^nrk 3TpifratiDn nf QlljurrJjfa Room 1232, 200 Fifth Avenue Telephone Gramercy 1552 SUBMITS TO THE CHURCHES, ITS SUPPORTERS, AND THE PUBLIC, THE FOLLOWING WORK RECORD October 25 — December 8 AS REPORTED TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS DECEMBER 8, BY ITS EXECUTIVE STAFF, IN EXECUTION OF THE BOARD'S OUTLINE OF DEPARTMENTAL WORK, I9I449I5, AS APPROVED BY THE ADVISORY COUNCIL, JUNE 18, 1914, AND DEHNED AS FOLLOWS: I Give first place to development of responsibility districts in Federation’s 38 Clergy and Laity I,eague areas of Greater New York. II Issue directory of churches by tracts, for Greater New York. (a) Memberships 1901, 1906 (Federal Census Re- ligion), 1913-14. ( 5 ) List work for foreign-born. (c) Clergy lists. (rf) Interpretation of tract results, with maps. Issue maps of churches. Secure tabulation of State Census, 1915, by tracts. III Continue ; (a) Church Vacation Schools, loth season. {/>) Clerical Conference, 5lh season. Enlist members in commissions and departments. (c) Law Enactment Bureau. Id) Laity League. Enlist members in commissions and departments. (e) All other existing department.®. IV Develope Committees or Commissions as far as possible as follows ; {a) Child Welfare. (h) Religious Hducation : After School Plan. Gary, Ind , Plan. (c) Immigrant Welfare : English ; Civics ; Naturalization. (d) Housing and City Plan. (e) Economic Conditions ; Saloon Waste. War Waste. (/) Recreation : Censorships. DEPARTMENTAL WORK New York contains / of every ig of the nation' s population; r in 66 is involved in the following progress of Protestant. RESPONSIBILITY DISTRICT EXTENSION. W. 62nd — W. 126th Streets, 219,000 people. Canon John P. Peters (Nov. 10), Dr. S. DeLancey Townsend (Nov. 17), Dr. Frank Oliver Hall (Nov. 20), Chaplain Knox (Nov. 19), the four neighborhood chair- men of the West Side Clergy and Laity League, have gathered the neighborhood clergy in four meetings to diviue the territory among the churches in respon- sibility districts. The whole population, from 62nd Street to 110th Street, with the exception of a few small districts, has been assigned. The League’s Executive Committee, meeting with Dr. Anthony H. Evans, President (Dec. 4), has put much time on preparing the form of its co-operative advertising. $300 will be spent by the League to put co-operative invitations to worship over every family threshold. 50,000 handsome folders 'will be printed. From 110th to 126th Streets there is a difficulty in the fact that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is not supposed to have a parochial policy. Unless it changes plan, the district has only one Protestant church to 20,000 people. From 94th to 110th Streets the aveiage assignment is over 10.000 persons. W. 14th St. — W. 62nd Street, 268,000 people. Dr. Jefierson, Broadway Tabernacle, will send out notice for territory south of 62nd Street to 46th Street as soon as the Federation can undertake to be represented at the meeting. In Bronx, (600,000 people), the League holds a meet- ing Dec. 18th. In two sections of Brooklyn, (250,000 people), the churches are asking for assistance in de- veloping the plan. On Staten Island, (80,000 people), the work took definite shape in the formation of an official minis- ters’ union, which will promote co-operative respon- sibility, Dec. 2, Canon Pascal Harrower, President. There is absolutely no doubt that the Federation’s responsibility district plan has taken hold of the con- viction of the Protestant churches in Greater New York. It needs a staff of assistant secretaries for its full development. DEPARTMENTAL WORK.— (^Continued) CLERICAL CONFERENCE. On November 27th, eighteen out of twenty-two mem- bers of the Clerical Conference Committee were present at its meeting. That aftern jon Archdeacon Cunning- ham, of Ely, England, spoke to about ISO clergy on “War and Civilization.” Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Chairman of the Committee, has plans well in hand for Clerical Conference meet- ings up to May next. The next meeting, December 16, will deal with the unemployment problem. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS COMMITTEE Canon George William Douglas, Chairman. Twenty members of this Committee attended its meeting November 27th, and appointed a programme committee on plans for developing interest in inter- national peace in the churches of New York. The speakers’ list of the New York Peace Society has bee: placed at the service of this Committee, of which Mr Laidlaw is Chairman. In addition, ten other speaker have volunteered. Mr. William W. Ellsworth, Presi dent Century Company, is giving, free, whatever ar pointments are made for him by the Federation, r illustrated address for which he ordinarily receives handsome honorarium, with the understanding th an offering be taken and sent to the Belgium Reli Fund. At the West Side Y. M. C. A., December 6: the offering was about $30. A speakers’ list will be issued shortly. INTER-CHURCH UNEMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE Administrative Section *Nehemiah Boynton, D.D., Chairman ♦Walter Laidlaw, Recording Secretary George B. Agnew Frederick Lynch ♦Mrs. Francis M. Bacon, Jr. Henry M. MacCracken David Baines-Grifhths W. W. Bellinger ♦Charles L. Bernheimer ♦William C. Breed Arthur J. Brown Henry E. Cobb Frank M. Crouch Jonathan C. Day ♦George William Douglas Howard Duffield Raymond B. Fosdick Frank Oliver Hall John Haynes Holmes ♦Miss Frances A. Kellor ♦Landreth H. King Charles S. Macfarland ♦Thomas S. McLane J. Howard Melish William P. Merrill George F. Parker Karl Reiland Junius B. Remensnyder Theodore Sedgwick Charles L. Slattery ♦Ernest M. Stires Charles L. Thompson George U. Wenner Luther B. Wilson Cornelius Woelfkin S. Edward Young ♦Members of Executive Committee RECORD OF WORK. Inter-Church Unemployment Committee. — {^Continued) Advisory Section Robert Fulton Cutting, Chairman. Louis Annin Ames Leo Arnstein J. G. Bacchus Wm. Sheafe Chase Julius Henry Cohen Ralph M. Easley David H. Greer Mrs. Edward S. Harkness Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins John A. Kingsbury Samuel McCune Lindsay D. J. McMahon Marcus M. Marks Mrs. Walter E. Maynard Mrs. Frederick B. Pratt Thomas J. Riley Samuel Schulman Joseph Silverman Gaylord S. White Stephen S. Wise This special committee, appointed November 27 by President King on the request of Canon Douglas, Chairman of the Economic Conditions Committee, was instituted as a result of a request from the social workers of the city for the formation by the Federa- tion of a committee to express and direct the interest of the churches in the unemployment problem. The membership of the committee, so far as its clergymen are concerned, is largely the same as that of the Econ- omic Conditions Committee, but at the request of Canon Douglas, Dr. Boynton, as an active pastor, is the Chairman of the Administrative Section of the Com- mittee, with Mr. Robert Eulton Cutting as Chairman of the associated Advisorv Section. Rev. Charles Stelzle is engaged for three months as Secretary to work under the direction of the Executive Committee. Mr. Stelzle commenced work December 8. The general definition of the functions of this Com- mittee is : 1st. — To cooperate with governmental authorities in the establishment and development of public employ- men agencies by state and city, and with other relief measures ; 2nd. — To cooperate with business, labor and charit- able organizations, by means of special committees, and to prevent duplication in dealing with the unemploy- ment problem ; 3rd. — To be a means of communication between vari- ous churches dealing with unemployment, to the end of unifying and standardizing such work, so that it may be made more effective ; 4th. — To recommend various measures for individual church action to the churches and synagogues of New York City for the solution of the unemployment prob- lem, and also to recommend measures for district and neighborhood work, in the same interest, to the bor- ough sections mapped by the Federation; DEPAR TMENTAL WORK.—{ Continued) 5th. — To gather systematically from the churches exact information as to cases handled, problems met, work done or undone, in the parishes’ experience with unemployment this winter, for possible use in encour- aging, stimulating or demanding future governmental action for the permanent solution of the problem. 6th. — To treat the unemployment problem as a prob- lem of applied religion. INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE GIVEN Population Research, District Equipment and Other Departments , Ascension P. E. Church, 24 charts, suggesting neighbor- hood responsibility district service, as drawn up by Federation in 1912. Dr. Grant in sending for them wrote on sample an instruction to his secre- tary as follows : “Keep this before Ascension Par- ish as a standard. Send one to every member of the vestry and one to me.” Harlem Y. M. C. A., Mr. F. H. Revell supplied with statistics to determine policy of new building. This information has been acknowledged by him as — “Just what I wanted.” It will have its part in determining expenditure of a considerable sum of money from the $4,000,000 Y. M. C. A. Fund. Women’s International Patriotic League, three meet- ings arranged for Ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon, of Utah, in West-Park Presbyterian Church, Labor Temple, and Tremont Methodist Church. These meetings are designed to arouse interest in the passage of an amendment to the Federal Con- stitution to prevent the Mormon Church, which is still polygamous, from strengthening its grip as a political power in the West. Horace Mann School, nationality distribution in New York. 31 copies of the Federation’s single sheet tabulation were supplied this school for use in study of Social Service class, and paid for at 20c. each. Congregational Church Extension Society, church dis- tribution on University Heights. A Congregational Church on Manhattan Island is compelled to move. Information given Dr. Shel- ton, the secretary of the Church Extension Com- mittee, is designed to determine where perhaps $200,000 shall be spent. Columbia University, Distribution of Nationalities in Manhattan and Bronx. RECORD OF WORK. Information and Assistance Given. — {^Continued') Broadway Tabernacle, Church and charity distribution in Tabernacle’s pa^'ish. Americans in New York. St.. Peter’s Church, Westchester, information about Federation’s history. Committee of Mercy, eight inquiries answered to assist it in raising funds. Brooklyn Lutheran Mission, Nationality distribution in Brooklyn. Methodist Episcopal Cit-?? Mission, Nationality distri- bution, Manhattan and Bronx. John Hall Memorial, suggestion of lecturers. Y. M. C. A.. West Side, course of four lectures ar- ranged for Sunday afternoons in December, speak- ers William W. Ellsworth, President Century Company; Canon Douglas; Dr. Arthur J. Brown and Mr. Laidlaw. Mt. Morris Baptist Church, suggestion of peace class and possible leader. Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, list of church forums in New York. Wall Street Journal, population below Chambers Street. St. Thomas P. E. Church, work of Federal Council of Churches. Rutgers Presbyterian Church, religious character of neighborhood. Temple Shearith Israel Sisterhood, sex distribution of Manhattan and Bronx. All Angels P. E. Church, cards for neighborhood sur- vey. Methodist Preachers, speakers secured for weekly meet- ing. Bound Brook, N. J., forms for religious canvass sup- plied. New York Journal, Whitfield Anniversary suggestions. Lafayette Avenue Friends Church, methods of coopera- tion with neighboring churches supplied. Greensboro, N. C., suggestions to exclude immoral plays asked for and given. DEPARTMENTAL WORK.— {Continued) Evangelistic Committee, location of Protestant Polish churches in New York. District Columbia Playgrounds Association, congestion in New York. Professor Giddings, Columbia University, tabulation methods. Belgium Relief Fund, churches of New York and neigh- borhood informed of opening of uptown branch and encouraged to use it. Mrs. Elmer Black, churches addressed in interest of betterment work. Y. W. C. A., Manhattan, lecture course suggestions. SECRBTARrS ADDRESSES Topic : “Four Days in a German Military Prison and Their Lessons,” unless otherwise noted. Oct. 25. Presbyterian Labor Temple, 500. Subject: “Church Federation.” 26. Woodlawn Reformed Men’s Club, Brooklyn, 125. Nov. 1. West 23rd Street Y. M. C. A., 150. 9. Rutherford, N. J., Presbyterian Men’s Club, 175. 11. East Orange Lincoln School Association, 100, 19. Religious Press Club, 20. Staten Island, C. E. Union, 125. Subject: “Church federation.” 29. St. James P. E. Church Forum, 200. Dec. 6. Y. W. C. A., Brooklyn, 40. “/ wisk this address might be given before every church in New York City)’ FREDERICK LYNCH., Secretary, Church Peace Union. SECJ^ETARY'S ADDRESSES— {Continued) Advance Appointments Dec. 13. West Side Clergy and Laity League — ^Anti- Mormonism Meeting. 14. Philadelphia Baptist Ministers’ Association. 15. Borough Park Presbyterian, Brooklyn. 16. Unitarian Clu’j, Manhattan Hotel. 18. Bronx Clergy and Laity League. — Responsi- bility District and Anti-Mormonism Meet- ing. 20. West Side Y. M. C. A. 23. John Hall Memorial Men’s Club. 27. Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn. 31. Smithtown, L. L, Community Meeting. Jan. 7. Centre Church, New Haven, Conn., Men’s Club. DIRECTIONS FOR DECEMBER^JANUARY WORK, ISSUED DECEMBER 8 1. Commence Immigration Committee work, Jonathan C. Day, D.D., Chairman. 2. Organize Religious Education Committee. 3. Plan Recreation and Housing and City Plan Committees.