New Britain herald., 1922-03-21
MEMBERSHIP RATES
 ATY ARE LOWERED
Campaign for Larger Enrollment
 On--Directors Hear Reports

The directors of the Y. NJ. c, A. met yesterday afternoon and received General Secretary Clarence II. Barnes report covering activities in the asso- citation for the past month. Rev, John l.. Davis, who conducts the Mems Bible class of 200 members at the "Y". opened the meeting with prayer. In view of the present indus trial conditions 1t was decided to re duce the membership rate during the campaign now on so that as many men and boys as possible may take advantage of the Y. M. C. A. priv ileges. The report in full follows:
 The John l.. Davis Bible class con- tinues to hold the interest of its members One hundred or more men meet each Thursday evening for sup per followed by Mir. Davis talk. Over 200 are enrolled in this group, mak- ing it one of the biggest classes in any I. NJ. c. A. in the country.
 For the second time the Every mans Bible class members met at the association for general good time. Between six and seven hundred men attended and the entire building was turned over to them.
 The Grotto was also entertained with a program that included all ac- tivities, and the use of all the facili- ties of the building.
 The Commonwealth club used the banquet hall for a supper and enter tainment attended by about 200.
 Industrial Council
 The Industrial Council has just completed a very successful season under the leadership of M. K. Pasco. Some of it's activities have been re- ported heretofore. The annual thrift campaign was carried on in January with a program that reached all the pupils in the schools of the city Be- sides the usual pamphlets and talks on the subject, a prize essay contest was carried out in the grades from six to nine, with prize money given by the banks in the form of an mi tial deposit in their savings depart ments. Samuel McCutcheon has headed the economic committee which has carried on this phase of the coun- cil's program.
 The third foremen's night was ad dressed by Lewis B. Allyn of the Westfield Testing and Research labo ratories, who gave very interesting lecture to about three hundred men on Progress in Foods" In addition to these lectures place was given on the program for entertainment features and refreshments were serv ed. Carl s. Neumann, chairman for this committee, has provided splen did speakers, and William Dalzcll, chairman of the social committee has made the meetings very attractive with the entertainment features. The Americanization committee, under the chairmanship of M. H. Norton, has cooperated with MT. O'Brien in his work, and has furnished slides for weekly meetings of Americanization groups and in the evening schools new citizens night is planned, when all new citizens of the past year will be entertained.
 The athletic committee, under John Havlck, has promoted gymnasium classes inspired by Walter Camps talk and demonstration of his Daily Dozen exercises A group at the Cor bin Cabinet Lock company and an- other at the American Hosiery con- pany meet in their own quarters. A group from the Vulcan Iron Works meets weekly at the Y. M. c. A. Five hundred copies of the exercises have been purchased by interested men.
 A. A. North has looked after the employed boys, and night was held for the boys, attended by two hun- .dred ard fifty. This meeting was ad- dressed by Arthur s. Hancock of the High school.
 The religious committee. of which Clifton McKenna is chairman, has secured the support of the men Tn various factories for the Bible class
 A series of five lectures on subjects relating to local factory problems was given by New Britain manufacturers at the association, to foremen. The sneakers were F. A. Searle, George T. Kimball, Thomas Kelley, Ernest w. Christ. E. l.. Warren and w. H. Rat tenbury.
 Physical Department
 With S9 gymnasium classes per month the physical directors are kept busy. In addition to this pro- gram all around athletic contests TOT men have been conducted, a track team trained, which has defeated Meriden and Waterbury, and a lead CTS corps of IS men has met weekly for study and practical work on the gym floor. Two volley ball teams or business and professional men nave been organized and this game IS meet ing with great favor. Handball grows in nopu]arity and the court is in con stant use each afternoon and evening, The boys have had their own pro gram of all around athletic contests swimming sports, basketball ana 1n- door baseball leagues, besides iead- ers corps of 12 boys trained weekly and two junior basketball teams. The attendance for last month was 2,2bb.
 group of 80 men and boys are working nightly to produce a circus in the gymnasium March 3lst and April 1st.
 Boys Department
 One of the outstanding features of the Boys department program thlS wear has been the Hi-G club, which meets for supper once a week US itO members are students in the High school interested in clean living, A very fine program of speakers has been carried out. The list includes Tad Jones, Sherwood Day and Prot. Clark. of Yale; Prof. Dodge and Prot Slocum of Wesleyan; Colonel Catlln of the R. o. T. C., and Colonel Dan-
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