Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-07
GOOD SPEED SHOWN
IN BIG Y. N. C. A. drive
Third Day in $165000 Campaign for New Association Build
ing Shows Good Progress ,371 Raised to Date

nonchalance and sigh OF relief when
he hit the ground.
The public misses quite lot whom
1t overlooks these regular ariel exhibj.
lions which happen at Ninth and Main
daily at about 1880 p. m.
There Is lot of "spizzerpazoo" a.
whatever 1t is Director Mogge calls it,
at these noon luncheons-good- natured
chatting, uncamouflaged joshing, hi
larious kidding, and so forth. 1t is
really, seriously. a wonderful thing to
see how even those profound and tre-
mendously important leaders of the
business. social, economic interests Of
Boise themselves Join in the fun and
raillery and make lark Of a lark of
difficult task. confident, absolutely,
that they are going to put 1t across.
A lady stood and watched them while
the ladder ceremony" was being per-
formed over at Main and Ninth yester-
day. She listened to the songs, heard
the laughter and jollying, turned and
said partially to me and part to the
wide. wide. world in general:
God bless EN-! After all they're
nothing but bunch Of big, good-na-
tured boys. glorying in their strength
and the youth that is still In their
hearts,"
Her lips were smiling. but there was
mist in her eyes.
Guess she was right. Reckon, after
all the Judge and the Doctor, the Law
yer, the Banker, the Preacher, the
Merchant--the whole works, even Dick
Randall-hanker sometimes for the
days when we could pull off our shoes
and run race wit Skinny an all d
other kids to d. oil swimmin' hole
But our wind is kind of short and
our hair is getting gray and-heaven
help us-most of the time we have to
be sort Of "dignified," SO when q chance
comes like this $685. 900 new Y. NJ. C. A.
proposition we've tackled and that
we've all got to get together on to put
over. we just do it and. getting to-
gether in a big common effort, we make
the most Of the opportunity to play that
We're boys again and have whole peck
of fun while we're pulling off some
great civic stunt like this.
But on the square those daily lunch
cons are jolly affairs.
That one yesterday was a good one.
from every angle. Those First Meth
odist church ladies' certainly do qualify
as hostesses.
And speaking of the ladies'
Miss Ruth Seymour stirred the con-
gregation profoundly by the announce
ment that today the females of the
species" are to take hand in the game
for the rest of the drive and when It
comes to getting the money-"you men
look out!"
Miss Seymour represents the Y. w.
c. A. and to that organization belongs
the honor of arranging the menus for
the daily luncheons. The highest trib-
ute possible is paid to the science and
art displayed in framing up these cult
nary triumphs every day by the way In
which they disappear before the husky
appetites of the harvest hands"
Interesting and inspiring talks We're
made yesterday by Chairman Barton.
Campaign Director Mcgee. Mr.. Baldwin
of Team No. and, as usual, Associate
Director and Shrek Dispenser Richard
e. Randall, engineer the vocal pyro-
technics to the immense delight Of the
assembled multitudes.
The words of Chairman G. A. Bar
ton express precisely the feelings of the
bunch who are fighting to give Boise
a Y. NJ. C. A. building that will fit in
with the balance of Bolse's appearance.
Mr. Barton spoke the sentiment Of tho
entire organization, the most efficient
of it's kind ever gotten together in
Boise, when he said at yesterdays
luncheon
"There is absolutely no question in
my mind about putting this drive over.
We are going to do it."