Evening star., 1925-10-18
COOLIDGE TO SPEAK
AT4Y CONVENTION
Will Be Third President to
Address National Meeting
of Association Here.

President Coolidge will head a long
list of speakers. including men prom
inent in official, business and profess
sional life, who will address delegates
to the thirty-sixth international con
yention Of the Young Mems Christian
Association here October "a to 26.
The President will address tho con-
vention at it's opening session in the
Washington Auditorium. He will he
the third President of the United
States to address such an a1emblage,
President Grant having addressed
them here il 1871, while President
Roosevelt delivered an address before
delegates at the last international y.
NJ. c. a. convention in Washington 1S
years ago.
Various countries throughout the
world are to he represented at the con-
vention. Robert j.. Lewis of Cleve
land and S. Writ Wiley, directors Of
y. NJ. &. A. work in this country. who
have Travelled over the greater part Of
the world, viii tell Of the boys of
America, Europe and Latin America.
u. A. Davis, senior secretary for the
national council, y. ~. e. A, In Eu-
rope. will relate problems pertaining
to boys in the Orient, while boys
problems and Y. NJ. &. A. activities
in general in other sections Of the
country Will be told Of by the follow
ing: Paul Super. director general Of
the Y. NJ. G. A. in Poland; Charles j.
Ewaid. administrative secretary for
Latin America, including South Amer
lea, Mexico, Cuba and Porto Rico;
Fletcher Breckman,. chief administra-
tive secretary for the Far East, and
John Y. Lee, n native of China, who
was educated in the United States and
is now associate general secretary for
China.
Program Incomplete.
Officers in charge of local arrange.
menIs follow.
NJ. 0. Chance, general chairman; II.
l.. Rust, jr.. vice chairman; Victor B..
Deyber, treasurer: Luke l. Wilson, sec
retarv; John NJ. SwartZeil. committee
on reception and information; w. C.
Hanson, entertainment. and L. II. De
Groot, jr. finance committee.
Although the convention program
has not been completed, the local y. NJ.
c. \. headquarters yesterday made an
announcement as TO the general pur-
pose of the convention. the number
of persons TO be represented and a
partial list OF prominent men TO take
part.
Most OF the sessions will he devoted
problems that confront the leaders of
American youth today. in an attempt
TO formulate a more closely co-opera- :
tive and unified program for the fu-
ture dealing with these problems.
There are nearly / 10000 y. NJ. c. A.
Association members 20 be officially
represented.
Washington will be represented on
the associations national council by
Hugh A. Thrift. who is first vice presi-
dent. while Curtis ID. Wilbur will also
serve as member of the council 3
judicial board. Among other proni-
nent men who viii take part III the
convention will he +. ". Ramsey OF
Cleveland. Ohio, president of the ma
tional council. Y. VI. c. A. and chair
man of the organizations finance
commission; James NJ. Speers. presi-
dent of James McCutcheon & Co, linen
merchants of New York. who IS both
chairman Of the Y. NJ. G. A. interna-
tional committee and a member of
the general board of the organization
Other general board members who
will attend include Robert Garrett OF
the banking firm OF Robert Garrett
& Sons. Baltimore. and a director OF
the Maryland Trust Co.. Cleveland Z.
Dodge Of New York city and Judson
g. Rosebash of Appleton, Wis.
To Unite Christian Nations.
OF the regular employed officers Of
the association, who will take part in
the convention. the best known. per-
haps. is DIR. John T.. Mott, general
secretary of both the national council
OF the organization and the interna.
tional committee. In n pre-conven-
tion address Mr.. Mott has made an
appeal for the general Strengthening
of ties between the English speaking
Christian nations and urged unity
of effort to meet the forces OF crime
and lawlessness."
Referring TO the significance of the
convention being held in Washing
ton. Mr.. Mott said, in part:
The convention should be Of
especial interest TO the American AS
sociations, because it is to be held
in Washington. The association at
the National Capital is more than a
local or a sectional enterprise. It is
emphatically a national undertaking
1t ministers directly and indirectly,
through its composite national mem
bership and through the relationships
it Sustains to all departments of the
National Government, to every State
in the Union.
Moreover, the association IN the
National Capital is in very true
sense an international association
dts contacts with the personnel of the
embassies and legations of all ma
the worldwide program of the Amer
lean and Canadian Y. NJ. c. A. asso-
ciations.'