The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-05-17
NASHVILLE ~"
SINCE 1912
C0MMUNITY'S BENEvOLECE
REPRESENTED-"Y" NOW A
FIXED FACTOR-YOUNG MEN
AND BOYS HOUSED.

The white and colored friends of
the Colored Branch Y. M. c. A. who
since 1912, have constantly been
preaching the gospel of Association
service for colored men and boys are
Jubilant over the report which the
Committee of Management will
soon make to the public of the past
years work. The local business
men have not forgotten the argument
which these men advanced in favor
of their making large donations for
the purchase of Colored "Y'' build
ing. The building is reality. Each
year will serve as a chapter Justify
ing the reasonableness of their con-
tention. The thousands of young
men who have enjoyed the conven-
| fences and comforts provided, have
already begun to manifest their graft
tude to not only the men who have
ceaselessly toiled to popularize the
movement, but to the men who final
ly loosened their purse strings in
order that the experiment might be
, tried out. 1t is said that such in
stitutions as the Young Mems Chris
tion Associations represent the bene-
violence of a community Until Jan
uary /, 1912, there was not tangible
evidence of this spirit being very
manifest toward colored boys and
men. The use of these institutions
represent the high esteem and regard
which young men have for the
higher things in life. 1t appears that
both the business men and colored
young men of Nashville are up to the
standard set by other larger and
more prosperous cities in this
respect. One need only to re-
late few facts relative to the use
which the fellows are putting the
building to to find how well satisfied
the donors of the work are with the
investment which the yhave made.
1t is the hope of all concerned that
the 'Committe of. Management will
prove equal to the big task which is
theirs for the working out and put
ting into operation and adequate pro-
gram for the second years work. A
program which will fully meet the
needs of the normal young man and
boy and at the same time excite the
admiration Of the big business men
of the community men of ability and
large means, who are accustomed to
do things on large scale. If the
Committee of Management, who is
backed by the Board of Directors,
can prove itself equal to this task
1t will go on record as rendering a
type of very much needed service to
the community such as no similar
group of men have yet had an oppor-
tunity to render in the Southland. 1t
is growing more and more evident
that the Nashville Colored Branch Y.
M. G. A. is distinctively a community
movement for the betterment of
young men. Even men who have done
nothing more than sign subscrip-
tion card are frequently heard to say
This is our Young Mems Christian
Association building" To the extent
that the affairs of the Association are
conducted in manner to make both
the low and the exalted alike lav
claim to it, will it become fixed fac.
tor for good in the community life.
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men of ability, but men with large
and generous hearts and men of vision
who can, because of their knowledge
of the past and the present, predict
and prepare for the needs of tomor-
row.
There is probably no local business
or institution whose field for achieve
ment in any wise compares with the
Associations opportunity for useful
ness. The more fully the men who
are responsible for the development
of the movement realize this the more
unselfish and effective will be their
work. While Nashville rejoices at
what has been done, it is also ap-
prehensive as to the work yet to be
done for the benefit of the Negro
men and boys and the community.