Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-06-12

ON CHARTERS
Wide Sweep Of Inquiry
Concerning Betternlent
Of humanity

Special to Evening Teller.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June IL
With Senator Beveridge of Indiana,
Secretary of War Taft, Archbishop
Ireland and long list of other promi-
nent speakers, with scores of city ON
Gals. sociologists, educators and
others participating in the wide range
of discussions which make up the
weeks program, considerable public
interest attaches to tn saith annual
session of the National Conference Of
Charities and Corrections, which be-
gins in Minneapolis this evening.
This conference has no duplicate in
the world. Prison reformers, settle
ment workers, district nurses. chari-
table visitors, superintendent of in
sane asylums, reformatories and the
like, gather 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 for
NAL opening in the Auditorium this
evening provides for an invoca ton by
Bishop Edsall, addresses of welcome
by Governor Johnson and Others. the
annual address of President Amos w.
Butler of Indianapolis, and the adj
dress of Senator Beverage. which will
be the feature Of the session. The In
diana senator has chosen for his SUBJ
! 1ect Child Labor in the United
states"
| The program for the conference this
year is regarded as the best ever ar
ranged for the annual meeting. 1t in
cludes 10 general sessions and 10 Sec
tional meetings. The latter will be
devoted largely to the discussion OF
the reports prepared by the various
committees.
4 The committee on state supervision
of charitable and correctional agen-
cies has prepared a report dealing
specifically with the inadequacy Of
much of the present supervision. The
; committee on needy families, theil
homes and neighborhoods, will take
UP different phases of organized char
ity work.
The committee on promotion o
health in home, school and factor!
: will conduct three symposiums: oil
health in the school, led by DR.. S. A
: Knopf of New York city; on healtl
in the factory. by Miss Marie Jamm
of the Minneapolis Visiting Nurses
: association, and on health in tn
home, by sherman C. Kingsley Of tn
Chicago Relief and Aid society.
0 DR.. owen Copp of Massachusetts
chairman of the committee on insan
9 and the epileptic, will outline a sys
= tenn of public care and treatment 6
2 the insane, according to recent at
= vances in this direction.
T. The condition and needs of tn
blind, deaf. feeble-minded epilept
% and the physically deformed will
exhaustively considered by the CON
= mittee on detectives. The chairman I
y this committee is DR.. j. M. Burdoc
Of the Western Pennsylvania Institu
!. ton. for Predetermined.
70 The committee on children will
lHuuTtsscu ny JOnn ItIHple CTdVeS
" Georgia, Prof. G. H. Durand of Yanl
= ton college, Miss Julia Richman
: New York city, Mrs. Elizabeth
Evans Of Boston and Henry s. Curt
: secretary of the Playground Associ;
y ton of America. The chairman of Il
. committee is George L, Sehon
Louisville.
!. The committee on prison and poll,
administration has for its chairma
Joseph r. Scott, superintendent of IL
= reformatory at Elmira, N. Y, II
foremost institution of its kind in Il
world. Papers prepared by Chief
Police Sylvester of Washington, D. (
Rev. Harris R. Cooley of Clevelar
es and Superintendent Woifer of ii
Minnesota state prison will be read
the meeting of this committee.
On Sunday afternoon there will !
an open mass meeting in the Aud
torium. at which the annual confe
OF enee sermon will be preached