Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-11
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? YES, IT IS
MAJOR REED, NOT A PARSON, TALKING.
Man Of Affairs Tells Of the
Necessity Of Getting Busy on
the Enlargement Of Bosses
Y. N. C. A. Plant.
~ MISS TERRY.

Who would have thought it-and yet
It's true. Who would you suppose of
all the citizens of Boise would have
i been the least likely to furnish impetus
for the organization here of Y. M.
c. A.? Wouldn't you naturally as
sumo that the pioneer Of the move
ment would probably be some minis
"A ter or some one. of the prominent
churchmen of the community, who has
given so freely of his time and money
Tor the success Of the organization and
whose name for years has been iden-
titled with it? If your mental proc
esses run thus, you have another guess
coming.
And yeti is because you do not
know one side of Major Fred R. Reed
our own Fred who has been SO
prominently identified with Idaho's ad-
vancement, that you would not sense
u the fact that he was responsible, for
the organization of they. NJ C. A. in
Boise, pioneered the movement result
Ing in its present building, contributed
substantially toward it's erection, and
has signified his intention of contrib
uting more toward the new building
that it is proposed to be constructed
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Back in October, 1901" said Major
Reed, Il was sitting in my office in
Boise gazing out into space. when it
occurred to me that the city should
have Y. M. c. A., not only for its
religious significance. but because of
necessity that we provide a good
clean way ofsowing the right kind of
cppAc a md
particularly that the hospitality of GER
tain districts in Boise might be resist
ed So l said to Will Davenport, my
clerk, who incidentally had been a Y.
NJ. c. A. secretary back in Davenport
Iowa: viii, / am going to give the
proposition kick nthe pants and put
1t over the plate
81 Il took the matter up. We held
mass meeting in the old Pinney theater
and another meeting at the city hall,
and on October %, 1901, the movement
took definite shape, with the result
that within a comparatively short time
a Y. NJ. c. A. was organized and the
present building on South Tenth street
was erected"
Major Reed said he Is stronger than
horse radish for the building of a new
plant that will adequately fill the
growing needs of the association, en-
phasizing that he realized "the
mighty work" that Y. M. c. A. has
done and will continue to do all over
the world.
CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY.
1.-The human family is too liable to
forget the other fellow and to be
harsh in its judgments" said the
major AS a kid of ID years / was in
the forecastle of a sailing ship and
got all over the world and / am in
pretty good position to realize the
meaning of Christian hospitality to
lonely hearts, know what it means.
"Boise couldn't do n bigger thing
than to get behind this movement and
assure the erection of a building that
will furnish proper place for the
continuation of the splendid work the
local organization has been doing
and / am going to subscribe to the
limit of my ability.
MY idea of service to the Master
Is daily seryice-not Sunday ser
vice. ] never saw the time in my life
when I didn't love to have the right
sort of person place a hand on my
shoulder and show me the way. The
Y. M. c. A. does this. / believe in
Christian Observation-Disclosures In
grabbing them off the trail and show
ing them the way without a blare of
trumpets-they do that, too.
"Why, down east / was raised in a
Presbyterian community that was so
cold it made my teeth chatter-that's
not my idea of service to the Master.
] have spent much of my life in the
big open. ] have interpreted the ST.
fences of big places know what