The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-23
5-YEAR NEE TING
OF FRIENDS CLOSED
Subscribe $7,258 for Estab-
lishment of New Publica-
ton Office Here.

In response to the call for funds to
establish a central publishing house
and an official organ of the church
with headquarters at Richmond, dele
gates to the Five Year meeting OF
Friends at Indianapolis yesterday OBJ
tanned s7,25S in pledges and cash. The
convention closed yesterday.
For the salary of the general secre-
tary created by this meeting, $1,000
a year for five years was subscribed
and as guarantee fund to make up
any possible deficits in the expense of
running the church paper, pledges
were received for s1,714 to run for
three years, after which period, it is
supposed, the paper will be self-sus-
tanning. OF this sum $3.50 was pledged
by one man and is to be paid when
the publication is started. A cash
contribution of SIS was received for
the department Of evangelism and
church extension.
Executive Board Organizes.
At the close of the afternoon session
the executive committee met and or
ganized. 1t is composed of chairmen
of departmental boards and commit
tees, with six additional members
from delegations not represented by
chairmen. The board is as follows:
Allen D. Hole commission on peace,
chairman; Willard Trueblood, board
young peoples activities, secretary;
Joseph j. Mills, clerk of the Five
Year Meeting, member ex-officio;
Carolena M. Wood, board on Welfare
of negroes; Edgar Nicholson, board
on legislation and temperance; Rufus
M. Jones, board on social service;
missions; Harry r. Keats, board on
evangelism and church extension:
Robert L. Kelly, educational board
Richard Uaworth, board on Bible
school; Miles White, Jr, board on FL
nance; John M. Newlin, Kansas Year
ly Meeting; George d. Weeks, Nebras-
ka Yearly Meeting; Ellison Purdy.
Wilmington Yearly Meeting; Mary M.
Hobbs, North Carolina Yearly Meet
ing; Albert S. Rodgers, Canada Year
ly Meeting, and A. w. Taylor, Califor-
MIA Yearly Meeting.
From this general committee a sub
ordinate body was chosen to have act
i've charge of the affairs of the church.
It is as follows: Allen d. Hole, chair
man; Rufus M. Jones, Carolena NJ
Wood, Willard Trueblood and Ellison
Purdy.
object to BiIlboards.
The commercial use of the name
Quaker" on products ranging from
rolled oats to whisky was discussed
James NJ. Wood, delegate from New
York, recommended that the church
take some action to prevent the indis-
criminate use of the term Quaker" He
was informed that there is statute
prohibiting the commercialzing of the
name of any religious sect in Indiana
The legislative committee was in
structed to work for uniform adop-
ton of this or similar law.
A central executive office of the
Friends church. in Richmond, will be
established in the near future under a
resolution offered by the business
committee and adopted by the yester-
day afternoon session. Richmond
again defeated Indianapolis in an eff
fort to persuade the church enterpris-
es to come to thai city, the other time
being when the meeting voted to hold
the next five years meeting in Rich
mond.
A general secretary and all assist
ants necessary will be put in charge
of the central office. The meeting
voted to pay the office expenses out
OF the funds of the five years meet
ing. The establishment of the gener-
al office comes as a result of a press
ing demand from the delegates that
something be done TO coordinate the
different activities and to centralize
the executive authority of the church
boards and commissions. The secre-
tary is to direct his first work in the
home mission and church extension
fields.
An executive board was provided for
on recommendation of the business
committee to consist Of the clerk of
the five years meeting, and the chair
man Of the following boards and COM
mittees: Evangelistic and church ex-
tension, foreign missions, education,
legislation, and temperance, social
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