Bingham Bulletin | 1920-09-03 | Page 7 | Mott on Y. M. C. A. Plans Abroad

1' - I Mott on Y. M. C. A. Plans Abroad j ' ' John R. Mott, general secretary of the International Y. M. C. A.; to outlining out-lining the organization's plans ' for helping to reconstruct war-ravaged lands, says "there are too many holidays holi-days In Europe." Poland, according to Mr. Mott, has ninety holidays a year, besides Sundays, Sun-days, and Roumania ha probubly twice that number. "This means Idleness Idle-ness leading to political upheavals," declares the American. In giving the first details of the Y. M. C. A. and. World's Student Christian federation's proposed new efforts to help broken-down Europe, Doctor Mott said : "It Isn't by giving bread, but work that reconstruction will he possible. "One' of the tasks on which I am now engaged Is to attempt to devise the wisest way to help the schools and universities of Europe from the decadence deca-dence into which they were plunged u.v me war. otherwise education will be lost through the poverty of professors, profes-sors, and also through lack of students. " "The keynote of my talks in l'olnnd, Czecho slovakia and Hungary lias been self-help. The students' must learn to work their way through college as Is the case In the United States. From the Y. M. C. A. point of view we are establishing model branches as we hope to show the new-nations their way back to work and to self-help. "It Is not by saying 'Thou sbalt not' that the world can be bettered;. It Is by showing the way. The Y. M. C. A. will help men to spend their idleness j profitably. It will adapt Itself to those nations and give them something permanent. per-manent. There will be model Y. M. C. A.'s for universities, for railways, for Industrial Indus-trial centers, and also In the country for the peasants."