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Show WEBER GYM'S " ; COSTSOARING Original Estimate Raised by , High prices; D. 0. McKay Explains Situation The VVebei college gymnasium can- r.ot he built for $200 000. the original estimate, l'ir cost of construction alone, owing to Increased cost In material ma-terial and labor has been raised to 106,000, according to Information given by Apostle David o. McKay, to, i In priesthood of the Ogden, Weber mil North V h r ''take' nt :i special meeting held in the tabernacle yesterday yester-day afternoon at which the problem was discussed for three hours. it was explained by Apostle McKay that the apportionment already made tu the Various wards In the city and county will not be raised by the In-1 r eased cost of construction The ex-tre ex-tre KiOfi.OOO will be raised by the I I board of education. Half of the amount will be secured by local sub-Isurlptlons sub-Isurlptlons from business men nnd the I lOiher half will be donate. 1 , h tniS- jtee In trust of the Latter-day Saints . Jehu rem An educational campaign for the purpose of raising funds for the gym I j n OS him lr, to he Started nexl Sunday I When special speakers will dscuss the lUbJeCt In every ward of the three lo-Jcal lo-Jcal stakes' The pst of spaa Ire rs ln- eludes prominent church officials and I educators from Bali Like. Ogden, Lo- n and PlOVO. ol!; DM 1 SSION. There was a free and open dlsCUB-slon dlsCUB-slon of the subject at the meeting hx-ld veSterday when n large number of i ishops told of difficulties experienced raising their quota. This difficulty . .is esp dally experienced by the bish-,pa bish-,pa of the county wards where It was sported that the people fall to see What benefits they will derive from nn itltUtiOn to he erected In the city. Eriant s. Hinckley, secretary of the Doseret gymnaslpm in Sail Lake, and Adam s. Bennion, superint ndonl of 'church schools, delivered aelelresseo at ih. meeting in which they urged support sup-port to the Weber gymnasium. Supt. ' l.i union said that If a building was erected costing only $100,000 a-s was originally suggested, it would have I, no great mistake that would have been regretted He appreciated the wisdom Of the church officials hi look-ng look-ng Into the future. Bupl l'.ennlon declared tht n large number of young people were going . the wrong road because no proper 'provisions had been made for their ; moral uplift at the end of the day's ,,-ork They were sent adrift to seek their own amusement anel were often tound In the cellars of destruction- He! I inted out that the people today were ecelvlng high wages and spending nil they earned and h- thought a portion . ; those wages should be diverted into SUOb useful und beneficial channels as i- proposed gymnuslum foi this city, lie likened the- gymnasium to a safety deposit where the people should be ; willing to place their children In preference pref-erence to allowing them to wander Into temptation. Ki MAKE GOOD CTTIZ1 Mr. Hinckley said that the mission . (he church was to build the best , ,1 11 nnd women In the world and this .iild be done, physically and morally, 1 the erection of the gymnasium. He produced :l large number of letters Lrom business men in Salt Eake who testified to the great benefits derived om the Dcseret gymnasium Hoys :.id girls who attend the Dcseret gymnasium gym-nasium have the physical defects eor-ro eor-ro ed and they are taught to keep themselves physically fit and morally , I clean Forty per cent of the high School girls need some correcting to prepare them for the duties ot life I arid motherhood, he said. I A motion was adopteel In which the ivard bishops pledged their support to the gymnasium and promised to raise their Quotas as soon as possible. ! Treasurer John Wntson read a financial fi-nancial statement showing that to dattv the sum of Jl'4.283.95 had been col-1 llected toward the building fund The !$306,000 for the construction of the; jgmnnslum does not lncluele the cost' of equipment. It was explained. |
