Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-16
BROUGHT
BY FRIENDSHIP
NOT BY TREATY
"Y" Worker Makes Plea for
World Amity; Takes Gen
fury Steps" in Progress.

World friendship is the key to world
! peace and without that friendship, all
of the war treaties ever conceived can
not eliminate war and the domination
of the strongest nations over the weak
est" said Charles Il. Webster of Den
YER. international Y. NJ. c. A.. worker,
who addressed members of the Great
Falls Y. NJ. G. A. at their annual dinner
in the ~ dining room Monday night.
Mr.. Webster was introduced by /. w.
Church, president of the Y. NJ. G.. A..
who was POSTMASTER of the dinner.
One hundred and fifty members of the
~" and their wives attended the din
ner. The association orchestra played
during the dinner.
World Is Getting Chummy
In our modern world. distance is
rapidly becoming annihilated. The
world is a n~eighborhoOd. a community
and with our improved radio phone
and Geographic systems we are becom-
ing chummy with our international
friends thousands of miles away and
whom we have never SEEM" said Mr..
Webster. In India they are moving
forward by century steps without real
izing it. They have never seen our
old time v~elocipedes, yet they are fast
becoming acquainted with the airplane.
They are becoming democratic without
realizing how they got that way"
Touching on the work of the Y. Nj.
G. A. in the isolated corners of the
world where friendship is d closer tie
of international relationship than wal
treaties and agreements Of arms, Mr..
Webster said that the Y. NJ. {. A. is
a mediator of the races. A black man
in the heart Of South Africa once told
him, he said, that if he'had not become
acquainted with a couple Of ~ work
ers who were friendly without Interior
purpose he would have a pleasureable
desire 70 cut the threats of every white
man with whom he came in contact.
Prince Aids ~" Work
Mr.. Webster recounted some of his
experiences in India where he went in
1913 as a foreign secretary Of the in
ternational committee Of the Y. NJ. G.
4. He told Of the help that he had
received from a Mohammedan prince
who had enlisted with the British
forces ana whose services were loaned
TO him by a colonel in the British army
The prince was lavish in the material
contributions that he made and he
plunged into the welfare and relief
work with a zeal that was startling.
With his aid the work was far. reaching
and the prestige that he lent to the
work made Il lasting impression, said
Mr.. Webster.
'~Friendship is stronger than tho ties
of the pagan religion of the people Of
Africa and India Mr.. Webster said.
The friendship of civilized nations for
those peolse who live far from the
beaten trails will strengthen the ties
rs In J tr cha .ax l.-J~x
of understanding between nations. The
approaches of the white men, for to
them they have long been only a super
decoy for dishonesty and maraud-
ing, but fortunately through the CO.
operation of missionary and y. NJ. c.
4. workers the barriers of misunder-
are being eliminated
"Orientals associate victory with
material benefit and the people Of
China who have gone through a period
of famine are raising the question
among themselves If the allies won the
war then why do We not eat?' And
radical agitators take advantage of
such situations to say that the gov
eminent is 10 blame" |
Holdeman Resigns Office
Previous to the address by Mr.. Web
ster, the annual report of the board
Of directors for the fiscal year was
made by Mr.. Church and a summary Of
the financial standing of the associa-
ton was made by II. A. Templeton,
officer of the Y. VI. G. A.
Mr.. Church made the announcement
hat the resignation of f. E. Holde-
nan, athletic director of the "Y''. had
been accepted and will become effec-
i've August Is. He also announced
that Ford Bailor, director of boys
activities, will resign his position this
fall to renew his college work. Sue