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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1924)
SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24. 1924 S&LEY5 FAST BECOMING A TRAINING CENTER MieiEii. - B. C. MILES" f LESTER PAY HARRY RAREV EVERETT W. LISLE I?AUL FLEGEL Portland Y Secretary- Is National Figure at Portland Y.M.wv if i PRE5. PLEASED ,'4.:.'.' 3 Vty'A :-" v. ,;v t- - V' ..- 1 V. Says "1 i One of. finest Features L Offered Students : ( lliE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON FOR SEGREJpAR!ES2 .-.air: - V 1 ' r Dr. parf G. Done?, Preisiden t of Villamette University lis well .leased "With the results of the Y ICA course in thd university, car- ied through the Salem Y nd Sec- .'tary Claude, A. kella of the city sseciation. ;The Willamette YMCA course iaa turned out some, splendid so- al workers audi unselfish eiti- t'HE," said Dr. Honey, "There is o place , west, of the 'Mississippi is d better s any other as iver- where then ourse, lf3here jood, anditke work of the worker .raduates will stand as the Willa- iptie cnaueqge pa . in vw noie orld. The Influence of the Salem through" lheuniversity channel, irnishin&as it does the training round antT the sifted and conse nted instruction of Mr: Kells, as been most wholesome; and its iflnence grows erery day as these raduale workers cdme into toucl jith t be outside work where they tn put into practice the1 precepts iey haveV received here, j , j "The university prizes; this de triment of its work, as" pne'pf ns nest contributions to an unseV sh, forward-looking service to all imanity. S With! the Willamette J graduates Scattering to every lint 'of the .compass and to for n countries, - as .thejr, arC they e quickening the spirit of "se I' ve, wherever they-go, and they ill be j sntera for spiritual owth." - , ,V " , I "The co-operation, of the nniver yand the Salem city Y is of e finest. . The I university could nothing better for the cause of tter citizenship here and wher graduatea , can than to wish and er .Willamette! er go or reach, ay for It bigger! and r? ,v ;'l,d' z. equipment and larger person 1 for; the Salemi city .Y.V- '- " .; - 1 vTH":, n IONEER CLUB ) OF COUNTY Y little ovef a year ago the mty secretary organized a pion- club at Woodburn: It was an eriment that-proved successful, 1 this fall an "aggressive pro mt of work with younger boya 3 laid out.1' On the night of tober 1, two pioneer clubs were -unlzed in Woodburn; the fol- . ing night the Lincoln pioneers re organized in Silverton and ay we have eight clubs ot 12 j 1 5-year-old boys wi th a tota 1 mbcrshlp of 96 boys, 'and many aing In. ; The purpose t. thesje i i n n : Mario fj ew f ember, Salem. Board f Directors ' "The city1 of Salem, Mass., for which our own Salem, Oregon, was named, was started in 1626, by Roger, Covant.' ' t ia a quaint old city with the main street forty feet wide between the buildings. Hawthorne's house of Seven Gables, with its secret stairway is located there. This building is kept by a historical society, and is well worth seeing. j The city has a population of 42. 000, comparable to our own Salem within the next five years. While the city is quaint in many ways, it has one of the best YMCA buildings for the size of the city in the world. This building is lo cated on the main street in the center of the city and is worth $750,000.00. '"It is a three story building, with marble columns at its en trance. They have in the building a large auditorium with a commo dious stage. This is used for neariy all the meetings which the public l interested In. The build ing has commodious stairways and halls. They hove excellent social and reading room. A well equipped gymnasium for both men and tooysv-. The third story is occu pied by men's apartments with all (he luxuries of the best hotel. On the top of the building there is a roof supported by columns and4 a roof garden. . Last but not least is a tile swiro- 6i:J Sf iiybP 'THE SALEM, MASS., Y. M. C. AS PALATIAL Gountv F - i 4 urroundinff Towns clubs ia training for Christian citi zenship and the motto of every 1 pioneer ia 4-square development physical, mental, devotional and social. 1 - The first annual pioneer rally was held In Salem Saturday, No vember 17, with a hundred boys present. In the afternoon they competed in games and races. At th,e banquet in the evening, " the rally shield was won by the Salem Jason Lee club, which made the highest total score in gym com petition, table decorations, speak ing, yell contest, and In club per centage attendance.' The Lincoln pioneers of Silverton placed . sec- a rioncera at Play Kv. - - ; J - - i -. 1 r X J I " ' J Head '.Young Men'a Depfv " Boston, Mast. Lester Day, Willamette. '22, had spent much time in the Salem YMCA as a boys leader before his graduation. After leaving Willa mette he went, to Boston, where he has been working in the Boston city Y, while carrying on his post graduate studies in Boston univer sity. He was one of the leaders in the higher social life of Willam ette including football and he took naturally to the super vision of the dtNtn-east lads. He had been characterized by the gen eral Y secretary of Massachusetts as one of the most outstanding Y5ICA finds of the present years. Evidence of his fitness and his ability to assimilate opportunity ia the fact that he is now the head of the young men's division of the great Boston association. It was pot possible to get a Jetter direct from him within the time pre scribed for the preparation of the YMCA page, but the word from the Massachusetts general secre tary and the fact that he has been given such signal honors in the old' colonial city. Is its own argu ment. Salem and Willamette Y MC&'s have good cause to rejoice over the fact that he made bis big start. ming "pool, where in the hot days every one enjoys a plunge. . "We hope for such a YMCA building in Salem, Oregon, within the near future. B. V.. MILES." QV. Poing ond and Jason Lee of Woodburn, Daniel Boone of Stayton, and Wet zel pioneers of Salem tied for third place. ' ' On December 27, 48 pioneer boys and leaders from Stayton, Lyons. ' . Jefferson, Woodburn, Brooks and Silverton went on an educational trie through Salem in dustries , and state institutions. They were greeted by Mayor J. B. Giesy of Salem, Secretary of State Sam Kozer, Attorney-General Van Winkle, and Justice Rand of the supreme court. After the trip the boys enjoyed basketball games and a swim in the Salem YMCA tank. . The pioneer leaders of the coun ty have planned a uniform pro gram for their clubs for the win ter with ! a roundup in February and - Pow wow in June. The pioneemcouncil which is composed wholly of boys, publishes a month ly paper of club news The Pion eer Trail, which is sent to every pioneer, club leader and commit teeman'and to the pastors in the county. The rostor of clubs and their officers follow: ' Woodburn: Jason Lee 11 members. Elmer Klamp, chief guide; Russell Stannard, ranger; Claude Glear, treasurer. Woodburn: Mrcui Whitman It members. ; Harry ' Sims, chief "guide:: Frank J.Butterfield, ranger; Adrian Schooler, recorder;' Neil Butterfield, treasurer. . ; ' ; f f v Hubbard J Roosevelt Pioneer 9 members. Helmuth Vo'get, chief guide; Chas, Mayger, recorder; ThfirBoy V v I'hysicat DJpprtor" V Honolulu Harry Rarey has gone to Hono lulu, in charge of Y work there He was a football star in Willam ette, and a religious and social leader in the university and local Y circles; he Is eminently well qualified to carry the gospel of the sound mind and soul in the sound body to the uttermost parts of the earth. KELLS PIONEER IN COMMENCING TRAINING CLASS One of tlje fine things of the Salem YMCA is its training class for secretarial work as a profes sion. Three years ago, Secretary Kells arranged with Willamette university to carry on a college Y department fcr the hen' young men who were preparing to take up Y work for life. The course was arranged for members of the senior class only, with a good registration. This course is being continued with notable success; indeed at the great YMCA conference at Seabeck, Washington, last sum mer, it was spoken of by those who should know as ' the foremost course of its kind anywhere in the west. It is run in close and vital connection with the Salem Y, as a part of the local plan of cam paign. All the members are given their actual training at the local Y, taking up every branch of the work during the year and testing out both the regular plans as well as their own individual ideas for better work. Some may never become employed secretaries; they will serve society from the side lines and in advisory and other helpful capacities; their YMCA training and ideals making them for life the strong and ear nest champions of the whole Y program of Bocial betterment, even though they are pot employed of ficers of the association. But there have been seven of these Salem Y-Willainette univer sity graduates who have already definitely taken up YMCA work. They are oddly scattered; the Y being international and youth be ing youth and impatient of geo graphical limitations, they have gone to the four winds of the earth, on their mission of service. To win and to help men the great adventure, and they bare followed the call far and wide. Splendid Pioneer Clubs Louis Hershberger, treasurer. Brooks: Lewi and Clark Pion eers 1 members. Chas. Bache lor, chief guide; Lyle Jones, ran ger; Lyle Glover, recorder; Sam uel Ramp, treasurer. Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Pi oneers 8 members. Laverne Davis., chief guide; Robert Beach, ranger; .Billy Smith, recorder; Bert Davis, treasurer. Stayton: Daniel Boone Pioneers 14 members. Harry Jones, chief guide; Wilbur Lesley, ran ger; Herbert Bennett, recorder; Rex Mills, treasurer. Lyons: Harding Pioneers 12 members. Orville Peek, icblef guide; Herbert Brooks, ranger; George Wiley, sec'y-treasurre. Silverton: Lincoln Pioneers -20 members. William Moores, chief guide; Claude Geer, ranger; Eddie Young, recorder; Kay Stay ner, treasurer. II NY CLUBS Silverton Pioneer Letter Lincoln Tloneer Headquarters. "We"pioneers are growing 4tead ily; our total membership is now 19. "The purpose of the club. U to grow strong and to be better Christians." Our aim is to be square and to dig. We are all in terested in our club. Twenty is our limit, until they build a new apartment on the church. The last time bad . a historic 'relic meeting, each pion eer brought some hiatorle relic and told ua about it. . . . ,v EDDIE YOUNG, Physical Director' ; Xew Westmfnster, II. C. Everett Lisle,, a graduate of Willamette. 1923. and a special student of the Salem Y course in the university as well as a boys' leader and instructor in the local Y for some years, is now at New Westminster, B.C., engaged in Y work. He writes of his own im pressions "of the Salem associa tion : My Dear Mr. Kells, I have been hearing a number of good things about you since I have been up here. Yon have an enviable reputation. I find that Salem is known only to a few hardy ad venturers; Willamette ia practical ly unknown, but 'in Y circles at least, you are well known more than the twenty-two thousand, of Salem's population. I can never forget that I owe all that I am in the Y work to you and the Salem YMCA. I got my first taste of the work in the Salem -association and this largely by your inspiration and teaching. I could never have had the grasp of the theoretical side of the work or its history, except as I learned it in the Y class at Willamette These things are almost like the creed of a church or the ritual of a lodge; seldom recited but inval uable for reference. We have a very fine place here I only wish Salem had as good. The building is practically the gift of one man, who recently burned the mortgage as a memorial to his sons killed in the war. ' At present the Y is 99 per cent self-supporting, though this involves taking pay for a number of things that are free at Salem. However, in your new building I should advise installing some of the features that will betnoney makers. 1 certainly hope you will suc ceed in your campaign for a new building in Salem. Salem needs it almost more than any other civic improvement. There ought to be a five story building, with at least 100 rooms, a cafeteria, and, gym nasium facilitated for 1.000 mem bers. Salem can afford it, Salem needs it. You ought to have such 4 building at your command, ia order to properly use your own ta lents. Willamette should support it as a training ground for scores of association secretaries. I am not ashamed of the old building but I am ashamed of Salem for al lowing such a poor building to suffice. Wishing you the best of luck, I am, sincerely, EVERETT W. LISLE. Work in Stayton, Ore., Jan. 16, 1924. Dear Soco, Before our pioneer club was started there was no or ganization for younger boys in Stayton teaching clean athletics, clean, speaking, clean thinking, and giving the right understand ing of Christian living. The pioneer club does all this for us, and I can't see how it could be better. Yours very truly, HERBERT BENNETT, Recorder Daniel Boone Pioneers. It works out the same way in te long run. If the nations won't re duce their armies for themselves, they will do it for one another. -Bethlehem Globe, i v 7-1 T . jfr..i. . ' r Woodburn Hi Y .Hoys' Secretary, Berkeley . Calif Paul Flegel, whose home is in Portland, but who graduated- from Willamette university in IS 21', did not start out to make YMCA work his life job. But he grew into the Portland association ana he was so successful working- with 'boys that he was recently called to the4 big association in Berkeley, - Cali fornia, where he has a wide field and everything that a good execu tive could wish for his encourage ment. He got his preliminary training in the Salem Y, and was prominent in the Willamette local association before leaving Salem. Because of his close connection with every Y activity here, -he is claimed with pardonable pride as a product of the local association, even though he did not have the formal secretarial class training here. Mr. Flegel is gifted with a strong and attractive personality, and the boya flock to hiro as. the rats flocked to the Pied Piper of Hamelin's flute. He is a notable contribution to the better citizen ship of the Pacific coast. NINE STUDENTS MATRICULATE IN 'Y' TRAINING There are nine members of this year's class in Willamette, all of them now taking their practical training in the Salem association. It is an insignificant little build ing with a poor equipment and not nearly enough rooni to house its many activities. But it Answers the definition of a college once given by a statesman who judged things by their results. "A col lege," he said, "is a log seat in the woods with a boy on one end and Mark Hopkins on the other." Dr. Mark Hopkins was an educator Whose splendid personality and ideals made him a whole univer sity for any boy who would join with him in the adventure of edu cation and service. The Salem Y has met this definition admirably. There are towering churches, col leges, associations, with bulging Dank accounts and overrunning memberships, that nevertheless fail utterly to jneasure up to the Salem Y standard of service. The new secretaries going out from here to spread the gospel of help fulness are the proofs that the local association has the divine spark A CLUB THAT IS A CLUB Whenever you eee a bunch of good fellows together ask them what club they belong to. They will say with, great pride the Hi-Y. Fellows, it is one of the finest, if not the best organization in the county for boys. It stands for the cleanest, biggest and finest things in life. Woodburn Hi-Y has a membership of 22 fine healthy boys. Some of the boys say it is getting oto large; every day there are boys applying for membership. We do not want to turn them down but we are going to be care ful whom we pick. The club motto is "Do good unto one another," and to love yur neighbr as yurself tow of the greatest laws of the world. Fel lows, don't you want to make this a better world to live in? If you do, then see one of the members in your school and talk it over with him. Ask him what's what. I know he would be glad to speak to you about it. I am going to tell you what the boys did for the needy in Wood- - wi vn - ; HARRY STONE c : (erieral Secretary Portland, Ore. Harry W. Stone, general secxe tary of the Portland YMCA. and oue of the outstanding executives anywhere .in the United States, has had. a powerful influence on the Salem Y. He was asked to tell some of, the past and forecast some of the future for the YMCA Special, and responds thus-. . "On March 1, 1896, I came to Portland as -General Secretary of; the YMCA, -at the solicitation of the International committee, for the purpose of trying to strength en association work in Portland and the Pacific northwest. . "Salem has had an exception ally faithful and loyal board f directors, who have been served by a line of strong general secre taries, including W. C. Paige, present general secretary . . at Houston, .Texas; John' Fetcher, who for many years did a most successful work as general secre- pfMAN MARSTERS cfu Asst. Membership Secretary, Portland Two other Salem-Willamette young men are also in the Port land Y with Mr. Craven: Ben Rickli and Lyman Marsters. These two have carried on the fame of the local Y as a training school in ideals as well as methods; they are doing excellent work and are in line for every kind of advance ment that the association offers, ourn during Christmas. I do not want to brag about anything we have dpne because It is a mere triile. Two weeks before Christ mas, during one of our meetings, a boy stood up and addressed our (resident with all' due ceremony, then he turned to the members and told us that it was a great pleasure and a privilege to help the poor. He put a motion before us to help the poor, and told us what we should dp. It was there fore decided that each member should bring something. Some boys brought chickens, others curks. nuts, fruit, money. Every body that belonged to the club brought something. The student body also helped. On the night before Christmas three boys in a truck stole around to the houses of the people who really needed help and gave them each a big basket of good things to eat. Fellows, that's what the club stands for. Are you going to help make it bigger and better? If you are, now is the time to start, in. HERMANN KNAPP. Chairman Service Committee Woodburn Hi-Y. COUNTY ROUNDUP IS COMING EVENT On March 1, the annuaf round up of the PioneerB," the boys branch of the county association, will be held in Salem. It is ex pected to bring in fully 200 dele gates from all over the country. A series of interclub contests will be staged, with basket ball, swim ming, and other interesting cop tests. The winning club will carry home the silver shield as a token of its prowess. A dinner will be served to the visiting boys, at a place not yet determined upon, and in the even ing W. A. Elliott of the Portland Y is to give a stereopticon address ;J on The Birds-of Oregon. This lec- i - -s " - s h , ' ' " : r : . .. j' l-f'sxv V i j , "Zm. v ' ' T-m. t - r- - " A ' , A - Top: ; ' -':.r-! EVERETT ,C!UVEN j Membership Secret arj', ' :" Portland ' . v ! : Bottom ' '' - x-- ; ' BENJ. RICKLI - Secy. Young lien's" Division, '.'IVJrtliiiid Everett Craven is oue-; of the ' heads ot membership and service department' in the Portland ,Y MCA. He has made an exception al record and has been entrusted with larger authority each' month of his stay. The Portland Y is re cognized as the biggest thing. of the kind west of Chicago; it is stronger financially," educational ly, numerically than any other: To serve there is an honor and a privilege. Mr. Craven has' been with the Portland assocfatiou.ror., two years, doing remarkably effi cient work. . .. : , . tarjr at Oakland, Calif.; -" Q:A" Forbes, the present generat-secre--tary of Fresno.- Calif. ; and th present general secretary, C. X Kells, one of the most efficient secretaries-of the Pacific Coast. "I am 'glad to learn that the, Salem bqaVd of directors baa pur chased a site and is planning dur ing 1024 to secure the building so much, and so long needed Tor our capital city. ." "I have come to have great re spect and confidence in the 'man agement of the Salem association so feel sure that the Saleni "Y" ia entering upon a new era of ex pansion and development." HARRY W. STONE. Horsefall, the famous naturalist ' and arti3t, and should be a mas terpiece of interest and profit to - an wno can hear. It fits especi ally well into the club program of the Y. that encourages nature and outdoor study, of every kind. . Living Piqrieer of West , Will Be Honored Efy.Sfjtu0 fPUYALLUP, Wash., Feb. 23; Ezra Meeker, pioneer of the Ore gon trail, whose travels in the east with an ox team, especially down Michigan avenue, in - a parade, commemorated the exodus pf Am ericana to the Oregon territory, la to have a statue. The- statue of Mr. Meeker la bronze is to be placed in pioneer park here. Thoark includes a hqmestead that he settled when he came to the country from Iowa with hia hride about the middle of the last centnry. Alonsa-Victor Lewis, a Seattle sculptor, is mak ing the monument.' . . v. 'e tT Mr. Meeker celebrated hia nln$ , t y-thlrd birthday . December 3 0 last. Berlin Commutation Tickets Stilt Sell at Bargain Rates BERLIN, Feb- 4J Maii).-4-Qna pf the few articles still to be had in Berlin at anything1 like Vbar-' gain" rates, from the noint of view of Americana or other foreigners, since the skidding paper mark was replaced by the rente mirk. is monthly ticket on the government railway system .which serves the City and suburbs. ; A third-class ticket may he pur-' chased on the first day of a month for 40 cents 'and used . without, limit for the peiod of four weeks. The purchaser merely shows the ticket to a gate man when enter ing or r leaving the station plat form, and ho effort is made to kec ; account of the nnmbet 'f times the tlckeV ia iwedr " fj h : V f i i IS - 4 I it H Is A 'J 1 t