The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-02-09
Sunday Mass
Meeting
AT RYMAN AUDITORIUM
5000 Citizens Expected al
300 ,. m. Sunday After
noon in the Interest Of
Y. NJ. c. A.
Ladies Auxiliary With Officers and
Captains OF (eamS-.COmmittee of
Management and Advisory Board
Davis Military Band Among the
FeatureS..MuCh Enthusiasm

Plans for the Colored Y. NJ. c. A.
mass meeting at the Ryman Audi
torium have been perfected, Nearly
1000 subscribers ana workers have
been sent personal notices. The
speakers have been selected. The
heating of the auditorium the plac-
ing Of piano by the Starr Piano
Company for use ON that occasion;
and every detail which hes meet
ing such as that calls for has been
worked out by the committee and
they are going over them as this
article goes to press in order to
make sure that there is no occasion
for Il single hitch OF any sort.
SPEAKERS.
The committee in charge has been
diligent in its search for public
spirited men. Mavor Robert Ewing,
Major E. B. Stahlman. Mr.. ]. II.
Allison, Mr. Arch Trawick and Mr..
S. w. McGill will he on hand. The
message which these men will bring
will be short but effective and to the
point
MUSlC.
Mr.. A. G.. Price, Chorister of 81
/ Paul A. NJ. +. Church Choir, will
direct the singing and Mrs. w. Ii.
McGavock will preside at the piano.
The audience will he expected to Go
its own singing in most part. A
few melodies, ~ aId tavorile hymus
will be sung with a spirit and fervcr
characteristic of Nashville con
gregation on such occasions. No
one who delights in hearing large
miscellaneous group sing songs with
which they are more or less familiar
can afford to miss the Sunday meet.
ing.
THE LADIES' AUXILIARY.
The ladies' auxiliary which 50
many predict will in no wise fail to
measure up to the high standard set
by such cities as Atlanta, Kansas
/ City and indianapolis will he on
hand in full force. 1t is the opinion
of the president, Mrs. Clemmie
White, that at least 1900 ladies viii
he present Sunday to lend encourage
ment and to pledge their co-opera-
ton to the public-spirited men who
are seeing to it that brighter day
must not simply dawn in Nashville,
but must break forth into eXultant
splendOr for the Negro men and boys
of this city. When it comes to gen
uine appreciation for genuine ser
vice rendered the women take first
I
4 In the Tennessee state prison and
reformatory there are for every one
woman there cCnfned forty men and
loys. The police records of Nash
vile show approximately that for
arrest for minor offences of women
in the corporate limits there are
about three men for every woman
arrested The necessity for the CO
operation on the part of the ladies
is easily seen.
| FINANCIAL. EFFORT.
There will he an effort made to
| materially increase the receipts of
building fund at the Sunday meeting,
There will he no chiding of those
who will not find it convenient to
make a payment. Whatever is done
or is not done in this direction will
effect to no great extent the object
of the meeting. 1t would lie an in
excusable blurder to hold such a
meeting and fail or neglect to give
everybody an opportunity to contri-
butte as they feel, but on the other
hand M one will he made to feel
embarrassed in the least as result
of an effort to press payment of
! pledges.