Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-04
SALEM Y.M.C.A. ELECTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Regular Experience Meet
ing" Follows Evenings
Regular Program

DIR. H. C. Epley, DR.. b. L. Sleeves,
W. 7. jerks, Paul B. Wallace, and A.
A. Lee Were last night unanimously
chosen directors of the Salem Y. NJ. G..
A. for the next three years. The elec-
tion was held in the association ban
quet room, where many similar events
have been held, in connection with the
annual members banquet. The meet
ing was presided over by President W.
j. Staley. The report of Curtis B..
Cross with the results of the work of
the nominating committee was made
and accepted and the election declared
unanimous.
President Stalcy introduced l.. II.
Compton, secretary of the association
and battalion adiutant for Major
Abrams, who declared he was glad to
get back to work after his Journey in
"furrin' lands" down by the border.
He said he was pleased with the pro-
gress of the work during his absence
and gave due credit to those who re-
manned with their shoulders to the
wheel He said it was hard blow
for the association last spring when
Major Abrams and Corporal Wallace
and about twenty other members went
with Company NJ to the Mexican bor-
der. However, with the return of
everyone safe and sound, it is hoped to
make this year record breaker in
every line.
Rev. James Elvn sandwiched his
| talk in between numerous witty stories
and stirred up gales of laughter. For
the serious side, he told of his eX-
periences with the Y. NJ. C. A. in Tor
onto and Montreal Canada, and showed
how the genial home-like spirit of the
association exists everywhere. He de
clared that the association men here
were as fine bunch of fellows as one
would wish to find anywhere. He
said that the first association on
American soil was started in Montreal,
Canada.
DR.. Epley, one of the newly-elected
directors, was called upon for toast
and said he brought one with him but
it had all turned to gravy. He thanked
the association for the honor conferred
upon him and said he esteemed it a
I
with such earnest men.
O. b. Gingrich, physical director, ON
whose shoulders the burden of work
fell while the secretary was away, said
that the outlook for the physical de-
partment looked much brighter since
the return of Company NJ. Without
those boys. he said t seemed like a
funeral around the association rooms.
Now tht outlook is brighter than ever.
He told also of the activities of the
I summer and stated that the picture
taken of the biff ball teams of last
winter would appear in the Y. NJ. {. A.
handbook and so to all parts of the
world.
Major Abrams told of his experience
with the associations in Los Angeles
and San Diego and the camps on the
border. He told the assembly that the
Y. NJ. c. A. had fifteen shacks or
: "huts" stretchtd along the border
line from the Atlantic to the Pacific
, coast. In the camp at Imperial Beach,
a wooden hut forty feet by eighty was
built, a piano, phonOgraph, reading and
writing tables, free paper, and free
movies were installed for the soldier
bows. He showed how versatile the
membership was when it was decided
TO start school classes and teachers for
subitcts from writing to differential
calculus were found whose instruction
was recognized by the Oregon state
Educational authorities. For those
things he was thankful for the associa-
tion.
Corporal P. b. Wallace, another new,
" elected director, said he believed
the Y. NJ. G. A. made great impress
sion ON the twelve hundred Oregon men
and he thinks the work done for the
soldier was the best piece of advertis-
inc the Oregon association ever did
He reminded the company that the
financial campaign for the ensuing
wear would be opened next week and
that plans were being laid to do every
! thing up brown.
Members of NJ company theh sang
some of the songs sung while eahpeo
ON tht border and brought rounds OF
annlause from the banqueters, After
tbe announcement that the biff ball
games start tonight for the winter sea
son, the session adjourned.