The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-10-04
Colored Mems Department
of International Y. NJ. G.. A.
Goes to N. Y. Headquarters

permanent records a letter from E. C.
Garter, chief secretary A. E. F.
Division Y. NJ. C. A, officially thank
ing DR.. Moorland and all of the splen-
did men and women the department
for colored troops recruited and sent
to France, and saying at the close of a
whole-hearted tribute: 81 cannot
speak too highly of the distinguished
service which they rendered"
Two Race Representatives Placed on
International Committee.
A significant innovation emphasize
ing the liberal attitude of the Y. M.
c. A. is the recent appointment Of
two leading colored men on the inter
national committee at large-the first
time the race has been honored with
membership in this elmer council" of
the organization. The men designated
for this important service are DR..
Robert Z. Motion, principal of Tus-
kegee institute, Alabama, and DR..
Robert Z. Jones, editor of the South
western Christian Advocate, New Or
leans, La. The selections are re
garded as eminently satisfactory.
Some Benefits the Y. NJ. c. A. is
Bringing to the Negro People.
DR.. Moorland made a round of the
photographs of imposing structures
which hung in massive frames upon
his Office walls and most Interestingly
pointed out some of the positive BEN
etits that have come to the race
through the uplifting influence ex-
erted by the Y. M. C. A. centers that
have been established throughout the
land. He referred with pride to the
twelve big buildings-each valued at
from 100000 to 200,0OO-that have
been planted in the large cities for
the reclamation of young colored men,
who would otherwise have had no
place for recreation in a proper moral
environment. So popular has the "Y"
become as a community center, several
of the most pretentious structures in
the large cities have been found TO be |
too small to meet the demands on
them within year or so after their
erection. As an indication Of the cor
dial support that the well-to-do col
ored people are giving the movement,
DR.. Moorland made note of the fact
that the thrifty and public-spirited
Negroes of st. Louis contributed $685.
600 in actual cash toward their mag
niicent building, and one family
Prof and Mrs. A. E. Malone-has
given outright fully $4,000 since the
Y. NJ. c. A. effort was inaugurated in
the Mound City. This is simply typ
ical of the generosity that is being
manifested in many other quarters,
added Dr. Moorland, and more i'm
mense structures are in prospect.
Wherever colored men are found there
should be "Y."
That the spirit of militant Chris
tianity is keenly alive and ready for
The job that awaits was most happily
exhibited at the recent session of the
summer school of the Y.
NJ. C. A. held at Storer college, Har-
1er's Ferry, w. Va, when more than
100 enthusiastic young men, repre-
;enting progressive communities from
New York to Texas and from Florida
% Iowa, came together for the single
purpose of preparing to render the
argest measure of unselfsh service
20 their fellows. With the dynamo in
perfect working order at New York,
he machinery will move forward with
a new vitality and multiplied eff
cheney.
DIR. Moorland "a Builder Of Men"
DIR. J. E. Moorland, to whose pow
erful personality and practical or
ganizing ability the colored mems de-
partment owes its present high estate
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