The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-16
TORMENT CRU -LTY
CONVENTION OF AMERICAN HU-
 MAINE ASSOCIATION.
Prominent Persons Will Assemble ln New Orleans to DIscass Better Protection of ChiIdren
 and Animals,

New Orleans, Nov. 15.--The trend of human tendencies away from barbar-
 ism toward the region of the Golden
 Rule. as exemplified In the movement
 to mitigate cruelties especially against children and animals i'll be set forth
 in its various aspsets during the com
 ing week in the thirty second annual
 meeting of the American Humane As
 sociation, which will be held in this city on Tuesday. Wednesdaq and
 Thursday of this week.
 The first half of the meeting will be
 devoted to the interests of the work for children, the second to those of
 that for animals. It is the custom of
 the association at alternate meetings
 to reverse the order of consideration
 of these two branches of It's endeAyor.
 At a gret public mass meeting to
 be held on Thursday evening the con"
 vention will close with consideration of the broader aspects of the human itarian movement. one of the most practical of the | subjects to be considered is that of the Juvenile court movement At vari- aus times during the portion of the time devoted to the interests of chill
 dren there will be addresses including
 those of Judge AndEew Wilson, of the New Orleans Juvenile Court, on "Juve-
 nile Courts and Their Work; Hon.
 Thomas D. Flynn, of the New Orleans
 bar on "The Juvenile Court Law Of
 Louisiana; Judge Robert J. WiIkin'
 of the Brooklyn Juvenile Court, on
 ''The Attitude of Humane Societies To- ward the Juvenile Court Movement;
 pr, E. l.. Conger president of the
 Pasadena. Cal, Humane Society, on
 Cruelty to Young Criminals; and Ma
 thanieI J. Walker. secretary of the American Humane Association. on
 prevention and Cure of Crime Among
 Children" children will be discussed by Ralph K. Jacobs, chairman of the New York RrookIvn committee devoted to the study of this problem; Hon. Eibridge T. Gerry, counsel of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty | to Children, will deliver an address | on Parental Reltgion--a Factor in l Child Saving Work; President James
 M. Brown, of the Toledo ono hu' | mane Society, will speak on the suo- | feet. The Humane Treatment of Chi-
 dren in ohio"; J. J. Mclaughlin, vice | president of the Louisiana Society for l the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, will have a paper on "Anti-Cruelty | Work on Behalf of Children in the 1 South" Addresses of a general char
 acter will be delivered by H. c. Pres l ton, secretary of the New York state | Convention of Antt-Cruelty Societies.
 President W. O. Stiliman. of the Hu- l mane Association; Rev. Elmer Gil- christ, of New Orleans. and others. A l distinguished speaker will be Governor
 Jared |. Sanders, of Louisiana. whose
 subject will be The ReIation Of the State to Anti-Cruelty Work"
 The interest of animals will be talk
 en up Wednesday afternoon and will
 be discussed at that session and those 1 of Thursday morning and afternoon. 1 one of the most important of the ad- dresses in th.s section of the meetings 1 will be that on Thursday morning by | Dr. George H. Hart. of the United | states Bureau of Animal Industry. on "naotes tnydropnooiaJ from Gov ernment Standpoint" A novel aspect of the animal questions appears in the | tonic of M. O. Dow--"Horse Vacations.