The Hershey Press 1915-06-10

              Opening of Great Conference
of the Church of Brethren
New Moderator Praises Hershey and
Calls Upon M. S. Hershey For a
Speech. Mk Clark's Address.
Big Attendance in the
Convention Hall
The real opening of the Annual
Meeting of the Church of the Breth-ren
was on Tuesday morning 'at 8
o'clock. For days there had been
special programs and meetings of
many interests ; eloquent sermons had
been preached; attending these vari-ous
occasions had been audiences ag-gregating
over 70,000; on Sunday
there were on tlfe grounds about 35,-
000, and all the preliminaries had
focused towards the record conference
^of the Church's histoi-y—and so it is
likely to prov^ In the preliminary
meetings the dominant notes were
evangelism, peace, missions, educa-tion
and a better organized ministry.
In the opening of the conference the
inew Moderator sounded the keynote
of all ; "Thy Kingdom Come." The
vast audience at his invitation arose
and repeatedfhe words: "Thy King-dom
Come."1 It was a most impres-sive
moment and it thrilled the crowd.
Elder H. C. Early, the new moderator,
said that there were in the world 951,-
000,000 heathen, 275,000,000 without
religion and 500,000,000 that believed
in Christianity. Here was the world's
problem, '. the conversion of the
twelve hundred millions in darkness.
Christ's kingdom can ,come only
through the winning of the world1' to
Christ. The moderator announced
the new officers and gave an outline
of the work of the conference.
The Welcome to Hershey
Then he proceeded to say pleasant
things about Hershey. He had talk-ed
with many delegates and they had
many words of praise, and only com-plained
that the place seemed to be
bigger than they expected and they
had' to dp mutch walking. Everyone
had called it a most beautiful place.
It was hard to think of it as having a
history of only ten years, "But,"
said the moderator, "the man who
made the place is of infinitely more
interest and importance to us than
the place itself ," and with these words
he introduced Mr. M. S. Hershey. Mr.
Hershey had not intended to say any-thing,
bu,t the scene was so inspiring
and the greeting in the thousands of
smiling faces before him was so mani-fest
that he responded to the call and
told the people how he had come to
make Hershey and what ideals, he had
cherished in the work. He believed
so thoroughly in the people that he
wanted nothing to do with monarchs
and he found no pleasure in the fact
that ' he was sometime called "the
chocolate king," He was quite sure
no king had ever made chocolate. This
brought forth a laugh from the whole
conference.
Mr. Hershey fully endorsed Gover-nor
Brunbaugh's speech on peace and
took occasion to express his unquali-fied
support of the local option fight
in this state. He wanted to do his
share in improving conditions that
would produce a better manhood and
that would give the boys and girls
every chance to make the most of
their lives. Ilershey was an effort to
bring pure air and right living and
happiness into daily use. Ho was
glad to see the great conference hero ;
lie welcomed everyone of the visitors ;
ho wished all godspeed in their work
and hoped they would come again.
"I have done all I can to make you
feel at home," ho said , " and Horshoy
is yours whenever you conio." Mr,
Horshoy then Introduced S. D. Clark ,
mannger of the Horshoy Store.
Mr. Clark's Speech
Mr, Clark' s address caught the au-dience
finely. Ho said when in 191!]
the little town only ton years old of-fered
to take euro of tho conference
of the Brethre n the idea waH consider-ed
preposterous , "but wo had an idea
sonal interest and assistance and he
praised Governor Brumbaugh. He
said if the Brethren and all other good
people would help in the fight there
would be a local option law on the
statute books of Pennsylvania when
the Conference met here the next time.
Again he welcomed them and paid a
high tribute to the church and its
members.
Elder Frantz responded and ex-pressed
the thanks of the whole body
for "the kindness, generosity and
magnanimity of Mr. Hershey."
Much interest was found in the de-claration
of Mr. Frantz that the con-ference
would undoubtedl y meet in
Hershey again. He made a very
graceful and impressive speech.
More than 10,000 attended the
various meetings Monday and at the
opening of the conference there were
more than that number on the
grounds. A feature is the great as-sembling
of automobiles.
The news of the conference is being
given daily by a special conference
number of the Lebanon News. The
official conference editor is John R,
Snyder and ho is doing the work ad-mirably.
His reports arc complete,
accurate and valuable. Tho excel-lence
of tho Conference Daily is one
of tho chief things of tho big meeting,
Mr. Snyder has hud long experience
In newspaper work,
that wo would grow. Wo said some-thing
about having 1150 more house's
in 101.5—and I think there arc at
least 175, and wo have put up many
other buildings including this great
auditorium. You have boon here a
week and wo have tried to make you
fool welcome. I am authorized to
Hay that if you will come ' back wo
will have tho Hcousties of thin Con-vention
Hall perfect, for you. Wo
arc sorry that tho bridge w«s not wldo
enough. Wo had Homo vision whon
wo built thliiKH, but wo hoo that wo
must liavo wider bridges, All that
and everything olsti will bo looked
after. You have told us wo have a
flno town and a beautiful town , but
over and above all olso wo try to have
a good town, wlioro boys and girls
may grow up to clean manhood and
womanhood through pure conditions.
Wo do not allow any liquor to bo
sold, Wo <l« not especially desire to
bo tho biggoHl town In America but
wo do want to ho tho host town. Hor-shoy
standH on foundations broader
than material huccohs." Mr. Clark
paid a trlbuto to Mr. Herflhoy 's per-
BRETtlRMC ONFERENCE D HERSHEYS HISTORY
Great Week For the Store
INTERIOR OF THE GREAT HERSHEY CONVENTION HALL LOOKING TOWARDS THE STAGE
Visitors showed moro than an edu-cational
interest in tho Hershey Store,
although it interested thom as a now
phase of cooperation. They tested
its quality and thus tho store has boon
doing a rushing bufllnoss nil tho week.
I'lvoryono of tho departments received
attention , and in some tho purchases
have been largo.
Handsome Guard s
Tho three handsome members of
tho State Constabulary who aru In
lloi'shoy this week aro Sergeant Mor-ryfiold
, .lamoH Snodgrass and .lames
Davis of C Troop. They came hero
from Pottsvillo. They aro mon of
wldo experience. Trooper Davis has
hocn much of tho world and has lived
In Australia and tho Argentine,
Crowds at the Factor y
Everybody Wanted to See How Her-shey's
Products Are Made
It has been a busy week at the Her-shey
Chocolate Factory. .-.President
Murrie 's courteous force have outdone
themselves in attentions to visitors
but the harder they worked the more
they had to do. At times' there were
many waiting their turns to be shown
through and the crowds Monday were
especially large.
But every effort was made to ac-commodate
the crowds and so hun-dreds
of them had the pleasure of see-ing
important processes in the manu-facture
of Hershey chocolates and
cocoas. Tho departments shown in-cluded
tho welfare rooms, tho mould-ing
rooms, tho wrapping rooms and
tho big longitudinal rooms. Many of
tho visitors called it the most wonder-ful
factory they had ever seen. IOach
person received a puck of souvenir
cards giving views of Hershey.
Admired the School Building
Among tho members of tho Con-vention
who visited the Hershey
School Building on Monday was Prof,
J. 0. Myers , principal of tho Broad-way
High School , Broadway Rocking-ham
County Va. Professor Myers
was very much pleased with his In-spection
and said it was ono of tho
finest equipped and most up to date
school buildings he had over soon,
Hundreds visited the school building
and showed interest in its equipment ,
To II. A, Newton who was in charge
the visitors expressed their apprecia-tion
and their praise. They aro deep-ly
Interested in education and this
latest typo of consolidated school Im-proved
thom profoundly .
Found a Roll of Money
On Monday Mrs, M. A, Brotz , t\
visitor, found a roll of bills in Hor-shoy.
She Informed tho oxocutlvo of-fices
of tho Hershey Chocolate Fac-tory
that she would lllco to return thti
money to tho rightful owner. He*
address Is in eu ro of Mrs. Elinor
Kochtol , Front and Folton Streets,
Stoolfcon , Pa,
Took Care of the Tens of Thousands
Without a Sign of Disorder and
With Perfect Ease. Carried
Out its Promises. People
Had Plenty to Eat
Hershey's records' were broken on
Sunday. In the number of visitors
and in the extent and kind of services
they received the best that was done
in the past was excelled; Great audi-ences
were accommodated; the thou-sands
Were fed; there were comforts
for all, and nothing gave put. And
throughout the whole day there was
not a sign of disorder. In the safe
handling of so many people nothing
better was ever known in this State.
How many were here ? That was
the big question after the day was
over. The. estimates varied. Phila-delphia
and Harrisburg papers set the
total above 50,000. Three repre-sentative
Brethren gave respectively
38,000, 40,000 and about ' 40,000. All
the conservative estimates varied be-tween
30j0O0, and 40,000. Two Her-shey
officials agreed that 35,000 was
about the right figure.
Every Kind of Wheel
They came in all kinds of vehicles
except flying machies. The Hershey
Transit Company handled 43,000 fares
and the work was so admirably done
that it drew forth great praise.
There was no confusion and at night
the jam was managed with excellent
skill. The travel from the Lebanon
end of the line was heavier than was
expected, Dut the service was equal to
the strain. In fact the whole sched-ule
ran like clockwork.
The Philadelphia and Eeading rail-road
handled over 5,000. All the
trains were crowded and in some of
them many were standing. The
special trains were filled. There was
heavy, travel to Harrisburg in the eve-ning.
The traffic squad at the Park en-trance
on Park Avenue reported that
between 5,000 and 6,000 automobiles
passed during the day. Some were
undoubtedly counted twice. The auto-mobiles
that stopped were parked in
three fields and there were over.2,000
of these. In addition were hundreds
along the streets and many hundreds
more that kept going.
These machines represented : every
type and patterm and most .of them
were filled; the average was about
five passengers to the car. ' Automo-biles
were run from Elizabethtown
and other points and there were num-erous
jitneys. In addition were many
hundreds of motorcycles. There were
also trucks fitted to passenger use.
No count was made of the carriages
but they filled a field and took up all
the hitching space of the town. - It
would be safe to say that over a thou-sand
came behind horses.
All Points of the Com pas
Most of the world was represented
here. The Conference brought mem-bers
from a majority of the states,
stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the/ Lakes to tho
Gulf. There were somo from Canada.
Missionaries were from the India and
other foreign countries. All neigh-boring
states contributed their shares,
largely in automobiles. Lancaster,
Dauphin and Lebanon counties were
present in force. Harrisburg and Leb-anon
sent largo parts of their popula-tions.
So it was a comprehensive sort of a
throng and it seemed to be full of old
acquaintances who had not seen ono-another
for years. The Brethren and
their folks made up about sixty per-cent
of tho total. , Moro than fifteen
thousand of tho visitors wore dressed
in the mode. It was not always easy
to toll tho Church of tho Brethren
dross because it varied greatly, es-pecially
among tho younge r women.
In fact , with all tho plainness tho
artistic impulse would assort itself
and some of those modified costumes
wore beautiful , There wore very
pretty girls in tho crowds and tho air
repressed and religious had many un-dercurrents
of cheerfulness and gfib d
fellowship. All somblnnco of amuse-ments
was banish ed , but tho minia-turo
railway and tho trolley to High-land
Park woro run.
1''ceding the ThouHamiH
Horshoy pledged itself to room a
thousand guests and food all who
might conio. It carried out its prom-ises.
It provided moro sleeping ac-comodations
than woro usod. ' For in-stance
in the M. S. Horshoy Coiisolld-dated
School not one-half tho cots
woro taken and in tho old school build-ing
the supply was greater than tho
demand, Tho Inn was woll-illlod but
not overcrowded. Tho private resi-dences
that took In boarders woro well
patronised. The Ilorshoy Men 's Club
and tho Y. W. C, A. woro both centers
of hospitality,
Thoro was excellent system. Gen-eral'
Manager Loithlsor and his cap-tains
and lieiitonantB worked In com-plete
harmony and tho result was suc-cess
everywhere.
Test of the Town's Ability
Showed it Equal to the Task
Miss Margaret Moyor , daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Weston Moyor of- ' My-orstown
, and Elmer O. Humnfy JI ' of
Ilummolstown wore married last .VVod-nosday
at .Hagorstown , Md. ^Mi's,
Ilnmmol |s one of MyorstowiW most
popular young ladles, Both aro high-ly,
esteemed and have a wldo ,circle of
friends who wish thom Jo/ in their
now llfo,
Hummel-Moyer
He Was the Star of the Sunday of the
Church of the Brethren and Over
Twelve Thousand Heard Him
Speak on Peace. De-i
lighted With Hershey
"First-rate. I had no trouble at
all." This was the reply of Governor
Brumbaugh when someone asked him
about the acoustics of the Hershey
Convention Hall just after he had
spoken to an audience that filled
every inch of its sitting and standing
space.
It was a wonderful audience. Hun-dreds
had held their chairs for hours.
More than three thousand had as-sembled
long before the hour for be-ginning
the Peace program. When
the time had arrived all seats were
taken , all aisles were filled and every
doorway was jammed , while more
than five thousand had been turned
away, Fortunately provision had
been made for the overflow and those
who could not get in the Convention
Hall wore directed to the base ball
grounds,
Governor Brumbaugh came by au-tomobile
from Harrisburg , With him
was his aged father, Both aro min-isters
of tho Church of tho Brethren
and the whole denomination is so
proud 1 of the distinguished son and
has so much confidence In his destiny
that tho members expect to see him
tho next President of tho United
States. Such famo was predicted for
him by Dr. Miller in tho Introduction
at the second speech and was received
with general applause. With tho com-mittee
and Governor Brumbaugh in
the Convention Hall snt Mr, M, S.
Horshoy and John R, Snydor , Esq,
their church . Now was the time to
apply this principle more broadly and
he intimated that it woul'd have larger
influence in the government of Penn-sylvania.
It was fitting that ' this
State should be the place, for a great
peace meeting, for here was the
asylum to which the Brethren fled , and
here was the home of the great move-ments
for peace. j
"It shopld not be possible," he said, !
"for any one man to plunge an entire '
nation into bloodshed and destruction.
The countries of the world should be
directly under the rule of the people, j
who should direct their officers how
to behave themselves as in the Church j
of the Brethren. If individuals want I
peace, they must first be right in their j
own hearts, staying away from the '
courts and stopping all this unneces- j
sary and expensive litigation , which !
destroys good will. I am thankful !
that I belong to this church which J
stands for peace and which requires j
differences to bo settled outside of the
courts."
saying pleasant things about the town
and the success of the day. Governor
Brumbaugh , was enthusiastic. "You
have a beautiful town and your Con-vention
Hall is fine—fine ," he said.
The Overflow Meeting
Accompanied by Rev, Mr. Miller ,
the chairman , by Mr. M. S.' Hershey
and Mr. Snyder and others, Governor
Brumbaugh walked from tho Conven-tion
Hall to the Baseball Grandstand.
Hero n platform had boon built from
the' front of the stand and tho wire
hud been cut. The chairman , the
governor , Mr, Horshoy and Mr. Sny-dor
woro ushered to tho platform and
shortly afterwords tho chorus of
Elizabethtown College was grouped
behind thom. The students sang very
effectively and after prayer the chair-man
paid a tribute to Mr, Horshoy
and asked that bo show himself to
the crowd. Mr. Hershey did so re-luctantly,
roninrldng that this part of
the program wus wholly unexpected
to him. Tho audience applauded
Standing at the front of tho stage
tho governor made a striking figure
and his clear, distinct eloquent words
hold tho thousands fnouinntod ovovy
minute ho was on his foot. Ho
preache d poaco as righteousness and
war as hell. Ho emphasized tho po-sition
of the church as uncompromis-ingly
opposed to war and he said thd
world would bo saved only by getting
out of'manklnd the spirit of contenti-ousness.
Ho declared that tho people
must forsake litigation and practice
arbitration. , Ho wanted tho 18th
chapter of Matthew put into llfo and
bnslnoHH , Ho denounced tho wars In
Europe as unnoccoswiry, barbarous ,
cruel and horrible. The remedy must
bo found in tho true rule of tho peo-ple.
Too long tl)o fow hud ruled tho
ninny. Now It must coma that the
many must direct and tho fow shall no
longor control tho destinies of froo
peoples. Poaco and good will ho
preached—poaco niul tho willing of
good, For '200 years tho Brethren
lad stood f oiv poneo as u proposition !
It dated from the very beginning of
warmly as ho bowed his acknowledg-ments.
Governor Brumbaugh was intro-duced
as ono whom tho Brethren
greatly loved and whom they expected
to "go on to higher honors. " This
reforenco to presidential possibilities
brought forth gonornl applause. The
audience in tho Convention Hall , be-ing
a part of the church proceedings,
mndo no demonstrations , but tho
thousands at tho baseball ground
woro more enthusiastic. They ap-plauded
six times during tho exor-cises.
Tho governor 's speech was
practically the sumo as tho one ho de-livered
In the Convention Hall. Tho
crowd filled the . grandstand , the
bleachers and tho ponchos " nnd ex-tended
to tho limit of hearing; it
numbered over H.OOO.
After his second .spooch tho gover-nor
received an ovation from the
crowds and hud considerable difficulty
making his way to his automobile.
He was aceompunlod by Mr, Horshoy
and Mr. Snydor. Mr. Horshoy enmo
in for a largo slutro of tho popular at-tention
, many shaking his hand and
Two Splendid Audiences
Hear Governor Brumbaugh
Dr. ' Bonner of Harrisonburg, Va.,
has nccaptod tho position as veteri-narian
over tho Horshoy Farms. Ho '
began his duties on Saturday last, •
The New Veterinarian