South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-18
NAME DELEGATES
TO ! Convention
Secretaries From All Parts Of
World Will Attend Meet
ing in Detroit.

Eleven local delegates win leave
Tuesday evening 90 attend the inter
national convention OF the Young
Mems Christian association 10 be
held in Detroit Mich, Nov 3 20 %.
The local delegates appointed to at
stend are. p. G. Stalcy a. y. Thcilens.
". VI. banner. Y. r. Kupferer. c.
p DuComb, Judson Taylor. -. r.
Nitsche, j. D. Campbell. O. A Reed
o. G. Huff and s. c. Chard.
y. VI. G. A. secretaries from am
parts Of the world are arriving daily
in New York enroute 10 the cOrven-
ton. China. India, Japan and South
American and European counties
viii be represented. Vital questions
OF future policy viii bring up gem
eral discussion at the meeting on
how TO further the work in the war
zone and increase activities that
have been developed for go years in
other countries Workers in all for
eign countries have been recalled in
order 20 obtain their views before
shaping a worldwide program of
social welfare
Official requests for continuous
work from the governments OF
France. Italy. Belgium. Greece. ST.
IBERIA. Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Ar
menia and Palestine. The men who
wore the Red Triangle in these
countries throughout the war viii
take a prominent part in formulat-
ing plans for the future Of the "Y.'
In France alone the y NJ c. A.
served p nationaHties. Since that
time demands for help i'm organic
ing Y. NJ. G. AS. have come from
hundreds Of cities Twelve munich
palities I'm Mexico and II in South
America have flied requests for sec
retaries
Support Foreign Work
The foreign work has 0een sup
ported by local associations and by
individuals who have contributed to
various phases of the association
activities. A significant fact is that
every dollar used in carrying on the
work was raised locally IN those
counties while America contributed
only to the support of the American
secretaries, who pave the way for
future Developments. The expense of
the work in South America, Mexico.
China. Japan, Egypt. Turkey, POr-
tugal, Cubal. Porto Rico, and the
Philippines was S109,052 last year.
In Japan and Korea there are 81
city and student associations with
total membership of 1873. China
has 1877 associations with a mem
bership exceeding 10000. In Indiana
there are 127 branches. with 1900
members. The total membership in
foreign lands is 70.25S.
A report from Siberia states that
Y NJ. c. A. activities are going on
in 10 separate soldiers clubs and
IA army posts. Among the Czecho-
Slovaks Is clubs have been orga-
nized among the troops and IS
wagon carteens are supplying the
soldiers who are guarding the Trans
Siberian railroad Rolling canteens
have been put into service for the
Italian, French, English. Poles, Serbs
and Chinese. a staff Of 1O2 secretar-
les is employed I'm Siberia.
BOYS Work
Word has been received by ". ..
Davies, chairman of the boys COM
mittee OF the South Bend associa-
ton, that special emphasis viii be
placed on boys work throughout
every phase or its activities, at the
convention.
While there are 2.O77 associations
throughout the United States there
are boys work divisions in but 1855
cities. County. railroad and colOred
associations. and boys work of some
sort is being done in about 1900
associations. The extension of this
work 10 all OF the present assOcia-
tions and the development of the
field now untouched is one of the
biggest problems to be considered.
The need for such extension is
doubly apparent as the latest United
states census figures show there are
about 100000 boys in the nation
OF this number 100000 are en-
ployed boys, ranging in age from
IA TO 20 years other statistics show
that there are some $4,000 boys of
high school age