The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-11
Topeka Boys Ready for Confer
ence at Manhattan.
Older Boys Rally Is Set for De-
cember /, 2 and 3.
EXPECT RECORD CROWD THERE
Boys to Preside at All Sessions
of Meeting.
Representative of Several
Races Are on Program.

A delegation of fifty boys will rep
resent Topeka at the sixth annual
state Y. NJ. c. A. Older Boys confer
ence at Manhattan. December 1. 2 and
8. according to o. w. HascalI. boys
o work secretary of the Central Y. NJ c.
A Registrations will be received next
week. Twenty-Five members of the
delegation will represent the Hi-Y
clubs and the remainder will represent
churches and Sunday schools.
There will be an attendance of more
than a thousand at the conference, &C
cording to B. v. Edworthy, boys sec
rotary of the state Y. NJ. c.. A. Last
year at the State Normal school at
Enporia there were nearly thou
sand delegates. and this year the in
fereSt IS much greater. indications
are that Manhattan will entertain the
largest number of high school boys
which ever meet together in Kansas
at one time
Boys to Preside at Conference.
The program is to be an unusual
one in that boys will preside at all ses-
sions. Every question discussed and
every subject treated has been sug-
gested by the Hi-Y clubs of the state
of which there are now IFS. The
Kansas State Agricultural college has
been given over to the boys for these
three days
The Manhattan Hi-Y and the COL
Iege Y. NJ. c. A are handling the Man
haitian arrangements, and from Friday
at o'clock, when the first session will
be held, to the closing meeting Sun
day night, the sessions will be full of
interest for the delegates. Special re-
ception committees are already at
work The entertainment committee
also has some new wrinkles to unfold,
and every one of the fifteen commit
tees has tried to improve on anything
yet shown in the reception and enter
tainmeut of visitors to Manhattan and
the college.
The following persons will speak at
the sessions: DR.. E Worthley, secre- |
tary of vocational guidance, Methodist
Episcopal church, Chicago; Alfred
Tebben of the international Y. NJ. C. |
A staff. Madras. India; Homer Graf |
ton. of the international Y. NJ. c. A. /
committee. Kyoto. Japan; B. G. Alex
ander. regional secretary of the in
ternational committee of the Y. NJ. |
c. A. Denver. Colo; Clyde Hartford, !
city boys work secretary, Pittsburg,
kan; Harrison Pay Anderson. pastor /
OF the First Presbyterian church, |
Wichita; E. E. Micklewright, city boys
work secretary Omaha. Neb.; A. a. /
Rem ngton. state secretary, Topeka;
NJ H Mckeant state student secre-
tary, Topeka: DIR. A. A Holtz, student
secretary, Manhattan; C. Z. Lindquist,
secretary home missions council, Has
kel institute. Lawrence; Guy T. Geb-
hardt, county secretary Y. NJ. c. A,
MePherson; Floyd Hawkins, state
county secretary. Manhattan; B. v
EdwOrthy. state high school and boys
secretary, Topeka; NJ. A Williams. re-
Gently Y NJ. c. a secretary in Philip
pines Paul Fung and David New,
Chinese students in Washburn college.
Topeka; Harold CoIvin. city boys
work secretary. Salina; o. w. HascaI1.
city boys work secretary. Topeka;
Leslie Eichelberger. city boys work
a.
sociate principal Winfield high school;
David Owl, Student secretary, Haskell
institute, Lawrence; w. L. Hutcher-
son, secretary Colored Y. NJ. C. A,
Wichita; A. F. Holmes, Wichita. mem
Der of the state boys work committee
of the Y. NJ c. A, and H. p. Demand,
regional boys work secretary of the
Y NJ c. A.. Denver.
Indians to Pow Wow.
Delegations are being planned from
Indian institute at Lawrence
and from the Chilbcco Indian institute
at Arkansas City. Benjamin Grass.
who led the Chilocco delegation last
year at Emporia, will lead the student
delegation from Haskell this year with
Edgar Halfmoon, a veteran of the
1S0th Artillery of the 35th division.
Chilocco will also have a good dele
cation and the American Indian in
stitute of Wichita is expected to be rep
resented. This year there will be
delegations from the various colored
Hi-Y clubs of the state. Western uni
versity of Kansas City has already
written in, for registrations.
The coIaHentiOn badge will be the |
regulation wool overseas cap with a
specially designed emblem on the side.
The college committee is arranging to
present each delegate with a hand
made brass fob with the Hi-Y emblem
and the conference theme on one side s
and the motto OF X. s. A. c. on the !
other. These. with a souvenir pro- |
nd a tod 81 1
containing a duplicate of the =
conference photo. will be given to
every boy attending this meeting. !
Friday nights banquet and evening i
program will be devoted to World / (
Outlook" with Indian and Chinese boys
In costume The response to the address l
of welcome will be given by four boys G
this year: a colored boy for the un- !
reached numbers of colored boys an | 8
Indian boy for the original Americans.
a Chinese boy for the 42,000,0 900 boys 4
OF China, and the closing response will .
be given by a representative of the :
lis Hi-Y clubs of Kansas. The eve Z
ming program will be a series of pres I
sntations of the boy-life of the various '
great races of the world closing with
an address by H p. Demand. the
regional boys work secretary of the :
committee of the Y. NJ. j
c. A e
State Committee to Meet.
SATURDAY will be largely a series of 5
SECTIONAL DISCUSSIONS or the various {
phases of the activities of the Y. NJ t
:. A in the high school, closing with 2
reports following brief addresses by !
he visiting speakers from outside the =
state. The state committee of the Y. !
NJ. c. A. will also meet in connection a
with this conference and will hold t
heir meetings on Saturday under the a
leadership of W. W. Bowman of To-
,eka-
Saturday afternoon, following the \
'eports and findings, Mike Ahearn,
lirector of athletics for K. S. A. C.. b
las arranged a program of athletics K
which includes a big parade of all the T
delegates thru the city and back to I