New Britain herald., 1917-05-01
Y. N. [. 4. ID ENJOY
 33RD ANNIVERSARY
Members Will Hear of Work Done :. by Association in Far East

Exercises in connection with the thirty third anniversary of the found- ing of the local Y. M. C. A. will be held in the South Congregational church next Sunday evening at 1880 o'clock. At 6 o'clock the members will gather in the association build ing where the Y. M. c. A. orchestra
 Will render half hour program fol-
 lowed by q luncheon. At 7:15 o'clock the members will march in a body to tne church where the entire center
 nas been reserved. J. M. Clinton,
 nome secretary of the foreign depart ment of the international committee Of tho Y. M. c. A., will deliver the principal address of the evening on
 The Red Triangle" In connection with his talk. MT. Clinton will tell
 Of shis relation to tho work in the
 war zone and the plans that are be-
 Ing made for American, soldiers.
 MT. Clinton Is one of the admins
 tratiye secretaries of the Foreign De- partment of the International Com
 1nlttee of the Y. M c. A.. the depart
 ment which is responsible for Nthe planung and development of the Y. M '. A. in other lands outside of Europe. Since 1889. when the first iorelsn secretary was sent to India and a second to Japan, the movement
 mas grown until today it is serving
 men and boys of twenty-one nations
 in Asia and Latin-America. The staff Of two original secretaries has in- creased to 200 specially trained Amer
 jean college men. Associated with them In the field are twice that num-
 Der of the most gifted sons of the
 several countries. The type of work
 is similar to that in the United States. and Canada. adapted to the needs and conditions of each land.
 MT. Clinton is q native of Indiana. He was graduated from the Univer- sity of Indiana; where he won a few years and then took up the
 practice of law. Being a student vol
 unteer, he gave up what promised to
 be a successful career and went to China as a secretary of the Y. M. c. A. In connection with the Chinese rev.
 olution and the birth of the new re- public, Mir. Clinton had some unique experiences. He lived for two years in Hankow, the headquarters of the revolutionary party. Tokio was the real storm center of the revolutionary movement because of the presence there of thousands of the best of China's young men sent to Japan to seek the solution of the national prob lems confronting China. At one time there were 17,0OO Chinese studying in Tokio alone. MT. Clinton was sent to Tokio at the head of a staff of association secretaries to serve these Chinese students. One of those as- sociated with him was c. T. Wang. now vice president of the Chinese national senate. As a result of their work. some 300 Chinese students be- came Christians and hundreds of oth- CTS were won from . hostile to fa- yorable attitude toward Christianity. when the provisional constitution for the new republic was drafted Mir. Clinton was invited into the councils.
 More than half of the national and provincial government positions are,
 nlled by Tokio students, friends of Mr. Clinton. Few, If any, Americans have the privilege of calling by their men as had MT. Clinton.
 Since returning to America three wears ago. he has addressed cham- bers of commerce, rotary clubs, con- pentions. leading churches and asso- ciation audiences in most of the larger cifles. in North America. Because of his experience and executive ability fe was asked to remain in America as one of the administrative secre- taries for the whole foreign work.