The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
TAKE 3,7O5 BATHS
What Did They Do With Them!
Ask the Y. Nj. c. A.
L. L. Copeland Responsible for
Monthly Compilation.
nnTlnN nIIIp MEETIMn TnnAN
ROTARY CLUB MEETING TODAY
Charles f. EIdridge Spoke on
Association Affairs.
Baseball Boosting Spirit Is
Aroused for Local ''Savages."

History and achievements of the
Young Mems Christian association in
Topeka. in the United states and in
England were exploited today noon at
the Rotary luncheon held in Gemmell
hail at the Young Mems Christian
association building. Ninth and Quincy
streets. E. L. Copeland. president of
the board Of directors of the organi-
zafion. and Charles L. EIdridge.
member of the board, were the two
speakers.
MANY complimentary remarks were
heard regarding the dinner and serV-
ice. Mrs. +. l.. Copeland and Mrs.
George Hoyes managed the eating end
of the entertainment Music was FUR
nished by II. a. Jungk with saXo-
phone with Miss Madeline Hopes as
piano accompanist.
T.. l.. CopeIand's Talk.
Benefits of the Y NJ. c. a. environ
ment upon the sensitive mind of youth
was dWelt upon by F. l.. Copeland.
The Y. NJ. c. A.. he declared. has a
broad mission to perform for the
boys and young men of the country
and its influence and tremendous
growth during the last thirty-five
years in this city has produced splen-
did result.
Mr.. Copeland pointed to statistics
gathered which show that SIS persons
enter the Y. NJ. c. A. building in To-
peka daily and in "A measure each visit
impresses in their minds such en-
vironment as the organization main
tains He told of the 1905 baths
taken every month. of the fifty-two
dormitory rooms and of the 10000
gallon swimming pool so well patron
ized.
Can Give Better Service.
THE healthy and studious young
man can give to his employers better
loo. D, fs-
said Mr. Copeland, land because of
these associations many young men
receive promotion easily, because
there - reflected in their actions and
in their conversation the relationship
which comes from living in a clean
Environment
I'VE all understand how important
are the experiences which come to the
boy. how sensitive he is to the condi-
ton of his environment, how much eff
feet it has in the shaping of his career.
how necessary it is to do everything
possible to lay the proper foundation
for useful and honest life for every
young man. When you can have a
gathering of young men where clean
speech Is the rule, advocating clean
living and performing clean athletics
you have instilled into the life of such
boys or young men something that is
worth while. and worth absorbing for
future actions and control
1t was necessary for us to resort
tothe law to drive out the saloon and
10 clean out the gambling places be-
cause they were placing around the
young men an influence which was de-
grading. When you can have YOUR
sports without betting feature. where
the pernicious tobacco habit is eIimi-
mated. where improper language is
taboOed. where fairness in all contests
is exhibited and the feelings of those
around you are always given due con-
sideratlOn, when truth and honesty are
exalted and feeling of brotherhood
with its warm greetings are extended,
then you place before the boys and
the young men a place of enjoyment
"a place where right prevails, giving
to those who must succeed us in the
various departments of labor some
thing That builds character for future
development. These are the things
that this association stands for and
through these relations endeavors to
meld the honest and upright man of
tomorrow.
Parents Obligation.
Every parent endeavors to give his
children the best training possible at
home, the best facilities at school
Wnere surroundings will be proper and
instructive, because the first impress
sions of the mind for the youth come
10 MS sensitive nature by Suggestions
and we want those suggestions to he
along right lines. The impressions of
youth are never forgotten by the man.
and his whole life is affected bv his
early training and early sugpesfione
This association, in its various depart
ments. helps the boy to build for him
self II builds him up phvsica liz,
mentally and spiritually through its
equipment and its environment +"
Activity in Y. NJ. c. A. affairs on
the part of Charles L. Eldridge is
inherited. Less than ten years after
the Y. NJ. G. a. movement was in
aus1raied in Somerset. England, it
reached
bridges father. Judge Eldridge was
CHOSEN as delegate from the Boston
Mass. Y. NJ. q. A. to attend the first
convention of the organization held
IN Buffalo. \. Y, in 1904. Harold T.
Chase represented the Topeka assocfa-
tion ~ that convention.
THE growth of this institution is
something fabulous when considered
IN dollars and cents" said Mr. Ell
bridge, mot to consider the men re-
deemed and their lives made worth
while. In valuation of the buildings
and grounds alone the sum reaches
s774S3,44s on 759 buildings within
the United States.
\ Few Statistics.
The buildings opened in 1915 cost
ss.663.111. gain of s1.39O.371 over
1914. Is not this going some p
Two hundred and fifty-one Associ-
atlons have other real estate values in
outside buildings. etc. of $7.324.561
Two hundred Associations have
Etutfai endowment IundS OF Sf,2O9-
927
But this is enough of statistics tc
Impress one with the magnitude oil
the movement in behalf of the young
men Of America. to say nothing OF
those over the entire world
Coming home 1 find the splendid
state work of the Association was
really the outerowth of our own To
Dcka Association. which took form in
December. 1879. in the English Luth-
eran church. the Rev. Dornblaser
pastor. and primarily through the ef-
forts Of five young men. two of whom
stiil live in Topeka, Messrs w. w