Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 6 | "Christian Citizenship."

Commissioner of Education P. P. Clax-ton. Clax-ton. Siiford Pinebot. the Kcv. Charles L. Goodell and Governor Arthur Capper of Kansas. There will also be numerous I speakers from other countries. Professor J. E. Talmage, member of the council of twelve, representing the Mormon church, and Wesley E. King, a non-Mormon, representing business organizations or-ganizations of Salt Lake, arc now on their way to Pittsburg to appear be-fore be-fore the convention. They will answer certain widely circulated articles recently re-cently printed in England and in many papers of the United States by Winni-fred Winni-fred Graham, an English novelist, who declares that polygamy still flourishes in Utah and that young girls are shipped into the state by hundreds to become polygamous wives. "CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP." There is in profess at Pittsburg this week the greatest religious gathering of the kind in the history of the worM in point of nombers of delegates and territory represented. Tt ia estimated that more than 1:5,000 persons, representing repre-senting forty-six countries, are in attendance at-tendance upon the third World's Christian Chris-tian Citizenship conference. Its scs sionsTvill continue throughout the week, concluding next Sunday. The conference did not meet last year, owing to the war. At the first I conference in W10 seen countries were represented by 1500 delegates. The iw-ond iw-ond conference, in 1SH3, had l&flOO delegates dele-gates from seventeen souniries. The conference is being held under the auspices aus-pices of the National Reform association, associa-tion, and preparations for it have been in the making for mono than a year, a committee of 150 religion! bodies h.iv. ing been engaged in making arrangements. arrange-ments. the conference, it is stated, will be free from eccVesiasticism and will not nttempt to d"al with creeds; but is to be a conference upon subjects entirely within the realm of ' lirisliau citizenship. citizen-ship. Among suhjects Hint aro schod-uVd schod-uVd for discussion are thope having to do with th mural element in public education, edu-cation, vicq and crime, prison reform, marriage and divorce, intemperance, the weekly rest day, capital and labor, Bolshevism, anarchy mil war ami peaco. Trn world commissions of nine members mem-bers each, headed by men and women of international prominence, have been lit work for ?orne time preparing ex-ham'ivo ex-ham'ivo rcporfi to bfl prcflonted lo the 600 1 '"rrnce, and upon llicsfl lh' meeting meet-ing " ill base its diC!o:ions. Among Botsd ipcukeri who will lake part, are Prank .1. C&nnon of Utah, GJtarloi K. Hughes, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Ihe Kcv. ( h:irl"s E. Jefferson, Dr. Nicholas Murray Kullcr, rWrrtary of War Newton I'. Uaker, United Stales