St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-12-29

have buildings Through two OF
them, when our troops were mobil-
lied on the Mexican border, San
Antonio and Ell Paso were read: i'm
mediately to become centers for the
protective and recreational work for
girls that kept them out of trouble.
Our national secretaries were called
upon to go there to help their work,
to speed it up, to find new secretaries
to enlarge it.
Besides equipment we have fifty
years of experience in testing out
cur motive, our method and our
knowledge of girls. We have rec-
ords that might be marked in plac's
like some verses in an old lady's
Bible, ct and P.'' One day her min
lister in reading the Bible with her
said, what does this mean? find
it throughout your Bible quite
often The old lady smiled and
said, Tried and Proved" For fifty
years the Y. w. C. A. has been grad
ually growing; it has learned from
it's failures; it has learned from Its
successes. 1t can mark its funda-
mental Christian motive, tried and
proved" 1t works for all girls and
women irrespective of creed. But
it's trained leadership is always a
Christian leadership with the Chris
tan motive, whether it is spoken in
words or only expressed in acts. Its
inspiration, consciously acknowledge
ed, may perhaps best be expressed IN
the words of medieval saint. III
you would incruese much in holiness
and be strong against the tempta-
tions to sin, this is the only art of 1t
view much and so seek to know
much of Jesus Christ" Knowing
girls comes down to individual tact.
We cannot say that fifty years OF ex-
eprience with girls would be a par
ticular help unless the field workers.
the committee members and the
trained leaders themselves personal
| ~ had the tact to get along with
girls, and the love in their hearts
| that will draw girls to them. But
it seems to be universally true that
the organization who in ordinary
times does a special piece OF work
well is the organization who is pre-
uared to do the unusual bit Of work
in extraordinary times. Our work
/ for girls in ordinary times has be
come storehouse of experience
through long familiarity with prob
lens and activities that have learned
that there are certain methods ant
activities that do put the fence a
the edge of the precipice and so pre-
vent having to call the ambulance
the bottom. In other words, GU
fifty years growth has along man.
lines transformed experiment int
experience, and our methods, trie'
and proved during normal times, ar
; available for greater use now in ea
) traordinary times.
r Another reason favorable to
, large use of the Y. w. c. A. is cor
: sidered by some people to be of pr
mary importance, and that is the eco
}. nomic reason. Both mems and w
: mems institutions. when expanded
2 a national scale, have found teh CO.
Y of administration to be very hlg
, during the first years OF organizatio
. and expansion. The experience
: our own national board is thai du
e ing its first year the cost of admir-
s istration was approximately sixtee
+ per cent. During its eleven year
0 life that proportion has steadily d
creased, until now, reckoned frol
!. the point Of view Of work Is not sci
e supporting its stands between seve