Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-01
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H0LD JUBILEE
FOR ONE MONTH
First Day Of Celebration Is
Today; Progress Of Organ
ization m Fifty Years Moth
ing Less Than Marvellous,

Ing Less man MaTVelOuS
To-day ~ 20 be the first day Of tn,
y ". G. a, Jubilee. which VIII OK
TEND through March which viii b.
the real birthday service. Each asso
Iciation throughout the country vii
this month have some KIND Of spc,
cial work or services and the local as.
ISOLATION has Just completed its pro.
gram, which viii BE- given out IN q
few days
on one day Of each week during the
entire month Of February interesting
articles on the associations history
from the beginning Will appear for the
public, probably on Tuesday The
data appearing today shows the work
done by the association from 1866 Ia
1876 and what IL IL doing today In
thcse same lines. Next week will
show the work from 1875 to 1856. con-
trasting Il with the present year. and
so on throughout the month
The jubilee idea Is founded upon
the passage Of Leyiticus, "Ye shall
hallow the fifticth year and proclaim
liberty throughout al the land unto
ali the Inhabitants thereof. thus
surveying the present. reviewing the
past and looking 20 the future. The
terrIbleness OF the present war in
wolves more than half OF the $4,000
throughout the world and
IN the midst Of our national Joy each Of
us must stop ana extend to every suf-
fcring member the deepest sympathy,
and test attainments by ideals, search
Ing TO find what we may do and what
our association may do to help to es-
ablish among individuals in our fo-
'ial order and between nations the
Owe and righteousness from which
done can come permanent peace.
The Jubilee time IN time Of unfit
'ation Of purpose and oneness Of
hought and there IL q cretain lnaprn-
Ion TO know that each one Of the 245
'ity associations and 72l student Assoc
Nations in this country are doing the
anne things this month and trying 20
AIRY on the same activities of women
working together for women.
Following IL comparison Of the
work. of the association fifty years
go and today.
Fifty Years Ago.
Fifty yearsll A long look backward /
ut how golden may be the achieve /
nents OF such a period OF time. Fifty !
ears ago In the classical city Of hos I
on, thirty earnest women met to con-
lder the needs Of girls who came 10 /
hat city to seek employment. The /
eeds Of these girls led to the organi-
alton of the first Young Womens
hriatian association In this country.
'hich was effected March :. 1866.
downtown rooms were opened Miss
larry Foster was called rs the first
eneral secretary and the work was
lunched. Tho work at that time was
lrgely that Of an employment bureau,
ut educational and cultural and re-
Kious meetings We're also held Hart
lrd. Conn, Providence Il. l.. Pitts
urgh and Allegheny, Pa, In 1857
nd Cincinnati and Cleveland, O., and
!. Louis Mo, in 1865, followed by /,
'rming similar societies called Wom-
Is Christian associations. Others in
10 Mississippi valley took the name
Young Women'a Christian aeaocln-
ons. On October . and 10, 1871, I
.legates from nine Vomen's Chris {
an associations met at Hartford and
rmed what later bore the name OF |
e International Conference Of Won
Is Christian associations. The first {
,ldira xna erec,ad ~ Iartford
nm conn IN ts7o tInra,a.arn i,
~ had hren nurchased ana re,,,od. ;
led Tha first s,,d.,,, a,,vI,,,i,t,r,, 4
a. orennized a. Norr,al II In rsg9
40 fiTs, summer Rove Me- ,,.' - ,ana6
Asbury park \ ! ~ 1SSl V'"'
'''' %, =. - ~ i''''
''""s' !
louhy more are s4h city associa- I
'na WIN membership OF 2f3,sSf 4
associations placed 62,- Z
U girls IN positions last summer. /
Faetiealiy All OF these city associa-
ms now nave down-towh rooms. :
< thousand six hundred and sixty