The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
CONTINUED GROWTH OF "Y"
Shown By Years Figures

Associations in the United States and
Canada for the year ended April 30th,
last, and now made public, show gains
in nearly every lines of association ac-
tivity. Pronounced increases are
shown not only as compared with the
previous year, but with the last full
year, 1917, before we entered
the War. The increases over
1920 were similar to the record gains
made in that year. AS summed up by
DR.. John r. Mott, General Secretary
of the International Committee, "in al
most every class of the Association it
has been a year of progress"
Membership in the 2,120 Associa-
tions in this Country and
Canada totaled 935,581 on April 3Oth
last, against SOS, 1872 in 1920, and 720,
1853 in 1917. Adding to these the latest
available figures for countries outside
of North America, which are those for
1920, the worlds total of Young Mems
Christian Associations is shown to be
well above 5000 and the membership
above 1,500,0 900.
In addition to service at home the
North American Associations are car
Tying on work in more than twenty
countries, while YIN. "A. under other
national auspices bring the total Of
countries with established Associations
up to nearly twice that number. There
is in addition the work still in progress
among Allied armies and eX-service
men in Europe and the Near East. AL
though this work is being demobilized
and domesticated as rapidly as poss-
IDLE, American secretaries are still di-
recting and American Associations are
still financing work on behalf of more
than 100000 of such men.
Nineteen huts and extensive athletic
facilities are serving the American
forces in Coblenz and vicinity. The
details of the many meets between the
athletes of the three Armies of Occu-
patton, the units of the A.F.G. and
other athletic organizations have all
been under the care of the Association.
A prominent feature of the past
years activities has been the extern
sion of the service among men of the
American merchant marine. This
work is now being carried on at three
home and nine foreign ports. The
merchant marine branch in Brooklyn
alone obtained free employment last
] year lOI ZO,4DO IltII, llluS ,JuSGll lIlS
the distinction which it claims as oper-
ating the largest employment bureau
in the world.
Together with the Y.W.C.A. the Y.
MICA. has expanded the service of its
immigration department, with Cher
bourg,, now the largest immigration
port in Europe, as the headquarters
of this work, which is maintained at
six other ports on the Continent.
The data made public by the Inter
national Committee covering activities
in the United States and Canada in
Guide the following items:
In gymnasium classes, 345 1852, a
gain of 20% over 1920; swimming and
life saving taught to 86,426, a gain of
21%; educational students not count
Implications, 121 ,945, a gain of 14% {;
attendance at religious meetings, $3.50
800, a gain of 90 in Bible classes, 1870
SO8, a gain of $3.50; in Y.M.C.A. camps
for two weeks or more, ga ,029, a gain
of 80; in physical leadership clubs,
10,315, a gain of 1910.
The mass of statistics relating to
the activities of the various classes of
Associations and numerous depart
ments are best summarized by eX-
celptS from comment on the last
years work in North America, by DR..
Mott, General Secretary of the Inter
national Committee, as follows:
"The largest majority of the Asso-
Citations have worked their way back
to normal and many of them are NOV
ing on with greater strides and more
marked achievements"
"The position of the leading city
associations has been strengthened. In
the case of smaller cities, the record,
generally speaking, has not been quite
so encouraging"
"In industrial fields the openings
and demands for the work have eX-
ceeded the ability of the Association
movement to respond"
"The Associations along the rail
ways and in the newly developed ser
vice for the merchant marine have dad
a good year judged by every test"
"There has been an unprecedented
increase in the number of students in
the universities and colleges. The
associations on every hand have met
this new challenge with splendid cour-
age and effectiveness and have closed
their most fruitful year in evangelis-
tic results"
"The rural and colored Associations,
as we'll as the Boys work, while show
ing a year Astounding in encourage
ment, have been retarded somewhat
in their growth through insufficient
staff"
at may be questioned whether in
the realm of the physical work there
has even been a year of greater prac-
teal helpfulness."
"The educational work has unmis-
takably entered upon a new era. More
young men and boys were enrolled in
the educational classes of the Associ-
alton last year than in all the Protest
ant Christian colleges of North Amer
lea"
There are signs on every hand of
the releasing of larger voluntary lay
forces in the service of the Associat-
ions than was apparent before the
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