The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-29
QUAkERS TO MEET lN BIG ANNUAL
 CONVENTION
Hundreds Of Delegates Will Attend Sessions At Rich mond, Ind.

Richmond, Ind, July 29.-Quakers from all parts of the United States and England will have Richmond as their goal this summer and fall. Four great gatherings of Friends, two of which are held here annually, one of which is held but once each five years and the other but once each four years, will be the exposure of all eyes of Quakerdom this year.
 Greatest of all sessions will be that of the Five Years Meeting of Friends of America, the governing body or those of the orthodox faith, which will be held from September 5 to Septem- Der 12. Each of the 13 yearly meet ings in America and Canada is per mitted to send six official delegates regardless of the membership of the meeting One delegate for each 2,- 900 members over a given quota IS also allowed.
 Information from officials of the Five Years Meeting, whose offices art here, indicate that between 800 and 600 Friends will be present for this parent conference. Besides the most prominent members Of the de- nomination in America, John Henry Barlow, former clerk of London Yearly Meeting and presiding clerk at the All Friends Conference held III London in 1920, will be present for an address He will be accompanied by his wife.
 Gillett Will Attend
 Rountree Gil1ett, head of Friends social work in London, IS another prominent English Quaker to be present, as will also Barrow Cad bury, we'll known among Friends m America and England.
 Some of the American Friends to be on the program include Freoerick T. Libby executive secretary or the National Council for Reduction or Armaments, Washington, D. C.; El- bert Russell, head of the Woolman School Philadelphia, and Rufus Jones,
 af obi al HaVerfOrd College, Philadelphia.
 Of equal importance to Quakers Of the Hicksite branch of the church IS the general conference of H1ckslte Friends to be held here August 26 to September 2. The conference is com posed of seven yearly meetings, and it's sessions are so rotated that the as sembly meets in Richmond once every four years.
 At least 400 people are expected to attend the conference. More than l 100 Friends are expected from Phil adelphia, New York, Boston and Bal | timore.
 1 Among the better-known speakers | to address sessions of the conference
 will be Charles Foster Kent, professor
 at Yale University; William J. Req
 gan, president of Oakwood Seminary | New York; Jesse Holmes, of Swarth'
 more College, and Roy A. Haynes
 Federal Prohibition Commissioner. l Reagan Leads Discussions l In adQ1t1On to the regular DuSlneSS | there will be round-table discussion 1 on various subjects, including series | of round tables and forums to be led | by William J. Reagan, of New York | Devotional meetings will be held eacf | day.
 | The Young Friends General Con- | ference, to be held on Earlham cam pus July 21 to 31, in the immediate l Quaker gathering attracting it's an | nual interest among Friends from al states of the Union. Indiana, West. | ern and Ohio. Yearly meetings al. ways are most conspicuously repre- l sented at these conferences. Othel | yearly meetings, however, are ex | pected to send their quotas and 25 tC 30 young Friends from Philadelphia | Yearly Meeting are among those look | ed for. | Addresses by F. T. Albertson, gen eral secretary of the Indiana State Sunday School Association, and the
 Rev. Miles H. Krumbin, pastor of tn, | First Lutheran church of Dayton, O. | are to be features of the ten days sessions.