New-York tribune., 1921-07-11
Pageant Tells
EndeayOrers'
World ldPurpose
Thousand Voices in Chorus
While Delegates Gathered
From Many Lands Stage
Demonstration at Armory
Visitors Occupy Pulpits
Woman Pleads for Nation TO
Stop Morphine Shipments
by Wholesale to China

Inc nth day Of the sixth worlds
Christian Endeavor convention yester-
day was crowded with business. Fortv
clergymen and delegates attending the
convention filed forty-two pulpits at
morning and evening services in city
churches. In the afternoon and at night
great throngs attended the convention
sessions at the list Regiment armorv
where pageant, brief talks by dele
gates from beyond the United States
and song services were the features.
Postmaster General Will II. Hays
scheduled to speak, was unable to at
tend.
At the afternoon session Miss Emily
Hartwell, lifelong missionary worker
in China, urged the delegates to peti-
ton the President to help do away
with the morphine traffic in China. and
Fred. B. Smith, of the Federal Council
OF Churches of Christ in America. de
ciared that President Harding had
made a personal promise that this
country would become a member Of q
league Of nations.
Tons of Drug in China Mail
do you know" Miss Hartwell asked
that tons of morphine have been sent
INTO emma through foreign postoffices
over which the Chinese government has
no control because of extra territorial.
ity?"
~
before the inquiry conducted bv the
House Ways and Means Committee ir
washington in December and Jauuar,
last, quoted from testimony river
there that morphine is as much wors,
tnan opium as opium is worse thar
nard a cider" In the four years from
1910 to 1919, inclusive, eighty-nine ton:
OF the drug went into China. One to,
Is enough for 00,O0O 900 hypodermit
administrations.
Much of this supply was manufac
tnred in America and Great Britain
Miss Hartwell said, and she added tina
1t was easier to suppress the trad,
tnan to enforce prohibition. Destruc
ton OF the growing poppes was al
that was needed
Mr. Smith, IN saying that Mr.. Har
dlng had told him this country woult
JON the league, said that the Unitet
States should join some sort of an in
!erhatlohal covenant and not remain il
isolation, as all countries except Ger
many were living over volcanoes X,
declared that the anti-.irv personal lib
erty paraders of July were "the rag
tag and bobtail of creation"
pageant, world Wide Endeavor.'
by Miss Mary Pashley Harris, opened
the afternoon session. "Christian En-
deavor," Service" Love" and 10y
atty" grouped upon the platform, wei
coined the "Sons of Earth"
IN the costumes of their countrie es
delegates from Mexico, Chile. Verc
zuela, Persia, Czecho- -Slovakia. Jugo
Siavla, Rumsnia, Corea, Poland, Russia
China, Greece, Armenia, Syria, Turkey
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Norway. Swoder
ana elsewhere, unwinding yellow rib
oons held by central figure, stooc
grouped like rising sun while the
cholr OF q thousand voices sang "Tht
Morning Light Is Breaking"
Yankee Notions" Welcomed
Inc afternoon speakers were San Ra
of Burma; George w. Hubbard. who
organized the Christian Endeavor IN
China i'll 1884; Edgar H. Strother. OF
China; Lieutenant w. Stevenson OF
Canada; Mrs. F. II. Gates, of India
the Rev. Mr.. Polhemus Lyon, Of south
Africa; Lady Anne Azgapetian, wno dc,
scrbed the feeding of 5000 orphans ;r
the shadow Of Mount Ararat, Armenia
Miss Esther Kokainen, Finland, and The
Rev Mr. w. 7. Marsh, who said thai
Christian Fndeavor had been accepted
Ly Australia along with. other "Ysnke.
notions" ana he hoped the Yankees
would send them prohibition next.
At the evening session DR.. Egbert W
Smith, Of Nashville, Tenn, spoke or
The World for Christ" DR.. Rober
S: Speer, president of the Fedora. Coun
Gil Of Churches of Christ, declared thai
the Golden Rule would eventually fuss
all races into a common family.
There will be morning, afternoon ane
evening sessions to-day, with a lunch
con Of the Union officers at the Primo.
George Hotel at 1890 o'clock.