New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-12
w arless World
BY 1923, Slogan
Of EndeavOrers
DIR. f. E. Clark, Founder. APP
peals for Speedy Course
Toward Disarmament as
Convention Here Closes
City's Welcome Praised
1000 Members i'm SO Teams
Address Street Corner
Crowds in Final Drive

The slogan that 10000 delegates to
the sixth worlds Christian Endeavor
convention we're asked last night to
carry home with them was "a Warless
World by 1928" There was intense
enthusiasm when DIR. Francis E. Clark,
founder and president of the Christian
Endeavor Society. asked for it's adop-
tion from the rostrum in the list Regi-
ment Armory at the final session of the
six-day convention. In 1911, at At
lantic City, the convention adopted the
cry. "A Saloonless Nation by 1920"
In series of resolutions presented
by Ira Landrith, chairman of the reso-
lutions committee, the convention went
on record as:
1. Deprecating the campaign against
tie Sunday blue laws, the object of
which, it states, is to discredit the
Lcrd's Day Alliance and to make way
Tor the commercialization of Sunday
by motion pictures and money-making
sports.
2. Opposing the sale of cigarettes,
particularly to girls and boys.
3. Approving the continued enforce
ment of prohibition on the grounds
that 1T is no longer debatable ques-
ton, and that opposition to enforce
ment is essentially Bolshevism.
d. Sympathizing with the movement
for Federal censorship of moving pic
lures
8. Advocating speedy course to-
ward disarmament.
Relief for Armenia
The enforcement of the Hague agree
ment for the suppression of the opium
and morphine traffic in China, sympa-
thy for Christians in Corea, for mis-
sionaries in the Far East and the re-
LEI of suffering in Armenia were also
urged.
owe are most thankful" Dr.. Clark
said m his address which dismissed the
convention, that this final day has
brought in the announcement of Pres-
dent Harding's invitation for a dis
armament conference, an answer to our
prayers. We fully realize, as our new
slogan testiies, the great need of the
hour, the rare opportunity for organ
lied Christian endeavor to meet the
perils threatening modern civilizations"
Throughout the city yesterday. fifty
teams composed of lay members Of the
society. working under the direction of
the Committee on Evangelizaton, de-
livered the message Of the Christian
Endeavor to the masses of New ork
City.
At Battery Place, at South Street,
near the Seaman's Institute; at the
sub treasury, at Wall Street and the
East River, at Road Street and Broad
way and ct Sheriff and Grand streets,
the delegates spoke of the aims and
purposes of Christian Endeavor.
This campaign has done more than
any other thing in the convention to
enforce the principles that are the
heart and soul of the Christian En-
deavor," said Arthur J. Smith, general
secretary of the New York Evangelistic
Committee, at the close of activities
yesterday. at has proved the prac-
ticability of plans which we laid here
in New York to popularize evangelic
work among our society membership.
1t has been said that it couldn't be
done. But it has been demonstrated
right here We hope and fully expect
that all who played a part will con-
tinue this work at home" There were
1000 delegates in the drive.
Morning Sessions Held
Morning sessions were held yester-
day at Marble Collegiate Church, the
Brick Presbyterian Church and in the
armory. The subject there was
Leadership Training" Roy Bregg,
John T. Sproull, Paul c. Brown, Miss
Madeline Parker, Charles F. Evans,
Heines A. Reichel and Chaplain S. c..
Remsen addressed the delegates.
The Rev. John McNeill, pastor of
Fort Washington Presbyterian Church,
speaking at the afternoon session, de-
clared that there are too many people
in the world to-day who say: Here SIN
7, send him. f1e urged further the