The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-02-05
NEW STATE VIDE
Plan FORY. MICA.
IN This STATE
State Managing Board Of the Ken.
lucky Y. M. c. A. Adopt Broad
Plans For New Work. /

Ill tne opinion VI NATIONAL l. M. "
A. workers the broad plans recently
adopted by the State Managing Board
j of the Kentucky Y. M. c. A. are by
far the most progressive and compre-
hensive of any yet worked out by any
State Association. Kentucky Is also
unique in this respect-it has the lar
gest staff of State secretaries In the
United States. The new plan which
will be the guide for the State Y. M.
C. A. of Kentucky for the next five
years was evolved at recent confer
ence of the State staff presided over
by P. c. Dix, State Secretary. There
were present also secretaries from
various city Associations in Kentucky.
The meeting was held at State Y. M.
c. A. headquarters in the Association
Building in Louisville.
In the general scheme the State Y.
NJ C. A. is shown as operated by the
Managing Board to whom is entrusted
the entire work of the Association in
Kentucky. The State Secretary acts
for the Managing Board much as the
general manager of railroad acts for
the board of directors.
In the plan there are five main de-
partments of activity as follows: ~
State Wide Bureaus, (2) Field Super
vision, (3) U. s. Boys Working Re-
serve, (4) Auditing, and (5) Camp and
Farm.
Under State Wide Bureaus are in
cluded the following: Publicity, Meth
DDS, Conferences, Literature and Of
flee Management, each with bureau
secretary. At present there are no Sec
retaries for these bureaus, although a
certain amount of activity in each is
carried on by thespresent staff.
The department of Field Supervis-
ion is by far the most extensive of all.
At the head are the district secretar-
les and advisory committees. Under
these come three general depart
ments: ~ Fields in which organ
lied Y. M. C. A. bodies now operate,
(2) Community wide activities and re-
lationships to the entire field, and
(3) the fields in which there now .ex-
lists no organized Y. M. c. A. work.
In the organized fields there are the
local Y. M. C. A. boards operating
through the general secretary. OF
these there are the following: City
Associations, in number; Railroad,
8; Industrial, 6; High and Prepara-
tory Schools, 81; Student Associa-
tons, 10; County Associations, 2.
The field of community wide activi-
ties and relationships to entire field
has the following; (I Home; (2)
Business; (3) School; (D Direct Ac-
tivities of Local Associations; (5)
Church; (6) Civic and () Play Life.
In the fields not yet organized by
the Y. NJ. c. A. the Red Triangle Com
mittees, composed of men devoted to
the promotion of the Y. M. C. A. pro-
gram, are operating. These fields I'M
der the proposed plan are divided in
to two parts, Q) those organizable
along present lines, and (2) those not
organizable along present lines.
Under the head of fields organizable
along present lines are the following:
City Associations 4; Railroad Associa-
tons 8; Industrial rs; High and Pre-
paratory Schools IS, and County AS
sociations, uncertain
Under the fields not considered or
ganizable along present lines in Ken
lucky are these: Cities, $50, rural