Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-29
PEACE AND WHITE
PLAGUE WILL Be
CHURCH THEMES
Pufpits Will Tell 10000 900
Tomorrow How to War
on tuberculosis.

Tomorrow will be Peace Sunday"
and Tuberculosis Day" throughout the
country.
Under the joint auspices of the min
listers of Newark, the Y. NJ. c. A. and
the International Peace Forum, OF
which President Taft is the honorary
president, the peace conference will be
held In the First Presbyterian Church
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. 1t is
expected that every Protestant church
In Essex county and neighboring cities
will be represented at this gathering.
The Rev. DR.. w. J.. Dawson, pastor of
the Third Presbyterian Church, will
preside at the meeting.
The Rev. DR.. w. w. Walker, secre-
tary of the International Peace Forum
of New York, has secured two notable
speakers for the occasion. John Temple
Graves and Henry Clews. The Rev. Dr..
W. Y. Chapman, chairman of the ar
rangements committee, today declared
that everything is in readiness to give
the subject Of peace arbitration more
attention and consideration than it has
had heretofore from the pulpits of the
Newark churches. Notice will be given
tomorrow of the third national peace
conference to be held at Baltimore on
May 4. Possibly a delegation will be
selected to represent Newark at tho
conference.
Sermons on Peace Movement.
Sermons on the peace movement will
be preached in several churches.
Ernest D. Easton, secretary of the
Newark Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
has put in a strenuous week supplying
h demands of the local churches ap-
plying for literature on the subject Of
tuberculosis. More than fifty churches
in h city by their applications have
given evidence of the intention to put
the matter before the different congre-
cations tomorrow. This literature has
been published in eight different Ian
guages, insuring the knowledge con-
tanned in them to be impaired to the
horde of Newarkers who do not read
English well.
At the Second Presbyterian Church
tomorrow evening Mr.. Easton will give
a lecture on how to remain healthy and
thereby avoid tuberculosis illustrated
with stereopticon views. Next Tuesday
evening he will do the same thing In
the lube Memorial Congregational
Church.
BY the officers OF the NationsI As
ISOLATION for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis, 1t is estimated that
fully 10000, 900 c~hurchgoers will tomor-
rom have their attention called to the
Importance Of cooperating with the
local associations. The national az
ISOLATION has asked the pastors of the
churches not to devote the entire day
tomorrow to the cause Of fighting the
white plague. but to arrange for public
meetings during the following week,
when the prevention of tuberculosis
can be discussed at lengah.
Negro Death-Rate High,
Arrangements have beer completed
for the public demonstration of the
negroes war on tuberculosis at Orange
to morrow. 1t is well-known that TIE
tuberculosis death rate among the me-
groes is very high. and the negr minis
ters at Orange have instilled the mem
bers of their congregations with tbs
idea that each should enlist as an In
dividual warrior against the plague
The public demonstration at Orange to-
morrow will be made in the eorIn Of a
/ parade.