The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-13
CHARITIES THEME
OFB|GCONF[RENCE
NOTABLE GATHERING or EDucA-
TORS AND REFoRMERs
OF ALL KINDS.
WIDE RANCE SUBJECTS
Include Promotion Of Health, Care Of
Epileptics, Blind and Deaf
Persons by the State and
Child Labor in y. s.

Minneapolis, M nm, June III With
Senator Beyeridge, Of Indiana Secre-
'tary Of War Taft, Archbishop Irelani
land long list Gf other prominent
speakers, with scores of city officials.
Psychologists. educators and others par
ticipating in the wide range of dis.
cuss ons which make up the week /;
program. considerable public Interest
attaches to the thirtyfourth annual
session of the National Conference
Of Charities and direction, which br
gan In Minneapolis this evening. This
conference has no duplicate Iii tha
world. Prison Tef0rmers, settlement
workers, district nurses, charitable
visitors. superintendent Of insane asy
Iums reformatorics and the like, gath
er once a year from all parts of tho
country to discuss their work from
the standpoint CT the needs OF the
American community.
The program arranged for the form
al opening in the Auditorium thla
even ng provides for an invocation b.
Bishop Edsall, addresses Of welcome
by Governor Johnson and others. the
anual address of President Amss M
Butler, of Indianapolis, and the al
dress of Senator Beveridge, which win
be the feature of the session. The
Indiana Senator has chosen for biz
subject, Child Labor in the United
States"
Wide Range Of Subjects.
The program for the conference this
year Ii regarded az the best ever ar
ranged for the annual meeting. II IN.
cludes ten general sessions and nine
teen section meetings. The later VIII
be devoted largely to the discussion
the reports prepared by the vario
committees.
The committee on state supervision
of charitable and correctional asehcis5
has prepared report dealing specf
ficaliy with the inadequacy Of much II
the present supervision. The commit
tee ON needy families, ther homes AM
neighborh. ods, will take up different
phases Of organized charity work
The committee on promotion d
health In home. school and factory
will conduct three symposiums; on
health In the school. led by Pr. 5. A,
Knopf, of New York city on health
in the factory. by Miss Marie Jamme.
of the Minneapolis Visiting Nurses
association, and on health in the homo
by Sherman C. Kingsley, of the Chi
cago Relief and Aid Society.
Or. Owen Copp. Of Massachusetts
chairman of the committee en- the IL
sane and the epilepiic, will outline a
system of public care and treatment
Of the insane, according to recent adj
vances in this direction.
The condition and needs Of the
blind. deaf, feehle.minied, epileptl'
an dthe physically deformed viii be
exhaustively considered by the com
mlttee on detectives The chairman
Of This committee is Or. J. NJ Muir
dock. of the Western Pennsylvania
Institution FIR Fehle-Minded-
The committee on children will be
by John Temple brtNes .
Georgia. Prof. G.. II Durand. OF lanb
ton college. Miss Julia Riehman, q
New York city, Mrs. Elizabeth G
Evans OF Boston. aud Henry 5. Cur
tbs. secretary Of the Playground Asso
citation of America. The chairman
II the committee is George l. Seh1n
of Iorfgvilte
The committee on prison and police
administration has for its chairman
Joseph F. Scott, superintendent Of the
reformatory at Elmira n Y. the ferS
most institution Of its Kind in the
world. Papers prepared by Chief oi
Police sylvester II Washing on. D. G.
Rev Harris r. Cooley Of Cleveland
and superintendent Wolfer Of the Min
nesofa state PRISON will he read al TIE
meeting Of this committee.
on Sunday afternoon the-e VIII -
an open mass meeting in the Auditor
ium. at which the annual conference
sermon viii be preached by Arcs
bishop ireland Of St Paul.