The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-28
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE
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 roximate number of 5000 inmates, and hte institutions are inI a degree auxil- iary to tlla National Home. Provision for the care of the indHgelnIt and naim- ed Confederate soldiers have been es- tablished i'm ArlzanIsas, Louisiana, Ten Gessee, Texas, Virginfa, Florida, Marry land and Missouri. The first five named of these homes are supported by state appropriations, and the others by pri- Wate contributions of citizens of the respective states
 AT THE AFTERNOON SESSIONS.
 At o'clock meeting of the com mittee on organization of the next conference was held at the New Haven house, and a subcommittee of five was appointed to prepare the list of standing committees and another of two to revise the rules. A request was also sent to the committee on reports from states to submit a list of corre- spending secretaries. The committee then adjourned to meet on Wednesday morning at o'clock.
 The conference reassembled at 2:3O in three sections, one section meeting III AAdi dudllQ CllbpSly WIICAS 4NIl SiioAA ASS w. Birtwe1l of Boston presided; anoth- CT section in an East Divinity recitation room, presided over by F. H. Nebicker of Glens Mills, Pa., and the third sec tion in the First M p. church, where J. R. Crockett of Baltimore presided.
 The subject under discussion at the meeting of the first section was Child Saving Work" and a short paper was read by Rev. A. F. Savage of St. Paul, Minn, on "Desertion by Parents" MT. Savage spoke of various methods to prevent this evil, and thought it could be in a degree stopped by proper laws, mentioning some which might be eff fective. He quoted statistics from all sections of the country showing that the evil is widespread and rapidly in- creasing. At the conclusion of his pa per warm discussion of the question was opened by Mir. James Smith of Cincinnati, O. General Faulkner of Kansas also took part in the discus sion, and said that he did not think that any method of preventing child assertion by keeping the parents in fear of the law, would be adequate. A resolution was then offered providing
  CT statistics and points on the matter and to report their conclusions at the next conference, but on motion of General Faulkner the advisability of selecting, such a committee was referred to the executive committee. As large number of those at the meeting wished to make a visit to the industrial school for girls at Middletown the paper which was to have been read by Franklin H. Briggs of Rochester, N. Y, was omitted and will be read at the session to be held at Alumni hall this morning.
 The question of Juvenile Reforma- tion" was considered by the second sec tion, and T. + Chapin of Westboro, Mass, opened the meeting by reading paper on Manual Training. Its Proper Place and Its Relation to Trade Schools" and in the course of his paper said that he doubted the utility of trades schools as compared with we'll regulated training schools. Even in the trades schools for young men man ual training has been found of vast importance The idea of training school establishment has a history of 200 years. The manual training school has come to the front on account of the .discipline which it affords, and its teachings should be given to all boys under sixteen years of age in the insti- tutions, thus preceding the trade train- ing. However, manual training and all other training is likely to come to naught unless the discharged inmates are fixed in some permanent positions which otherwise it is impossible for 1i system of training is used in the schools of which MT Chapin has charge, and by this system the pupils are trained with a view to any special fitness for certain work, and are taught on these lines.
 MT. T. J. Charleton of Plainfield, Ind, gave a talk on "What Shall Our Schools Be? How Best Housed to be Conducted? What Curriculum is Ad- |yisable?" MT. Charleton has been su- 'perintendent of the state institution For boys at PlainfieId for about eight | years. Before he was placed in charge 1 fhe institution was conducted with a | kiew to its being self supporting as | nearly as possible, and the boys were | kept at work all day with no instruc- | lion in the intermediate studies.
 At present. the boys ar1e kept at their | books durInIg each forenoon and have | l regular course of study in the com | hon branches, all books being supplied | To them. Besides these common stu lies a claIss has recentIy been formed | h UmIIted States history During the NfterinIoon the boys are kept at work |n the manual training shops at their mechanical instruction
 I If the pupils are usually deficient in sanntng when they enlter the institu- ou they are kept alt their books all . ay until they get al good start. All Iie boya are required ito white a let n. ito some one once every three weeks, 7, the superinteindent if to mo one elise, < md public mentiom is made of those X l1o exceil while ltIhose w,ho are deficient X he reported. The work and recitation Bons should be in separate buildings om the dornitor-ies, although in most
 forrnatories both are in the same avilding. Reform schools should be Na,de the pride of the staIte. As rule
 mpulsory education in the public |hools is unsuccessful, but in rIelforma-
 dDes it hals been found to work we'll
 e best anchor to homie is lowe of 1'adinlg, and so much reformaItionI is \ he by education in tlhe institutions. |