THE WORK or EACH AssoctArtox. The local association has absolnte autonomy, except that to affiliate with the international convention there must he constitutional provision restricting ac tive (voting and olliev-hearing) Membership to men in communion with some evangelfeal Church. A typical association may be thus described: (I) Membership—(a) aetire, who carry most of the responsibility; (b) associate, young men of good moral character. (2) An incorporated board of directors, the usual officers, and monerons com mittees. Real estate is generally held by a hoard of trIlAi ces. 'flip members of these boards and committers number some 40.000. (3) As execu tive tinker a salaried secretary. whose chief re sponsibility is to supervise, organize. and admin ister. ( I) A specially constructed building, with reception room. offices, reading room, li brary. meeting and recreation rooms, educational classrooms. and quarters for boys' department. Modern buildings often contain dormitories for young men. which produce revenue and contrib
ute toward the sorial life. especially when a res taurant is added. (5) Organized departments: (a) business—general supervision, membership; (b) religious—Bible and workers' training classes, evangelistic and devotional meetings, work in behalf of personal purity, and a specially emphasized personal work; (e) educational— evening classes, literary societies, and lectures; (d) physical—gymnasium and athletic field, with instructors qualified to make physical examina tions and prescribe and direct safe and beneficial use of these facilities; I c) social—a pleasant resort with companionable supervision, recreative games, social gatherings, and enter tainments; (f) information and relief—employ ment bureau, boarding-house register. savings fund, medical elub, visitation of the sick; (g) a work along all these lines for boys.