The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-27
Six Hundred COnveniences Are
Needed for Convention.
Second Older Boys Conference
viii Bring Big Crowd.
CONVENTION OPENS FRIDAY
Twelve Hundred Youths From
Over Kansas Here.
ssDad" Elliott One of Big At
fractions for Meeting.

Six hundred of the boys VINO are uue
to arrive Friday morning, for the sec
ond Older Boys conference " r
State Y NJ. c. A. have not yet peeu
provided with sleeping ai-o ealins ~
places At last years conIerence5
Wichita entertained 1900 boys ana
there were four hundred more
applications from families for boys
TO entertain during thelr say
than there were boys. The state =.
NJ. C. A. headquarters are ouzzins rnn
a bee hive in an endeavor 10 secui
lodging places for the wave or youns
manhood, scheduled to arrive TINS
week.
The conference lasts three days ana
those providing entertainment Will De
asked to furnish lodging for Friday,
S. -turday and Sunday nights and an
meals except those of Saturday noon
and evening.
The Topeka Boy Scouts, uniformed
and alert for service, Will nneel an
trains Friday morning and afternoon
directing the newcomers to the CEN
trail Y. M c. A, where they Will reg
ister. At the Central Y. M. c. A
the scouts will again take charge OF
the visitors and pilot them to the
homes that have been assigned then-
Opens Friday Evening.
The festivities will start Friday eve
ming when various Topeka dignitaries
will extend the glad hand of welcome
to the Kansas youth, at the First
Presbyterian church, where all the
meetings will be held, with the excep-
ton of the big banquet Saturday eve
ming at the Auditorium.
Mayor ]. E. House will vouch for
the city's welcome and other Topeka
people and a high school boy, not yet
selected, will welcome in behalf of the
homes, churches and the high school
of Topeka. Following that Howard
NJ, e oI,ir
the joy of himself and his 1,199 mates
in being in Topeka. A. ]. (Dad) Ell
liott, possibly the best known man in
association work in the world, will
make the chief address, on "Quitters.
The 1900 delegates to the conven-
ton are divided into five groups,
meeting morning and afternoon for
separate conferences and coming to-
gether to hear the principal speakers.
Saturday morning the Sunday school
group will meet for a discussion of
Sunday school problems The dele
gates from the large high schools and
the small high schools will meet
separately and discuss the troubles of
the Kansas high school.
High School Conference.
In the high school conferences cigar
cites, "cribbing'' loafing, "cliques"
and rotten athletics are scheduled for
an awful mauling. Boy representatives
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tell of their home conditions in these
respects and resolutions will be adopt
ed to evangelize the students of Kan
sas in regard to these evils. The Boy
Scouts will meet and develop plans for
the fostering of this absorbing inter-
est of boydom. The employed boys,
those unable to continue in school, will
meet and discuss their own problems.
A host of the country boys will have
forum on conditions among rural
youths.
Besides the separate conferences,
Saturday morning, David r. Porter,
| international high school secretary
will give an address. Saturday lunch
con will be followed by three sectional
meetings. Those of the boys planning
to attend college will listen to talks by
President Womer of Washburn col
lege, Dad" Elliott and D. r. Porter
The rural delegates will be addressed
by Prof. Hall of Manhattan. The
working boys will listen to an address
| by Dr. W. A. Galloway, president of
Beloit college.
At $3.50 the regiment of 1900 will
line up for big parade in the down
town district.
The Banquet.
At $50 comes the banquet where
the appetites of more than 1900
delegates and town boys will be satis-
fled to the full, where they will listen
to music from the Washburn Glee
club and the Conference quartette, and
Harry L. Heinzman, former Topeka
boy, and now a member of the inter-
national Y. NJ. c. A, will tell of the
| life of the British soldier in the
trenches. Short talks will follow his
address at the banquet, given by
prominent Kansans, interested in the
Y. NJ. c. A. cause.
The adult leaders who will accom-
pany the delegations of boys will as
semble for a special meeting led by
R. H. Flynn of Kansas City. Mo-, at
8 o'clock Sunday morning. At Q
o'clock the 1900 boys will leave the
homes where they are being enter
tanned and will attend Topeka
churches and Sunday schools in the
company of their hosts.
At 8 o'clock David F.. Porter will
address a mass meeting of the dele
gates on THE New Crusade" which
will be followed by short meetings of
the delegations from the different
counties. The conference closes with
! the afternoon service.
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