The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-03-04
NEW STATEWIDE PLAN FOR Y.
M. C, A.

III the opinion Oh. natlOnal I. M. u.
A. workers the broad plans recently
adopted by the State Managing
Board of the Kentucky Y. M. C. A.
are by far the most progressive and
comprehensive of any yet worked out
by any State Association. Kentucky
Is also unique in this respect-it has
the largest staff Of State Secretaries
in the United States. The new plan
which will be the guide for the State
Y. M. G. A. of Kentucky for the next
five years was evolved at a recent
conference 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. M. G. A. is shown as operated by
the Managing Board to whom is en-
trusted the entire work of the Asso-
citation in Kentucky. The State Sec
rotary acts for the Managing Board
much as the general manager of a
railroad acts for the board of direc-
tors.
In the plan there are Ave Main de-
~ State Wide Bureaus, (2) Field
Supervision, {3) U. S. Boys Working
Reserve, (4) Auditing, and 50
Camp and Farm.
Under State Wide Bureaus are in
cluded the following: Publicity,
Methods, Conferences, Literature and
Office Management, each with "a
bureau secretary. At present there
are no secretaries for these bureaus,
although certain amount of activ-
ity in each is carried on by the pres
ent staff.
The department of Field Supervis-
ion is by far the most extensive of
all. At the head are the district sec
retaries and advisory committees.
Under these come three general de-
partments: "a Fields in which Or
ganized Y. M. c. A. bodies now ope-
rate, (2) community wide activities
and relationships to the entire field,
and (3) the fields in which there
now exists no organized Y. M. G. A.
work.
In the organized fields there are
the local boards operating through
the general secretary. Of course
there are the following: City ASST
Citations, in number; Railroad, g.;
Industrial, High and Preparatory
Schools, 81; Student Associations,
13; County Associations, 2.
The field of COMMUNICATIVE &C
tivities and relationships to entire
field has following: Cd Home; CD
Business; (3) School; (4 Direct Ac-
tivities of Local Associations; (5)
Church; co Civic; Cd Play Life.
In the fields not yet organized by
the Y. M. c. A. the Red Triangle
Committees, composed of men devot-
ed to the promotion of the Y. M. c.
A. program, are operating. These
fields under the proposed plan are di-
vided into two parts, G) those orga-
nizable along present lines, and (2)
those not organizable along present
lines.
Under the head of fields organic
able along present lines are the fol
1 lowing: City Associations 4; Rail-
road Associations 9; Industrial 26;
High and Preparatory Schools So;
County Associations, uncertain.
Under the fields not considered
lorganizable along present lines in
Kentucky are these: Cities, $50;
rural population of counties having
city associations at present, 49,
O70; not having city associations, l.
| 786,829.
There are 102 counties of the 100
in the State that are not touched by
Associations and they have total
population of 1,519,613.
The activity of the Association in
connection with the u. S. Boys
Working Reserve has to do with en-
rolling the boys for work on the
farms and in industry and with look
ing after their welfare.
The auditing department contem-
plates a regular audit of city, rail-
road, county, industrial and student
associations and a council on meth
DDS of accounting.
The camp and farm department
has to do with the State Association
recreation center at Camp Daniel
Boone and at proposed camp in
Western Kentucky and welfare work
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