Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-13
Youthful Contact
By Means of
"FriendshiD Trip"

New York, May IL GA. Penn
barking June II on a friendship
trip" through Europe, 20 American
boys will constitute the first group
of this kind to advance international
amity in accordance with a resolu-
ton adopted by the League of Ma
lions Assembly. The tour. which
will occupy ten weeks, will be under
the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian Associations OF North
America.
The boys, ranging in age from 16
to 10 years. are selected on the basis
of outstanding leadership qualities.
The choice, for the most part, has
been in the hands of state and local
Y. NJ. c. AS and Hi-Y Clubs al
| though other groups, including the
! Grand Council of the Order of De
Melay, Hill School of Pottstown,
| Pa, and the Brick Presbyterian
Church of New York, are sending
| representatives. The DeMolay
! Council is choosing it's delegates,
whose name will be announced early
! in June, from group of fifty boys
! from various chapters whose records
| show special achievement and a
| promise of unusual leadership. His
| expenses will be paid by the order
| In nearly all other cases the trip
will be financed by the boys
| families. Special arrangements have
| materially reduced the usual cost Of
| such a tour.
| Seventeen boys have already been
| selected. They are Henry J. Hard
| ing of Brooklyn, n. Y: Robert l..
| Harding, also of Brooklyn, who at
| tends Amherst College and will rep
resent Massachusetts; Harding
Mott Of Flint, Mich, attending the
Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn,
who will represent Connecticut;
Stuart E. Hockenbury, Harrisburg,
Pa; Howard S. Kennedy, End, Troy,
n. Y; James Edward Rice, Jr,
Johannesburg N. Y; Will S. Mitchell,
Jr., Little Rock, Ark; Robert NJ
Shafer. New York City. represent
ing the Hill School of Pottstown,
Pa; William Ballenger Jr., aFlint,
Mich; Lowell f. Frautschi, Madi-
son, Wis; Allan B. Wright, Rock
vile Center, l.. l.; John Alden
Behnke, Appleton, Wis; David S.
Hunter, Brooklyn, N. Y; James Ly-
man Bidwell, Hartford, Conn; Dali
las Webb bort, Flint. Mich: John
Jacob Gunther of New York CITY
and the Gunnery School of Wash.
lngton, Conn, representing the Brick
Presbyterian Church of New York.
and William German Mcmillan,
Baltimore, Md.
The tour has been arranged as
result Of plans made at last wears
World Conference of Workers Among
Eoys, at Portschach. Austria. 1t is
part Of an effort to help establish
better understanding and more
friendly relations among nations. as
well as being a new feature in the
educational work of the association
j. A. FanDis, boys work secretary
OF the Interna tional Committee OF
Young Mems Christian Associations.
who was executive secretary of the
Portschach Conference, is general
director of the trip. He will be as
sisted by Harry J. Center of Flint
Mich, and Ernest p. Roberts of
Brooklyn, n. Y. both experienced in
boys work as well as in foreign
travel.
Invitations have been sent IN
twenty European countries asking
that each select, through its nation.
al 7. NJ. G. A. secretaries, a rem
resentative boy to accompany the
American travellers on 2O-dav
cruise through the Norwegian fiords
including a trip to North Cane. n
Is believed that through this contact
with various nationalities. bv
means of daily companionship with
boys OF their own age. these possible
future leaders in their respecfive
countries will gain a broader ont.
look and develop a more sympathe-
tic understanding Of foreign points