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Show PROMINENT MEN OPEN CONVENTION Rockefeller, General Wood and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Among Y. M. C. A. Speakers, Cleveland, O., May lo.-r-John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Major General Leonard Leon-ard Wood and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt were speakers at today's sessions of the International Y. M. C. A. convention hero and their presenco caused unusual unus-ual Interest in tho day's program of the organization. Mr. Rockofeller told of welfare work being done in the mines of Colorado, whloh are owned by the Rockefeller interests. General Wood and Secretary Roosevelt will appear this afternoon at the army and navy section. M Rockefeller Urges Campaign. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., addressing today's session of the International convention of the Young Men's Chris- H tian Association of North America, M urged a campaign to bo called, "Tho Every-Christlan-Man-At-Work Move- H ment." M Multitudes of men whose names ap- pear on the church roles as Christians fl are merely marking time, said Mr. M Rockefeller, like soldiers parading tho M streets In dress uniform instead of M rendering active service like the men H in khaki. H Calls on Ministers. M Christian manhood, like muscular or M mental power, is only to be maintained M by its use," he said. "I call upon the H ministers of this land to rouse to ac- M tion that vast horde of Christian men H enrolled in the church but seldom seen M in the pews, who are only waiting for fl some service which requires manly M qualities In order to be again brought M into active reatlon with tho churches. fl "As we face the great industrial , problems which are arising dally, it seems clear that the only hope of their M permanent and satisfactory solution lies in tho widespread acceptance of iH the doctrine of the brotherhood of jH man. When men of widely separated j stations are thrown together, come to ' know each other, to admire the strong H and manly qualities which they see H in each other, when they are working side by side for the advancement of M a common Interest, then only does per- H sonal distrust, hatred and misunder- H standing give way to a spirit of fair jH play, justice, and a desire for tho common good." jH |
