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Show ROBERTS WILL NOT D0yi.C.ft.W0RK III THE ARHY ICoach E. I Hobers of the B. Y. U. docs not expect to go to the Y. M. C. A. as physical and social director with the army as was expected some months ago. When Mr. Roberts was asked, last January, to take the position posi-tion by Geo. J. Fisher, Y. M. C. A. director, di-rector, if he would accept the appointment appoint-ment he arranged with the university authorities for a furlough from the university, while In the prospective ' service with the Y. M. C.' A, and notified noti-fied Mr. Fisher that he was ready to accept the position. The letter he received re-ceived in reply IMr. Roberts considered con-sidered evasive1: The matter was brought to the attention of several men of national prominence who are acquainted with Mr. Roberts and his abilities in the work he would be called upon to do In the army, and they took up the matter with the Y. M. C. A. officers. Among them is Dr. 41, 41. 'Powers, the well-known lecturer.' lec-turer.' Or. Powers recently received a letter from C. N. Hibbard, associate secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who appears ap-pears to have final disposition of the question In which Mr. Hibbard states that his constituency will not permit him to accept the services of a Mormon. Mor-mon. This will, of course end the matter, and is somewhat disappointing to Mr. Roberts and to the faculty and students, stu-dents, who felt honored by the Invitation Invita-tion extended to this popuhr and capa. ))lo coftcb. Mr, Roberta states that the Y.M.C.A. action will not change his disposition to support the Y. 1M. C. A., the good work of which he recognizes and appreciates. ap-preciates. Neither will it, in his opinion, opin-ion, change the attitude of the uni-' uni-' Terslty toward the Y. iM. C. A. A short time before the invitation came to 'Mr. Roberts to take a Y. M. C. A, position the students of the B. Y. U. contributed $2100 to the Y. IM. C. A. fund for its army work. |