The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-10
CHARLTON MAY GET 1T
OPPONENT OF PROF. HENDERSON
FOR CHARITIES PRESIDENT.
Interesting Discussion at Second
Days Session of the National
Conference at Toronto.

TORONTO, July 9.-There was a larger
attendance at the second days session Of
the conference of charities and correction
Among the names put forward for the chief
executive Office of the organization for the
ensuing year are Prof. C. II. Henderson
of Chicago University, and Maj. T. j.
Charlton, of Plainfield, Ind. The cities
which have solicited the honor of enter
tanning the next conference include New
York, Milwaukee, Omaha Philadelphia and
Detroit.
This afternoon in considering the question
How to get educated young men and wom-
en- to make a life vocation of charity or
ganization work." Miss M. E. Richmond,
general secretary of the Baltimore Char
ity Organization Society, said in part:
We cannot hope to induce many edu-
Gated young people to make charity work
a profession unless we are prepared to give
namely, further opportunities for educa-
ton and development, and. incidentally, the
opportunity to earn a living. A training
school for the instruction of those who pro-
posed to adopt this profession would help
to establish professional standard If one
OF the university trained men now engaged
in charitable work, one who had had wide
experience, could be induced to undertake
the organization of a training school for
this new profession, there would seem to
be no undertaking which would more sure
ly improve the charity work of the whole
country The organizer of such school
should be given good financial backing, and
here it becomes necessary that men of
means should take an interest in this ex-
pertinent He should also have the sympa-
thy and hearty cooperation of the best
specialists in the country. The school
should be founded in large city, prefer
learning, but great emphasis should be put
on practical work rather than on academic
requirements, and vital connection should
be made with the public and private char
tiles of the city, to which students should
be detailed, and their work carefully super
vised by their instructors. The mere tech
nical training of such a school would be of
vast service to the charities, public and
private which now have such difficulty in
securing efficient paid service, but the best
result of such school. under good leader
ship. would be the development Of higher
ideal of charitable service"
A discussion followed and then Ansley
Wilcox, chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Charity Organization Society
read a paper on Proper Financial Support
for the Organization of Charity and How
to Get IT." The question was discussed at
length by w. r. Ralph, of Louisville, who
said, among other things:
For the first year or two, and while
the society was making a record, we
had TO do some soliciting for sub
scriptions, but at the end of the
of the Ohio valley, we were advertised by
the merit of the work performed by us. We
calamity, the great. Louisville cyclone of
1890, which still further engrafted US in the
confidence of our people. Some few years
ago the society was presented by Mrs.
Mary Richardson Belknap with a magnii-
cent permanent home. We built a Wayfar-
ers Lodge and workshops which are GER
tainly worth not less than 5000.
During the last three or four years our
society has been confronted with number
of men, mainly skilled mechanics who
wanted work, not charity and at the same
time desired to preserve their self-respect.
Through the means of the Wayfarers'
enabled to relieve this large class of our
worthy citizens. We arranged to give them
three days work in the week by which
they were enabled to earn 49, and we also
made arrangements with certain grocery
houses whereby they could purchase grocer
les at a price favorable to them. The re-
suit was that the men worked in this way
and supported their families, and at the
same time preserved their self-respect and
independence. When we need money a sim
pie appeal through the medium of the news
papers has always brought the necessary
funds"
Harvey j. Hollister. of Grand Rapids
and others also discussed the question In
the ild-savng meeting a paper on the
read by Michael Heimann, of New Orleans
In the Juvenile reformatory section the
subject was, rs a Department Record Ad-
visable in Our Schools?' a paper on which
was read by superintendent w. j. Brown,
of Red Wing, Mimi.
At the evening session invitations for
the next annual meeting We're received
from Des Mones. Milwaukee. Omaha and
child saving was read by c. f. Faulkner,
of Minneapolis. paper entitled THE
Sunday School as a Child Saving Mission
was read by Rev. Mr. Milner, of Chicago,
lecture explanatory of child rescue work in
that city