Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-09
SPROULL AGAIN IS
ENDEAVORER HEAD
Twelfth Consecutive Term as
President-DeIegates Pledged
for Local Option.
Special to tho Evening Star.


ELIZABETH, Oct. s.-support n
candidates favoring local option was
pieoged by the New Jersey Christian
EndeaVor Union at it's closing session
last night. John T. Sproull, of Arling-
ton, was elected president for tha
tWeirth consecutive time. the choice
again being made unanimously ana
enthusiastically. Miss Nellie X. Foote
OF Euzabeth, was reelected secretary.
and the other officers chosen were ths
rollowing: Treasurer w. w. Ander-
son, of Trenton. succeeding W. G.
Acken, Of Metuchen; presidents
w; nsoeTt Thomas, Of Milford; ]. W.
White and Rev. X. L. Barber, OF
Sterling.
The support of candidates for ,ha
Legislature fayoring local option was
IN line with the unions slogan OF a
Saloonless Nation by 1920" Members
or the Legislature who voted for local
optlon last winter will, acc pr1ingiy.
receive the unions support, il was as
sumed
Two new members were elected TO
the a.uvisory board and they are Rev.
Il. I'll. Deal, Paterson, and Rev. Wal
lace MARBLE, Hammondton. The
ADVISORS reelected are: Rev. John w.
Van Zanten, Metuchen; Rev. August
W. oOilbCt REV. M. Jo-
| seph Twomey, Newark; Rev. Charles
u. Goodall, Roselle; Rev. Edward
Dawson, Passaic; Rev. Elliott Field,
West Hoboken, and Rev. Samuel D.
Price, Camden.
More than 1900 delegates and their
friends We're at the last session OF
the conference and they heard WILL
lam Shaw, LII. D., general secretary
of the national association, deliver an
| address on THE New Increase and
| Efficiency Standards" DIR. Shaw Is
candidate for Governor of Massa-
| chusetts, on the Prohibition ticket.
Devotional services last night were
conducted by Rev. Philip Strong, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
! Plainfield. Various committees re-'
| ported happenings of the past twelve
months and the report of the norni-
mating committee was read by Fred
erick Mintel, of Railway. The Ep-
worth male quartet entertained with
| several selections.
Pageant Portrays Work.
A foreign mission pageant was
given after the business was trans
acted at the afternoon session and
while it was in progress the Grey
stone Presbyterian Junior choir of 100
sang. Groups of boys and girls por-
trayed. natives of Mexico. Indians,
Mormons immigrants, mountaineers
and Alaskans. Children from the Cen
| tral Baptist, Methodist Protestant
| Greystone, Hope Memorial. st. James.
| Bethany and other churches took
part.
Home missions also were described
| in pageant and this event was SYM
bolic of living pictures Roger Acker.
who trained the majority of the chill
dren, was in charge of the pageant OF
home missions, and Mrs. Arthur %.
Warner and Miss Mae Nice directed
the foreign play.
The principal address of the after-f
noon was delivered by Professor
James Melvin Lee, director of jour-l
nalism In the New York University.s
| "Christian Endeavor and the News
paper" was the subject of Professor
Lees talk, which was along practical
lines. The work OF the press and the
work of the pulpit are very much
alike. according to the speaker
The first address of the eighth ses-
sion was made by Alfred r. Baxter,
OF Trenton, who is superintendent o.
! the fresh air department of the Chris
/ tian Endeavor Union. Another ad-
dress was made by Rev Adelbert
| Chapman. of Hackensack. snperina
tendent OF the evangelistie DEPART
ment. President Sproull delivered 4
brief talk on "The Possibilities or
/ Christian Endeavor."
! When General Secretary Willis'n
/ Shaw, LII D., arrived he was met by
about 400 junior Christian Endeavors
ors and their teachers who marchefp
| in a body to the Pennsylvania RailS
! road station To greet him. Tho Boz
Scouts led the parade, which was III
! charge of William b. Brown.