The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-26
Correction.

nit the association to drag along it's
own way, but he Immediately com
menced active work to boom the or
ganization- His purpose is to interest
every class of people, irrespective of po-
Htical afHliatiOn in this work.
Mr. Blackmar will organize every
county in the state and a city Organiza-
ton in important centers will be effect
ed so that the progress of this work
will be from the bottom up. Sheriffs,
county commissioners and men who
have to deal with the criminal classes
will be enlisted and then will come the
charitably inclined workers. those who
study philanthropy and reform, on
through the various channels until the
Kansas association becomes an element
of power and influence.
Mr.. Blackmar spent a few hours in
Topeka today on business identified
with the work of the association of
which he is the head. To a State Jour
nal reporter he said:
1.-THE work of organization which be-
gan in May is about completed. Com
mitteeS have been appointed for the
work. The scope Of the work of the as
ISOLATION is very wide, embracing as it
does every phase of charitable and cor
rectional work. The work is apportion-
ed among committees which will enable
individuals to specialize in their work.
These ten committees with the officers
of the association represent the active
agencies for carrying on the work, al
though it is expected that many others
will be enlisted as subcommittee in
order to make the work especially SER
viceable.
while we hope to interest many peo-
pie in the enterprise, in all probability
the growth of the association will be
slow. Its work also will not be spas
mOdic but will be characterized by years
of positive service to the community.
Those who engaged in the enterprise re-
allied the limitations and difficulties
under which they worked, though the
| hO,l Ct4-7O n Sh
suits. The organization is not formed
for the sake of organizing but for the
| purpose of specific results. There is a
work to be done through the agency
| of this organization whose results can
| be actually measured.
among the chief objects of the as
| ISOLATION is the scientific study and in
| vestigatiOn of the best methods for the
care of the insane, 1mbecile, blind,
criminal offenders, incorrigibles, etc
! Various meetings will be held which
1 will enable those engaged to come to-
/ gether to discuss the best methods OF
4 carrying on charitable and correctional
work. Every other body of workers in
the state hasitS OrganiZation-the teach
| erS of the state, the bankers and the
| county officerS=and there is no reason
why those engaged in work of this ma
| ture should not have a permanent or
/ ganiZatiOn. In order, however, to keel
| it from being narrow in its scope, ano
| provincial, the organization has beer
| made comprehensive enough to include
| all persons who are willing to take az
| interest in the Improvement of every.
thing pertaining to work of this char
acter.
1.-THE first annual meeting will be helt
in November, for which scientific pa.
pers will be prepared by those carrying
on Investigations or having wide exper
fence in this work Also, reports o.
committees and reports from the var
ious institutions together with the dis
cussions of ways and means and meth
DDS of carrying on the work will b'
taken up. A board of directors consist
ing of twenty representative people ant
forming in part the members of tn
committees will have its first meeting
on July 10 and every two months there
after to conduct the work
There is a growing sentiment, no
only in Kansas but elsewhere, that tn
management of charitable and pena
institutions is a professional work ant
that those who are especially trained