The Cairo bulletin., 1907-06-13
CHARITIES THEME
OFB|GCONf[RENCt
NOTABLE GATHERING or EDucA-
TORS AND REFoRMERs
OF ALL KINDS.
WIDE RANGE SUBJECTS
Include Promotion Of Health, Care of
EpiIeptics, Blind and Deaf
Persons by the State and
Child Labor In u. s.


Minneapolis. NJ nm, June Ii with
Senator BeYeridge, of Indiana, Secfe.
Itary Of War Taft, Archbishop Irelani
land long list cf other prominent
speakers, with scores OF ely officials.
psychologists. educators and others par.
ticlpatlng in the vide range Of az,
cuss ons which make up the week
program. considerable public interest
attaches to the thirty fourth annual
session OF the National Conference
OF Charities and c. rreeiion, which BE-
gan In Minneapolis this evening. This
conference has no duplicate Id the
world. Prison reformers, settlement
workers, district nurses, charitable
visitors, superintendent Of insane asy
lums reformatories and tho like, gath
er once year from all parts Of the
country to discuss their work from
the standpoint Of the needs Of the
American community
The program arranged for the form
al opening in the Auditorium thia
even ne provides for an invocation 81
Bishop Edsall, addresses of welcome
by Governor Johnson and others. tie
annual address of President Am NJ
Butler, Of Indianapolis, aud the al
dress of Senator Beveridge, which viii
be the feature Of the session. The
Indiana Senator has chosen for his
subject Child Labor in the United
States
Wide Range Of Subjects.
The program for the conference this
year is regarded as the best eyer ar
ranged for the annual meeting. IT II,
cludes ten general sessions and nlnr
teen section meetings The later Will
be devoted largely TO the discussion
the reports prepared by the yario
committees
The committee on state supervision
Of charitable and correctional ageaefpa
has prepared a report dealing speci
fically with the inadeqnacy Of much II
the present supervision. The commit
lee on needy families, Their homes ami
ncighborh. DDS. will take MP different
phases Of organized charity work
The committee on promotion d
health In home. school and factory
will conduct three symposiamss on
iealth In The school. led by DR.. 5. A.
Snopf, of New York city; on health
n the factory by Miss Marie Jamme
# the Minneapolis Visiting Nurses
and on health in the homo
" Sherman G Kingsley, Of the Chi
ago Relief and Aid Society.
Or. Owen Copp. of Massachusetts
hartman Of the committee en- the IN
ane and the epllepiic, will outline
ystem of public care and treatment
+ the insane, according to recent adj
ances in this direction.
The condition and needs Of the
lind. deaf. feeble-minded. epileptis
n dthe physically deformed viii he
xhaustiyely considered by the com
1ittee on detectives The ehalrmaa
( his committee is Dr. J. N. Muir
ock. III the Western Pennsyiyania
institution fcr Feble-Minded.
The committee on children will ee
ddressed by John Temple Graves 4
Georgia. Prof. G. II Durand, OF fanb
On college. Miss julia Richman. q
lew York city. Mrs Elizateth O
vans. Of Boston. and Henry s Cur
Is. secretary Of the Playground Asso
lation of America. The chairman
+ the committee is George L. Seh9n
+ 10 isyille.
The committee on prison and police
has for its chairman
oseph F. Scott superintendent of the
at Eimira y. Y. the fore
lost institution Of its kind in the
orld. Papers prepared by Chief d
olice Sylvester # Washing on. D. G.
ev. Harris r. Cooley Of Cleveland
nd Superintendent Wolfer 81 the Min
asota state PRISON viii be read az Tie
.eeting Of this committee.
on Sunday afternoon there viii is
b open mass meeting in The Aud'ter
I'm. at which The annual conference
srmon vii be preached ~ Arc
shop ireland II St Paul.