El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-11

ers Of the men and religion
/ forward movement. the great crusade
| for the addition Of 100000 masculine
| names to the church membership rolls
! Of the country, can share the hopes Of
/ its leaders for It's ultimate success. The
/ movement has not been undertaken
/ hastily or in spirit Of hysterical ex-
/ element For more than four years it
/ has been under careful consideration
/ by conservative men who do not under
take any new project without carefully
| counting the cost and estimating the re-
| suits.
Details Worked Out.
After the idea Of a campaign in the
I interest Of the men and religion for
ward movement had been carefully con-
| sidered, several hundred men gave more
than q year to working out It's QeLdlIs-
At countless meetings and gatherings
the big program has been gone over
carefully discussed and analysed rom
every possible direction After the
final meeting for the preparatory WORK
which terminated on rally day, Septein-
| Der "A, the 80 men who have been Sc
! lected by the committee or 81 as the
team workers went to a quiet place N
the country near Minneapolis ana
| there, with no human audiences, made
their final preparation for the opening
Of the Minneapolis convention early IN
October, which meeting began the cam
me full program for the eight day
convention which viii be carried out n
each city, has been arranged IN Us
fullest detail by the committee OF 81
It begins with a conference on SdtuE-
dav afternoon followed in the evening
by prayer service for all the cnurches-
On the Sunday following special serF-
ices are held in all OF the cnurchcs anu
several great mass meetings are le-u-
n nTrra a
Is to so community extension meetings
held in shops, factories, halls colLSsSs
parks and on street corners IN -1ou 7
dav is a conference between the local
committee Of 100 and the team OF eA-
perts. Following this are the interue-
nominatiOual mems and boys banquet
with addresses by the team eAp5t y
and local leaders. The DIG paLau5 u
men and boys takes place on TUESDAY
afternoon and on Tuesday also the pro
gram OF the real convention DeglIls-. Inc
DELEGATES from the auxiliary towns dIe
in attendance on Tuesday and "ednes-
day, and beginning at half past IN
the morning the two days nave every
hour filled with careIuLly p-aAll5u
meetings for the consideration OF me
various subjects included in the move
ment
A feature OF the eight day cOnVen-
ton in each city Is the institute held
at 4 o'clock every afternoon. -Inls IN
stitute consists Of classes IN eacn OF
the five subjects included in the move
ment Each class is in charge OF one
Of the eXpeTts,a specialist in that par
ttCular line Of work. The local work
ers select the subject in which they
are most interested and remain IN tnar
class during the campaign, keeping
with their leader each day.
The Minneapolis gathering SATISFIED
all expectations and gave wonderful
impetus to the movement In that city
No less than 80 cities sent delegates
and became organized as auXiltarles and
the methods used at MlnneapO-ls are
being rapidly reproduced elsewhere.
The city was divided into FOUR districts
and during each Of the eight days cam
paign a large number OF meetings were
held in each district. AS many as %
meetings were held in different parts
OF the city in q single day in order
that the greatest number Of people
possible might be reached. some OF
these were held IN shops and stores.
One large blacksmith shop gathered
several enthusiastic audiences at noon
day and 4 o'clock services.
In each district the same subject was
considered on the same day different
members OF the team OF leaders taxing
charge. Besides the large meetings in
the churches, there were many smaller
ones and the leaders lent a ready ear
TO the perpleXing questions or any
church worker. That is where the
practical religious engineering came IN.
Survey Of Conditions,
The survey Of the religious and eco
nomio conditions Of every town in
which a campaign IS conducted Is or
dered by the committee OF 80 ana
blanks for that purpose are furnished.
These blanks contain over 1900 ques-
tions, and the answers TO them, gath
cred by the local workers, are to be
sent on to tie Headquarters Of the men
and religion forward movement in New
York, where they Will be compiled into
statistics. These will be made up into
so charts with diagrams to emphasize
them. These charts are to be dis
tributed as guides for the conservation
work which Will follow this active cam
paign work. This conservation work
VIII be carried on by the interchurch
fed Iteration and the charts viii be avail
able in pamphlet form for those cities
These charts show statistics by de-
nominations of all Of the Protestant |
churches in the different cities. They
show the church attendance in the
morning to be go percent and in the /
evening 40 percent. The membership /
chart shows so percent women, 80 per- /
cent men, Is percent girls and z percent /
boys. These charts show that only l
about 10 percent of the laDOrluE people ]
attend religious services on Sunday. I
They also indicate that there are an /
average Of two saloons for every church Z
in many cities
The charts have already been pre-
pared for 20 cities and the work is be- !
ing rapidly pushed to cover the en- /
tire country. The gathering Of the sta /
tistics IS generally done under the di- /
rectiOn Of the committee Of social serv-
ice In each city. They also give Crimi- /
nal statistics and information concern
ing the natlonalities of the men and /
boys. They give the percentage Of peC- /
pie attracted by, amusements, and the /
classes Of ADJUSTMENTS pRtronized. They /
Indicate the number Of active workers
IN the churches, the classes Of workers,
the number of training classes, prayer
circles, Bible study classes and their
by sex. The charts VIII
show the amount of the church
finances, how they are obtained and
their distribution, and by the COmpari-
son of one city with another general
dea OF the church conditions of the
country viii be accessible
Dallas Broad Construction.
In Dallas, Texas the survey has been
,arried on In its brOadest construction. I
It has secured Information as to the
percentage OF illiteracy. the density Of
population In cOngested blocks what is
)eing done to AmericaniZe the immi-
grant, the number Of men who reside
n the suburbs what interest they have
n the conditions OF the city in which
hey do business, the number Of tele-
'hOnes, the number of automobiles, the
REVEALING rate of wages, the hours of
a Dor the total wealth Of the CITY fits 3