Connecticut western news., 1919-11-27
"" CONVENTION <.
 AT DETROIT
Delegates Coming From All Parts Of U. $. and
 Canada

New Ork.--I0e IOrLloLu annual convention of the International Young Mems Christian Associations of North America will be held in Detroit from November 18th to November g in- elusive. The sessions will be held in the Arena Gardens on Woodward Avenue and will be attended by del egates representing the hundreds of local Associations throughout the United States and Canada
 The convention will be devoted chiefly to dealing in a constructive way with large questions of policy. Some indication of the lines of ac- ton to be taken Is indicated by the fact that three special commissions have been appointed. one on the: Conservation Of the values of the War Work" the second on the Re lation of the Y. M. c. A. to the Churches" and the other on the -oc- equation of the Field"
 All Of the commissions include In their membership men prominent In, various lines of business and in the professions. The first named s headed by Joseph T. Alllag Of Koch ester. of the Arm of filling and Corey. paper manufacturers. The second commission has for it's chairman, w. Douglas Mackenzie of Hartford, Connecticut, the president of Hart ford Theological Seminary. The com mission on the "Occupation of the Field" Is under the chalrmanshtp or L. A. Crossett, of Boston, the shoe manufacturer, who served as g spe- cial commissioner of the War Work Council of the Y. M. c. A to France in 1917. Associated with MT. Crossett as chairman Of the commission is Cyrus H. Mccormick of Chicago, the president of the international Harvester Company
 pr. John R. Mott, general secretary of the International Committee of Y. M. c. A. Associations, regards this con- yention as the most important in the annals of the Association.
 "In all the history of the Young Mems Christian Association. through
  there never has been held an assem- bly, presenting so many issues of first-rate and urgent importance" Dr. Mott writes in an appeal for the at tendance of the leading laymen of the Evangelical laymen at the con vention. Nothing short of the best thought and concerted action of the wisest. most trusted and influential laymen of all the evangelical forces of North America will suffice"
 Some of the questions to be brought before the convention through the h. ternational Committee and the com missions already appointed are:
 How to assimilate back into all that is best in American and Canadian life the 4,800,000 young men, who recent ly. served in the American Army and Navy and the 5O0,O00 who consti tuted the Canadian Army?
 How to stabilize the many millions of men in industry now surging with discontent?
 How to satisfy the new aspirations of the young men of rural communi- ties, who through the war have been brought more fully into touch with the currents of the life of the world?
 Racial problems of North America will also be considered. Methods will be discussed to make the ministry of the city Associations more truly com munity- wide.
 The redefnition of the field and the reassertion of the distinctive mission of the Association in the light of the rise of new agencies, both secular and religious, so as to avoid friction, un- wise duplication of effort and waste in financial expenditure, will be an other matter which will claim the attention of the convention.
 The extension of the work of the Association, and the methods of meet ing the unsought. unexpected and un- paralleled opportunities in the Allied Nations, the recently liberated and the newly created nations, especial ly those in the Near East, will be planned and discusseu. together with the development of the work in virtu- ally every field of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. where the Association is already established.