The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-02-16

beneficial to white boys they can and
will be equally so to Negro boys.
You know my friends that perhaps
the most dangerous period in life is
that between the leaving of school
and the time for engaging in the SER
ious work of life. Then ID is tina
temptations most easily beset us. If
at this time boy is shown in a
friendly way how he can best spend
his time-what is the best path for
him to follow, it may mean a future
life worth while to himself and to his
fellow citizens.
"As rule boys are ready to re-
spond to kind treatment and older
people do not do their duty unless
this is given.
In years gone by it was my duty
to hold the city court. | know from
/ my experience there how many of the
sorrows Of life and how many of the
evils come from bad beginnings and
bad associations. To hang around
saloons, to engage in gambling of all
kinds surely means that later on
something more desperate will be
done. Life Of different kind can be
made Just as pleasant and what we
are doing this afternoon is to try and
start your boys along the right line
and by kind treatment to keep them
there. This will mean that they all
will become true and better men
better citizens in every way. Your
white friends who are taking part in
this movement are Christian gentle
men, but they are also men with
knowledge of the needs of boys. They
have made these their study and they
are actuated by high motives. The
building secured is admirably situated
and admirably adapted for the pur-
pose You boys must not get the
wrong idea that you cannot enjoy
yourselves there-that going there
will cut you off from every pleasure.
That is far from true. There will be
no drinking, no carousing, no gamb-
ling, no profanity, these things will
not be allowed, but those things
don't make up a noble life. There
will be chances for study and chances
for all kinds of innocent pleasures
and these ought to satisfy you.
81 want you to remember that we
are your friends-we understand you
and you under stand us, but you
must not forget that your true ad-
vancement is one of the great things
not attracting the attention of the
world and that you must continue to
show that the tremendous advance
you have already made is not an ac-
cident but the result of steady and
fixed determination on your part to
take the place to which proper eff
forts will entitle you. There are
many we'll disposed rich people in
the northern part of our country who
are watching you and who will help,
but however great the sums of money
they may give the cause these will
not begin to equal the steady friend
ship your own people are always
showing you, but neither can begin
to do for you what you are doing for
yourselves.
you remember what was said to
those on the ship at sea who needed
water. They were far out but still
within reach of water from the ANA
zon River. They were told to dip
down and secure it for themselves
and this you must do. &
"In closing want every honest
father and mother in Nashville to say
to their boys to Join and give this
Association their support. not money
but to attend and receive from it what
it will surely give then-a right
start on the right path in life.
The Association has my very best
wishes This day will long be re
membered."