The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-29
CITY NEWS
CHARITY WORKERS
DISCUSS DEPENDENTS
Associated Charities Holds
ParIor Conference at Com
mercidI Club

The Associated Charities held its
ffty-sixth parlor conference last night
AT the Commercial club. The organi-
cation. took up the theme, Social
Forces Which Tend to Prevent De-
tendency" and treated it from three
angles.
The first paper read was on the po-
tentiality of fraternal orders to allie
viate poverty and dependence. II. ".
Koch was assigned to this subject, and
he particularly emphasized the help
to the people generally that was af-
forded by fraternal orders. The sick
and death benefit conferred by the
orders was the principal point he made
that dealt with the subject under dis
cussion. He also pointed out the edu-
cative features of fraternalism and
stated that the object of fraternal or
ders was basically the same as that
which underlies the work of the Asso-
ciated Charities.
Object of Unions
H. w. Goetzinger spoke for organ
lied labor He said that organized la
Dor went step further along the line
of the work of the Associated Charities
in that it tried to improve the people
by educating them so that the exist
ence of such an organization as the
Associated Charities would be unnec-
essary. He said that labor unions now
had stringent rules against strikes,
except when every other course was
closed, including that of arbitration.
He argued that the unions should be
supported because their object was
to educate and make better the condi-
ton of labor. He said that the unions
stood for parks and Fairgrounds and
against child labor and in many other
respects carried out the ideas of the
Associated Charities.
Miss Eleanor Hanson concluded the
arranged portion of the programme
with a paper on the Consumers league.
She explained the objects of the league
oy saying that it was a body of citi-
zens pledged to buy only such goods as
bore the label of the league. She also
told of the conditions under which this
label might be used. These included a
six day week for the makers and gen.
eral sanitary conditions surrounding
the factories in which the goods were
made and in the stores in which the
goods were sold.
General Discussion
Following Miss Hanson's paper was
general discussion in which nearly
everybody present took part.
William Templeman, ex-president of
the Trades and Labor Assembly sug-
gested plan to assist dependents to
acquire independence He put forth the
idea of placing dependent city families
on plots of land in the country where
they would have a chance to shake off
the conditions and misfortunes that
made them objects of charity in the
cities.
A. w. Gutridge, secretary of the So
ciety, presided at the meeting. At the
conclusion of Mr.. Templeman's re-
marks he said that the plan had beer
tried several times, but that 1t was no
uniformly successful. He said that i
did save some families, but that the
families it saved would have saved
themselves from penury in some Other
way if the plan had not been inter-
posed. However, in many instances
the plan fastened and facilitated the
efforts of the family to work out its
own salvation.
The meeting was attended by about
nifty interested students in practical
sociology. April 10 the semi-annual
meeting of the society will be held al
the Commercial club.