Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-10-26
BANQUET OPENS
Y. M. c. A. MEET
la4Iaa.re-f III Is - EHkH
Woman's Auxiliary Serves
Feast to $50 at Annual
Conference.

sIJMMIT, Oct. 26.--With banquet
served by the Woman's Auxiliary
and. covers laid for $50, the annual
conference of the Y. NJ. c. A. opened
here last night.
Charles T. Kilborne, OF East or-
ange, presided. and a feature OF the
spening was the address by Arthur
N. Cotton, of Buffalo, the interna-
tIonai high school secretary. MT
Cotton was well received by the dele
rates. and in speaking of the high
SCHOOL student Christian movement
he said among other things:
.s.,As never before public attention
IL now centred on the high schools
of thp land. While critics are look
anr for weaknesses friends are de-
fsndirg the strong features OF our
system of secondary education.
aIn the meantime the Young Men $
Christian Association is making
rspidAand thorough advance IN work
among the boys of schools,
.arhe 900 high schools offer field
numerically twice as large as the
colleges of the country. Nearly boo'-
600 boys are enrolled as students.
Only & Per Cent. Go 20 College.
"While 1t Is true that only per
per,t. of the high school boys go 10
nollege, the fact remains that from
This number come as per cent. OF
our national leaders. The associa-
tion's oppor ortunity to influence these
4nture leaders is causing local as
socistions to redouble their efforts
st train older
high school boys for Christian lead
ership.
1.-The bows of the upper classes set
the pace, for good or evil, FOR the boys
Of the freshman and sophomore years.
1'he local associations are increasing
ly cooperating to lead these leaders
Ia moral worth and Christian serV-
Ice.
"The effectiveness with which the
associa tion does its work Will help
20 determine, on the one hand, the
kind Of college men these boys are
to be, and, on the other hand, will
decide largely the character of that
greater proportion Of high school
students who neither graduate nor go
10 college.
Inc 0OpI VI oppoi toiiitS - pPS@A~N
wide TO the Young Mems Christian
Association and New Jersey is tax
ing an active interest In the high
school student Christian movement,
which is spreading so rapidly
Throughout the country
Big Bible Class Attendance.
i The speaker called attention to the
work accomplished in Camden last
wear, when 40 per cent. of the high
school enrolment was in attendance
,at Bible study groups in the Young
Mems Christian Association, and told
of the work in Newark, Trenton and
kseveral other cities.
The program today includes devo-
ltional services by G. II. Potter, of
ICrange, and an address by Colonel s.
T. Moulthrop. principal of the Wash
lington Grammar School, Rochester,
/ N. Y, on Living Close to Nature
end What Nature Teaches and DR..
George G. Yarrow. of Newark, will
speak on your Personality"
Tonight Edgar M. Robinson, inter-
national secretary for boys work,
will deliver an address on Boys
Work of North America" and to-
morrow DIR. Peter Roberts will ad-
dress the delegates on whats the
Matter with the Son Of the For
elgner?" In the evening union serv-
Ices of all the churches will be held,
when Arthur NJ. Harris, of Plaindeld,
willrpreside, and John T. Sproull, of
Arlington, will be the speaker. The
closing exercises will be in charge of
CHARLES r. Kilborne, the chairman.