The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-21
Event Will Be Held at Lake
Winona This Year Begin
ming August 18th.
AN INTERESTING PROGRAM.
HELD IN MIDDLE
WEST THAT THOSE IN THIS
TERRITORY MAY HAVE OP-
PORTUNITY OF ATTENDING.

Winona Lake, Ind, May 21.-The
program has just been outlined for
the general conference of 1908, which
conyenes at this place, opening Aug.
2S and closing Sept. 3. The confer
ence is the outgrOwth of a movement
which began in connection of the First
day school interests. in 1867 In 1882
union of Phianthropic labor was
formed and for several years met with
the First-day school conference. In
1898, a religious conference was held
in Chicago, and the next year eduCa-
tiOnal interests were added to the
scope of the conference. A little later
in 1900, the different interests were
CO-Ordinated and the general confer
ence is now a homogeneous body
which takes into consideration the
various activities Of the society OF
Friends. This body which has just
announced its date for WinOna Lake,
meets hiennially and in different sec
tons of the country which gives it OPP
pOrtunity of developing broad ac-
workmanship and a reciprocal inter
est as each section receives the bene-
fit that comes with the stimulus of
preparing for the meeting and the OPP
portunity of the greater number of
members having at some time touch
with this general triennial conference
of the church. Conferences have been
held at Chautauqua Lake, \. Y, at AS
bury Park, y. j., Toronto. Canada and
Mountain Lake Park, Md. This year
WinOna Lake has been selected, with
a view of giving the Friends of the
Middle West a better opportunity of
attending than they have had for sew
eral years. However, there is promise
that every section of the United
States will be we'll represented.
The program shows the discus
sion of such subjects as "Twentieth
Century Conditions" by Henry n. Viii
bur, of SwarthmOre, Pa; "EducatiOn",
by Edward B. RawsOn, superintendent
of the Friends school, New York City;
Friends and Public Education" by
Charles Swain Thomas. head of the
English department in the Shortridge
high school, Indianapolis; The Move
ment for Peace ArbitratiOn,' by Edna
Hopkins Slutes, of CINCINNATI: The
Progress toward Woman Suffrage" by
Mary BentlY Thomas of Sandy Springs
Md; The Past Year in the Purity
Movement" by Mary Travilla of
West Chester. Pa; The White Slave
Traffic. by Earnest A. Bell. of Chi
cagO. Some things relative to the
tobacco habit will be discussed by AL
bert T. Mills, of the University of
Michigan and C. E. Ebinger, NJ D.,
director of physical training in the
State Normal school of PENNSYLVANIA.
Gambling and kindred vices, as we'll
as their effects upon present day life
will have consideration by Supt. Jas.
II. Atkinson of MOorestown. \. J.. and
Edward Harris Of Richmond, Ind. The
present situation of the temperance
movement, will be discussed by DR.
Henry W. Wilbur and the distinguish
ed Indiana jurist, Judge Artman of In
dianapOlis. The PhilanthrOpic outlook
has special attention on the program
by bertha Janey, of Baltimore, Md:
Florence H. Tittensor, of Trenton, \.
j.; Anna NJ. Jacks, of New York City:
Joseph J. Janey, of Baltimore and
John W. Hutchinson of New York
City
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois have quite
a large membership in the Friends
society and the meeting promises to
be one of great interest and large op-
portunities for spiritual and education
al uplift.