Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 4

COOLIDGE ADDRESS WILL OPEN SESSION International Y. M. C. A. Con- vention Here Tomorrow, With 1.000 Attendance. With ready than city 500 delegates al- participating in meetings which dary, the Triennial In- mvention of the Young Associations of the and Canada will be v tomorrow morning Villard Hotel with an Coolidge. _At- to be about more in group and wened Wednes Mon's Chr n 1 nited wened ess ndance expected 1000 Poli is es governing the future of the inter committee and the wal convention, as well as nation of u program of unity ration between the Nation- of Canada and the United States will be umong the most im- portant iatters before the leaders. The much discussed question of a basis for voting membership again vill be opened, and modern ‘“charac- ter-destroying” influences will be vzed. The international convention will aceupy three days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be followed for the remainder of next week by the annual meeting of the National Coun- of the Y. M. C. A. of the United rious problems of inter-relation- p between the different bodies re- main to be worked out, as the Na- tional Council of the United States was formed less than a year ago, and has already taken over some of the functions of the international! com- wittee, Will Adopt Budget. A budget to be adopted for the | casuing ve the National Coun- 4l Budgets for 1925, covering the work at home and abroad of the national body and its agencles, e: clusive of the sums raised each year hv local assc tions for home ex-| enditure, totiled $3,834929, of vhich $2,442,813 had to be raised in contributions. The total was divided into two parts. §1,610,911 for work in 1te United ates and $2.324,019 for service in foreign countries. President Coolidge, in opening the convention tomorrow morning at 10:30 ciock, follows the precedent set by sidents Grant and Roosevelt, who alcomed to the Capital the two previous conventlons of the associa- tion, held here in 1 and 1907 Judson G. Rosebush of Appleton, a member of the national coun- Y. M. C. A., who was president of be international convention at Atlan. ic City in 19 will preside at the Jening meeting tomorrow. The remainder of the program to. row morning following President Moolidge will include addresses by R. . McWilliams of Winnipeg, a man of the Canadlan national counc nganization of the convention reports of committees, and an addre the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman Brooklyn, president of the Federal juncil of Churches of Christ in America. Divided in Three Sections. The convention tomorrow afternoon v.11 be divided into three section 1e first will consider the proposal re- voting membership basis. I'ais is one of the vital topics before ™ W nd © arouse much interest and sharp dis- ~ussion. The section consjdering it 1 be in the balltoem. and will be ided over by Chalrman Clyde Joy kuk, Towa. | trict of Columbia and Delaware. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1925. Y. M. C. A, LEADERS GATHER HERE Upper, left to right: Judson G. Rose- bush, member of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A, who will preside, and Fred W. Ramsey, president of the National Council of the American Y. M. C. A. Center, left to right: Judge Adrian yon, chairman of the general board | of the National Council, and John K. Mott, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A, Lower: Richard C. Morse, former general secretary of the American Y. M. C. A. and still active as a con- Iting 'generfl secretary, although 84 2 of age. mittee, representing Maryland, the Dis- At the City Club were meeting the town and country group, commission on membership and committee of membership. At the Washington Hotel the Army and Navy special committee was in sion Conference on Colored Work. The N ! Conference on Col- ored Work, which opened Wednes- day. continted tods the Colored Y. M. C. A., 1816 Twelfth street. Assistant Postmaster General J. H. Bartlett vas the principal speaker before the tional Conference on__Colorsd night at John Wesley A. Zion Church. Mr. Bartlett sed the ed of kindliness, mism and charity in modern life. “Spiritual capital of a place,” he said, “Is the voluntary radiation from soul in it. There is no rea- 1 why all the smiling and smile- making in the world should be done by a few; why all pleasantness should radiate from certain person If this thing is needed in society all should contribute. “The Y. M. C. A. is a leader,” sald Mr. Bartlett. “It is a teacher in this human generating proces Its buildings become generator sta- tions. It teaches optimism, good cheer, kindness, charity, benevolence and Christianity. A world of gold dollars without the warming influ- ence of this wealth of charity, cheer- Mr. Davis. who spoke at a gathering at the home of Coleman Jennings, Massachusetts avenue, was in 1907 the religious work secretary of the Washington Y. M. C. A. In that year he conducted, in the old armory building, the religious meetings in connection with the international con- vention. Mr. Davis reported progress in the work in Europe “all along the line.” ‘One of those opportunities for service which comes only once in a lifetime,” said Mr. Davis, “has re. cently presented itself in Turkey. In spite of all the suffering, sorrow and horrors in the Near East during re- cent years, in spite of the expulsion of the Caliph and the closing of the even poor WARNSU.S. TOSTAY OUT OF BALKANS Lenroot Says He Would Not Send Yankee Soldiers Into Quarrel. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, October senator Ir- vine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, in an address before the Boston Cham of Commerce last night, said thut if the Balkan states should engage in war “I would not send a, single American soldier over there to fight and die in that quarrel.” “Any practical plan for the avold- ance of war in the future,” he said, “should have our support, provided our own independence and sovereignty be not thereby surrendered. little patience with general formulas for the outlawry of war and proposals to make war a crime, subject to pun- ishment. to sacrifice the lives of in quarrels which do not concern u: but agreements between 1 spect the rights of others : from war should be freely entered i by us and encouraged “The whole world rejoices over the outcome of the Locarno conference. T regard it as the greatest achicvement for peace that has taken place within the last century. * * * “There is much opposition to the United States joining the World Court, but I believe that most of the opposi- tion is due to misuuderstanding of the proposal. I favor the proposal with the reservations recommended by President Coolidge and perhaps one or two others protecting the United States. * * ¢ It is & practical step toward peace.” mosque well as many Christian schools, an agreement wax xizned at Angora providing that the associa- tion, in co-operation with leaders, should open speciul centers in Angora und five chief citles.” Becoming Self-Supporting. The various Buron becoming increasingly self-supporting in Y. M. C. A. service, Mr. Davls said, even those countries where whole pop- ulations have been exchansed, old currencles repudiated, and where taxes take two months' salary me The finest Y the continent. Czechoslovakla, Mr. was opened recently, has become self-supporting, but adding_a new wing of dormitories The Y. M. C. A, Mr. Dav said in conclusion, has seen Catnh in Poland and Orthodox priests In Ru mania, Bulgaria and Gree: s the work and give support. Boys and young men of all f: and nations enter {ts clubs and contribute e strength and money, to the of others.” service other an conntrias are ™M “that at Bratisia Davis and not service Lizards benefit the farming indus try of Porto Rico by eating certain crop-damagin which otk wise would rmon I have | 1 believe we have no right merican boys | urkish | of | C. A. bullding on | > priests Account of League Fight, By the Associated Press. How Republican leaders in the League of Natlons fight escaped what they considered a trap to commit them beforehand to support of the covenant is one incident of the historie struggle | disclosed for the first time by the lute | | Henry Cabot Lodge, one of its domi- |nant figures, in a book awritten a | month before his death and given to | the pubiic today. intitled “The Senate League of Nations,” the placed on sale by Seribners | right holders, in the main u recor | for posterity of the already known his |tory of the bitter-end struggle between | Woodrow Wilson and the Senate op- position. But the opposition leader iy outspoken in his personal character- izations of the war President, upon hom he lays full responsibility, in his | unbending attitude, for the league's | deteat. Main Thought of “Self.” Disavowing any pe he views Mr. Wilson actuated throughout by whelmjng thought of self,” again as “devoured by the desire for power,” land in another pas “thinking first of himself in dealing with every great question.” He could not, Mr Lodge thought, rightly a | | very great In setting wn i stormy perivd of much of it traced in speect ments and other data tike | Congressional Record. Mr. el s how the Republic | March, 1919, escaped what they | thought was a trap to commit them | | beforehand to support the leays | declining an invitation to advise | Wilson Peace Commission what changes in the covena satisfy the Senate. On the advice of Lilhu Root der C. Knox and others, Mr ! replied instead that the only prac-! | ticable means by which the Presi i‘lm’“ rould obtain the Senate’s views | would be by calilng it into sessfon. | ! "He quotes this from the advice he received from Mr. Root “The net is spread in plaix | the bird, and you are th Thankful for Defeat. Although he had worked for ratification of the le reservations, in the er Lo says, he was thankful that it been defeated views the league | in practice thus far proved | the ostensible purpose of | Many pages of the boc up with a review of per ations between 1 The war is presented in these pages as lacking the scholarly uttainments often attributed to him; misinformed on important subjects: given to hiding behind twisted phraseol and half-truths; s e times timid and weak and unde cisive, and alwavs guided by an ex rated conception of his own im portance. ey to all he did was that he and the volume, as copy. i imosit | m the Lodge dis aders in Philan- | Lodge | ight of | taken ni za and Wil WILSON THOUGHT FIRST OF SELF, LODGE DECLARES IN LAST BOOK tor Died, Accuses Late President of Inordinate Love of Power, But Disclaims Personal Feeling. |and how Wilson denfed the charge fn | ir Written Just Before Sena- thought of eve Wilson,” wrote S other words, Mr. with every great in terms of! Sals 2| Wilson, in dealing question, thought first of himself. He may have thought of the country next, but there was a mg interval and in the competition the Democratic party, I will do him the justice to say, was a poor third. Mr. Wilson was devoured by the de- sire for power.” Ilad No Personal Animosity. In terms equally as strong the Sen- ator disavowed all personal animos- ity toward the man whose name came to be set over agalnst his in a great moment of history. He recalled how their tirst contact occurred years ago when, as editor of the International Review, he wccepted Wilson's first published article: how he supported Willson in the Panama tolls fight, and | Wilson thanked him; how they disa- greed about Mexico, how Lodge charged during the campaign of 1916 that a weakening postscript had been | ttached to the second Lusitania note manner that Lodge always believed tituted only & play on words how ai a church anniversary in Washing. ton Wilson later refused to speak if Lodge also was to be present. The message which the Senate leader interpreted to ensnare him into support of the league was r “eived by him from Paris shortly after irned in A by Her ber of pence said that it was “ot the views I Lodge to BAPTIST CONVENTION WILL CLOSE TONIGHT Methods of Training Christian Workers Disoussed at Day’s Sessions. The fifteenth annual session of the General Baptist Convention of the District of Columbfa will adjourn after a joint.session of the convention with its auxiliarles' “tonight. Devotional services will be conducted by Rev. T. L. Hughes and Rev. L. S. Wormley. The need for Bible schools and insti- tutes will be discussed in open meet- ing. The topic for discussion at this morn- ing's session was ‘“Indoctrinating Christian Workers.” The Bibe inati- tute was conducted by Dr. J. E. Ford of Jacksonville, Fla. Reports of all committees were heard and unfinished business was disposed of Methods of training Christian work- ers were discussed at the afternoon session. Rev. L. Keiser of this city preached the educational sermon. The session closed with an address on “Forelgn Missions, a_ Religious Ne. cessity,” by Rev. J. L. S. Holloman of this cit The session last night was featured by an address, “Natural Science vs. the Bible,” by Rev. W. D. Jarvis of | Washington. Pigmy Women in Find. An exhibition at the British Museum | of antiquities recovered from the Ur ite, mentioned in the Bible as the original home of Abraham, includes pigmy women in flounces, frills, or accordion pleats, and wearing all sorts f ornaments and good-luck charms, :-rrnlnl;lmk of the heads of lions, bulls ne members, nor can onsult them while th 'S in 48 States.” they were. Message to Paris. The incident dispatched to which had been d ed when Lodge Paris this message, wfted by Root pressed no willing ness v communication from the Senat t body was sesston. If he now wishes to ndments dr: con 1 and ne ary course is to convene the in 1t ernnot now THIE THE WO | { OUR OWN | 1 k WASH MEN’S STORE OLENS | » book also reveals that the cele- i round robin, by which 39 Re an Senators served notice on the ace co ce that they could not ote cation z gested by | of Conn | the late | vania | Senator Lodge likewise de | he himself called together the n rious unofficial committee of Senators [ who, late in the struggle, sought to | take the league out of politics by for- mulating a program of reservations Senator Knox ste »r | that would have bipartisan support. OF WOODWA S SuIT MPORTATION Woodward & Lothrop INGTON What Jhis abel TWO YOUNG WOMEN ATTACKED BY NEGRO Astailant Begten Off in Each Case. One Cleans Pistols After Incident, Attacked by a colored man, separate assaults, last.night, two young women succeeded in frighter ing him off by screaming and by bea ing him. 2 Mrs. E. M. Hirsh, 25, of 60 Columbfa road, was the first to b attacked. Miss Edna Plato, 17, ¢ 604 Gresham place, was the other. Both Miss Plato and Mrs. Hirsi state that the sssailant wore a caj Mre. Hirsh gays his clothes were darl Miss Plato says he had on ¢ trousers and black shoes and grayish coat. Mrs. Plato did not know of the attack on_ her daughter until thi morning, the glirl refraining from tel ing her about it last night because ¢ her fear of alarming her. Miss Plato had the case reported directly to the police shortly afte the occurence. When interviewed today, Mre Hirsh was cleaning two pistols—onc automatic, the other a six-shooter. Sergt. Gilfoyle and Detectives Brown and Smoot of the tenth pre l(ln(‘l are investigating the cases. 0PTOMETR|§T HEAD HERE Walter F. Kimball Is Guest of Local Society. Walter ¥. of Kansa resident of the erican Opto Association, the guest ¢ and meeting of the Dr. | br Kim City, | metric | honor District of | clety at the Ra D 1 | speaker | Br. Lo pr Sew York, first v! rican Optometr! 1 Leese, Dr. F antri Dr W. Kimball and Dr. George A of this city. The dinner wa Harveys Restaurant unde s of the officers and tri local society. The thirt tish Rite wi | ter Kimball toda Dr. B d A £ Mart Ha nt of the iation; Dr. silver, Dr. Baer, president ;ted &S toast he speakers, t RD & LOTHROP — fulness and religion would be wholiy unlivable. Other speakers last night were:| Mrs. Mary Macleod Bethune, presi- dent of the Daytona-Cookman Insti- tute, Daytona, Fla., and head of the National Association of Colored Women, and Dr. John Hope, presi- dent of Morehouse College, Atlanta. Tells of Foreign Work. ‘What the people of America have done through Young Men's Christian Associations_to help individuals and | nations of Europe in the past year -ribed last evening by D. 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