has probably
/ a deeper interest in this enterprise than
/ any other man in the city, and would
build the building himself if he could
/ but he can't, and the Y. N. C. Awould
! not want hin, 10 do it if he could. for it
/ is TO be for all of the people and all
; Of the people must be given a hand in
its making. McCreery considered that
| the old plant was wholly inadequate
/ 20 the needs OF the town II had prac-
! tically worn out. Almost everybody
had wished it were up town. and for
one he was glad the time had come for
those who wanted 1t up town 10 help
put It there. Alrho not q church man
Mr.. McCreery had found home in a
Y. NJ. G. A when a young man. whose
| business kept him in one Of the tough
est districts of Kansas City. and he
had seen so many of his associates go
down while he always kept on going up
in his business career that he felt he
owed the Y. NJ. C. a. big debt for
making him what he was He believed
that getting together for this enter
prise was 70 be the melting pot of all
factionalism in the city
Prospers Here Wants to Help.
Senator c. H. Van Law made short
but stirring plea, eloquent and sincere
in tone. He said that only fifteen years
ago he had begun the practice of law
in Marshalltown with little or nothing
but the help of a good wife for his
start. He had prospered. he had been
Aonored by MS people, all of his chill
cren had been born here, and would
probably be reared to manhood and
womanhocd within the city, and he felt
that he owed a debt TO the community
which had given his life so much Of
its richness. He told story of a
friend Of his who was standing in a
doorway one rainy day waiting for
someone 10 come along with an UNI
brella 20 share. Finally one came who
was going his way and Vans friend
called 10 him. Hey where are you
going with that umbrella ?" whereupon
the fellow dropped it and ran. Nov.
Van felt that men who had prospereG
in town without paying some roll TO
its public enterprises were trying TO
ge, away with an umbrella which did
not belong to them.
Bankers Views on Y. NJ. c. A.
c. c. ST. Clair, president of the First
National Bank. altho an old resident,
made his maiden speech at a public
gathering in MarshailtoNn. and II was
good one. He realized that every
body was agreed TIA, a Y. NJ. c. A.
was good thing. but he had asked
himself whether we could afford il, and
he had answered il in this way. Every
single year Marshall county produced
from 100000 TO 100000 OF agrl-
cultural wealth and a $4,000 y. NJ. {.
A.. once built, would co service FOR
twenty-five years or more. Ever!
year in Marshall county from s1oo,epo
| to 100000 was sent outside the county
| by its citizens for bad investments
! which are lost: mining stocks, over
valued orchard lands. fake corporate
| euterprises, and the like. There were
| even 1900 automobiles owned by the
| people of this county, and the price OF
| only a few Of them would build Y NJ.
/ G. A.. He looked upon the new build
| ing as not only wise move on the
! part of the board, but to erect 1T on the
prominent public square was one OIL
! the biggest things that could happen
! to Marshalltown.
Money Comes Easier Now.
| Charles Ward, from the international
committee, told the men Of the success
the Y. NJ. c. A. was having in other
cities. How millions upon millions OF
money had been freely invested In It's
work by the biggest and shrewdest men
of the country; how the past ten years
had seen a growth in Y. NJ. G. A. build
ings which ou,stripped their develop
ment Of the previous fifty years. He
explained how the secretary and one or
/ two men used to tramp the streets OF
a town for year or for several years
to raise half money enough to build
~. NJ. C. A. and mortgage for the bal
ance, how finally big sums could be
/ raised In q month, and now it has be-
come easier to raise all Of the money
| for building project in one week than
4 It once was to raise half of 1t in several
years time.
InsIedus Makes Strong Speech.
I Ex-Mayor 1ngledue, who has had
| controversies enough in politics to for
ever keep him out of a movement OF
this kind made one of the strong
speeches OF the evening. In fact he had
promised his wife. his mother, and his
! sister, tnai ne would keep vut u the