Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-10-06
CAREY To
OPEN CAMP PA|GN
Plenty of Workers for Men,
bership Drive for the
YIN. C. A.
.1,10O MEMBERS SOUGHT
Campaign Will Be in the Form
of a Round the World
AirpIane Race
.1,1OO MEMBERS SOUGHT

The annual Y. M. C. A. member
ship campaign will be launched at
the association building at 6:30
o'clock tonight when the team work.
ers. comprising the crews of twenty
airplanes, hop Off on a 'round-the-
world flight which should bring
them home next Monday night or
before. The goal set in this cam
paign is LOO memberships, COO
men and boys and 500 women and
girls. In addition to this financial
organization, manning the dirigible
Y-21, will endeavor to secure $4,000
in donations, this being sufficient to
take their craft around the globe
also.
All of the officials and members
of the twenty-one crews are ex-
pected to be on hand for the Take
off" banquet tonight. Former Judge
Robert Carey, of Jersey City, known
throughout the state as a speaker
of extraordinary ability, has been
secured to make the address at to-
nights affair and P. H. Conrad, in
dustrial secretary of the Newark
Y. NJ. c. A., will lead in the singing.
Complete instructions will be given
to the workers by General George
w. Sharp Jr., and talks of encour-
agement will probably be given by
Adrian Lyon, president of the asso-
citation, General Secretary v. V.
Roseboro, Mrs. ~Elizabeth Oliver In
charge of the women's division, and
others.
All of the preliminary work was be
ng finished at the "Y" this afternoon
after several weeks of great activity.
All of the assignment cards have
been made out, report and instruc-
tion envelopes printed, campaign re-
port signs printed, miniature air.
planes numbered, the gymnasium
prepared for the opening banquet
and finishing touches added to all
arrangements.
Smaller teams have been organized
this year than formerly with the re-
suit that the workers will have to be
larger producers IL the goal Is to be
preached. Former Y. M. c. a. men,
bership drives have always been sue
cessful and the workers are conf
dent that they will be able to again
reach the high goal this year. A spe-
cial effort to secure new members
will be made this week.
No prospective member can he ap-
preached by worker unless the
worker holds that persons assign
ment card. This will prevent non
members or those whose member
ships expire this month being solie-
tied by several persons. Hundreds
of assignment cards have been made
out and these will be distributed to-
night to the workers. Mileage is fig
ured in proportion to the number
and type of memberships secured
. each day.
The women's division, consisting
of two squadrons of four planes
each, was completed last week but
the men, who have twelve planes
entered in the race, had not COM
pleted. their crew personnel up until
noon Today. The mems organization
was as follows:
Squadron G, A. j. Perchard,
Commander
Y-9-William H. Hewitt, captain;
Thorvald Olson, H. J. Miller. Charles
. M. Welden, Howard w. Baker, JOS
\eph Messenger, Alton Roth, John
Stack, Charles Dennie. Edward
Everson.
Y-1o-Eugene Parker, captain;
GAIA Chizmadia, Chester Ullman.
Howard Morse, Charles Kollar.
Y-11-Richard Preston, captain;
NJ Christian Nielsen; Joe Honan,
Ray Jensen, Steve Kovacs, Chris
Jorgenson, Charles Nielsen.
Squadron ID, William Fraser,
Commander
Y-12-I. r. Robbins captain;
Derben w. Bartholomew, David
Thomas, Loren ]. Keyes, Peter
Grieve, Ralph Atkinson, Warren
Hanson, Herman Farber, Edward
Kolator.
Y-13-John Bernard, captain;
Walter Gergren. Harry Dave. Ed
ward Brown, Gerald Ryan, Ralph
Fusco, Fred Lake.
Y-14-Fred Ritter, captain; Ed
ward Regan, George H. Mum.
Charles Bartha, Umberto Palo, Ed
ward Mathiasen, Howard Mathiasen.
Squadron e: Charles M. Peterson
Commander
Y-15-John ]. Biting, captain;
Albert Larson, Nugent A. Ragland,
Walter H. War;, Harvey Dey, f. p.
Hansen, George Shurts, Ralph Pres
ton, Norman Vroom, Thomas La
gonia.
Y-16-Ronald Kleckner. captain;
Nathan Goldberger, George Geary,
William Beck, Axel Olsen,
Matthew Christoffersen, Anthony
Quarado, John Jago, Sylvester Palo,
Ernest Heingle.
Y-17-Earl Lake. ceptain, X. w.
Poulson, James Kidd, John M. Shoe.
"A. B. Mcdowell, Peter Olsen, e. Tul-
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