The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-06-12
CHARACTER OF WORK
EXCITES GREAT INTEREST
Charity Workers and Re-
formers Of Every Kind
Exchange Views
CBy Associated Press.)


Minneapolis, MINI, June l2-With
Senator Beveridge of Indiana, Secre
tary of Whr Taft. Archbishop Ireland
and a long list OF other prominent
speakers, with scores of city officials
sociollgists and others participating
in the wide range of discussion which
make u, the weeks program, consid-
cradle public interest attaches to the
thirty-fourth annual session of the
National Conference of Charities and
Correction. which begins in Mime
apolis this evening The conference
has no duplicate in the world. Prison
reformers, settlement workers, district
nurses. charitable visitors, superin-
tendents of insane asylums, reforma-
tories and the like, gather once year
from all parts of the country to dis
cuss their work from the standpoint
of the needs of the American commua-
II.
The program arranged for the formal
opening in the Auditorium this even
ing provides for an invocation by
Bishop Edsall, addresses of welcome
by Governor Johnson and others, the
annual address by President Amos w.
Butler of indianapolis, and the ad-
dress of Senator Beveridge. which will
be the feature of the session. The
Indiana Senator has chosen for his
subject, "Child Labor in the United
States"
The program for the conference
this year is regarded as the best ever
arranged for the annual meeting.
II includes ten general sessions and
nineteen section meetings. the latter
will be devoted largely TO discussion
of the reports prepared by the various
committee
The committee on state supervision
of charitable and correctional agen-
cies has prepared a report dea ling
specifically with the inadequacy of
much of the present supervision. The
committee on needy families, their
homes and neighborhoods, will take
up different phases Of organized char
ity work.
The committee on promotion OF
health in home, school and factory
will coduct 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 as
sociation, end on health In the home
by Sherman G. Kingsley, of the
Chicago Relief and Aid society.
Dr. Owen Copp OF Massachusetts
chairman of the committee on the in
sane and the epileptic. will outline
a system of public care and treatment
OF the insane, according to recent ad
vances in this direction
The condition and needs of the
blind, deaf, feeble-minded. epileptiG
and the physically deformed will bt
exhalstively considered By the com
mittee on detectives The chairman
OF this committee is DR.. J. NJ. Murdocx
OF the Western Pennsylvania lnstitn
tion for Feeble Minded.
The committee on children will b.
addressed by. John Temple Graves, q
Georgia. Prof c.. H. Durand of Yank
ton College, Miss Julia Richman o
New York City, Mrs. Elizabeth G
Evans OF Boston. and Henry S. Curtis
secretary OF the Playground Associa
ton of America The chairman o
the committed Is George L. Sehon, o
/ Louisville
The committee on prison and polic
administration has for its chairman
Joseph f. Scott, superintendent OF tn
reformatory at Elmira, N. Y. tn
foremost institution of its kind In tn
world Papers prepared by Chief O
/ Police Sylvester OF Washington. d. c
Rv. Harris r. Cooley Of Cleveland
! and Superintendent Wolfer OF tn
i Minnesota state prison viii be rea'
at the meeting OF this committee.
: On Sunday afternoon there VIII b
, an open mass meeting in the Aud
3 torium. at which the annual confer
2 ence sermon %ill be preached b.
: Archbishop Ireland OF St Paul.