Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-22
REFUSING REELECTED
West Point Dean is Again President Of
State Charities
S P. MORRIS OF OMAHA, VICE PRESIDENT
All Omcers and Executive Committee
men Are Chosen and south
Omaha for the Next
Meeting.

President-Ihe very Rev. Dean Joseph
REFUSING, West Point
First Vice Presidents. p. Morris, Omaha.
Second Vice President-Dr. p. c. Johnson,
Lancaster.
Treasurer-John Davis, Lincoln.
Secretary-J. A. Piper, Lincoln.
Members Executive Committee-Mrs o.
Corbin, Tecumseh; Dean G. A. Beecher,
Omaha; Mrs. w. H. Clemens, Fremont;
Mrs. Joseph Tibbetts, Beatrice; Mrs. Mary
r. Morgan, Omaha; b. d. Hayward.
Kearney
These officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year at the closing session Of the State
Conference Of Charities and Correction.
The committee appointed for drawing up
a constitution reported and the constitu-
ton was adopted. The organization has
existed for ten years without a oonstitu-
ton and action in this line was taken upon
the recommendation of President REFUSING
in his annual address.
The meeting next year will be held In
South Omaha. The executive committee
will determine the time. County Commits
sioner IRE, B. d. Hayward of Kearney and
Chaplain P. L. Johnson Of Lincoln were ap-
pointed a committee on resolutions.
The conference has proven one of the
most interesting ever held by the charity
workers of the state More than 100 have
been in attendance, including the heads Of
practically all the state and county institu-
tons.
Talks on state Institutions.
Representatives of state institutions spoke
Friday morning. DIR. j. p. Lord told Of
the work and needs of the orthopedic hos
pital at Lincoln. Superintendent r. E.
Stewart of the Deaf and Dumb asylum
pointed out that every graduate Of that
institution is a self-supporting and useful
citizen. There have been twenty-seven
graduates since 1902 Only one institution
affords a higher education for the deaf
and dumb than the Nebraska school.
Superintendent Hayward of the Boys In
dustrial school at Kearney gave an inter
esting address on his work
People generally think our institution
is a place for punishment" said Mr.. Hay
ward. This is a great misconception. 1t
is a school, just like other schools. We
have courses of study which run up to the
tenth grade.
"Our great trouble is more with the
grown people than with the boy. After a
boy has been there few months we begin
to get pleas to have him sent home. His
parents and friends think he will do bet
ter. Often district judges and the governor
himself add their pleas. I have unlimited
patience with the boys but very little with
these thoughtless adults. The boy is in the
school taking a course, just as though he
was in the State university. How foolish it
is to try to have him sent home.
"Of those boys who remain in the school
and complete the course, 90 per cent be-
come good citizens When they are re-
leased before that time only a small per
cent amount to anything"
Work with FeebIe-Minded.
! DR.. Frank A Osborn of the feeble minded
institute at Beatrice told of the work there
and of its importance to future genera lions
as well as to the present
In telling of che state insane work Dr..
w. B. Kern of the Hastings asylum de-
clared that the object should be less to
see how low the per capita cost could be
made as to see how high the efficiency of
the work could be brought.
Mrs. A. ]. Albright of the Milford home
fo- girls read a paper on the work done
there. She said that 80 per cent of the
girls received there are permanently saved.
Rev. w. H. Presson of Milford, in dis
cussing the state work among the old SOL
diers, said that this does not come strictly
under charitable work.
"Our old soldiers resent the term, in
mates and call themselves members or
comrades" he said. "This is right. After
a man has given his health and his best
years to his country, the state owes
him a comfortable home"
The members Of the conference visited
the Child Saving institute and took lunch
con there at the noon hour.