AMERICAN DELEGATES TO SURGEON GENERAL From France Paris—Mr. J. O. Coff, Mr. Lawrence He Replies to the Report Made by The Merchants' Association on Ellis Island B. Benet. From District of Columbia Washington-Mr. Joseph H. Defrees, placed in a satisfactory operating condition, the necessary facilities estab lished at Copenhagen, and improvements made at other European ports, so that at the present time there are reasonably efficient delousing facilities at Danzig, Copenhagen, and other Scandinavian ports, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Charbourg, Havre, Naples, Trieste, and Mr. Alvin E. Dodd, Mr. W. L. Pryor, Mr. APPRECIATES THE WORK DONE other Italian ports of embarkation. The John J. O'Connor, Mr. J. D. A. Morrow, From Italy Milan-Mr. M. P. Hooper, Mr. O. M. Smart, Mr. G. Velez; Naples-Mr. Biagio Borriello. From Minnesota Minneapolis-Mr. Theodore Wold. From Colorado Denver-Mr. C. A. Fisher. From Alabama Gadsden-Mr. N. H. Burt. From England delousing procedure now carried out at United States Surgeon General H. S European ports of embarkation, together Cumming, head of the Public Health with the subsequent detention of twelve Service in the United States Treasury days prior to the departure of passenDepartment, has acknowledged the re- gers, it is believed will serve to afford port made by The Merchants' Associa- all reasonable safeguards to the Port tion upon immigration conditions at El- of New York as well as to the country lis Island. at large, for the prevention of the introduction of typhus. As far as the Surgeon General Cumming's Letter Bureau is informed, there has been no Surgeon General Cumming's letter typhus infected vessel arriving at New supplements the letter written for the York during the past two months, and Treasury Department by Assistant Sec- I believe this can largely be attributed retary Clifford, and printed in "Greater to the measures carried out at the EuroNew York" on June 13. The Surgeon pean ports of embarkation. General's reply is as follows: “I have to acknowledge, with thanks, Pediculosis and Quarantine "In view of the interest that your London-Mr. Crook, Mr. R. H. Cabell, your letter of May 26 transmitting copy Association has displayed in this mat Mr. George M. Cassatt. In Five Divisions The program has been divided into five general subjects, all having an important bearing to the main theme of the conference. The convention will be organized into five groups, each group taking up one of the five general subjects, which are: of the report made by your Association's ter, and its very natural concern in the securing of effective measures for the prevention of the introduction of typhus, I am enclosing a copy of a statement issued by this Bureau in February, which I believe is a fair statement of the situation. As to absolute prohibition of vermin infested passengers, it is my judgment, in view of the very material infestation in the slum population of practically all large American cities, that it would be difficult to defend such a requirement as applying to those areas known to be free from typhus. There Mr. Walker D. Hines, formerly Chair- Immigration Commissioner Must Decide is no essential difference between the man of the Board of the Santa Fe Rail"As to the examination of second-class American louse and the European louse, road and Director General of the United passengers at Ellis Island, rather than and any quarantine regulation classifyStates Railroad Administration, will be on shipboard, the Bureau is in the heart- ing pediculosis as a quarantinable conChairman of the Transportation and iest accord with the recommendation, dition, separate and distinct from its asCommunication group. Transportation and Communication, Production Distribution Devastated Regions Strong American Committees have been appointed to represent the United States at the other group meetings. TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER NAMED The Port of New York Authority have announced the appointment of Mr. H. C. Bixler, as Transportation Engineer on the Engineering Staff. The offices are at No. 11. Broadway. New York City. Mr. Bixler has had an extensive experience in Terminal Operation, having had charge of the Terminal Operations for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York. "The matter of increased facilities at the Quarantine Station (Hoffman's Island) has already been presented to Congress, and it is believed that that body will provide at least $500,000 for improvements, the money to be available July 1. but this is a matter that necessarily sociation with typhus, would very prob- "The Bureau has been making every possible effort to increase the effectiveness of the delousing plants at European ports of embarkation, and considering that the efforts necessarily had to be This country imported 35,000,000,000 exerted in an indirect manner, it is be- pounds of petroleum in 1920. Sugar lieved that very commendable progress came next in quantity, nitrate of soda has been made toward this objective. third, wheat fourth, wood pulp fifth, and The plant at Danzig has finally been printing paper sixth. of New York The Woolworth Building 233 Broadway ASSOCIATION MARKET IN THE WORLD The Merchants' Association NEW YORK CITY AS THE GREATEST such a population as the New York district contains goes a long way toward An interesting chart prepared by the insuring sales. Industries located in this Industrial Bureau of The Merchants' As- district, therefore, in addition to this sociation is printed on another page of assurance, save freight and handling this number of "Greater New York." charges, which is of material advantage. It shows that the New York City dis- The Merchants' Association, through its trict, comprised within a circle of 200 Industrial Bureau, has often pointed out miles radius, furnishes the greatest mar- the other advantages which go with an ket in the world for practically all kinds industrial location here, such as an adeof commodities. quate supply of skilled labor and facilities for shipment abroad such as no other location can offer. RCHANT To foster the trade and welface New York" NEW YORK 'To Foster the Trade and Welfare of New York" Telephone Barclay 7660 OFFICERS WILLIAM FELLOWES MORGAN, President. S. C. MEAD, Secretary. HUGH LYNCH, Assistant to the Secretary. CLYDE A. COPSON, Mgr. Anti-Litter Bureau. DIRECTORS BERTRAM H. BORDEN; M. C. D. Borden and The City itself, the hub of the circle, has a population of 5,620,048, and the population of the district within fifty It should be remembered, too, that miles of the City's center is 9,120,355, large centers of population, such as or 9 per cent of the total population of Rochester, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh, lie the United States. just outside the 200-mile limit, and that Within the one hundred mile radius the Erie Canal and Great Lakes offer dwell 13,949,231 persons, or 13 per cent a cheap and easy method of shipment of the total population; within the 150- to the numerous centers of population mile radius dwell 17,950,693 persons, or on the Great Lakes, while the coastwise 17 per cent of the total population, and traffic in and out of the City reaches to within the 200-mile circle the number the entire Atlantic seaboard. of inhabitants is 22,904,873, or 22 per cent of the entire population of the country. The 200-mile circle includes all of the UNEMPLOYMENT Upon the basis of figures supplied by States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, the State Department of Labor, and ana- WILLIAM C. BREED; Breed, Abbott and Morgan. pany, and Vice-President of the Allied shire fall within this radius. LINCOLN CROMWELL; William Iselin and Com-cities, besides New York, which are in- pany. MICHAEL FRIEDSAM; President of B. Altman CHARLES R. LAMB; President of J. and R. JOHN H. LOVE: Graupner, Love and Lamprecht. WILLIAM A. MARBLE; President of the R. and ALFRED E. MARLING; President of Horace S. DANIEL P. MORSE; McElwain, Morse and LEWIS E. PIERSON; Chairman of the Board, Black and Boyd Manufacturing Company. GEORGE A. POST; of the George A. Post Company. lyzed by the Industrial Bureau of The Merchants' Association, it is estimated that more than 300,000 persons are out of work in New York City at this time. This means about 10,000 more persons unemployed than was the case at the worst of the business depression of 1914 and 1915, before the war. During the dull period of six and port, New Haven, Providence, Boston, over conditions. Emergency measures were taken to provide sustenance and temporary housing for unfortunates who were unable to find anything to do. Fortunately, it has not been found necessary to adopt similar measures at this time. There are some noticeable differences in the employment situation now and then. Chief among them is the fact that the wage level is now materially The significance of this chart will at once be apparent to every business man. It explains why New York City is the greatest industrial center in the world. The purpose of industry is the produc- higher than it was during the previous tion of commodities for sale and ex- period of depression, so that more peochange. The greater the demand for ple can be provided for out of earnings, JAMES GILBERT WHITE; President of J. G. the products of industry, the greater the even though the number of unemployed J. LOUIS SCHAEFER; Vice-President and Treas- H. B. WALKER: President of the Old Dominion White and Company, Incorporated. OWEN D. YOUNG; Vice-President and General Counsel of the General Electric Company stimulus to industry. The presence of is actually greater. FEWER ARE NOW WORKING IN FACTORIES THAN IN 1914 Approximately 300,000 Are Unemployed in New York City, According to Figures Furnished by the State Department of Labor-Computation Based on 778 Industrial Plants но 100-100-205,346 Employees 90 Maximum number employed 222, 596 Minimum number employed 174,553 80 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1921 1920 FLUCTUATIOns of employment in 778 NEW YORK CITY Factories FROM JULY, 1914 TO MAY, 1921 According to figures supplied to the 778 plants than at the peak of 1920. typical of all lines of business and inIndustrial Bureau of The Merchants' The accompanying chart shows graph-dustry, it has been estimated that there Association by the State Department of ically the fluctuation in the number of Labor, employment in New York City persons employed in these plants from factories has decreased about 20 per July, 1914, to May, 1921. cent from the peak reached in March, 1920. Analysis of 778 Plants This conclusion is reached from an analysis of reports from 778 New York City plants representing fifty-five different industries, selected on the basis Worse Than in 1914 The striking fact shown by the chart is that the extent of unemployment at the present time, as far as factory work is concerned, is measurably greater than in the winter of 1914 and 1915, when the community was much aroused con are more than 300,000 persons out of work in New York City at the present time. Detailed statistics showing the trend of employment in each of the fifty-five separate industries covered by the reports made to the State Industrial Commission are on file in the office of The Association's Industrial Bureau, and additional figures are received monthly showing current changes in the course of their relative importance in the in- cerning the seriousness of the situation. of employment. Upon request the Bu than in the month just passed. reau will be glad to furnish interested members with information concerning the status of employment in given in dustries. In December, 1914, when the earlier dustrial activity of the City. The reports are complete down to May, 1921. depression was at its worst, 10,000 more At the peak of employment dur-persons were employed in the 778 plants ing the period from July, 1914, to May, 1921, 222,593 persons were employed in Percentage of Unemployment the 778 factories. In January, 1921, the Assuming that 45.2 per cent of the lowest point in the curve during the present total population in this City period, 175,000 were employed. Last over ten years of age is gainfully emmonth this number reached 179,000, in- ployed, as was the case according to the dicating, however, that about 43,000 1910 census, and that the percentage fewer people were employed in these of unemployment in the 778 factories is number the females by about 83,000. AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION The Australian census figures show that the Commonwealth now has a population of 5,419,702, an increase of 970,000 over 1911. The males out GREAT CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEETING IS COMING More Than 20,000 Members of the Organization Will Meet Here From July 6 to July 11 and Preparations Are Now Being Made for Their Reception New York has just begun to wake up that President Harding and Vice-Presi- denominationalism, are shown by the to the fact that this City is to entertain dent Coolidge and several members of attitude of the various Christian denomthe Cabinet will participate. from July 6 to July 11, 1921, one of the most significant international gatherings ever invited to enjoy its hospitality. The Sixth World's Christain Endeavor Convention is to assemble here at that time, with an attendance of registered delegates probably in excess of 20,000 and many thousand others who will be in attendance at the various general and special sessions of the Convention. inations towards it. Among the outstanding principles of the Christian EnFounded in Maine in 1881 deavor movement are loyalty to the local The Young People's Society of Chris- church and denomination, as expressed tian Endeavor has for its birthday in the pledge, and interdenominational February 2, 1881, and therefore is fellowship, manifesting itself in united more than forty years of age at this work through the Christian Endeavor time of the great gathering in New York. Unions. The first Society was formed by the its own church and pastor, and manages Every society is amenable to Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., in the its own affairs in subjection to its own Williston Congregational Church, Portland, Maine. Some fifty young people signed the original constitution which was presented to them and thus they became charter members of the new society. church board. Spirit of Cooperation When Christian Endeavor undertakes Great Religious Gathering The Armory of the 71st Regiment at work in a foreign land, it does not present itself as a missionary organization, Thirty-fourth Street and Park Avenue, will be the general assembly hall, with National conventions representing the a substitute for the church work that is Instead, it places practically all of the churches within a United Societies were drawing thou- being done there. itself at the service of those already convenient radius of that location al- sands of delegates together within lotted to overflow meetings and special five years after the first society was in the field, providing a tested plan by departmental meetings. The indications organized. The convention at Philadel- which the young people can be developed are that this will be the greatest re- phia in 1889 brought 6,500 delegates into a factor of strength as a part of One year later at St. Louis, the existing activities. ligious gathering ever held in the history together. For instance, the word has come out of the Christian Church throughout the there were 8,000 in attendance. world, a prediction justified by the ex- Minneapolis in 1891, more than 14,000 of Russia that the Greek Church will welcome Christian Endeavor in that assembled. The convention of 1892, perience of past conventions. held in New York, was attended by more great land which soon must begin to persons, delegates and emerge from chaos. than 35,000 This is characteristic of the opporMontreal, Cleveland, Bos World Conventions At It would be difficult to over estimate the importance to this City, and, indeed, to the world at large, of the impressions spectators. that will be taken back to their homes ton, Washington, San Francisco, Cin- tunities and the spirit of Christian Endeavor. It is known that the people by these thousands of alert young men cinnati, Denver, Baltimore, Seattle, St. are waiting in Finland, Esthonia, and women. Their interpretation of the Paul, Atlantic City and Los Angeles spirit of the Metropolis will carry far have been among the convention cities, Latvia, Germany, China, Mexico, South and should have a marked influence with attendance reaching many thou- America, India and elsewhere, to welcome this particular form of Christian upon the present spirit of unrest exist- sands in each instance. effort. This could not be true if it were ing the world over. Already the newsnarrowly sectarian or denominational in papers of the country are accenting the The heads of the foreign The world-wide spread of Christian its impulse. contrast in ideals and impulses between activities of the American those who will attend this convention Endeavor as an organization required mission the Reformed Church, the and those who make up the uneasy the introduction of world conventions Board, to supplement the national and inter- Presbyterian Board, the American Bapnational conventions. These world con- tists and many others testify to this effect. ventions have been held at Geneva in The importance of the Christian En- Switzerland, at London in England, and deavor convention has been recognized at Agra in India, for example. It had It is all this which justifies the by leaders for many years. In 1889, been planned that the Sixth Quadrennial declaration that Christian Endeavor is Benjamin Harrison, then President of World's Convention should be held in in a position to be one of the most potent the United States, greeted the conven- New York City in 1917, but the World influences in this disturbed world, totion at Philadelphia. In 1892, William War compelled postponement, and there- ward restoring order and understanding If the young peoMcKinley, then Governor of Ohio, ad- fore 1921 sees the consolidation in one among the peoples. dressed the convention in Cleveland. great event of the Sixth World's and ple of all nations can be brought into This has been characteristic of the the Twenty-eighth International Chris- a better understanding of each other recognition of the convention on other tian Endeavor Convention in this City, and into a truer fellowship, they will occasions. National and State officials an extraordinary event. be building a solid foundation for peace and justice among men. forces. Importance Recognized by Leaders will be in attendance in the New York The breadth of the Christian EnConvention this year and it is expected deavor movement and its freedom from A Potent Influence The determination of a world policy CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION TO BE HELD HERE is but one of the great elements in the of thousands of workers. No other or-throp, the Hon. George W. Wickersham, convention. Distinguished leaders in ganization with world extensions, it Mr. E. C. Sage, Mr. Charles E. Jefferson, every phase of constructive Christian seems safe to say, has carried on its Mr. Robert E. Speer, Mr. Cornelius E. activity will have a part in the succes- work at anything like the small expense Woelfkin, Mr. Willis D. Wood, and other sive programs day by day. It will be a which has marked Christian Endeavor leaders in every phase of worthy activity. working convention as well as an inspirational convention, practical as well as idealistic, American in its influence and service, just as truly as foreign. Citizenship Building effort. In other cities and in other years, the convention expenses, as well as a large part of the funds to support the continuing activities of Christian Endeavor throughout the world, have been paid The building of citizenship is at the by the delegates themselves as a part forefront of Christian Endeavor ideals. of their registration and membership Special convention emphasis is to be fees. In the present instance, however, placed on a series of conferences on with the City of New York proffering its that subject. Some of the leading men hospitality to the great convention, it in New York will participate in that is believed that the Metropolis will not practical, constructive part of the wish its guests to pay for that program. Manifestly, work of such magnitude and breadth of vision could not be hospitality. Will Raise $40,000 The Convention headquarters office is at 276 Fifth Avenue and the office of the Finance Committee at Room 1002, Sixty-two West Forty-fifth Street. JULY CONVENTIONS National and International Meetings Will Be Held in This City in Midsummer Month The Convention Bureau of The Merchants' Assocaition announces the fol Brooklyn Shoe Style Show-July 6-8. Young Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavor-July 6-11. carried through if Christian Endeavor Conventions of far less significance, lowing list of conventions to be held represented only the younger people. far smaller in the number of delegates, in New York City during the month of Out of the ranks of Christian Endeavor political, fraternal, etc., cost the cities July: have developed, year by year, many of where they are held from $100,000 upthe most prominent figures in all ward, and are considered worth all that branches of Christian work, and they they cost, even from the most selfish retain their fellowship as alumni in the point of view. Thanks to the very care- American Association of Wholesale organization in which they gained their ful organization of this convention, the Hatters-July 7-8. first experience, and as participants in large amount of volunteer work, the American Designers' Association-all the continuing activities. vigorous economies and careful budget- July 7-9. It is this fortunate combination by ing all along the line, the amount rewhich the enthusiasm and the vigor of quired from the Metropolitan District young people are harnessed up with the to finance the convention and its colexperience and resources of older folk lateral expenses, is computed at only of similar vision, that makes Christian $40,000. This amount it is that must Endeavor and this convention of sur- be raised by the friends of Christian passing importance right now. The Endeavor from sources naturally sympaguidance of the work, nationally and thetic to such a cause. internationally, the administration of the resources, and the development and execution of the far-reaching plans, are under an authority which is shared by leaders competent to represent such im portant world movements. Names on the Program Organization and Headquarters Woodmen of the World-July 7-16. International Steel and Copper Plate Engravers League-July 11. International Plate Printers and Die Stampers Union of North America—— July 11. Order of Sons of St. George, New York State-July 11-13. National Confectionery Salesmen's Association of America-July 12-14. Jobbers' Association of Dress Fabric Buyers-July 18. National Retail Merchants' Exposition -July 18, August 13. The organization charged with the Catholic Benevolent Legion-N. Y. State Council-July 19-20. Manufacturers' Aircraft Association More June Conventions The Convention Bureau of the Mer On the program appear such names |