The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-12
PLAN Boys MEET
VIII Be Held in EN-
pOria November 1928.
Attendance This Year Limited
to 800 Delegates.
Topeka TO BE REPRESENTED
FOrty-Fiye From Here Will Be
in Attendance.
Many viii Go From High
School and Y. NJ. C. A.

School and Y. NJ. C. A.
Topeka will be represented by a
! delegation of forty-five boys and adult
| leaders at the fifth older boys confer
ence which will be held at Emporia,
November 26. 81 and %. The theme
of the conference will be 1.-The Things
That Matter Most" All the sessions
| will be held at the auditorium of the
Kansas State Normal school.
The conference is limited this year
! to 900 delegates because of lack OF
| housing facilities at Emporia- The
| Topeka delegation has been cut to
forty-five as a reSUlt. Letters have
| been sent to every pastor and Sunday
school superintendent in the city ask
! ing them to be represented by one
/ boy. Any Christian boy over fifteen
years of age is eligible to make appIi-
cation. All Topeka enrollmentS must
be made by November Is. Five en-
plOyed boys may go If a leader or
ganizes a group. Five Topeka leaders
/ who have enrolled are: Henry Ben
ming: Morris Sewers, Gerald Hamil-
ton; Lester Titus and Eugene Roose.
| The members of the cabinet of the
| Hi-Y club of Topeka high school will
also attend. They are: Jack Brew
ster, Joy Bulls. Philip Payton and
Herbert Parker. The coIored Hi-Y
club will be represented by five dele
gates and one leader.
To Enter High school Students.
Representative from any high
school, Y. NJ. G. A, Sunday school,
church, employed boys brotherhood,
newsboys' club, boy scouts. county
| agricultural clubs, Rotary, Lions, or
Kiwanis club or any agency dealing
with boys are invited to attend.
The city of Emporia will act as host
at the conference and lodging and
| breakfast will be given free of charge
during the days of the conference
evening and one big banquet will be
! held Saturday evening at the Kansas
| State Normal gymnasium.
The railroads of the state have
! granted a one and one-third rate for
| the round trip to Emporia and re-
( to Emporia and secure a certificate
! These certificates, when properly
signed by Morton H. Mexican. rail
road secretary and by the joint agent
will be honored for one-third fare
on the return trip.
There will be separate group con
ferences upon special subjects related
to the conference theme. In addition
| to these group meetings provision i:
made for interviews between delegate:
and the speakers ard leaders.
Among the recreational features are
poria, the Kansas State Normal schoo
and College of Emporia. Committee.
from both of the colleges will meet al
| delegations at the trains and specia
committees from the Emporia higt
! school will conduct the delegates Il
| the places of entertainment. There
Will be a special program of athletic:
for the entertainment of tie visitor.
| in addition to the other entertainment
/ features.
Many Prominent Speakers.
Among the speakers who are ex
pected to make addresses at the con.
| ference are: Gov. Henry J. Allen
Topeka; Bishop James Wise Topeka
H P. Demand, Denver, regional boys
work secretary; A. Bruce NIinear
Denver, regional industrial secretary
of the Y. NJ. c. A; the Rev. Harri-
son Ray Anderson, Wichita, pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church; Wal
ter E. Burr. of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college. Manhattan; Arthur
A. Remington, Topeka, secretary. state
Y. NJ. c. A; Morton Mexican, state
student secretary, Y. NJ. C. A; Roy
E. Dickerson, Mexico City, Mexican
/ boys secretary of the Y. M. c. A.
C. R. Webster. Dorver, regional re
| ligious work secretary of the Y. NJ
| c. A; IT. H. Vaughn, Winfield, direc
tor of the high. school boys club
Floyd Hawkins, Manhattan, state
! WOEk secretary OIL the Y M
j C. A: J. z. Lewis Dallas, Texas
boys secretary; Ralph Mcintyre, To
/ peka, president topeka Rotary club
| Tom Davis, Butte. governor twentieth
district of the Rotary club: A A
! Hyde, Wichita. member of the boys
work committees, Y. M c. A; T. W
Butcher, Emporia, president of the
Kansas State Normal school; Preston
G. Orwig, Chicago, associate super.
| intendent of the young peoples work
International Sunday school associa-
! ton; Clyde Hartford Pittsburg. bows
work secretary; Leslie Eichelberger
Wichita, boys work secretary; Guy
Gebhardt, Mcpherson. count work sec.
| rotary, Y. NJ. c. A; Nelson Benning
! Topeka, secretary of the Y. NJ. C. A.
Dean Charles Fordyce, Lincoln, of Ne
j braska university, and E. H LindIey
Lawrence, chancellor of Kansas uni.
yersity.
To Hold District Conferences.
It is planned to follow this con.
ference with a series of six district
| conferences geographically located
and to have a number of imported
| speakers.
All the deliberations of the confer.
ence will be open to the press and il
the delegates favor it resolutions ia.
voring the disarmament conference
will be passed and sent to Presi-
dent Harding The conference will
elect one boy who will be SEN
to washington to interview Presidenf
Harding personally about the disarm.
ament conference. Every speech
1 made on the floor of the conference
and the findings of all the commit
tees at the older boys conference will
be published in book form and viii
be sold to all the boys in the country
This will be an epoch in the history
OF the older boys conferences in tn,
United States.