Newark post., 1911-07-12
Y. N. {. A. And
The Country Boy


dressive and systematical way
lhe Interstate Committee of
Maryland, Delaware and the Dis
trict OF Columbia is promoting this
kind of activity, which is known
as the County Young Mems
Christian Association. / he COM
munlties of county, exclusive of
the cities OF sufficient size and fin
ancial strength to maintain CITY
association with expensive build
ing, equipment and employed otfi-
GERS, constitutes the unit of the
County Association, employing 3
high grade experienced County
Secretary to direct, supervise and
promote association work along
lines commensurate with a COM
munlty's available equipment and
leadership among it's young men.
The modern good roads, tele-
phones and methods of travel make
possible for the County Secretary
to efficiently handle the work of
the entire country, as has. been
demonstrated in the fifty or more
counties now organized with a
total membership of upwards OF
twenty thousand men and boys,
all of which has developed within
the last ten years. The methods
are intensely practical Instead
of trying to force the country
young men and boys into a city
mold, it conducts a program of
mental, physical, social and spiri-
tual activities which are appro-
pirate to Country conditions.
But the County Association
does other activities than those
within the confines of its county !;
it follows the individual leaving
his home il. the country to the city
and elsewhere, whether for school,
business or whatsoever, through
its corresponding membership sys-
tenn, which secures in each country
community as far as practicable,
Christian business or profession
al man as corresponding men,
Der of the Interstate Committee
who advises that office of the de-
parture Of the young men Of their
respective communities, the place
where they are going, and what
would probs bly, interest the young
man or boy. The Office of the
Interstate Committee, in turn,
places this information with the
Association in the city to which he
goes; and if there is no Associa-
ton, in the hands Of some Chris
tian man who will find pleasure in
being wherever help possible to
the young man. 1t requires no ac-
tive imagination to realize in part
at least, what it means to such a
young man to have some cheerful
fellow call on him, eager and will
ing to make friendships, and lend
helping hand, assisting him in
locating in a respectable boarding
house within his means, and plae
ing him in touch with other full
of-life' fellows of the right kind
and bringing him to well lighted
association building with cheer:u
reading and social rooms, gymna.
sium, study-clubs and dozer
other things, and introducing hin
to the employed secretary who will
help him in his needs-perchance
ii may be the securing of the lot
| for (which he has SO longed. This
| is the kind of work which lnsteae
| of helping boys to "bresk home
ties, helps them to preserve
them.
The Interstate Committee i
composed of the following well
known business and professional
men: Clarence L. Harding, Fran
els A. White, Charles w. Bush
Henry B. F. MacFarland, WI
liam H. Morriss, H. 5. Dulaney
Joshua Levering, J. Harry Tyler
Tasker G.. Lowndes, Wlllet M
Hayes, J. H. Apple, c. E. Cline
Richard S. Dodson, William
Knowles Cooper, Stanton J Peel
and John B. Slenan, Jr.
The personnel of the commute
is a guarantee that only hlg'
grade and efficient work Will D
done in carrying out their pro
cram, which will eventually cove
practically all the counties G
Maryland and Delaware, as RAPID
w rs consistent with effective OF
e-anization and money avallaDi
will permit. Not only the me