Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-20
THE woRLD's roUrHs, CONGRESS.
A Gathering That viii Stand out Unique
and Alone Among the Many Notable
Speoiaitics at Chicago.

A Gathering That win Stand out Unique
and Alone Among the Many Notable
SpeoiaItics at Chicago.
Among the more than hundred diff
fcrcnt congresses to be held during tine
| Worlds Fair, under the auspices of the
Worlds Congress Auxiliary, the one
that stands out unique and alone, having
no precedent in the history of such gath.
erngs, will be the Worlds Youths
Congress, which will convene on July
18th and hold three halliday sessions.
The fact of its having no precedent, so
far from initiating at all against it,
seems to be in its favor, as something
like Il general feeling prevails that this
Columbian year should mark the inau-
Euratlon of some new and decided move
mCnt looking toward the enlistment of
the youth of America along lines calcu-
lated TO most rapidly develop in them
lofty sentiments of patriotism and de-
cided notions of what constitutes truest
citizenship.
Delegates to this congress are either
boys or girls and are drawn from the
grammar and high school grades of the
public schools in every county in the
United States, though confined to ages
between ID and 81 years. In Chicago the
work was taken up with great enthu-
siasm in the schools under the recon-
| mendatiOn of the Board of Education,
and nearly every school already has its
delegate enrolled. Most Of these dele
gates were chosen by an essay contest in
the several schools, and it was hoped by
the committee having this congress in
charge that the delegates everywhere
| could be chosen in this way, but it is
now so important that the names of
these representatives of their several
schools should be in the hands Of the
committee at the earliest possible time
that this committee urges teachers
| everywhere to at once appoint in their
schools delegate and an alternate and
forward their names, with age, county,
name of school and postoflice address to
the secretary of the committee, +. Fred
erick Bliss, 7l3 Royal Insurance Build
ing, Chicago.
Any teacher is at liberty to send
names, and if from any county a larger
number is received than that TO which
its population entities it, the committee
will select the proper number from
those first received. 70 insure the full
quota from each county the committee
MpulN W 5llNl II llhiIltS VI uelebdlGo ana
alternates were sent from every school,
Requests have been sent to the minis
tiers Of education in all foreign lands
to convey the committees invitation to
the youth of their several countries, and
asking for their appointment in the
same ratio and on the same terms as III
this country. From these replies are
being received every day. 1t is not ex
pected that any large plumber of youth
of foreign lands can actually be in
attendance, but their appointment and
the publication of their names in the
final reports of the gathering would be
to them matter Of quite pardonablc
pride and the certificate of their delegate.
ship would bea highly priced souvenir Of
the Columbian celebration. 1t is hoped
that every teacher reading this will
Immediately act in the matter and that
young people who are attending school
will bring this to the attention of their
teachers. In asking questions requiring
reply, stamp should be enclosed.