Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-08

In the daily reports of team captains
in tho s165. 900 Y. nj. C. A, building
fund drive. Only sS044.5O was raised
by the ~ teams and executive COM
mite combined during the previous "a
hours. Three thousand dollars less
than the report for the .day before.
The important hand on the big clock
points to S65,5155O At this stage of
the stampede it ought to register close
to the 500, 900 mark, Less than half
of hte grand total is accounted for to
date More than half the allotted time
for the entire drive has slipped past
and is now floating around somewhere
in the backyard of eternity.
1t is a serious situation
Between noon Yesterday and mid
night Tuesday. March H. which solemn
time of reckoning is approaching at
the rate of so minutes an hour, Boise
must demonstrate $99,4S4.g0 worth of
pride, self-respect, civic devotion or
the unthinlIable will happen.
1t Is now squarely up to the good
citizens of this city.
This is the proposition:
Shall Boise have a new and modern
Y. M. c. A., such a Y. NJ. G. A. as a
city rich as Boise, important as Boise,
beautiful as Boise needs and requires
to maintain her prestige among the
progressive cities of America?
Each citizen of Boise must record his
or her answer on the dotted line of
the pledge cards.
1t is time now to sign the cards and
sign them to the limit of ability, IL
Boise is to have q worth while Y. NJ
G. A. There must be q more generous
response to the appeal of the workers.
This situation in the big Y. NJ. c. A.
drive is not the fault of the hustlers
who have dedicated their best efforts
to giving the boys and young men of
the city properly equipped associa-
lion building. There is just as much
enthusiasm. just as firm a determina-
ton to win as ever among workers,
but until every citizen of Boise comes
to life to the need of a new Y. NJ. c.
A., the value Of it to Boise. and makes
il his or her personal obligation and
Csponsibility the thing cannot be put
over.
Those are the plain, unvarnished
facts.
Because the danger signal has been
flashed is not proof that the drive
will fail 1t can be put across I be-
lieve it will be put across, but YOU
and | and all of us must believe it
strong enough to give and give all we
can TO help it if it is put across.
That is the impression the reports
of the team captains at Yesterdays
luncheon caused INC to acquire. A
hopeful sign was the grim, We're not
licked" expression caught in the eyes
of the work ers as bad report after
bad report was made. 1t showed that
the fighting spirit of the bunch was
beginning TO influenza upward. Per-
sonally ] feel confident deep down in
my heart, that by midnight Tuesday
the entire $165.000 will be raised.
That more than $50 of the best bust
ness men of Boise have undertaken
the task of raising the sum needed for
a new Y, NJ c. A. building ought to
be guarantee against defeat
Inc civic PRIDE OF the people OF BOISE
an oil them-ought TO De double
surety that the proposition VIII go
TO successfui finlsh.
Despite the critical stage OF the
drlve yesterdays luncheon was full OF
enthusiasm, spiZzerlnktum and so
fortn' ana the doletul tapulations OF
the accomplishments OF the day before
apparently had no effect on the work.