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12 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 The Golden Age’s Liberal Clubbing Offer. Select Your Reading For the Coming Year. The regular subscription to The Golden Age is two dollars per year. 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THE GOLDEN AGE. e have for sale one Columbia Typewriter, entirely new, price SIOO.OO, at a great bargain. THE GOLDEN AGE. \ 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. 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Be sure and get these books and you will see the human side of th P cess of the great Tabernacle in Atlanta. c ' THE GOLDEN AGE, Atlanta, Ga. 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.