People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — WORLD’S YOUTHS’ CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S YOUTHS’ CONGRESS.

A Grand Convention of School Representatives. Among the more than a hundred different congresses to be held during the world’s fair, under the auspices of the world's congress auxiliary ors the Columbian exposition, the one that stands out uniqut and alone, having no precedent in the history of such gatherings, will ibe the world’s youths’ congress, which will convene on July 17 and hold three half-day sessions. The fact of its having no precedent, so far from militating at all against it, seems to be in its favor, as something like a general feeling prevails that this Columbian year should mark then inauguration of some new and decided movement looking toward the enlistment of the youth of America along lines calculated to most rapidly develop in them lofty sentiments of patriotism and decided notions of what constitutes truest citizenship. Delegates to this congress may be either boj’s or girls, and are drawn from the grammar and Jiigh school grades of the public schools in every county in the United States and of the public, private and parochial schools of all foreign countries, though confined to the ages between thirteen and twen-ty-one years. In Chicago the work was taken up with great enthusiasm in the schools under the recommendation of the board of education, and nearly every school already has its delegate enrolled. Most of these delegates were chosen by an essay contest in the several schools, and it was hoped by the committee having this congress in charge that all the delegates could be chosen in this way; but it is now so important that the names of these representatives of their several schools should be in the hands of the committee at the earliest possible time that this committee urges teachers everywhere to at once appoint in their schools a delegate and an alternate and forward their names, with ago, county, name of school and post office address, to the secretary of the committee, P. Frederick Bliss, World’s Congress Head* quarters, Chicago. Teachers everywhere are at liberty to send names, and if from any county a larger number is received than that to which its population entitles it, the committee will select the proper number from those first received. To insure the full quota from each county, the com* mittee would be glad if names of delegates and alternates were sent from every school. No teacher should fail to make the appointments simply because none of the young people can attend, for some of the benefits of the enterprise are realized in the mere honor and pleasure the students feel in their appointment. Requests have been sent to the ministers of education in all foreign lands to convey the committee’s invitation to the youth of their several countries,and asking for their appointment in the same ratio and on the same terms as in this country. Replies are being received from these constantly. It is not ex* pected that any large number of tha youth of foreign lands can actually bs in attendance, but their appointment and the publication of their names in the final reports of the gathering would be them a matter of quite pardonablo pride, and the certificate of their delegateship would be a highly-prized souvenir of tho Columbian celebration. It is hoped that every teacher reading this will immediately act in the matter, and that young people who are attending school will bring it to the attention of such of their teachers as have not made the appointments.