Evening star., 1939-11-26
Older Boys Session
To Open on Friday
Al Y. N. T.. A.
200 Delegates to Attend
Youth Conference on
Christiun LIVING

More than 200 delegates, repre-
senting some $500 boys in various
youth activities in churches, high
schools and Young Mems Christian
Associations will attend the seven
teenth annual Older Boys Confer
ence of Maryland, Delaware and the
District of Columbia here next Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday.
The conference, which is spon-
sored by the Y M. c. A., has as its
theme Effective Christian Living"
Registration of delegates will get
under way at 3:45 pm. Friday in
the Central "Y." Washington church
women will serve as official hostesses
to the delegates and the out-of-t town
ones will be guests in some IS WASH
ington homes, where arrangements
have been made for them to stay
through women's organizations in
churches of many denominations.
A central committee on arrange
ments for taking care of the dele
gates, who range in age from Is to
2l years, is composed of Miss
Miriam Sherman of Union Metho-
dist Church, hostess chairman; Mrs.
Herman Carl, boundary Methodist
Church; Mrs. Harry Stull. Metro
politan Baptist Church, and Mrs.
Esther Crews, member of the Boys
Y. M. c. A. Mothers Club.
Dinner Friday Night.
The opening meeting will be a
dinner at 6 pm. Friday in the
Lutheran Church of the Reforma.
ton, at which the Rev. DR.. Oscar
F. Blackwelder, pastor of the church,
will be the principal speaker. The
conferences first discussion group
will meet that evening.
The Saturday program will in
clude religious services at the
Central Y. M. c. A., 1876 G. street
NV, at 9 am; meetings of discus
sion groups Immediately afterward,
a tour of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation with j. Edgar Hoover,
director, visit to the Supreme
Court, luncheon in the Library Of
Congress cafeteria, where DR.. Black
welder will speak on Creative Liv-
Ing" meetings of discussion groups,
the conference banquet and dance
in Barker Hall of the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association. John
J. Corson, director of the Bureau of
Old Age and Survivors Insurance,
Social Security Board, will speak at
the banquet
Panel Discussions.
On Sunday morning panel dis
cussions will be held in the Church
of the Reformation. Leading the
discussion groups will be Inspector
j. R. Sears of the F. B. l., on Crime
Prevention; David Linden of the
Public Assistance Division. Bureau
of Public Welfare, on Transient
Youth" and Dreng Bjornaraa, in
charge of placement in the employ
ment division of the Social Security
Board on Careers" and Balanced
Personalities. The conference will
be brought to close with a sermon
by DR.. Blackwelder.
Details of arrangements for the
conference have been planned by
a committee of older boys and a few
adult counselors, who will hold their
final meeting, prior to the conven-
ton, on Tuesday. Ralph L. Lewis
Of the VS. Mems Club, is general
chairman of the committee. Other
committee heads include L. Gra-
ham Biggs. Speakers Committee;
James Bouton, jr., promotion; Rich
ard Marsh, chairman of the Ban
quet Committee, and j. A. Patter-
son, organized Bible classes, pub
licity. Lawrence Gunther is chair
man for the District Hi-Y group at
the convention. William T. Fry
assistant boys work director at the
Y. M. G. A., will be in charge of reg
istrations. R. H. Gaber, head of
the boys department of the Central
Y. M. G. A, will supervise registra-
tions and aid materially with the
convention program.