Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-04
me Y. N. C. A. CAMPAIGN.

the Y. n. c. A. CAMPAIGN.
Following a Sunday devoted to dis
cussion of community betterment Mon
day and Tuesday afford practice sue
ceeding theory. The Y. NJ. C. y. mef
bership campaign is on.
1t there is a man in Marshalltowr
who does not take strong civic pride
in the splendid building which stands
on the south side of the square, he is
not in evidence or on record. WheI
Marshalltown people take their stran
ger guests and visitors about the city
none fails to point out the Y. NJ. c. A
beauty and enterprise. 1t is the best
and finest and best equipped of an!
known in a city of Marshalltowns size
That feeling and that custom creates
a debt. Those who pridefully point
out the ~ building as emphasizing
Marshalltown's progress and beauty
are under an obligation, not legally
colectible like grocery bill but
! ethicaIly Just and owing.
/ Those who realize and approve the
purposes and effectiveness of the or
sanizaticn which that building houses.
who have taken time and thought to un-
derstand and appreciate what it means
to the youth and age of the commun-
ity, who review in sincerity the work
that the local associa ton has done in
Marshalltown and the lasting results of
its constant endeavor and wide help
fulness, lie under added obligations.
Those whose boys have felt the influ-
ence of the ~ and the splendid men
here must admit even greater and more
pressing obligation The Y. NJ. c. A,
building, service and purposes stand as
perhaps The truest corroboration of the
assertion that Marshalltown has got
together and is on her way up, morally,
physically, intellectually, industrially
and religiously.
II We are to have community bet
terments, if we are to demand and ac-
quire community institutions we must
maintain them. The booster must pay
as he talks; the religionist must pay
as he prays. The community better
ments and community institutions must
be financed as factories are financed.
And the Y. NJ, c. A. is factory Of the
most important in this or any other
city-a man factory with a product the
value of which is apparent but a value
which can not be reduced to dollars and
cents and mills.
There is no occasion to argue the
value or the necessity of the Y NJ. C.
A. All that is of record There is
need, however for every citizen to
meet honestly and freely his obliga-
ton 70 render such assistance as he
may in maintaining and increasing the
opportunities of helpfnlness which that
institution seeks. The y" being main
y beyond creeds and disciplines and
tenets of churches and fraterni,ies Of
fers common ground for all to assist
human welfare as community propo-
sition outside of church or secular
organizations or peculiar individual
affiliations. It is a city and county
proposition. community responsible
ity
SO when the committees come to you
today and tomorrow take into consid-
GRAFTON the obligation that rests upon
you whether you are merchant, pro-
fess!eae! -?az. rea. estate worker,
churchman, or non churchman, laborer
or capitalist. Remember that the doors
of that community building are never
locked, that it, perhaps more than any
other one structure in our city repre-
sents the community welcome we give
the world, that it stands as the ex-
preston Of our community Of its pride
and progress and character, that II is
ours and ours 10 maintain to its best
effectiveness. The membership cam
paign is Il sight draft on our citizen
ship civic and altruistic.