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The Saturday Night Club.
The Golden Age has found a noble work to do
when it lends its talents and its energies to the
cause of literary societies in Georgia. Pierhaps
these organizations need as much stimulation and
practical assistance, as any institutions in the state.
And they should have encouragement and aid.
Literary and debating societies have long been,
are now, and will always be, strong factors in our
educational life. There is no better place to train
a young speaker, a young writer and a young
thinker, than in the circle of a literary and debating
club, no matter how small the club.
Some of the greatest statesmen and orators in
the world’s history have been trained and educat
ed in the forums of these debating societies. In
deed, the debating societies have often been the sole
means of education in the lives of many of our
greatest men.
It is unfortunate that at this time, there seems
to be a lack of interest in these societies among
the young people. And the reason for this certainly
cannot be because there are not plenty of such or
ganizations.
Right here in Atlanta there has existed for years
what has been one of the best societies of the
kind in the state—The Saturday Night Club. This
club, founded about fifteen years ago by some of
the most brilliant young men in Atlanta, for years
enjoyed prosperity, and accomplished much good.
Among the founders were such well known men as
Rev. Lucian L. Knight, Gordon F. Mitchell, James
W. Austin, William A. Fuller, and others. The
meetings were held for years in the old Young
Men’s Library building, and since the erection of
the Carnegie Library building the meetings have
been held in that handsome structure.
At one period, indeed in many periods in the
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The Golden Age for October 4, 1906.
club’s life, so much interest was manifested in the
debates, that often the meeting rooms were crowd
ed to overflowing.
Some of the ablest speakers in Atlanta have been
trained in the club. Its members, we might say
‘‘graduates,” are pleading at the bar, preaching
in the pulpit, thundering in legislative halls, and
some of them have won fame that has reached be
yond the borders of the state.
But it must be admitted that the club is at this
time far from being in a prosperous state. In fact,
when the club adjourned for the summer, as it does
every year, it was decided not to meet again until
a certain number of persons pledged themselves
to become regular attendants upon the meetings.
For, during last year the number of people who at
tended the meetings was so small that the weekly
gatherings were not large enough to give the
speakers the highest inspiration.
Now you who read these lines will deplore this,
when you learn the purposes and the ideals of those
who are the chief workers for the club, and when
you learn the platform of the organization.
The Saturday Night Club is, first of all, a lit
erary and debating society. It is an organization
of lofty ideals and high moral ideas. No person
can hold membership in the club whose character
is not good, and who attends the meetings for any
other purpose than for the improvement of his
mind and for his edification generally. And it is a
truth that all the young men who ever attended the
meetings of the club, and the writer is one of
them, were greatly benefited by the splendid train
ing received in the club.
The club has always been primarily for young
men, although persons at any age over sixteen can
be members. But the sole thought and care of the
club has been the young men. For, who will say
that there are not hundreds of young men in At-
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lanta today who do not need just this kind of
club?
In the meetings of the club all kinds of impor
tant and elevating subjects and questions are dis--
cussed. The members exchange ideas and opinions
and gain new knowledge, in addition to receiving
oratorical training.
A distinguished jurist of Georgia who has graced
the supreme bench of the commonwealth said re
cently to the writer:
“I trust that your club will have a new begin
ning. It is certainly a good organization. We
need more like it. Get the young men interested,
and let them get to work.”
If we can get fifty young men in Atlanta to say,
“We will attend every meeting; we will work day
and night for the club,” why, then, the future suc
cess of the club would be assured, and the organi
zation would surely enjoy its former prosperity and
power.
The Saturday Night Club has always been a
strong moral organization. Intellectual success is
not placed above moral work in the club, and it has
been a strong factor in the religious life of the
city.
What the club needs now, to carry on the good
work, is more members. And members, too, who
will come regularly, and who will be enthusiastic
and faithful. And let us have them!
The cause of literary societies is a great one.
Once more I assert that The Golden Age and its
able and eloquent Editor, William D. Upshaw, have
well lent their energies and talents in the cause.
For the sake of our young men (and the writer is
sympathetic, for he is one of them) let us stir our
selves in every community and not let organizations
of culture like the Saturday Night Club perish in
the greed and in the materialism of this commer
cial age. Lawton Riley.