| Show v m Pr President si Taft Speaks a to tJ I Big Crowd at Y M C A A I After Alter reviewing the living nag flag ye yea morning Taft T tt wi wet away wt In r In an automobile la In the oONg Mans Christian Association building wh where whre re he ha delivered n a brief II Add Tuft Taft te is one OM of tin this ardent artiest member of the tin Y V M I C A AU AIt AIt It U WH wu wag through hi his hll influence that four fourY Y M C A buildings were Iero erected along the tho canal caMI zone ion anti ami the nails MUS faction given lies lift lid led the government G to build four more mare moreOn On 01 entering the building yesterday I tho the bowed bow t to tin the tI crowd that cheered him and shook hook hands hand with Luis Cw the win son In of af afO O Oscar car 1 L ox general secretary Stand StandIng StandIng Ing In front of the organ in Ih the lobby President Tuft Tart said Mid that It was al ml always ways a pleasure pl for him to Attend the th R lI that he h had hod participated In Us its affairs affair even as os for far away awny ns nil Shanghai it lie JIll then spoke si k of ot the needs and advantage advantages nf ot tho the association and all the methods by which It parries carries on Its 1111 work fork Provident President Taft also congratulated lOn ratu toted tho th Salt Lake Inkt Institution on Us its work In being able to carry arry prizes In part the president Raid said Because of these thoe of nf those thing things T I Iam nm am Intensely Interested In the Y M I IA C CA C CA A It tl offers after a lesson In religious tel tol tolerance prance erance a practical leason In the broth brotherhood of nf man In and the fatherhood of led God Xo No problem In our whole social lit life I la moro more ote difficult than tin that present presented ed d to tn one TV who ho wishes wl to Rive give money to tn aid hi his hIlt without doing him more morp Injury than good The In Instances instances stances of II Ia d vII generosity lt are areas al ala areas as a many man almost n as the Instances of or Investment And when hen wn Wll find an Institution which ha has hall worked nut the th problem of nf materially aiding our cur fellowmen In the struggles of Ute life lit without Injuring their anti And without dl discouraging their u port toward better things thing we have tame some something Ime thing which 1 we e should hould certainly prize A great at Christian association club established In an adequate building will wll keep kOp men from drinking gambling anti and other forms form of vice by offering them An nn opportunity to spend pend their un unoccupied occupied l hours In n a n home atmosphere surrounded 1 by b the best Influences The Tho Young Men Mens Christian association ha hat come com to be hi recognized as e a powerful anti and AnI necessary ar factor both bolh In business and In governmental matters matter The Tho ran mil road rond companies find It to their pe pecuniary Interest t to erect and fit tit up structures for the rational physical Intellectual and moral amuse amusement ment mint Anti and entertainment of their em employ m mon ploy on each division and a d to tn put them under the control of the Y M MC MC I IC C A ABo ASo ASo So Bo Congress Con directed that permission be bp granted the association to establish Its work at Rt the various posts of tho the army arm and officers were Ire enjoined to tl facilitate the tho efforts of oC the association to tn provide healthful physical Intellectual intellectual and nonsectarian religious In Influences influences by b providing suitable charters In the post poRt exchange building MEN AND AD T Tho president was wal directed by b law Ia to build the Panama Pan ma canal ennal and anti as a n plain business proposition If he 11 were to build tho the canal he had to have ha men mon and with which tn to build bullet It U anti as RB a plain business proposition that which keeps his hili men moral that which makes make them useful for the work which they thoy are ara to do tin that which keeps their minds on tile the tit work they are to do anti and the duty dut with which they the are charged that I is necessarily nl n ft 1 proper pro r object of government expenditure r I do not think that there thore Is III any ac no action notion C tion of the canal commission that does docs more to assist t In carrying on the work ork of canal construction Intelligently anti and an energetically than then the tha expenditure nf ot money for tour four club buildings on the Ih zone lone And the excellence of nf the re to results suits will wll ho made malle possible by b the use ties of or those men mon who have ha been trained In tim tho work of tho the Young Mens Christian association When hon you ou want ant a 1 capital operation performed you go to a good surgeon when shen you ott want a lawsuit carried on onas onu onas as u It ought to 10 be carried on you ou want wanta a 1 good lawyer and when you want wanta a means of ot keeping a population or oc occupied during durin their leisure hours with rational amusement of ot a I high moral and religious tone ton you go ItO to those gentlemen gentleman who have hao had experience In carrying on such work and such stich an Institution It cannot Iannot be b learned over night It I 1 just as Illogical to say that you ou can an learn It over night an as It is h to say NY you can learn self government over night You cannot do doIt doit It Therefore what wo we did dl 1 wa wall st to ap ni apply ply pI to tn the tha Young Mens Christian as tu association President Taft was cheered anti and Ip ap applauded after he closed cloned his hili speech until he had walk Ing multi bit bile Jt hla hi pep t In j Mr t 1 t r Following 1 he a 1 list lie I I r t i 1 n men nen of Qt e the Y M I r 1 v Paled In n the th II II Tuft Wini Inri Ind John hem Hern r Charles a J I Plummer r t 1 I r tary F P A i tr tro It B Ie 2 Paint Paine auditor Frill Pra n J the Ihl associations n lilt ott Armstrong 1 p r i ion Inn on nn educational work Ji 1 i of nr if n III I i 00 religious work L I ImAn t r M mAn of or the tho commit tOlk Olk l Lafayette Han Jilin h of nf the tho committee on nn so s II W v hi II C chairman r I On the house bou T I A V tV J 3 t ir ri Walker W Mont Fern II William H Il r Oscar I L Cox I gen II r wood S E secret t Ir r rand rand and Ind social work j 1 ij 11 II secretary for I n work II H a So Dwells Dwelle pin pt ii I Institute o i 1 Fuller I office 1 t I I J assistant office Orl II i r physical h Instructor ani a nn no j t f l H Ington I boys 1 After leaving the Y j I I dent elent Taft to t q th t h i 1 lr r church hurch where he hI i i vIces and listened to n II norn n i 10 Arthur Hayes h to 10 the tho ne William Villiam Thur 11 H n |
