The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-08-14


| with the heat great deal passing
| ing, the 9th, we all arose early as we
| were to arrive at Los Angeles on
schedule time, { a. m. From about
o'clock that morning up until we
arrived we were showered at every
station with fruits and flowers. The
platforms of the stations were crowd
ed with California Endeavors with
their arms loaded with the beautiful
| flowers and fruits. They would
| throw them at us through the win
dows and pass through the trains
and shower us with them. sat with
my lap running over with aprlcots
and oranges and flowers all over my
head and all l could pin on me. You
can imagine how we felt over such a
| welcome.
Promptly at | o'clock we arrived
and were met by pages and commit
| tees on entertainment. There were
almost 1000 pages, ushers and diff
| ferent committees stationed all over
| the city to assist us to any place we
| wished to go. 1t took all day to
assign the delegates to the different
places of entertainment, register and
| decorate the booths. When we regis
tered we received an International G.
E. pin with a little orange attached,
a song book, box of figs, program
and map of the city. No one was ad-
mitted into the tabernacle who did
not wear this International badge.
| The great auditorium where the con-
vention was held was located at
Fiesta Park, the seating capacity OF
the tabernacle was 10000. The
choir was composed of 1000 voices.
The decorations were very pretty,
being carried out to great extent
in the orange effect, and of course,
there were palms, roses and other
flowers galore. One very noticeable
feature were the different flags, rep
resenting the different countries in
this Christian Endeavor movement,
being American, France, Spain, ia
pan, China, and Canada, but none
looked as pretty as the Stars and
Stripes There were nearly 100 diff
ferent denominations represented in
this convention. The convention
motto: was Take Unto You the
Whole Armor of Cod"
Now for the program of the great
Twenty-sixth International Christian
Endeavor convention held at Los
Angeles, California, July GA, 1913:
The opening session was held at
the Auditorium Endeavor, Fiesta Park
commencing at 1880 p. m. with Pres
ident Francis E. Clark, D. D., LII. D.,
of Massachusetts, presiding and
Prof. Percy S. Foster, Washington,
T. D. c., musical director. President
Clark was presented with the con-
vention gavel made of orange wood,
making the twenty-sixth gavel he
has received. DR.. Clark in his open
ing remarks insisted that every part
of the program begin promptly on
! time, making the impression upon
the Endeavors to be prompt with all
their meetings. There were a num-
Der of greetings to the convention
read by DR.. Clark from Presi-
dent Wilson. William Jennings
Bryan, Hon. J. H. Mcdonald,
of Canada, from Hawaii, Ten
nessse, Indiana, and other
places. There was an address OF well
come by the mayor of the city, and
response by DR.. Clark and the ev-
ening's exercises closed with the Cal
ifornia song. At $3.50 was the get
ting acquainted hour, and all dele
gates were requested to meet in their
own booths, and here | must make
mention of our own pretty little
Iowa booth. 1t was the center of at
traction, and that made us feel quite
proud of the fact. Former Iowa peo-
pie simply blocked the aisle asking
questions and searching the register
for some familiar name, and we
availed ourselves of the opportunity
to give this "yell:"
l. O. W. A,
Grandest state of the U. S. A.
C.. Els prove it by their actions,
That they are the states attractions.
You should have heard the encore
the Iowa song, and gave number OF
other "yells," which were so appro-
pirate that 1 thing ! shall have to
make mention of couple more:
Blue and Maize, Blue and Maize,
C. E. Workers we can raise;
Maize and Blue, Maize and Blue,
They can show you what to do.
The following one we always gave
at the close.
Iowa, Iowa, that's the stuff,
Iowa G. E., that's enough.
The "yells' and songs were ar
ranged by Arthur Whitney, of Des
Moines, Central Christian church.
Mr.. Whitney also had charge of our
booth.
On Thursday morning delegates
scattered out to the different
churches throughout the city, the
reason for this being on account OF
so many different subjects and topics
to be discussed that all these ses-
sions could not be held at the Audi
forum Endeavor, so all the churches
of the city were utilized for these
sessions, being Twenty-Five, and as
it was impossible to hear all of these,
one had to choose the topic that in
terested them the most and then at
tend the church where that particu-
lar topic was discussed. So that
morning I chose ''The Christian En-
deavor Efficiency Plans which was
held in the First Methodist Epis-
copal church. The leader of the meet
ing was Harl Lehman, Interstate
Field Secretary, Boston, Mass. l can
not hoo;n RI foil vou how mich good