Y.M.C.A. NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20183, 27 June 1928, Page 3

Y.M.C.A. NOTES

NOTES OF THE WEEK OPTIMISTS’ CLUB. There was a full attendance of members at the Optimists’ Club last week, when Air Cranleigh Barton gave his second and final talk to the club. He first of all gave a fine impres.sion of the battle fields in France and Belgium. Having been fortunate enough to visit the different fields his information about the idjfferCnt places oi* interest was listened to with much interest. Air Barton brought his talk to a close with an account of his visit to an entirely different place. He was fortunate enough to get a pass to visit the great home of the moving picture industry in America, namely Hollywood. This week Optimist Ward will talk on a trip to Southland. YOUNGER MEN’S CLUB. Last Friday’s meeting was all that it was promised it would be. In the first place the seating arrangements were altered, and all sat round the one table. This seemed to make everyone feel more one party, anri all seemed,’ to enjoy the change. The club was impressed with the address given, by one of its own young men, Air Ted Barrett. His address was on War, and dealt with the subject from a real common-sense view-point. It showed so much careful study and contained so much real meat that the members seemed unable to at once discuss the subject. He has set a very high stani:«grd to the other members who are to fallow at intervals. The members all promised to assist in the sale of tickets for the concert to be held shortly in the Opera House. BOYS’ DEPARTMENT. The attendance in the Boys’ Clubs and in. the Gym classes has dropped very considerably during the last ween er so, owing to the epiremic of influenza. It is hoped that young members will soon be well again. The weekly programme in this department includes: — Wednesday afternoon, 4 to 5, Primary School Gym. Class under Air Alanley; evening, 7 to 8.30, Primary School Clubs. Friday evening, 7 to 8, Secondary School Gym. Class; 8 to 9.30, ClubsSaturday morning, 0.15, Younger Boys’ Gym Class; 10.15, Primary School Gym. Class; Saturday evening, 7 to 8..30, Meccano Club. Testimonies cA the Y.MC.A. In China— “ The Young Men’s Christian Association programme came just at the psychological moment for China. Our people were looking to the West, particularly to America, for some panacea for China’s ills, and their attention was at once arrested by the Association’s appeal. The philosophy of the Association quickly won the approval and admiration of the Chinese people. . . . Where can we find a more remarkable and resultful piece of international and in ter-racial co-opera-tion than the Y.M.C.A. of China!”— David Z. T. Yue, China delegate to the Disarmament Conference, Washington, D.C., Honorary Secretary, Shantung Redemption Fund; Chairman, National Christian Council of China. In Czechoslovakia. —“The best evidence Czechoslovakia has that the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Magyars can live together in peace is in the Y.AI.C.A., where they gather around a common table and plan for the common good.”—Foreign Minister Benes, in the League of Nations Assembly. In Japan.— To-day I am heartily supporting the Patron’s Association for the Tokyo Y.M-C.A. It is my conviction that any man should support such a movement.”—Prince Tokagawa, President, House of Peers, Tokyo, Japan. ..In the Philippines.— “l hope to see the steady growth of the Association in the Philippines year after year. It is one of the great blessings which America has brought to the Filipino people.’ ’ —Hon. Alanuel L. Quezon, President of the Senate of the Philippines.