Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-01-01
ENLARGED SOCIAL
SERVICE PROGRAM
ADOPTED BY "Y
Plans to Increase Membership
to One Million.
VIII Assist In General Movements for
AmericanIzation and Improved
Relations Between Capital
and Labor.
'T%AKING their stand squarely with

|" AKTNG their stand, squarely with
the churches o. America for so
cial Justice, based upon the
teachings OF Christ, the Young Mems
Christian Associations Of North Amer
lea, at their fortieth international con-
vention held recently in Detroit, also
adopted the most comprehensive pro-
gram OF expanding social service ever
presented TO the associations In their
three-quarters OF a century OF exist
ence
The social creed previously adopted
by the Federal Council of the Churches
OF Christ In America and Endorsed
later by the Interchurch World Move
ment was adopted by the "f" conven-
ton without the>alteration Of a sylla-
BILE. 1t definitely commits the asso-
Citations TO many specific social re-
forms, such as the improvement OF the
relations between capital and labor,
the enactment Of uniform divorce laws,
better housing conditions and the like.
II also was definitely resolved. that
the future great developments which are
being planned shall be worked out To-
caly and nationally IN positive harmony
and cooperation with the evangelical
churches" One of the reports which
was adopted put the matter OF the rela-
ton OF the Y. NJ. c. A. 10 the churches
in this form: THE association is indis-
pensable to the churches and the church
IS are the associations base OF opera
tons The vital union between the two
should be made evident that no one
could misunderstood It,"
The enlarging plans OF the associations
call for the gradual extension Of its work
to reach every young man and boy In
America Steps are to be taken imme-
diately to increase the membership in
the associations from $4,000 to 100000
by 1920. but this is only small part OF
the program.
In small cities and large. in Industrial
centers. in mining camps. in rural COM
munities. in villages. in oil fields. in set
Elements Of colored people, In colleges,
schools and universities, at railroad ter
minals and division points, the Y. Nj.
c. A. is planning to bring its influence
to bear upon the boyhood and young
manhood.
The industrial work OF the association
will be developed largely along community
lines. The convention favored the adop
ton OF the so called hut idea" That
Is. the use OF buildings of not SO formal
a type as those erected by the Y. M. c.
A. before the war. but more like the
army and navy nuts, as READY means
for extending association service 10
groups OF men and boys otherwise not
reached by the association.
Community wide recreation is TO be
promoted. not only for Its physical bene
Ats, but as a developer of national
morale. and the value of mass athletics
and mass singing was recognized and
will have a large place in the future
association activities
The program for the more complete
Americanization OF the foreign speaking
peoples who find a refuge in America is
not to be limited to the teaching OF Eng
lish and smatterng OF civics. but will
include an effort to inculcate the highest
American ideals.
The experimental home room service
OF women in city associations is to be
extended. the value OF women in the Y.
NJ C. A. uniform in Europe having sug-
gested to some Of the association leaders
the possibility Of their use in softening
the institutional character OF the ordi-
nary Y. NJ. c. A. building and bringing
to It's lobby a feminine touch suggestive
of home and mother
The Railroad Y. NJ. c. A will be ex-
tended to many towns where no rail
road association has as yet been estab-
lished, and the Railroad Department also
viii undertake to provide service similar
TO that OF the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. to the
thousands OF young men who have re-
Gently entered into the service of the
Merchant Marine.