Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-20


limitations are no longer eligible as
delegates to boys conferences annual
meetings. This then was one reason
for this Community Efficiency con-
ference the young men wanted an an
nual gathering where they could
learn how to be of the greatest use
| to their town.
The second reason for calling to-
gether such conference was based
on the conviction that all over Maine
! in all ranks of life. there were men |
who regardless of creed, opinion, and
income were anxious to know how to
make their lives count for the greatest |
service for their own community. But
| while the majority of men might be
too busy or indifferent to such things
there was in every community some
business men, physicians. teachers,
! pastors, newspaper men and farmers
who wanted expert advice on what to
| do that was worth while, and how to
do it. 1t was this conviction that led
some prominent members of the State
Board of Trade, the State Grange, |
! State Sunday school, Civic League and !
| the different UNCONVENTIONAL agencies
of the State to cooperate with the
Laymen's Department of the State Y.
| M. c. A. in promoting an annual Com |
rhunity Efficiency conference which |
would be open to all men who desired
to be of service to their fellow men.
While the conference is the first of
it's kind in the country and one which |
has the promise of great things no
attempt is being made to make 1T a
large affair, but rather group of men
who are willing to learn and work.
Not long ago, some of the men most
| interested in this movement in Maine, |
had an informal gathering at which |
an executive committee was named |
to make arrangements for the first con-
| ference. This committee consists of
Hon. Carl E. Milliken of Island Falls, |
president of the Maine Senate of the
last session of the Legislature; DR..
Leon S. Merrill of Orono, dean of the
University of Maine; Rev. H. E. Dun
mack of Augusta, and A. A. Head,
Esq. secretary of the Laymen's Chris
tan Federation of Maine, of Waterville.
Since that meeting these men have
I been actively at work on the conven-
ton and they have arranged for a
program that promises to be one of the
most interesting ever carried out the
State.
This conference will aim for three
things:
% To bring together representative
laymen to consider the common problems
| of community betterment
~ To study the policies now existing
among the various constructive well
as destructive agencies in the community.
90 To avoid duplication of effort and
unite the constructive agencies in their
common task of community betterment.
In order to make a community efficient
and to master the situation. it is neces-
sary TO analyze the existing state of af
fairs and to have an accurate knowledge
| of them. No superficial observations,
second hand information or traditional
beliefs can here be used. rather it is nee
essary to seek to make allowance for ra-
tional and practical conditions. to estab-
| lish ideal standards based on funda-
mental truths and actual knowledge and
! plan in advance so as to be in a state Of
universal preparedness As one step in
getting the facts, four survey commits
| sions have been appointed and these COM
missions have been requested to find
What are the actual facts regarding the
several Statewide problems, and If the
methods now used can be performed in
better manner than heretofore prac-
/ ticed.
| The field of the different commissions
and the members of them are:
| / Christian Unity:
(a) The Overlapping and Underman-
ming of the Religious Field.
| OBJ Growth and Present Status of the
Christian Unity Movement.
(c) Churchman'S Federation |
Practical First Step in Christian |
| Unity.
Members-Robert Gardiner: lawyer of
4 &c. ,as. rl1r
professor, Bangor Theological Seminary |
Rev. F. II. Means, pastor Congregational
church. Madison: Rev. c, M Woodman
pastor Friends church, Portland; E. K |
Jordan, lumberman, Alfred.
/ 2-Rural Life: Il
ta) Rural Leadership.
(b) A Re-directed Rural Education.
(c) The Internationally of City and
Country.
(d) Good Roads
Members-C. s. Stetson, master of the
Maine State Grange. Greene. chairman;
Rev. Raymond Pearl, biologist Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono;
Francis L.. Littlefeld,. Portland Daily
| professor of education, University of
Maine, Orono; DR.. George T. Files. pro-
fessor of Germanic languages, Bowdoin
College. Brunswick.
| 3-Relief and Welfare Work:
(a) Prison Reform
(b) The Social Evil.
| tc) The Delinquent Woman and Girl |
Me1nbers-Jefferson c. Smith. State
secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A., Waterville |
chairman; Benjamin B. Sanderson, law |
yer, Portland: DIR. F. N. Whittier, pro- |
| fessor of Hygiene and Bacteriology |
Bowdoin College Brunswick; George E. !
Fogg, lawyer, Portland w. o. Fuller |
editor Rockland Courier Gazette, Rock |
| land.
| 4-Civic Righteousness:
/ Aa) Intemperance.
OBJ Party Slavery.
(c) Civic Indifference.
I'D Party Responsibility.
Membership. Wilbur F. Berry, SUPER |
intendent Maine Christian Civic League, |
| Waterville, chairman; Clifford E. Nc |
McGlauf1in. lawyer Portland; Walter |
| Danforth, treasurer, Bangor & Aroostook |
Railroad Bangor; DR.. George Stearns |
professor of economies, University Of
| Maine,
The program will not stop with the dis |
/ cussion of these subjects for men of ma
tional prominence have been secured |
whose names will be announced later.
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