El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-25

He said:
Carlyle said that mems religion
consists. not in the many things they
try TO believe and cannot but in the
few things that they cannot doubt
Mems conceptions as TO his Maker have
been as numerous as the Sects ana
creeds Of the world. But he said
there is another more practical side, a
question on which steady progress has
been made. a duty TO fellOw-ma
worked out on a broader and fairer
basis than ever before. So. in the clos
ing of the 18th century. whether II IS
today or the thought of the woman
herself, we have turned our thoughts
toward our fellow woman
Woman Leading Economic Factor.
Never before in the history Of the
world and certainly not in the history
of the last 5000 years, has there been a
time when woman occupies the same
place in civilized races as today. Never
factor of the world. Many people de-
plore this change My own candid OBJ
servatiOn of the average mans attI-
tude toward the present day activity
Of woman is that he is afraid-not
that ne is afraid of the competition II
will give him, but he is afraid that
he will lose some clinging vine.
quality which the Victorian novice has
persuaded him is her chief charm. But
] have not seen a man that does not
reliant woman, though ne wants some
one else's daughter TO be the clinging
vine
5000 Women Workers Here.
In FL Paso not including the Next
can population, there are more than
5000 women who earn their own live
lihood, which takes them outside their
homes. More than 50 per cent d. not
90 to their family homes from their
days work. but TO the place where
they room and board and which they
call home. making the best effort they
can 10 make that home
Y W. c. A. Performs nique Function.
The Y. ". g A performs unique
function II affords a common and
community home, recreation CENTER
a social gathering place for hundreds
OF girls and women, who have no otner
place nearer a home, who, under Its
auspices, meet friends and can IND
entertainment.
Girls Clubs Indispensable
IF mems clubs are a good thing IN
a community, is il not equally lmpor-
tant that the young women OF COM
munity have a club house2 1t has
been well said that the best test OF
any civilization is the young men and
young women il produces. We are all
proud of FL Paso as a commercial
center OF the southwest; We hail It's
rapid growth. We rejoice 10 see each
new skyscraper, yet we go On building
business blocks. handsome edifices, re-
l
building ailroads-indeed making Fl
Paso the city of the southwest-yet,
if we reckon manhood. unless We be
false TO that sacred trust, the future OF
our boys and girls. FL Paso Will lose
its prestige and its sun viii be near
its setting.
Burden VIII Not He Heavy.
The burden of a club would not De
heavy. This. city, with a much smaller
than It has today raised, IN
less than three weeks, 100000 to erect
q Y. VI. c. A building. If El Paso was
young, energetic and ambitious then,
today. when il has three times greater
population and is ten times weather.,
well IL might be said that every man
should go down into his pocket ana
meet this need. as men OF ne city II
should not be said fhat it is q woman
affair. I don't think FL Paso Will take
that position. This proposition should
be grappled firmly and quickly as
business proposition. There IS not a
man in the city who is employing girls
who will not have money IN mis- pochet
by contributing and L need not ask
the support of parents to more JUST
and righteous cause
Security Only a Confidence
ave are living in a time of great
changes. No man. whether ne be poor,
or of great affluence. can tell what
change may take place within the next
p months There is not a man so
bold as to say what the next "A months
may bring t. our very doors mere
is no security except in confidence.
We must repose more in the men and
women who make up the lie around
US. Just in proportion as the World
our country and our city, meets bravery
and Justly, the tasks imposed upon II,
so let US gather courage for the task
We take up tomorrow.
Watch the Clock.
Let US pull together earnestly IN
this undertaking Let Us keep II fore
most in our minds and all watch the
clock which viii be placed at the loot
of Oregon street and every time II
moves forward try and have the sat
isfaction to know that you have nelpec
to put the hands where they point
Miss sly Speaks on National ~"
Miss ElVa Sly, secretary of the HI
Paso Y. w c. A delivered an address
on the National Y. W c. A" She
said:
Half century ago, the Young
Woman's Christian association was ut
tie more than a thought in the minds OF
a few women in Boston Even ten
years ago at a meeting of social work
ers, when the Young Woman's Chris
tan association was suggested as
social agency, some one remarked.
Those people do social work, No;
they do nothing but run boarding
houses and pray
Membership Now 100000.
To-day there are more than 100000
Young W0men's Christian associations
in the schools, colleges, cities and rural
districts Of America with d national
Of 100000. There are as
sociations in nearly 800 cities which
own property worth millions OF dol
lars In th- boarding homes gym
mas ums anc educational classes and
industrial cluDs Of our association are