El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-04
1000 WILL Be
!. N. c. A. GUESTS
1000 Delegates and Hun
dreds Members to Attend
Cleveland Convention.

Cleveland, o. May A number of
important matters affecting the ad-
ministration Of the Young Mems Chris
tan associations Of North America will
come before the international triennial
conventions, the legislative body of
the brotherhood, which will be held
III Cleveland beginning May II, contin-
ulng through the 18th II is said that
the meeting will be one OF the most
significant Of any Of the previous 80
meetings that have been held. There
WI ne a thousand guests at the con-
Nehuon, in addition 10 the 1000 ac-
CLtulted delegates and many hundreds
OF corresponding members" The as
sucid ions eligible to representation
include 200 city associations, $50 rail-
ROAD, 500 college. and 600 county or
" al ASSOCIATIONS, as well as the army
and navy branches
Fhueth Anniversary of Committee.
me convention marks its 5Oth ami
Iersary Of the establishment Of the In
teTla uonal committee. and the change
IN leadership Of the committee from
i'Ichard {. Morse. who for 46 years was
lls general secretary, and who Is now
retlrlng, to John r. Mott, recently elect
ed general secretary
Ohe OF the questions TO be voted up
on democracy in the supervision of the
DrotherhoOd. On an initiative resolu-
Ioh winch has been approved by an
NerWhelming vote Of the directors of
me associations in all parts OF the
United States and Canada it is proposed
that the lay delegates will hereafter
nave much larger proportion Of the
convention devoted to discussions from
the floor. with fewer addresses from
the platform.
Work with the armies in Europe will
have special attention. Hundreds of
trained secretaries who have been sent
over from the United States and Can
ada and who have been at work in the
trenches as well as with the prisoners
on both sides of the lines Will report
on this phase of Y. VI. c. 4. work.
The question of the supervision Of
the associations in foreign lands such
as China, Korea, Japan. India, Panama,
Philippines, Cuba. Argentine, Brat,
Chile Uruguay. and other countries
viii also be considered. A special com
mission has been studying for three
years the tremendous expansion of the
association movement abroad, and the
findings Of this commission will be
presented by L. Wilbur Messer, OF
Chicago as chairman.
Retirement Fund For Secretaries.
The convention will be called upon
to decide whether or not it will cap
italize a retirement fund for secreta-
ries who have practically completed
their lifetime of service. This com
mission is headed by +. w. Aver OF
Philadelphia. He will probably ask that
the fund be capitalized to begin with
at S1,O00,00O, perhaps more,
Another important discussion Is to be
the extent to which the Association
should enter the educational field. Like
the public schools, it has inaugurated
summer institutes for the training of
its younger secretaries and has bought
properties in Estes Park. near Colorado
Springs. Lake Geneva in Wisconsin;
Silver Bay on Lake George, and Black
Mountain in North Carolina, where IT
assemblies for training purposes its less
experienced secretarial candidates and
officers for systematic education and
training during the simmer period.