Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-16
URGES OLDER BOYS
TO Be LIKE CHRIST
Y. NJ. c. A. Superintendent of
Newark Tells Them to
Be Leaders.
SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE
AT THE MCLEAN HOME
Friendship, on Wisconsin Avenue,
Is the Scene of Addresses to Youths
During Day Of Exercises.

Urging each Of his hearers to be
leader in this day as Christ was in His
day, Ivan P. Flood. Sunday school super
lntendent and director Of the boys work
OF the Young Mems Christian Association
OF Newark, n. j.. addressed the religious
conference for colder boys" at Friend
ship, the country home of John r. Nc
! Lean on Wisconsin avenue near CIeve-
land Park. last evening. The conference,
which terminated q day Of addresses. re-
lating to the opportunities for older
Christian boys in athletics. business
high and preparatory school, and Sunday
school and church work. was to have been
in the form of camp fire meeting. Owing
to the fnclement weather the meeting was
held indoors. about an open fireplace.
Nearly two hundred boys over fifteen
years of age were present.
Mr.. Flood declared the present time is
the greatest for the boys to begin their
work for Christianity. He said 1t was
great continental movement and a
1 great Christian movement. Religion Is
| life.'' he said. and the fellows in school
| need such life
Yesterday Afternoon Session.
| At the session yesterday afternoon,
which was designated as the high and
preparatory period. Dwight Chase of the
Technical High School spoke on The
Moral and Religious Needs OF High
| School Boys. Are They Being Metz A
discussion Of the subject, led by j. S.
| Whitmore Of New York, followed the ad-
dress.
| Henry Fisher of the Western High
School prepared a paper on High School
Students and Bible Study" which was
read by Stanton Henry Of the Western
High School. Mr.. Whitmore also dis
cussed this subject. What Is the High
School Student Christian Movement?"
was the subject of paper by Ernest
Fortier of the Technical High School.
Lenwood OFT of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association prepared a paper on
The Opportunity of the Older Christian
Boy in Business which was read by
Bush Brown. A discussion of this sub
ject was led by David NJ. Lea.
The third days session Will be he'd at
2:45 o'clock this afternoon at Polls The
alter. when the Poll Mandolin Club, under
the direction Of Prof. Walter T. Holt, will
| render a concert until $3.50 O'Clock, which
Is to be followed by a mass meeting for
boys over fifteen years Old. j. A. Whit
more OF New York Is to deliver the prin-
cipai address.
Boys Work Committee.
The boys work committee, under whose
| auspices the conference is being held,
is composed of James Sharp, chairman;
NJ. w. Baldwin, DR.. George H. Ashley, j.
N Harding, Benjamin r. Johnson, Grant
Leet, Norton Little. E. s. Martin. James
E. West, l. w Huntington, DIR. w. S.
Small DR.. G. 0. Smith, William Knowles
Cooper, Charles T. Titmann. William l..
| Gordon Law, L. w. Martin and Sidney
| Leech.
Delegates to the conference are J.
wilbur Alderman, E. W. Austin, Regin-
aid Boyd, Ernest NJ. Boss. Herbert l..
Bursley, Harold f. Burton, Harlow P.
Burnside. Arthur Buell., Delno P. Buck,
Walter Buchler. Robert Bromley, Charles
Boteler, Robert T. Booth, T. Herbert
Bonnet. Charles Bolglano. Stanley Will
liam Bell. Stephen Baldwin, NJ. NJ. Bald
| win. Earl Bailey. James Carr. Harry
| Irving Clarkson. Conway Coe, Stephen
| Colliday, Frank Cox, Carroll Cunning
| ham. Ford Chase, Lemuel Davenport.
Ralph Dowden, Howard l.. Derrick, Ben
jamin b. Dowell, Mark De Grange. S. l..
Daw, +. Harmon Eakle, John Eisman,
Richard Ellis, L. NJ. Elf. H. W. Fisher,
l.. Fleming, Douglas Fitton, Robert Gull
land. Robert Garner, Raymond Gatchett.
f. c. Colt, jr.; Alvin Goodwin. James
King Gray, Lee Groesose, Harry Gill
bert, w. w. Harrison. E. p. Hardeli.
Lloyd Harrison, Charles Hartung. Jar
mon Hendricks. Jesse Higgins, Harold A.
Hitler, Orme Hiltabidle Joseph Holmes.
Shelton Higgins, Stanton Henry, Victor
Hartshorn. Elmer p Hardy, Robert A.
Ide, John Irwin. Robert r. johnson,
Bertram Kinney. Donald b. kimball, Ell
mer L. Kayser, Harold G. Lawton. James
v. Lloyd. Norman Landenslager. John NJ
Latimer, ]. Frank Little. James H. Lit
t,ehales, Robert Mish William Middleton,
Fred Mills, William T. Mortimer, H.
Evan McElfresh. Lenwood OFT, Carl Por-
ter, Walter X. Pettus. Robert Peter. jr..
Donald Preston. Walter Dean Rose.
Donald Simpson. W. w. Scott, Mark
Shoemaker. Leonard Sargent Charles c.
Smith. Clyde Smith, Charles A. Stott,
Jerome Sutherin. Len Thompson, Robert
S. Trimble. Nelson Tobey. Edward W.
Tibbots. Alvin A. Vande Walker Francis
E. Van Schaick. Edward L. Wilde, Abram
Wingate. Philip G. Wrightman. William
K. Wilbur, Ernest T. Williams, Joseph
Wilson. J. Raymond Wells. Lewis Wat
kins. Richard L. Yates. Hunter Yeatman,
Gartrell hewitt, Chester V. Harding,
James r. Boyd and Robert Bayne