SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24. 1924
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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
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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!
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ay for It bigger! and r? ,v ;'l,d'
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IONEER CLUB
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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
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' "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-
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'THE SALEM, MASS., Y. M. C. AS PALATIAL
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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-
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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."
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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;
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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
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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
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.Hoys' Secretary, Berkeley
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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-
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(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-
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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
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Secy. Young lien's" Division,
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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 "
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