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A Is looking for big big- boned an arid and able bo bodied able men for secretaries seem secre Lanes in the rough tough touch and raw now new points where it is working In the tho West Vest The Tho association has been called upon to go ruction cons camps where it uses for tor its headquarters tom an old car or 01 a rough board tarpaper tarpaper tarpaper tar- tar paper covered shanty Since the coming o of the secretary to a bridge construction camp In South Dakota employing GOO COO men where hero the tile most serious difficulty the Uie engineers have in building bridges is the drunkenness of tho the men mun the number number num num- ber of drunks has been boon diminished from CO GO to 2 on pay day There Thera has been a de deep p beaten track from the camp to the town three miles awa away where on pa pay da day the saloons did dida a big big- business after cashing the checks s for men leaving little in their e 11 pockets when they thoy turned back to camp When the Y M. M C. C A. A general general gen gen- eral oral secretary was as on his daily dally visit to the town he found one of ot the men lying drunk in a a. snow drift He was wasa a husky man rising 6 G feet himself and picked the senseless man up as asIf asIt asif if It he was a 0 child and put him him on an engine bound back to camp When he came to a. a as a a. result of ot the heat an and got up and began bOgan to be obstreperous ous the tile secretary held hold him down until they got ot back to camp then threw him into his bunk bunt and sat on him him until he was quiet meanwhile talking talking talk talk- In ing temperance Tho The next day the theman theman theman man came caine around to the secretary's shanty before he heas was as up to sign the pledge Ho He l kept ept It for three months When the banks furnished money to cash the checks of the men inca at the they Y V. M. M C. C A. A car instead of ot the tho saloons sa sa- sa- sa loons so boris to as to l keep cep them out of ot tho saloons the saloons the secretary rode behind tho the messenger on a calico bronco with two tt big guns in his belt Then hen while the tue men were being paid oft off he exhorted ex cx- hort them to send their money homo home for tor the support of ot their families or to pay their debts The They put 8 S- S into the mall mail Ho Ic was tho the postmaster postmaster post post- master and saw It safely to the car One old fellow who had not been sober sobel after a pay day for years Isnow la ls now one ono of the tho secretary's missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries for sobriety and one ono of at the tho straightest men of tho the lot It H Is easy for tor men to light fight when drunk When Padd Paddy and another fellow who Wile ordinarily w were e tho the best ot of friends were in a a. ll fight ht behind a bunk bunkhouse house the tho big secretary stepped In Inand inand inand and stopped It H. The next day these men signed the pledge and at their own town request tho the secretary knelt knolt in I 1 prayer prayer in a bunk bunic house full of or men some soma of or whom were hard haid drinkers an and when hen he aIO arose C from his l knees the secretary turned to the tho men an and said Now you OU fellows that have got gota a a. hold on your yourselves give these bo boys boysa s 's sa a lift when you have a chance Without Without With With- Ith out a single exception tho they give them their hands and promised to do so When this secretary who has Ilas been beena a miner a minister and a missionary conducts religious services in the tile camp three-fourths three of the men man atten attend rile Tho Y r. M. M I. I C. C A A. joined with the Saloon Anti-Saloon league and closed the ba- ba loons in the town which operating operating operating oper oper- against the law When this secretary secretary sec see rotary left lett for tor a a. Montana mountain camp and a new man came camo in saloon men thought he would bo easy an and opened up again A ml raid followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed when a big amount of liquor was seized and two carloads were turned back to the tho factory factor The re result result re- re sult suit of or the tho Y l M. M t. t C. C A A. A work has been found to bo be so valuable In the promoting promoting pro pro- of or construction work worl that the railroad d company agreed to provide the tile salary of the tile secretary living quarters and a building and equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment for tho the association at a a. second camp An engineer in charge chargo of or this camp wrote The men are arc now saIng saving saying say sav ing their money who had heretofore spent it as Ug tn fast t as thc they could get it Several who have been chronic drinkers drink drink- ers era have cut out the tile booze because the association provides provid es entertainments entertainments entertain entertain- a- a ments which have relieved tho the monotony monotony monotony mono mono- tony of 01 the life an and improved the tho moral condition of the tho men and made them contented I S I |