New Britain herald., 1921-11-04
HIGH SCHOOL CLUB
 MEETS AT Y. M. C. A
First Supper and Gathering of the Season Held Last NiRht-Mnny
 Interesting Speakers Heard

About forty members of the High school club of the Y. Nj. C. A. were present at the first supper and meet
 ing to be held by that organization
 this season. Immediately after the meeting Harry T. Baker, supervisor
 of boys work at the headquarters of
 the Y. M. c. A. in New York city. was introduced by Mir. Dorbucll, who said that MT Baker had been a member of the varsity football team at Syracuse when he attended that college.
 Mr. Baker corrected the statement of Mr. Dorbuck by saying that he had | been a member of the baseball, not football team. He said:
 " "The first time that l heard of the
 northern part of Vermont. where
 met MT. Weaver, who spoke to you i last year, and from whom l learned
 of your activities. Every fellow who
 can should get an interview with MT | Weaver the next time he comes, as l to a life work.
 "If I were @ clergyman would
 take my text right from the pro
 gram which was given to me this
 the club. Motive power was great
 question during the late war. One
 reason why the Russians failed so miserably was because their motive
 tive power is a. great power in life. 1 There are three kinds of motive pow
 er-Necessity, which makes men do
 things whether they want to or not; | Ambition, which is the great driving
 power of the world. It has wrecked
 many men because they had no steer
 ing gear or brakes with which to con-
 trol it. The ambition of the High-Y clubs is to create. maintain and ex-
 tend throughout the school and com munity high standards of Christian | ity.' Any club must have a purpose 1 Purpose is the stearing gear of am-
 bition. It keeps ambition within l bounds and gives aim and direction to l 1t. The third power is loyalty; a 1 loyalty that thinks; not a loyalty of
 the cheap patriotic kind which says | My country right or wrong, but nev. cr-thc-less my country This kind of l loyalty is progressive. liberal, loy- | alty which changes with the times. In this case, loyalty to principles. There is time in every persons life when he must choose between loyalty to principle and loyalty to another person. The principle should always be uppermost. There was only one
 man who ever lived for whom a per
 son shoud sacrifice loyalty to prin. Ciple-Jesus Christ, the creator of principles. In any case a man should | have a purpose in back of him. The second part of my sermon will be taken up with the Dynamic, the contagious, Christian character. Lots of fellows have great deal of power but they have it at the wrong time Postponed power is no power at all. Lots of fellows are all right when times are smooth but in crisis they fall down. I would like to make a uggestion-when speaker has finished the fellows should get together and discuss the
 talk, to find out how to get that power and to spread it.
 After the talk, Francis E2an, last years president Of the club, gave report of the activities of the season which has just passed. Later, off cers for this year were elected. They
 are Henry Christ, prcsidnt; Dwight Latham. vice president; Paul Lucas, secretary and Everett Williams treas urcr.
 Among the prominent men who ! have been asked to speak before the club this year are Tad Jones, Wal ter Camp and Leutcnant-G Governor Templeton. A number of the mon who spoke last season are expected to come again some time this win