The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-29
CHARITY FOLK
WILL CONVENE
18th Annual National Con
ference will Take Place
in Minneapolis.
JUNE z TO 10 THE DATE
Meeting To Be Presided Over By Sec
rotary Butler of the Indiana
State Board.

is TO hold its thirteenth annual meet
ing in Minneapolis Mimi, June 1919
A. w. Butler, secretary of the Indiana
board of state charities, will preside.
The program includes ten general ses-
sions and nineteen section meetings.
Archbishop Ireland will preach the an
nual conference sermon and many per-
sons of national reputation will be in
attendance.
At the opening session the delegates
will be welcomed by Governor John
son and the mayor OF Minneapolis.
Mr.. Butler will deliver the presidential
address and Senator Beveridge will
follow.
Robert w. Hebberd, commissioner of
public charities of New York City is
chairman of the committee on state
supervision of charitable and correc-
tional agencies. His report viii deal
specifically with the inadequacy of
much of the present supervision other
papers will be read by Hon L. A Ros-
ing, a member of the Minnesota board
of control; Hon. William r. Stewart.
president of the New York board of
charities; Rev. William J. White SUI
pervisor of Catholic charities, Brook
Joint application bureau of the New
York City charity organization and the
poor association. The latter will take
up the tramp question as it affects
state board work.
The committee on needy families,
their homes and neighborhoods, will
take up different phases of organized
charity work. A. w. Gutridge. general
secretary of the St Paul associated
charities, is chairman. Some of the
speakers for the different sessions of
this committee are: w. D. Washburn,
jr., of Minneapolis; Prof. Graham Tay-
lor. Chicago; Prof E. a. Ross of the
department of political economy in the
University of Wisconsin; w. II. Nc
Claim, of the st. Louis Provident assoc
citation; Miss Mary L. Richmond, gen
eral superintendent of the Philadelphia
society for organizing charity; A w.
McDougan and c. NJ. Hubbard OF the
charity societies. respectively of New
ark. N. j., and Cincinnati, Ohio.
The committee on promotion of
health in home, school and factory
will conduct three symposiums; on
health in the school, led by DR.. S. A
Knopf Of New York City; on health in
the factory. by Miss Marie Jamme OF
the Minneapolis Visiting Nurses asso-
citation, and on health in the home, by
Sherman c. Kingsley, who as secre-
tary of the New York committee or
the condition of school children, has
! been directing an extensive inquiry in
to their welfare, will make the re.
port
DR.. owen Copp, secretary of thu
Massachusetts state board of insanity
is chairman of the committee on tn,
insane and epileptic. He Will outline
a system of public care and treatmen
of the insane, according to recent ad
vances in this direction. DR.. Copl
will be assisted by such experts a
DR.. A. n. Barrett of the Universit!
Hospital of Michigan, which was TIL
first psychiatrical clinic connects
with an American university; DR.. J
Montgomery Mosher of New York
Superintendent Adams of the insan
hospital at Westboro, Mass; DR.. Wal
ter E. Fernald of the Massachusetts
school for feeble minded; Homer Folks
secretary of the New York State Chair
ties Aid association; DR.. John E. Els
of the Massachusetts school and HON
for crippled children.
DR.. ]. NJ Murdoch of the Wester
Pennsylvania institution for the feebl
minded, has charge of the committe
on detectives. The condition and need
of the blind deaf, feeble minded, epil
optic and the physically deformed, wi
be considered. DR.. A C. Rogers su
perintendent Of the Minnesota schoC
for feeble minded Prof. J. Perrin
/
gan employment institution for tn
blind; George S. Wilson. superintent
ent of the Indiana school for til
blind; DR.. J. n. Tate. superintendent {
the Minnesota school for the deaf; Y
Wade of Pennsylvania. author of TT
Blnd-Deaf and the Deaf Blind; Pro
f. r. tombstone. superintendent of tt
New Jersey school for feeble minde,
DR.. Wilmarth, Dr. Mogridge and D
Rogers, superintendent, respectiveI
of the Wisconsin, Iowa and NIinnesoi
( schools for feeble minded, will all COZ
; tribute.
One of the most important commi
: tees of the conference is that on st;
= tistics. The chairman is John Kore
special expert of the L. S. census bl
reau. Papers will be presented by NJ
Koren; Prof. Lightner Wilmer of Il
University of Pennsylvania; DR.. Lii
sly r. Williams of New York, ar
I Frederick L Hoffman chief statist
J clan of the Prudential Life Insuran,
company.
George L. Sehon of Kentucky, WI
is so well known to Indiana chart
workers, is the chairman Of the cor
mittee on children. Senator Beveridg
John Temple Graves. the noted lead
, OF philanthropic movements in Il
south, and a number of well know
students and workers in the chi
saving field will have a part in Il
program of this committee.
The committee on prison and poll
! | administration has for its chairms
; Joseph H. Scott, formerly Of the Ma
] sachusetts reformatory and now suDe