Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-11-21
+L0CAL "Y" SEEKS
275 NEW MEMBERS
CAMPAIGN Is ON THIS WEEK -.
NOVEL TEAM CONTEST Is
ARRANGED.

paign for 275 new members Monday
and will continue the drive until Sat.
urday. Arrangements for the cam
paign under the direction of E. H.
Burwell, secretary of the local asso-
citation, took a novel form. Every
captain of a citizenship team is
known as a driver of an automobile,
every driver will be assisted by me-
chanic and a race is being run from
Olympia to Seattle by these men and
boys. The driver and mechanician
the largest number of mem
berships will be declared the cham
pion racers.
The preliminary campaign was
opened with a dinner at the Y. M. C.
A. last Friday evening attended by
more than 40 prominent business
men of the city. J. l.. Muffley of
Tacoma gave the principal address
of the evening. Monday, Wednesday
and Friday of this week the men
working in the campaign are again
gathering for dinner; Thursday and
Saturday the boys will gather; and
Tuesday evening the women met at
banquet. Practically $50 people
are helping in the campaign to Sc
cure $50 new members and 125 new
members for the boys department
There are six teams of business
men, two teams of women and four
teams of boys. P. C. Aller, vice
president of the Olympia National
Bank, is promoter of the race. The
cars from which the drivers will
choose are: Dodge, Essex, Hudson,
Ford. Overland, Willys-Knight, Cad
lilac, National, Elgin, Stanley Steam
er, Studebaker, Buick, Maxwell,
Franklin, Chevrolet, REQ and Lib
erty Six. These are practically all
tho cars handled by local automobile
dealers.
The dealer handling the alto
driven by the winning team is obli-
gated to give membership which
the team may dispose of as 1t desires.
j. B. Stentz of the Buckeye Extract
company has offered to treat the
winning team to pan roast; Cam
paign Manager Alleris going to give
the Boy Scout who obtains the most
members, scout axe, and is also
going to donate membership to the
individual who obtains the most
members. If the winner is an adult,
he will get a full membership; if u
boy. he will get a boys membership
and a gym outfit.
The drivers and the mechanics OF
the business mems teams are: o. C.
Goss and Ray Wood, C. B. johnson
and Verne Lawrence, j. L. Peters
and P. M. Troy, H. J. Flagg and j.
Grant Hinkle, Levy Johnson and J.
Bohac. For the high school boys
team the following are drivers and
mechanicians: Wilson Tyler and
Merritt Mills, Fred Convefy and
Stanley Knox. Ronald Wilder and
Morris Lamborn, Charles Tyler and
w. O. Bullock. The women's two
teams are captained by Misses Lucille
Hord and Erma French.
p. NJ. Troy is president of the
Olympia Y. NJ. c. A. f. II. Burwell
is boys secretary, and Charles l..
Case Is physical director.
I'VE are watching the budget care
fully" said Mr.. Burwell. land we in
tend to do so. BY May 1st. with the
promises and pledges that we now
have, we hope to be in good finan-
cial condition and to be able to put
on a program that will make the
people OF Olympia sit up and take
notice. We have kept our activities
going very well considering the war,
the influenza epidemic and other va
rious Interruptions.
THE work that We are doing at
the present time" continued Mr..
Burwell, "can best he seen from con-
sidering a few figures. There are 20
women enrolled in the women's
classes. Miss Grace Enyart, physi-
cal director in the Olympia public
schools and assisted by Mrs. o. w.
Tatro, is the instructor for. the
women.
''An idea of what we will do this
winter can be gained by referring to
what was done last winter