Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-14
WILL DISCUSS
REFORM PLANS
BOARD OF CHARITIES HAS AN
ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM
Fourth Annual Conference viii Pre-
sent Many Noted Speakers
During Coming Three
Days Session

state board of charities and correction
will be held in Los Angeles in Simp-
son auditorium, January 1920.
The state board of charities and cor
rections Is one of the greatest factors
in reducing abuses in state institutions
such as insane asylums, reform
schools and penitentiaries. program
in which many of the most noted ed
ucators in the state will take part has
been prepared and i'm the course of
the seven sessions, conditions which
now obtain at the state institutions
will be thoroughly discussed.
The opening session will occur on
Thursday, January 1S, at 2:30 p. m.
The meeting will be called to order by
DIR. Walter Lindley, chairman of the
local committee of arrangements. Ad-
dresses of welcome will be made by
Mayor owen McAleer and DR.. Walter
Lindley which will be responded TO
by President Frank j. Symmes of
San Francisco. The principal address
will be made by Governor George <.
Pardee.
The second session is to open at S
O'Clock Thursday evening. w. AL
mont Gates, secretary of the state
board of charities and corrections will
make the principal address of the even
ing. His topic is to be 1.-THE Prisoner
and the State" A discussion will fol-
low the address in which Hon. Robert
Y. Devlin, president of the board of
prison directors, Hon. d. II. Myers,
former superintendent of the Minne-
sofa state reformatory, and Hon. Frank
G. Prescott, speaker of the state as
sembly, will take part. Friday morn
ing the conference will make a visit
of inspection to the Whittier state
school.
Reformatory of the Future
Friday afternoon, at 2:3O p. M, the
third session of the conference will
be held. Predictions in regard to the
Juvenile Reformatory of the Future" ,"
will be made by DR.. w. V. Coffin, as
sistant superintendent of the Whittier
state school. A discussion of that
topic will follow which will be led by
Prof. William Il. Randall, superin-
tendent of the Preston School of In
dustry.
"The Relations of the State to the
Dependent Child" will be touched upon
by Hon. A. j. Pillsbury, secretary of
the state board of examiners, and a
lecture upon "Home Finding for the
Dependent Child will be given by
julius A. Brown which is to be TO-
lowed by discussion led by DIR.
Walter Lindley.
The most important session of the
conference will be held Friday even
ing at o'clock. "The Child Labor
Law" will be touched upon by Hon.
w. V. Stafford, state commissioner of
labor statistics. Judge Fl. II. Klam-
roth of Pasadena, chairman of the
commission, will speak upon "Proba-
tion Work." and Hon. Curtis d. Will
bur, judge of the superior court of
Los Angeles county will tell of the
Juvenile Court and It's Ramifica-
tions."
The final number of the program will
be n talk on Forces That Tend to
Child Delinquency" by Right Rev.
Thomas j. Conaty, bishop of Los
Angeles.
A busines session will occupy most
of the time on Saturday morning, and
aside from lecture upon 1.-THE Cali
fornia Prison Association" by DIR. s.
E. Lynd, state superintendent, and
q talk by Mrs. e. r. Brainerson, "Thc
Work of the Society for the PreVen-
tion of Cruelty" there will be no i'm
portant features.
Mrs. Burdette to Speak
Mrs. Robert j. Burdette will be the
principal speaker at the sixth session
and will speak upon three topics The
first will be Treatment of Acute In
sane" the second, Homes for Con-
valescent insane" and the last, "a
Woman Physician i'll Each Hospital
for the Insane" The topic of
Tuberculosis" will be discussed by
Drs. Simon Barruch of New York,
and Woods Hutchinson of Redlands
The concluding session will be held
Saturday evening at o'clock. Miss
Katherine c. FELTON,, secretary of the
associated charities of San Francisco
will speak of the Charities Endorse
ment Committee" and under the lead
ership of President Frank j. Symmes.
a general discussion of that topic will
take place.
Mrs. Mary Robert Smith will speak
of 1.-THE Organization of Charity" and
general discussion will be led by DR..
]. K. Mclean, member of the state
board of charities and corrections.
The conference will then adjourn until
the next annual meeting.
The program of the several sessions
has been sent out by the board. The
entire program was printed by the
class in printing of the Whittier state
school and is a most creditable produce
tion.