The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-07-14
The Young Mems Christian AssOefa-
ton and the Country Boy.

lion ind the Country Boy.
me Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton is addressing itself to the help
ing W young men and boys in com
rnunities too small for the city type
OF organization i'm very aggressive
and syatematical way The Inter
state Committee or Maryland, Della
ware and the District of Columbia H.
promoting this kind OF activity, which
Ig known as the County Young Mems
Christian Association. The com
nunities W "a county, exclusive OF the
cities Of sufficient size and financial
strength to maintain "a city asgocia-
ton with expensive building equip
ment and employed officers, consti-
tutes the unit of the County AssOcia-
ton, employing high grade expert
enced County Secretary to direct sup
ervise and promote association Work
along lines commensurate with
community's available equipment and
leadership among it, young men The
modern good roads, telephones and
methods OF travel make III possible
for the County Secretary to efficient
" handle the work, of the entire
country, as has been demonstrated
in the fifty or more counties now or
gained with "a total membership OF
upwards Of twenty thousand men and
boys, all of which has developed
within the last ten years The meth
DDS are intensely practical; instead
of trying to force the country young
men and boys into d city mould, IL
conducts program Of mental, physi-
cal, social and spiritual activities
which are appropriate to country con-
ditions.
But the County Association does
other activities than those within the
confines " its county; II follows the
individual leaving Inf home in the
country to the city and elsewhere,
whether for school, business or what
soeveE, through its corresponding
membership system which secures i'm
each country community, as far as
practicable, a Christian business or
professional man an corresponding
member OF the Interstate Committee
who advises that Office of the de-
parture OF the young men Of their re-
spective communities, the place
where they are going, and what
would probably interest the young
man or boy. The Office Of the Inter
state Committee, in turn, places this
information with the Association in
the city To which he goes; and III
there is no Association, i'm the hands
OF some Christian man who will find
pleasure I'm being whatever help pos
sibIe to the young man. 1t requires
no active imagination to realize i'm
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 a
helping hand, assisting him In locat-
ing in a respectable clearinghouse
within his means, and placing him
in touch with other "full-of-life" fell
lows or the right kind, and bringing
him to a well lighted association
building with cheerful reading and
social rooms, gymnasium, stuGy-clubs
and a dozen other things, and intro
ducing him to the employed secretary
who will help him in his needs,-per-
chance it may be the securing Of the
Job for which he has longed. This
is the kind OF work which instead Of
helping boys to Break Home Ties,
helps them to preserve them.
The Interstate Committee is COM
posed or the following well-known
business and professional men-Clar-
ence r. Harding, Francis "a. White,
Charles w. Bush, Henry p. n. Mac
FarIand, William Fl. Morriss,H. S.Du-
1aney, Joshua lowering, j. Harry Ty-
Ter, Tasker G. Lowndes, Willet NJ
Hays, u. fiji. Apple. O. II. Cline, Rich
ard s. Dodson, VIM. Knowles Cooper,
Stanton y. PeeIe, John u. Sleman,
Jr
The personnel OF the Committee is
a guarantee that only high grade and
efficient work will be done in carry
ing out its program, which will ev-
entually cover practically all the
counties of Maryland and Delaware,
as rapidly as consistent with effective
organization and the money available
will permit. Not only the men com
posing the Committee are giving time
and money to project the work but
hundreds Of interested men and wo-
men all over the Interstate territory
are contributing. The Committee EN-
pIoys an Interstate Secretary, IL. 81
Morrison, who is related to all the
Association activities OK the territory,
and Al. r. Shapleigh who devotes his
entire time to county associations.
Talbot county In now nearly ready
for a secretary ana It will not be
long before the Committee will I'm
dertake the development Of the sec
ond county. Much attention ID be-
ing given these days to the conserva-
ton OF our. national resources;-it il
wise and timely to give serious con
sideration 70 the conservation or our
nations greatest resource-its young
men