El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-11
MEXICAN Y HAS
1000 MEMBERS
Association Starts Member
ship Campaign Which is
Made a Battle.

The Mexican y. NJ C. A. of El Paso
( is like the "Old Woman Who Lived I'm
/ the shoe II has so many members
/ that it does not know what to do.
! The association may have TO be
transferred from the basement OF the
I Lydia Patterson institute TO the four
sandy lots that adioin the building. 1t
! all happened because the March CAM
/ paign between the greens and the
blues got so intense that neither OF
| them knew where 10 draw the limit In
mid March the membership tnermom-
/ etcr got TO bubbling above 500 and
! then 40O. The secretaries began 10
! feel alarmed. Five hundred would
have been an abundance. But 500 was
passed and then SOC, and on and ON UNI
til IL got to 1000 Just then April first
began to loom up and someone yelled
let's quit. And everyone quit
Mnde IL Il Battle.
What happened was that the greens
and the blues pulled off not only n
membership campaign. but a battle rs
wen. The Latin temperament does not
30 into q campaign with quite the de-
tachment Of the American. He is either
in il body or soul or he is not in it at
all. The FL paso Mexican youths went
into ii with all their Latin animation.
The "Ereens" were captained by We
lasco Cevallos. and the blues were
led by oscar Caballelos.
When the first general meeting oc-
CURED after the campaign, the boys
and young men could not all get into
the auditorium OF the Lydia Patterson
institute. so they modified on the four
vacant lots and had talks by their
captains and q longer talk by Jose L.
Escobar, the secretary of the associa-
ton.
Taken Institute.
Just what the association will do
with all Of its members is a problem.
The Lydia Patterson institute has not
only given over a part Of the basement
Of the building for the Y NJ C. A work,
but has placed at the disposition Of the
young men the dining room and Kitchen
Of the institute, as well as the audi
torium. in time the institute expects
to add two more stories to the present
building, but this is remote and two
additional floors two years from now
will not provide for the physical de-
velopment and the spiritual training Of
the young men and boys now.
Way Build Pavilion.
There Is a probability that q pa
gilion may be erected on the four va
can't lots; but again, there is a proba
bility that il viii not, for the lots are
where all the track meets are held SO
far the secretary has met the situation
by dividing his association members
into classes according 10 age and also
according TO their working hours.
No day passes but what several hun
dred young men and boys pass through
the association doors The gym. Of the
association lis small. the reading room
and library smaller: but there is an
adaptibility about the young men that
does not stop al the limitations; and
already a lot Of good fellowship has
been built up as we'll as a definite ath-
lctic program.
Secretary An Athlete.
The association has for its assistant
secretary Pablo Velasco Rodriguez, a
student OF the Lydia Patterson insti-
tute. Mr.. Escobar. the secretary, is a
trained athlete, a college man. and
belongs to the international commit
tee Of the Y. NJ c. A. in New York