The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-07
will be secured to bring this

county will be secured to bring this
about.
The union labor interests of Des
Moines have long been planning the
erection of a labor temple. A SUBJ
committee is cooperating with them.
and definite plans will be announced
within a few days. The committee are
already at work looking for a site and
the securing Of ways and means to
make a labor temple a possibility.
Steps are being taken for the i'm;
mediate organization Of a Joint social
service registration bureau which
would receive reports from all of the
different charitable organizations Of
the city. The principal charitable or
CARNATIONS have already promised
their cooperation, and there is every
reason to believe that it will be in ex-
istence within q few months.
Another committee is at work to Sc
cure legislation which will result in a
better system of vital statistics than is
available at present. The other SUBJ
jects that Mr.. Robins recommended
for consideration r being kept in
soon as the matters already outlined
are under way.
The committee on community ex-
tension was hard at the work. with a
large number Of shops being organ
lied before the eight-day campaign.
These meetings have been greatly
strengthened, and about twenty shops
number will be increased from week to
week, and it is expected that practi-
cally every place in the city where
men are employed in large numbers
will be covered before spring. Dozens
Of men who never addressed a shop
meeting before in their lives hav been
enlisted, and the universal expression
is that the meetings are doing the
leaders and speakers almost as much
good as the men in the shops them
selves.
The committee on evangelism has
planned a series of Sunday evening
services for men in the churches of
the city, and these are being we'll at
tended. A number of large mass
meetings are being arranged for diff
ferent sections Of the city during the
winter. These will be addressed by
we'll known speakers.
The committee Is urging individual
evangelistic work everywhere, the idea
being that every church member is
to relate himself to one mar or group
Of men not now in the church.. with q
view to leading them to commit them
selves definitely to the christian life
The plan is also being considered OF
districting the city and placing one
man in charge of each block or OF a
small portion convenient to his home
and make him responsible for persona,
work in that section.
The committee on missions Is being
~reorganized and recruited. n ole
laymen's missionary committee was
made a nucleus of this new missionary
committee, and the work will be pros.
ecuted energetically.
Tn1 1oroun{t<oA mn outside cities *
hard at work. A weekend campaign
is being conducted practically ever,
week, and after January l.. severa
teams will be at work visiting the
towns and cities Of the Des Moines dis
trict. Most encouraging reports come
the calls for teams are so numerous
that dificulty is being experienced II
getting enough men to visit the cities
that are asking for weekend cam
paigns. The work is we'll in hand
however, and practically every tow
Of any size in the Des Motnes distric
will be covered by visits Of from on
to five men between now and April.
So far from dying out. the interes
lin the movement is increasing ever!
day. 1t Is the consensus Of opinion
that there is twice as much tnteres
now as there was at the beginning o
the eight-dAy campaigns, and, In fact
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there is practically twice as much in
terest as there was at the n of tn
eight-day campaign. The labor inter
ests of the city are in hearty sympath,
with the movement, speakers are be
ing welcomed In the shops, bible stu
dents are delighted with the new ia
cilities for training. the social AM
charitable agencies of the city arc ex
periencing the benefits of the move
ment, church men who were skeptica
of the plan are now in hearty sympa
thy with it; boys work has received
tremendous impetus; the entire stat
is looking to Des Moines for assistanc
and direction as never before. an
plans for conservation are working gu
with much greater success than wa
anticipated even by the most sanguine
In a word. the Men and Religion
Forward Movement In Des Moines an
Iowa is universally declared to be tn
most practical agency for furtherin
religious activities h a has ever bee
introduced in the state.
LIZARD COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Claude Heard He Was TO Be Fate
and Wouldn't Stand for IT.
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