The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-14
ALL LANDS WILL
BE REP PRESENTED
Secretaries from Many Foreign Ma
tions VIII Meet in Detroit Next
Week to Discuss Plans for
World Wide Program
A REQUEST FOR WORK
Governments of Nine Other Lands
Have Asked for Help from the
Y. M. C. A. Associations
of America

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Y. M. c. A.
secretaries from all parts of the
world are arriving daily in New
York en- route to the international
convention of the association i'll fe-
Itroit. Nov. 1928 Delegations from
China, India and Japan are here.
South American and European coun'
tries also are represented.
! Vital questions of future policy
will bring up general discussions at
THE meeting on how to further me
work in the war zone and increase
activities that have been developing
for thirty years in otner countries.
Workers in all foreign countries nave
been recalled in order to get their
views before shaping a worid-Wlde
program of social welfare.
| Official requests for continued WORN
have been received from the govern
ments OF France, Italy, Begun,
Greece, Serbia, Poland, Czecho-Slo-
yakia, Armenia and Palestine. The
men who wore the Red Triangle in
these countries throughout the war
will take a prominent part in formu-
lating plans for the future OF the \.
| The foreign work of the associa-
ton received additional impetus
through the war and in order to meet
the demands made at that time, all
activities were fostered by the ma
tional war work council. Peace con-
EDITIONS have brought up the problem
of continuing it in the countries en-
tered during the conflict. A world
wide program, if adopted at the con-
yention will be carried on by the IN
Iternational committee.
| In France alone the Y. NJ q. a.
served twenty-five different nat1onaE-
ties. Since that time demands for
help in organizing Y. NJ. c. AS nave
come from hundreds OF cities. Twelve
municipalities in Mexico and seven
teen in South America have hled re-
quests for secretaries.
Sixteen delegates from China Will
be among those persent at the con
yention. Four have already arrived
from Japan and others are en- route.
Four are here from Turkey, six from
India and others from Egypt and
South America. Every incoming liner
| brings men who have been working
| in foreign lands during the war.
| The foreign work has been sup
ported by local associations, and by
| hundreds of individuals in the United
States and Canada who contribute
| from 500 to $4,000 to various phases
iof the associations activities. A
significant fact is that every dollar
used in carrying on the work was
raised locally in these countries,
while America contributed only to
1.-THE support OF the American secre-
itaries who paved the way for future
developments.
The expense OF the work in South
America, Mexico, China, Japan,
Egypt, Turkey, Portugal, Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines was $1,000
loss last year Two hundred and thir-
teen foreign and 445 native secre-
itaries were employed.
/ In Japan and Korea there are nine
lty-four city and student associations
with total membership of 1857.
China has 1877 Y. NJ. c. AS with a
membership exceeding 10000. In
! India there are 127 branches with
/ / 800 members. The total member
ship in foreign lands is 7o,25S.
| A late report from Siberia states
that Y. NJ. c. A. activities are going
ION in ten separate soldiers clubs and
] fourteen army posts. Among the
| Czecho-Slovaks fifteen crubs have
been organized among the troops and
eighteen wagon canteens are supply
| ing the soldiers who guard the trans
| Siberian railroad.
Rolling canteens have also been
| put in operation for the Italian,
French, English, Poles, Serbs and
Chinese.
| A staff of 1o2 secretaries are en-
Iployed in Siberia as follows: Seven
teen with the A. E. f.; ten in the
international Soldiers Grub at Vladi-
vostock; fifteen with the Czecho-
ISlovak army; twenty with returned
| Russian prisoners and demobilized
Russian civilians; two with railroad
/ men; seven in the executive bureau;
twelve in the lecture and educational
department; eight with the comp
itrolIer: four in the supply section,
land seven in the agricultural.
! Among the convention delegates
from foreign countries are: China
G. H Cole, B. S. Fem, r. r. Galley,
IL. n. Hayes, C. A. Herschleb, w. G.
Jordan, G. E. Lerrigo, D. w. Lyon,
w w. Peter, c. II. Robertson, r. Fl.
Stanley. A. H. Swan, G. f. Turner
and l. G. Wilson; Japan-F. I'll.
Brown, J. NJ. Davis, 9. M. Fisher,
George Gleason; India-J. H. Gray,
w. II. Heinrich, w II. Hume, x. j..
Saunders, B. C. Sircar; Egypt-Wil-
liam Jessop; Turkey-D. J. Van Bonn
mel Hollander who stayed in Con-
istantinople throughout the war, b. o:
Jacob, o. e. Pence and Bayard
Dodge, son of Cleveland H. Dodge;