The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-04
ACTIVE MEMDERSY.
HOLD ANNUAL MEETING.

shS annual meeting OF HcttFt
members o. the Y, NJ. c. A. will be
held this efeuinE at six-thirty O'Clock
In the association building. The
nominating committee, composed OF
X. G. Kent, Perry Seay. @. S. Bernard
e F.. Schr,idt. J. L. Pullen, G. w.
Shutting and j. s. Haw. ~ill ,mani-
mously report for election the fol-
lowing directors for a term of three
years
o. J. Sands. J. p. Jones, r. C. Haw-
kins, Jr., Il. w. Farley. w. f. Craw-
ford, F. " Laughton and J. L. An
derson.
with the addition of eve hundred
new members in the campaign last
week, it is PREDICTED that this will be
the most active summer IN the big
building. Everything has been i'm
proved and frightened up, and there
Is every reason why It should.
Few persons, except those intimate
~ associated with the work, realize
the extend Of tho activities at the big
building in the heart Of the city.
which was opened to the men and
boys OF Richmond ten years ago last
Friday. Doesn't 1t make your heart
glad to see how many use the build
ing?" These were the warm hearted
words with which one of the leading
citizens OF Richmond greeted en- Of
fetal OF the Central y. NJ. c. A. tho
other day
Thousands CT men and boys have
learned to swim in the big pool. one
of the best in the country, There
are Gospel meetings and Bible classes
for men ard boys. and irinety-two
homelike rooms for the stranger
young man. the old bachelor ana the
widower. and for the visiting associa-
- =, +,
world
Again, few realize the cost of keep
ing things W against daily and night
iy use all the time. When an intel
ligent. thinking member sa " the in
creased cost bulletin in the lobby the
ether night. he exclaimed. What
sixty-six hundred dollars In coal -
Little had he realized that the asso-
cations mocha meal plant is operated
twenty-four hours in the day. three
hundred and sixty-five days in the
year, and that the cost of coal to
the association has jumped in the past
ten lear 1Si per cent.
1t is easy to raise money for the
down and outs" and hundreds of
our best citizens fail TO realize that
Formation is better than Reforma-
ton" and Prevention than cure. "
Indeed, prisoner said that If one
tenth the attention had been shown
him before he committed the crime
as was shown afterwards, he would
never have been in the penitentiary;
while often il flowers sent to funerals
had been sent to the patient they
would have cheered and con1forted
him. and possibly have helped save
his life. Thus many fail to see the
great value Of boy being kept in
n M health
Recently man said to General
Secretary Mckee, What are you do
ing for boysr" Quickly the reply
came. I'VE have almost four hundred
in mem hership. using the gymnasium
baths and swimming pool. their
BODIES being made stronger, being
taught self-control, and made to feel
that they are part OF common
brotherhood, working with one an
other, and incidentally. the BOYS
Sunday Afternoon club had an aver
age attendance of $50 for months
while the employed boys class Is the
largest class of all"
The cost If operation alone dur
ing the past year has increased al
most ten per cent and during the
past ten years seventy-four per cent"
The boys membership fee is about
one third the actual cost, while tnat
OF over twelve hundred of the senior
members Is less than twe-thirds the
cost. Thus the association needs
each year to supplement-
the membership fees. 1t is hoped
that the books for the tenth corr
secutive year, without Indebtedness
NAV be closed Wednesday night AS
we 60 to press $3.50 is needed IN
contribution if the association is 10
succeed in paying all current bhls.
The somewhat startling array or
facts published in The Nirginian yes
terday clearly gives the reason why
The board OF directors give of their
time gratitutiously in the manage
ment of the work and have every
reason to expect that the business
men and generous-hearted citizens
of our city will quickly and giadiy
see that the amount needed is forth
coming without the necessity Tor
their calling personally on them Tor
gifts. with which to pay the bills ana
close the tenth consecutive year with
out curren. Indebtedness. Checks
should be made payable to .. j.
sands. treasurer, or to the assocla-
flor. and sent care Post Once draw