TITE STJ"DAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 21, 1911,
Y. M. C. A. BRANCHES ARE IN GREAT DEMAND IN OREGON
Manager Rhodes Declares Association Could Double Number of Organizations Within Week if It Were Not Contrary to General Policy.
Ir tit Young Men's Cbrwttan Associa
tion desired to. It could start out to
morrow and double the number of 11
octatlona In the Northwest within a
week. Each of these new association
would have a good-sized membership
and no end of enthusiasm. If the T. M.
C. A. desired to found these new
tranches It could do so easily. But It
will not. That lan't the war the T. M.
C. A. operates.
Many people have a mlstakrn Impres
sion as to the methods followed by this
great organisation, which baa a foothold
Iti every civilised country of the world
and la many nations that are not yet
rtaseed In that category, according to
1. B. Rhodes, who for several years ha
ln at the head of the Y. M. C. A. In
Oregon and Idaho.
-Hardly a week passvea." said Mr.
Rhodes the other day. "that I do not re
eelve a letter from some town or city
In Oregon or Idaho, asking that the T.
M. C A. organise In that particular
town, in nearly every Instance all that
I can do la to write expressing regret
that the time Is not yet rise for action.
The few cities In which It Is Alvlaable
to round new sseoctatlona in Tne near
future we are watching closely and when
conditions become Just right In any one
ct them we go ahead without delay."
It Is unusual for the Y. M. C. A. to
form a branch In any city that has a
population of less than 10.000. As a gen
era I policy the sasoctatlon does not care
to co ahead with any place under this
else. Of course, there sre exceptions
and when the T. M. C. A. ascertains
that some particular town really wants
a Y. M. C A. and Is willing to support
It. steps are taken to meet the demand.
Rule Is Inviolable.
The Y. M. C. A. has adopted lt. poll
cles sa the result of many years of ex
rrlence and Its fundamental working
rule Is that new associations shall be es
tablished only where there la strong de
mand for them. Its preliminary work In
any city Is educational, for Its officers
realise that when any city knows the
advantages to be gained by having an
association within its borders that city
will not only be glad to have an associa
tion established, but will cheerfully pay
for Its building. And with a building
once constructed and occupied. It Is al
most unknown for an association to
prove a fallvre. Constant expansion Is
the rule and there are f-w exceptions
ro exceptions. It may be said. In this
growing Western eountrv.
In the Pacific Northwest the course of
tiie Y. M. P. A. has been one of unin
terrupted progress. I'p to about a de
cade ago tne association In Oregon,
Washington and Idaho w.tsj under a sin
gle manarement. Then Washington be
rime a separate district and Oregon and
Idaho were Included In another district.
This arrangement Is still In effect and
tne affairs of the Y. M. C A. In Oregon
and Idaho are administered from the
Portland headquarters In chsrge of Mr.
Hhodrs.
Growth Is Remarkable.
In the past ten years there has been
remarkable growth of the Y. M. C. A.
In these two state. At the beginning
-f that perlM there were :i3 members.
13 employed officers nnd property valued
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Y. M. C. A. work Tn these two states
n separated Into four lilvlslons city.
coltere. railroad and Industrial. Of these
he city work, of course. Is most Im
portant. Naturally the Portland Y. M.
C. A. l far In the lead among the cities
of tha territory and Is. In fact, one of
the largest and most Influential associa
tions In the United States. The other
principal city associations are at Boise
and Salem.
Within the past year the city divi
sion has made quite a move forward.
Eugene has erected and occupied a hand
some building and Sellwood has slso
erected a Y. M. C. A. home at a cost of
118.000. Both of these associations are
flourishing. The most . remarkable rec
ord, however, was made at Central
Point. This place has only about 1000
inhabitants, yet the Y. M. C..A. went in
there in response to persistent requests
and It has had no reason to regret this
sctlon. The Central Point people con
tributed $7500 In a six-day campaign and
a building is being; erected.
Steps have been taken to establish
associations In Baker and The Dalles.
In Baker chief Interest In the Y. M. C.
A. was manifested by the young men of
the city. While their elders hesitated to
take up the movement the young men
went out and signed up 400 members
besides contributing money for a build
ing site. As the. citizens are now en
gaged in erecting a hospital, the cam
paign for building funds has been put
off until next Fall when it is expected
enough money to put up a fine structure
will be collected. The Dalles project also
is well along and It Is certain that it
will be carried to a successful conclusion.
i Astoria and Marshfleld are other places
for which tentative plans to found as
sociations have been adofited.
Associations are conducted at all of
the principal educational institutions
of the two states. There are 16 of
these college Y. M. C. A.'s and all of
them are doing good work. Oregon
Agricultural College has the only stu
dent association on the Coast possess
ing a building toward which the stu
dents themselves contributed any large
part of the money. This buildinir.
Shepherd Hail was erected two years
ago at a cost of $23,000, half of which
was contributed by the students. It
was the second college Y. M. C. A.
built on the Paelflc Coast and is the
only one in Oregon or Idaho. There
are also college associations in Oregon
at the University- of- Oregon. Pacific
UnlversityJ Willamette University, Pa
i cine College. Dallas College. McJIinn
I ville College, Philomath College and
Chemawa Indian School.
The main event conducted by the
college associations Is an annual con
ference at Columbia Beach, near Sea
side. This year the conference will
be held from June 16 to 25. It will be
attended by about 150 students from
schools in Washington as well as Ore
gon and Idaho. Leading speakers
from several states will bo present at
the conference and games of many
kinds will till the time that is not
given over to meetings.
The Industrial work of the Y. M. C.
A. is securing a strong foothold in the'
Northwest. The largest industrial as
sociation Is located at Kellogg, Idaho.
Its building was erected by a mining
company at a cost of $40,000. Al
though the building has been occupied
only two months, the association ha3
I a membership of 500 and employs four
secretaries. Its influence on employes
of the mines has been very noticeable.
Recently Mr. Rhodes was seated in
the lobby of a hotel at Kellogg, while
two liquor drummers were talking
nearby. "Yes, business Is rotten. This
town lias gone to h since the Y. M.
C. A. came' he heard one of the drum
mers remark.
Industrial Work in Oregon.
In Oregon the, industrial work so far
has been confined .to the construction
camps along the new railroads up the
Deschutes River. Soon, however, there
will be an industrial Y. M. C. A. In the
camp at Celilo Canal, where more than
BOO men are employed. The Govern
ment has appropriated funds for the
building at Celilo. Several Industrial
Y. M. C. A.'s probably will be founded
among the logging camps on the Col
umbia River, some of the leading com
panies having become interested in
this matter.
There is only one railroad Y. M. C.
A. in the Pacific Northwest, its loca
tion being Pocatello, Idaho. It has a
membership of from 1100 to 1300 and
Its building Is a center of activity for
all of the railroad men who have head
quarters at Pocatello. It Is probable
that the second railroad association will -be
founded in Portland. General Man
ager O'Brien, of the Harriman lines in
the Northwest, has become interested
in the movement and International Sec
retary Day. of the Y. M. C. A, Js in
Portland, working on the plans.
SOTHERN - MARLOWE ENGAGEMENT NOTABLE EVENT
Shakespearean Stars Will Appear Week of May 29 at Heilig "Macbeth" Has Prominent Place in Repertoire.
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TUESTJAY NIGHT. May 30.
-Taialag of the Sirew."
WEDNESDAY MATINEE, May 31.
' "Rosses aad Juliet.'
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. My 11,
"Roar M Jallet."
THURSDAY NIGHT. June 1.
"Mrrrhaat of Vealce."
FRIDAY NIGHT. June I.
Twelfth Mibl."
SATURDAY MATINEE. June 3.
-A a Yaw Like
SATURDAY NIGlir. June 3,
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ONE of the moet notable engage
ments of the local theatrical sea
son I the appearance at the Heilig
the week of My !f to June 3. of the
t-o-stars, E. II. Sothem and Julia Mar
It we. In a Shakespearian repertoire that
Includes "Macbeth." "The Taming of
the Shrew." "Romeo and Juliet." "The
Merchant of Venice." "Twelfth Night."
"As You Like It." and "Hamlet."
Of these "Macbeth" has perhaps had
the most raried existence of any of the
foremost of Shakespeare works since
Its first presentation In 1(0$, when
Richard Burbage had the honor of first
presenting the hero.
Fifty years after its Initial produc
tion found "Macbeth" thrown aside and
neglected. In 1S. Sir William D'Are
naat Introduce! "Macbeth" as a grand
lyenlii'ulit Oiiara, Millting ail Ua
possibilities then known to the stage.
The supernatural witih. ghost and ap
parition s-enes. and the banquet, war.
and massive episodes of the play were
elaborated upon aad a musical setting
written by the leading composer of
his time. Locke, was Introduced. Fly
ing, dmrlng and singing witches and
ghosts Introduced In a startling man
ner, with the Interpolated music, com
posed slma of his effects.
For eight years. D'Avenant's version
of "Macbeth" held the stage until the
advent r.f Iwvld Oarrlck. who. In 1774.
though not quite, restored "Macbeth." to
Shakespeare'a original. Locke' music,
however, he retained, and he wrote a
lying speech for Macbeth. This ar
rangement of the play, with sy-enes
from Middleton's "Witch" and with
murlr and dancing, held the stage for
).., abainlraftLA aaxa, tux la waj-juil
until Phelps, at Saddler's Wells In 1S47.
banished both the singing witches and
all of Locke music and gave the play
practically as It Is presented today.
Charles Kean In his spectacular pro
duction of "Macbeth" at the Princeaa
Theater, London, in 1852. restored the
scenes of Garrick's version; this ap
pears to have been the laat occasion.
though, on which they were used, and
with the elder Booth and Macready. In
hi later performances, both Garrlek
and Locke were completely discarded.
The Sothern-Marlowe version also dis
cards the sacrilegious elaboration and
additional alteration given to the play
by early actors. They use the first
folio version of the play with a few mi
nor changes as omitting the murder of
Banquo, and that of Lady Macduff and
her son, scenes too harrowing for mod
ern audiences. The effect of the
Sothern-Marlowe version Is to present
the drama with as much brilliancy and
humanity as possible while still ad
hering to the original text of the first
folio edition.
MURPHY TALKS ON POLITICAL SYSTEM
JHENNESSY MURPHY was elected
a member of the executive com-
mtttee of the Jackson Club at Its
last meeting, and. In response to calls
for a speech, he said:
When Woodrow Wilson reaches
Portland the people he will meet and
uaat who f)m. have anything to say.
of real Interest to him will be the poli
ticians. The "people's power" will be
tn evidence In the gallery and Irr the
back seats down below, where tltey
will listen and grin, applaud and clap,
when the wise ones start the vocifera
tions from the platform or elsewhere,
just as they do back In New Jersey.
Things may be different when the av
erage man becomes a Woodrow Wil
son. Here in Oregon, the cradle of the
people's rights, the birthplace of the
people's power, the Mecca of reform
ers, the beacon light of the Nation In
all things holy in the people's rule,
Woodrow Wilson, as a trained student
and profound observer of men and
things, may ask himself the elemen
tary question: "What the Johnathan
is the use of so many reformers In a
state where poliical conditions are
trumpeted to be so sound and where
the people's rule and the rule of the
people is a thing of purity, incorrupti
bly fair?"
"Surely. he may muse to himself.
"in a land blessed with the famous
'Oregon plan,' reformers are not
needed, for the experience of all po
litical history reads that reformers
never thrive only where there are
spoilsmen a-plenty, or seething cor
ruption, or something putrid crying
aloud for reform. It's an axiom of
civics that when political conditions
are really good, reformers lose their
jobs."
Rule of Babel Is Here.
Perhaps the sad and midnight oil
phis of the great lawgiver, who re
sides In that industrially happy town,
where the wage-earner never kicks for
fear of being kicked out of work, may
calm our illustrious visitor and sug
guest to him, as In New Jersey, that
the power of the people here in Oregon
Is under the great lawgiver's classic
dome. It Is surely not In the rumpus
we have Just passed through the pri
mary nominating scrap.
HI Youse, Muck-a-muck. the rule of
babel is here forsooth. Every man Is
his own initiative and may the devil
take the referendum, since he won't
let go of the initiative. Hurroo, for
the rule of the recall and the recall
of the rule. If the state of Oregon
could only be an individual for a few
minutes, and that Individual an Irish
man, somebody would get a punch on
the nose and a dislocated speech box
for calling this business "Oregon
plan"; Oregon has been libeled enough
already.
We bumped the old bosses' and In
stalled the new politicians. Keep up
the good work, brethren; it's your
bounder duty to see that the reformers
are kept a-snorting and a-frothing, for
that brings on the conditions that will
keep the bunch on the Job. Aristotle,
or Edmund Burke, or Jim Foley will
verify this.
Every Day Is Election By and By.
Keep it 'up, and we will soon have
as many election days as Spanish holi
days, and soak the corporations and
cinch the interests for the costs. Let
somebody else work while the people's
friends Invite us to vote; if we can get
to the polls often enough, we won't
need a single-tax law; the law will
take care of itself; jt- generally does,
as the enemies of the people have rea
sons to know.
We have an assembly choosing can
didates on every street corner, a con
vention in every country gab store,
and a constitutional authority In every
booze cafe constituting a hot weiner
Into a hot patriot, so what fell do we
want legislatures and statesmen for?
Such expensive nonsense! Let the peo
ple rule a while yet, and some day
they'll drop the rule like a hot spud
and take to hurling bricks at the pal
ladium of the people's rights, for they
cannot dent a reformer's skull. That
will be the power of the people, too.
It all depends on the humor of the
power. Republics are ungrateful when
the people are stung, then you will
have a fresh crop of reformers, each
crop being a little wiser.
BOOKS ADDED TO LIBRARY
SOCIOLOGY.
Fernanda de Quiros, Constantino Modern
theories of criminality. 1911.
rjrant Socialism and Christianity. 191".
rcraaa Criminal navrhnlOCTV. a manual fOr
judges, practitioners and students. lttll.
Johnston The negro in tne new worm.
llilu.
Kinr History of the San Francisco stocK
and Exchange Board. 1910.
Kinsley Open-air crusaders; a report or
ih. iriivahprh McCormlck oDen-alr school.
torether with a aeneral account of open-air
school work In Chicago. 3910.
Loch Charity and social lire. mm.
Stlmson The American Constitution: the
National powers, the rights of tne states,
the liberties ot tne people. iw(v
wavman Rsa- introductorv to the
study of Engllsb constitutional history. 190L
RELIGION.
Ti.i. v Testament The acts of the
apostles, an exposition by R. B. Rackham.
111 u.
T mm hull Sundav school, its origin, mis
sion, methods and auxiliaries. 11.
Watts Hymns and spiritual songs, n. a.
Bound with his Psalms of David Imitated in
the language of the New Testament. J
USEFUL ARTS.
Bvrom Modern cooKIng practice. 1010.
Chicago, University Press Manual of
style; a compilation or tne lypograpmmi
press, with speci
Chittenden Forests and reservoirs In
their relation to stream flow, with particu
lar reference to navigable rivers. 1SXH).
Collins Physiology. A manual for stu
dents snd practitioners. 199.
Ersklne Murray wireless telephones and
how they work. 1910.
fox One thousand ways snd schemes to
attract trade. Ed. 2. 1907.
Russell Experimental aairy wuoiu5j.
2?.' 11 . jt..tii-. Af Hnlrv haeterlolOR-y: a
concise manual for the use of students In
dairying. Ed. 8, rev. 1905.
ADDED TO REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.
A..., it. ranTi snd statistics. Bureau
official year book of the commonwealth of
a iiBtF.H. 1001.1(109-11910.
Bigelow The campaisa wmamchv,.
Ille. a strategic and tactical study. 1910.
Business and the bookkeeper. v. 25.
1910-1911.
Cedar Kaplan. ia. iuui..
Sion Dlan or governmeni.
Grimm A Greek-English lexicon of the
Nw Testsment. tr. by J. H. Thayer. 189.
Vortland. or., ".u
Men of Oregon:" a gallery of likenesses of
rAnrAvntatlvc men. toiretTier wun Drier
sketches of their lives. 1911.
ADDED TO CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT.
Persian hero tales from Firdusi, by E. D.
Rennlnger.
Grierson Children's tales from Scottish
ballads.
Longfellow The song of Hiawatha with
Illustrations from designs by Frederic Rem
ington. '
Mowry A history fo the United States
for schools.
Tappan European hero stories.
Keep Friends of Youth.
Harper's.
In youth our friends are many. Each
child, thank God, is born into the world
with one friend ready made, complete
and perfect: his own mother. For the
mother there may be regrets and in
sights, doubts and hesitations, but at
any rate there is never a lack of under
standing, for she. of all, knows the
very stuff of which we are made our
strength and our weakness, our endur
ance and our failures. This, at least, is
one of the heartening facts of life
that the child need never forego some
friendships. It makes slight claims. It
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anu Ui Buttling, llttJ-ianJiis mm iitfciA-
dling. Provided another revel In the
same things as we do, behold. Here for
childhood Is a friend ready made! And
for a moment the solitude of the pil
grim's soul upon its long way is dis
guised. Youth, too, forms ties lightly from
out the very exuberance of its living. It
loves as rapidly as it breathes; it Ideal
izes and finds it difficult to recognize
any bleak fact In human nature. If thf
friends seem for the moment to fail,
youth has an unexhausted fund of hop
that, remembers this one as the onlj
failure, or remembers that back of thf
failure lies all the material of future
success.
But manhood is more difficult. Lovi
and trust, often betrayed, are not easj
for one full grown and far along thi
path of life! That friendship is best
which is old, and, which, like wine, hat
stood the test bf time. Friendshipf
born in obscurity and misfortune art
hardier and more lasting than thosf
born in ease. Like human characters
they grow strong on the very obstacles
that test them; they are firnfeY, more
strongly welded, as they overcome aad
Still endure.
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