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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1926)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MAYvl6, 1926 Standard Swimming Tank Gives Sport To Thousands Clear, Clean Water Supply Ass tared for Pool, 60x20 Feet, 10 ; Feet Deep at One End, 0 Inches at Other End, 7T Non-Slip Tile Bottom. I . r Only one man has ever climbed the175 foot steeple of the .first xviewooist cnurcn in me ou years inavit uas bluou. ne is now dead. He fell off a building in California.' ' i4 Foolhardy, you say. Yet he is in not near the dangerous nam m 111.11 wtl 1. nw i.ii r-s a k -m j & 0 ww 11 m. a tiMtuiu w w a aaa li Hundreds drown where only one steeple jack loses his life. Learn to swim and enjoy life, and long life. 'M IZ. More than 2,000 persons have taken .the Y. M. C. A. swim ming course in the past 10 years. They have learned to swim safely, luxuriously and enjoy the best, sport there is. It taught them to love instead of dread the 'water. - Proper instruction turns swimming into an art, or an in dustry or a social accomplishment or an insurance policy, just as one elects to view it; but certainly it. has functioned, and there are 2000 safe swimmers where there were 2000 f raid cat people to whom the water spelled menace and discomfort I 4 . Each year for the past .five years, a swimming school has been'held at the old "Y." Tom Gawley, of the; Portland Y" was here as volunteer instructor, for three years ; he made a tremendous.hit. He was. a fellow student with Sec retary, Kells and Director Boardman, at the Springfield "Y" college; he came here without charge, as a friend of theirs when his services are worth big figures if he were selling them to outside organizations. The "Y" makes fine friend ships; the Gawley-Kells-Boardman friendship that, helps and asks only friendship in return is a fair example. . The old "Y" for all its dingy little pool and its cramped dressing-room facilities, has taught so many swimmers that some have feared, there wouldn't be anything left for the big new pooL Cheer up, you pessimist;, the day will never dawn when there isn't more good work to do than there are people or hours to do it in. Salem is growing four times as fast as the best swimming record the local Y", has ever made, i There'll be scary people to whom a wave is a dagger and a splash is a bomb and a dive is a volcano eruption, every year; tne days arentiong enougn to teacn all tne nervous ones, even in the big new pooL ; : There is no finer pool in the northwest than the new Salem Y" boasts. "Boasts" Is a proper word i it is a matter for brds made here can be accepted anywhere, on earth. The pool is lined with tile, with a corrugated tile footing on which it is Impossible for a wader or swimmer to slip and fall. At the deepest point it is 10 feet deep ; this shelves up to 30 inches, with plenty of shallow space for the beginners arid for J,. When the pool was planned, the engineers advised a 48 inch water purifier. The local committee, knowing the at traction of a really good pool, decided to go beyond the engi neer's requirements ; they installed two 54-inch purifiers, giv ing practically three times the aeration and purification that standard engineering calls for. . , , , -' ' Clean water! Sweet water! Like a shower bath out in 11 .. . ... ' 11 11 . J. j. - J ' 1. 1. J. 1.1 me ram, wiui ine sparming arops coming siraigm out ui uie clouds and the sunshine, and splashing in the grass over one's -feet!.. . v There is fine gallery room around the pool, so that an audi ence of several hundred might "be entertained with water sports. The pool is well lighted, both With windows for day time and with' caged electric lights for nightuse. The ceiling is white enameled. - . ' The pool is directly under the big jhaitt gymnasium, and is on the basement floor with the dressing lockers. There are showers-of the most wonderful sort, for use before and after using the pool ; and from the showers one goes to the locker room to dress. Traffic-is routed with an eye to expe dition; it would be possible to run a very elaborate series of classes, or contests, through the three series of dressing rooms the juniors,' the seniors, and the adults all of which might be utilized for any particular series; of classes or con tests. . , . , . , There is an organization called the Second Milers ; they take their textual name from the Scripture that enjoins the man who is asked to go one mile to help- a friend or neighbor, to go the second mile and help him just that much more It isn't much of a name until one knows just what it means, then it opens out a vast, beautiful world .of friendly service that refuses to stop with mere obligation but goes on into chivalry and brotherhood and fellowship. The Salem "Y" has taken that view of the humble swimming pool ; it has builded a pool twice as cleanly, twice as big, twice as well lighted, twice a attractive as it had to build to fit old conditions. Jt's a Second Miler pool. It calls you to f'The Big Splash," to the .VHot Time," to the "Clean Wash," to the splendid swim. Swimmers are usually fat, or at least comfortably fleshed ; there are no lean, skinny swimming champs they are plump and pleasing and at peace with the world. Here's the Salem pool fairly aching to get you unwrinkled and pink and comfortable and glad. Swim and be decent! Bathe and be a better neighbor! p Dive and make people love you! It's all ready for the taking. Classes in Citizenship Among Best Activities The citizenship class of the Salem "Y" is one of the most outstanding civic services of the institution It is a volunteer work, taken up to help those who wish to become naturalized as Americans, to get through the pitfalls I of the constantly more difficult court examinations. The s United States is anxious enough that every one within its borders shall wish to become citizens ; but the franchise is being held as a thing of value, to be striven for and to be wooed with clean life and persevering effort. The old days of lining'them up in a row and swearing them in by swarms is utterly past; one has to get into citizenship as one gets born into life or passes into heaven as an individual. ' Thg "Y" course runs tne whole year through. It has a standing invitation to every applicant for naturalization to attend and get the inside information on what the courts re quire. It is a real college course in American history, law, politics, civics; it goes right to the heart I of American life, to explain what Americanism really is -the "Y" spirit of helping one another. It is free, to both men and women;: and almost as many women attend as men. The courts have especially commended the Salem "Y" course as an ideal training for citizenship, i Few of its mem bers have ever failed ; their preparation has been thorough, and Americanism is a living thing. as it lis explained here. The "Y" lecturers are judges, governors, legislators, doctors, lawyers, plain citizens who know what it means; they cover the entire field that the courts can possibly demand, and do it so understanding that the students can't help absorbing it all. Men come in for 10 or 20 miles, rain, hail or snow, to attend this class and get its fine spirit of helpfulness as a groundwork for citizenship in the years to follow. It is a noteworthy work, in which the VY" takes a justi fiable pride. , ... Coftimuhity Home Off ered By Spacious "Y" Rooms iimammmmmmmmmmm- . " ----- . V Welcome Extended to Orgranizations and Club to Use Ex ceptional Equipment of New Edifice. Opportun- ities Open to Many Groups at Once Salem, has long needed a place" "where public or semi-public organizations might gather and always find a home and a welcome. Three places have for years been available the Salem Commercial Club, the. City library, and the Salem Women's building. f . They have cared for many delightful and profitable meet ings ; doubtless they will continue to do so. But even these were not quite enough ; and they have not had the kitchen facilities to make them all that such a meeting place must sometimes be where they must "Feed the Brute" to get things going properly. . , The new 'Y" kitchen facilities are ideally arranged for occasional little luncheons. Five separate groups can be fed at one time, and no one know what the other has to eat. One can be liver and onions, another porterhouse steaks, a third an old-fashioned New England boiled dinner with corned beef and cabbage, a fourth a dainty seven-course salad-and-chick-en-a-la-king and ices and all that, and thefifth can eat raw meat and drip the blood over one's shirt or the floor and nobody else know. But they don't have to eat. They can play ping-pong, or hold bathing parties, orgy parties, or they can read and sing and declaim in the main lobbies. A round dozen of assorted civic activities might be staged in the new "Y," all at one time, and there would be little conflict. And they're welcome, it isn't a private club, where there is a butler six feet tall and three feet wide and with fists like hams in other words a bouncer to inspect everybody's cre dentials. No ; they're all welcome. 1f they want to talk church they can ; if they are interested in baseball or the latest method of catching city rats, they1 can do that, too. If they want, to organize a City Beautiful league, and talk roses and carnations, they may. . If they want to remonstrate against something, say about the weather or the unbridged creeks or the way some shoot China pheasants before the law opens, they may, provided they do it in a gentlemanly manner. They can organize sew ing circles, debate clubs, canary-bird clubs, singing leagues anything that looks as if it might fill a public want and help something or somebody, and it all goes. The "Y" is never the apostle of "don't," or "mustn't." If the people want to do any decent thing, they can arrange for a time affd place at the "Y," to start it or keep it going. The mere protesters who grouch and growl and look down their noses, are not quite so welcome; they might even find that their presence is such a discord that they don't fit in the "Y" scheme, and they wouldn't want to come and risk refusal. But for every live thing that helps the individual or the community, the "Y" keeps open house. They can eat, or talk, or sing, or draw pictures, or make signs every group in its own way of serying the public. They can come in the morn ing, or at noon, or at night ; they might even arrange for a midnight session, if the janitor will stand for it and the neighbors do not object. , The "Y" is there to serve every decent good, and whether it is one meeting a day or a score, whatever is for the public service will be welcomed. Service. That's the word. ... SalemBiiilt--Well Built (OMtimiad from ptft l Oho, cost $1,400,000 ; sive buildinsrs the one at' Columbus. and others have cost even more, but the biggest of them have nothing ori Salem in quality or usable efficiency, and perhaps none give as much for the money. The outstanding "Y" of America That's a nigh tribute: Somebody faithfully to win it. There is praise a record. . 1 trad to work hard and or everybody, in such - Chas K. Spauldlns Logging Co.. lumber and building ' materials. The best costs no more than in ferior grades.: Go to the big Sa lem factory and sare money. ( H. P. Woodry & Son. 271 N. Com'L i St.. f urnitnre store. Bar gains in furniture of all kinds. Agent for Lang ranges, best made. Also auctioneers. () Nash Furniture Co. t&tf fthe lead with low prices on yAirs, rockers, j tables, wood s and steel beds, sptings. mattresses. Saves yon 25. 219 N. Com'l. . () First Rational Bank; the bank of friendship and helpfulness in time- of need. Interest .paid on time deposits. Open ah - account and watch your money grow. (), Woolen Blanket For the New Y. M Furnished by the Pendleton Woolen C. A. Mills Through Their Representatives - : J Bishop's Clothing and Woolen Mills Store The New Y. M. jC. A' i- - .-' - i - ; , : We congratulate you upon the opening of your beautiful structure in Salem. It, signifies a further growth of dug city and, as Salen grows our store grows also." " j LEHMAN'S GROCERY T1 We Are Imdeedl Glad ; to Have Had SmcIh lirnportonii!: m e Eirectidim of. ems Mew n YJMLG.A. BuM I We furraohed ;.all me lumber for this building including the maple iloorliig vhich came from our mills at Cadillac, Michigan. The balance of the lumber came from our mill at. Valsetz, :Oregom j - - :, ' :.: ; Iff 1 L We Also Furni:hcd JSome Building Paper and Sherwin-Williama Paints for This Building - (t5 I ; I X - . rm II v m I I II-. 349 S. 12th St. Building Supplies of, All Kind J A. B. KELSAY, Manager j r COMQPi Telephone 813 3 4 vet it? V ft t V . L. '