Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-08
CONGRESS
 WILL DISCUSS WAYS
 ID IMPROVE MORALS
Delegates from All Parts of the World Convene in Min
 neapolis to Start Campaign

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Nov. 7.- Nearly two thousand delegates, rep resenung leading religious. eduea- , tional, social. civic and reform bod ies in nearly all parts of the world and including official representatives Of the governments of the United States and of Canada and of many governments in Europe and in other sections of the globe, were assembled in the Westminster Presbyterian church on NieolIet Avenue. in this city today when the opening session of the Seventh International Purity Congress was called to order by B. s. Steadwell, of La Crosse. Wis, the president of the Worlds Purity Fed erat.on. The congress will remain in session until and including next We'd nesday, Nov. F, and in addition to
 the general sessions to be held in the Westminster Presbyterian church { there will be special and department al meetings at the Auditorium, snort distance from the church.
 At a gathering which was held in La Cross, Wis, on Oct. 17-19, 1905, the National Purity Federation was organized for the suppression of whit slavery and public vice, the pro
 motion of a high and single stand ard of morals for men and women, the safe and sane instruction of youth in sex hygiene, and in further ance of such economic, civic and nor al reforms as will conserve the high est character and life Of individuals as well as of nations. As the inter national character of the work under taken was realized, the name of the organization was later changed to the Worlds Purity Federation and the movement begun in La Crosse met awith cordial support and sympathy in al civilized countries of the world B. s. Steadwell, tbe original organ izer of the moveIneht, who was elect ed president of the National Purity Federation when it was founded in 1905, was retaineG as president Of the Worlds Purity Federation and is supported by a large staff of co-work CTS. vice presidents and members oi the advisory board.
 Among the distinguished delegates in attendance who will address the congress upon various topics under consideration are Dr. Meshaya Deva Shastr., an educator and reformer ot India; the Rev. TT A. Moore of Toron- 10. one of the yice presidents of the federation; Governor Eberhart of this state: C. NJ. sheldon of Topeka, Kas., author of Tn His Steps Rev Theodore Hanson, of Topeka, kas.; Stanley w. Finch of Baltimore, spe- cial commissioner Of the federal de partment for the suppression Of the white slave traffic; Rabbi Rudolph Coffee of P.ttsburg, Pa, Arthur Bur rage FarweI of Chicago, president or the law and order league of that city United States Senator William .. Fenyon of Iowa; W. W. Byers, form erly speaker of the house and attor- nev general of Iowa; Rev. Charles w.. Gordon and pr. James l.. Gordon, two noted reformsrs, of Winnipeg, Manit. Flint Crozier, delegate rom the Phil Iipius Islands; Reginald Wright Kauf- man of Cioughton, England' and many other men and women Of na- tionaI or international prominence h the field of reform.
 Special addresses will be delivered by other distinguished workers, in cluding Ng Poon Chow of Canton China, one of the greatest and most brilliant scholars and Teformers oi that country; BITS. Catherine Booth ClibJorn, daughter Of the late Gener- al William Booth of the Salvation Army; Virginia Brooks of Chicago, known as the modern Joan Of Arc; Mrs. Florence Kelly, of New York, general secretary of the National consumers league and Mrs. Alice
 stebbins Wells, the first appointed and most widely known poicewoman of America.
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