Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-07
Committee Sends Out Letters
70 Selected List of Names
Explaining Purposes

In answer to a general demand fol
! Information, the Ad Club committee
! on army and navy sent out to a Sc
iected list Of names To-Day a letter ex
planning just what the Army and Navy
~. N. c. A. will be when it is set
tied in the quarters The committee
Proposes to acquire for II, the Roy
al Hawaiian hotel.
! To realize these plans the commit
tee must raise 100000 this week. II
! II is successful, The international
Committee of the ! NJ. c. A. with
headquarters in New York will con
I tribute another $4,000. The price
Of the grounds and buildings is $780,
600, and the additional $4,000 Will be
spent on alterations.
Free to All Soldiers
The first point the letter emlha'
sizes Is that no initiation fee and no
dues are charged. All members or
former members OF all grades OF the
army, navy marine corps and national
guard are eligible TO the privileges III
the buildings and grounds.
All general privileges are free. In
order, however, to make the institu'
ton as nearly self'supporting as pos.
sibIe. charges are mace for optional
services, such az sleeping accomn1o'
dations, private lockers. baths, bill!'
ard and pool tables, attendance Oh
special classes and the like.
VIII Offer Many Advantages
What the Organization brings with
In the reach OF the men at as low
cost and with as few restrictions as
possible Is: *
Al clean. attractive, respectable CLUB
house, equipped with sitting and
Iounging rooms; library, reading and
writing rooms: rooms for games; mu.
sic; comfortable beds, lockers and
baths.
Al central rest and recreation place
where men off duty can meet their
friends and make new friends, and
are always assured Of hearty wei
come In a wholesome atmosphere
An opportunity for self.imprpye-
rlent py the study OF special subjects
in classes under competent instruc-
tors. II
Physical exercise. ~
An opportunity to attend religious
lectures and exercises for those who
care to do SO. - Z,
No Religious Requirements "a. :
No religions qualifications are re.
ouired. Protestants, Catholics. Jews
and men of any or OF no religious be
lief are equally privileged and vel.
coined.
The optional religious exercises are
strictly undenomine tional and are
conducted, on broad and liberal lines.
No race or color line Is drawn. All
members or ex1nenbers Of the ser.
vice are equally welcome, regardless
OF color, race or descent.
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters Asso1
citation trustees viii meet "Wednesday
morning to take up the question OF
donating sum towards the Army and
Navy Y. M. G. A.
Buildings, funds, plant, are not
social service, any more than laws
are good government, said W. A.
Horn, supervising secretary OF the
II. nj. C. A. this morning.
81 we raise 100000 here in Homo.
Iulu and IL the International Com
mftiee OF the Y. M. C. Al. supplements
that with s1T5 200, to buy the Royal
Hawaiian Hotel for an Army and
Navy Y. III. g. A., what assurance Is
there that It viii fill acceptably an
admitted wante
How do we know we have the right
iiea9 How do Be know soldiers and
sailors VIII use what we shall offer
theng These are questions that must
be answered, Cor II is membership
that makes the Y. M. G. A., just as i
Is the audience that makes the play.
Il think what is going on in other
Army and Navy y. MaGs a. branches
an over the country tells the story.
Here are q few figures to show what
The soldier and sailor think OF US.
sFor the year ending last May. the
total Army and Navy attendance e.
all American Y. NJ. G As was 2,9so,'
sS5.
ITO the Navy alone we rented 24S,-
24S sleeping rooms.
sThat wasn't enough. TWenty-one
thousand and fifteen boys who
couldn't get beds slept on the floors.
And that wasn't enough. We were
forced to turn away 25.l46 more
Money left in our keeEings amounted
to ss76. 500.
Money orders sold amounted 70
sl57. 6S5.
Those who took part in games
Organized and promoted by Army and
NAVY Y. nj. G. AS totalled 4sI $50
players.
Mr.. Horn is absolutely confident
that the plan on which he is working
with the Ad Club committee will go
through.
I'VE came down here. he con,
tinued, prepared to tegin in MOD.
NOTICE. Z