Show August Otto the Observing If yon think you know America read August Otto a German farmer served his time in the kaiser's Afterward he decided to see the world and finally reach ing New he started on a five-year trip to learn about He has spent that time in all parts of Canada and the United Being especially interested in farming walked every step of his way through the country and lived upon the money he earned as cotton section wood chopper and from work as dishwasher in restaurants and machinist in automobile While he always traveled alone has become familiar with tramps by meeting them in lodging houses and working with them on the railroads irrigation do not give the tramps justice in this he built the St. Louis world's The railroads and big bridges are largely the work of the class you call Europe the tramp has a certain social When he visits a city he reports at once at police headquarters and shows a book in which a record of his travels has been Every German village has an institution similar to your M. C. A. where the tramp is Many European tramps are students or workingmen out of Some of gleanings from his travels are extremely He The kindest people in the world are the The meanest people in America are the The finest farm belongs to an Indian The finest soil is in and The best roads are in New York and The queerest businesses are an ostrich farm and a frog The most overcrowded of American cities is The finest church is in Salt Lake The most contented class are the Grand Rapids i We are glad to note that the M. C. A. of Salt Lake City is above sectarian jealousy and that it will not countenance an tack on any or church through the columns of its official It did not join in with the so-called religious mob clam- oring to unseat Senator I The M. C. A. has a specific work to do and it is doing It is accomplishing more for the j cause of temperance than any pro- legislation can It is the greatest saloon boycotter in because it surrounds' boys and young men with an up- lifting and educating and provides for a development that is more attractive than the 1 gilded saloon with all its glitter- ing More M. C. i t A's mean fewer Attempts have been made by little petty j Mormon hating preachers to in- ji sectarian hatred into the Salt Lake M. C. but Oscar L. its and progressive general handed those Mormon-eating I domines a lemon and told them j to eat it outside of the M. C. i A. So far the belief in future i and the lake of fire I is all boys and young men look alike to The following is a general statement made by the M. C. A. of the amount of money an industrious man the creed he believes or does not nor the country in which he was affects the welcome which is i here personally and on behalf of the present to those who would use with us this Association for the good of ourselves and the rest of our The following interview with Bruno with the statement from Oscar L. shows how prompt and willing the general officers of the M. C. A. are to disapprove the statements made by the Bruce or any one else utters slanders calculated to reflect on their membership or to disrupt their Association deplores the publication in the Inter-collegian of the article by the Bruce Our as is well is to make no attack upon any creed or religion and has been Mich without change at least since OSCAR L. General When Brun the International M. C. A. was interviewed at the Wilson Hotel he gave out the following and in the January number of The was contributed by one who is not officially connected with the Young Christian The editorial sanction which gave it a place in this paper must been given by who is not familiar with the work of the Association in the so-called Mormon The article therefore cannot justly be held to be an expression of the association or its That the has published it sincerely regretted by the leaders of the Young Men's Christian Association Movement who are familiar with its work in this section of the |