The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-11-16
FOR THE GENERAL GOOD.


riches do not make happiness; neither
does business" make town desira-
BILE to live in. No use of any one
fretting themselves to death about the
size of the town they live in; If the
size does not suit them, 1t is easy
enough to move to the size town that
does suit them. 1t is quality, not
quantity that counts.
Columbia is not much larger, but II
is ever so much better a place to live
in and raise boys in than it was two
years ago, when it had no school FOR
bows. It will be still better, for the
school and the boys and the town,
next year when the saloons are gone.
The way to make Columbia the very
incest place in the world to live, the
most attractive and delightful resi-
dence city in the world, is to get rid
of the bad and promote and encourage
and develop everything that is good.
And incidentally, that is the surest
way in the world to build up" town.
saloon town fills up with loafers
and brawlers; an anti-saloon town at
tracts Industrious, peace-loving, law
abiding. people. The Military Acad-
envy will attract one class Of people
while a brewery would attract another.
II ia quality that counts.
Times change, and people and Gus
toms change with them. In Old Hick-
lory's day any. man who would have
declined a challenge would have been
disgraced; in these days any man VINO
sends or accepts one is disgraced. In
those days the bar room and the pup
lie billiard halls we're the popular
club rooms; now most gentlemen are
more exclusive in their tastes and
associations.
! In those DAYS the boys were left
to root hog or die, or grow up with
tho dog-fennel on the streets, but now
the advanced thought of the world Is
against that, and the town that keeps
up" with the procession must offer 10
nareuts inducements to live there.
What has Columbia to offer? the new
conner will ask. Columbia has its
schools, for one thing; 1t has nne
climate. christian and cultured people;
II will take itself out of the saloon
class and put itself in the Y. M. c. A.
class next year. That Is a good deal
to offer; and if we make good that
offer. Columbia will make good in a
hurry.
The thing to most interest ourselves
in lust now, is the Columbia !. M. =
A. We want to talk down the raise
report that 1T is doing no good; that
nobody goes there" that ut is going
m die" 1t is a Columbia institution
, backed by all the churches; its spon
, orc were the christian business mer
and fnanciers of Columbia; and 1T IL
: an insult to the churches, the Dusl
: ness men and financiers of Columbia tt
saw that they are incapable OF imam
ciering one little Y. M. c. A. 1t II
: belittling the philanthropy of Column
r bia to say that it will deny to the boys
9 and to the young men who are llVlhs
S in boarding houses, with no place u
t spend their evenings, the advantages
s If christian club, or christian asso
: citation. call it which you will.
4 There is no doubt about this Associa
s ton running But chat is not the ques
/. tion. 1t wants public sympathy AM
s nublic patronage. 1t not only want
g to be there, but it wants the youn
l. men and boys to come there. 1t want
). the goodwill Of the people OF "
llumbia; the active, hearty, earnes'
e out-spoken good will. 1t has been mi'
= understood to an extent, and it want
!. tn be better understood in the future
4 and that it may be better understood
v the public is invited to the First Metz
odist church Sunday night to hea