Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-24
CONFERENCE OF
CHARITIES WILL
OUTLINE PLANS
IMPORTANT MEETING TO BE
HELD JUNE 9
DELEGATES AT BUFFALO TO DIS
cUss WORLD PROBLEMS
Vital Issues Receive Attention of
Prominent Acknowledgements
alton Has Started Many
Big Reforms

BUFFALO May Z0.-W nat gives
promise of being the largest and most
important session of the National
Conference of Charities and Correction
in the thirty-six years of its history
will be held here June 9-16, inclusive.
This national conference, which real
~ is seven or eight large bodies of men
and women engaged in as many diff
ferent lines of social and philanthropic
work in the United states and Canada,
is one of the most unique institutions
of America. II has no constitution or
laws save a few unwritten rules which
guide its proceedings 1t has never
committed itself by resolution to any
particular idea or program of reform
or progress, but has always remained,
as its name indicates, a conference.
Out of its discussion from year to
year have grown important movements
of national and sometime world wide
significance.
The country wide effort to stamp out
tuberculosis was born in this confer
ence, so also was the playground
movement as well as the effort to
solve the problem of oyercrowding of
people in city tenements, the better
ment of the national system of jails,
almshouses and other institutions for
dependents.
The conference also has proved
common meeting place for sociologists.
economists and the medical profession
in developing those lines of preventive
medicine and hygiene which are going
far to improve living conditions among
the people of the American states.
The president of the conference this
year is Ernest P. Bicknell, director of
the American Red Cross in Washing
ton.
Program is Sectional
AS has been indicated above, the ma
tional conference being composed of
number of groups of people engaged in
different kinds of related work, the
program of it's meetings naturally falls
into sections. This year there will be
distinct conferences in detectives,
including insane, feeble minded, idiotic
and epileptic people, Families and
Neighborhoods," Health and Santa
ton" Immigrants 'Lawbreakers,
Press and Publicity" Statistics
state Supervision and Administra-
ton" Children" On account of the
far-reaehing effect of the recent con-
ference on dependent children, called
by former President Roosevelt at the
White House in Washington, the last
named section of this conference will
probably be the most important and
will give color to the entire proceedings
for the week.
The committee on Detectives will
Law special stress on the treatment of
criminal insane and some very inter
esting experiments are promised by
DR.. Henry H Goddard, paidologist of
the New Jersey Training school at
Vineland, N. J., in the physical and
psychieal examination of detectives, il
Illustrated on the ergograph, the psy-
chometer sense tests, etc
The committee on Families and
Neighborhoods, of which Robert A.
Woods of South End House, Boston,
is the chairman, is comprised of char
ity organization workers of the coun
try together with people engaged in
social settlements and allied activi-
ties.
This section, as its name implies,
deals with problems of social service
as they affect the family and neigh
borhood.
Certain municipal problems will be
discussed by Prof Graham Taylor of
Chicago, Paul L. Kellogg of New
York, Miss Mary E. Mcdowell of Chi
and others
One of the interesting developments
in social work in the United States in
recent years has been the application
of the methods of organized charity to
work for the social betterment of coun-
try communities.
This matter will be discussed by
Prof. L. H. Bailey of Cornell univer-
city, who was chairman of President
Roosevelt's Country Life commission.
DR.. John s. Fulton of Philadelphia
and Baltimore, who was the secretary
general of the recent International
Congress on Tuberculosis, is chairman
of the committee on Health and San
itation.'
While this is a comparatively new
section of the national conference it
promises to point the way to many re-
forms in the matter of public health.
Some of the addresses scheduled for
its meetings are:
Some of the Subjects
"The Great Wrong of Sending Ad-
Vanced Consumptives Away from
Home" Rev. w. s. Freedman, Denver,
Colo.
Means Of Safeguarding the Sale of
Narcotics, Especially Cocaine, Opium
and Morphine" William Jay Schiefflin,
New York.
Medical Supervision of Schools.
DR.. George Fl. Leslie, Los Angeles.
Food Supplies of Charitable and
Serni-charitabIe Institutions" Dr.
Harvey w. Wiley United states de-
partment of agriculture.
1.-THE Diet of tuberculosis Patients"
Or. Herbert Maxon King, Liberty
New York,
1.-THE Responsibilities and Opportun-
tiles Of the Health Officer Roy Smith
Wallace. Buffalo, N. Y.
1.-THE Coordinate responsibilities Of
Boards of Health, Boards of Educa-
ton and Park Boards in Relation to
the welfare of children" DR.. Luther
Fl. Gulich, President National Play
ground association.
Responsibility of Civic Authorities
in Relation to Immigrants DR.. Peter
H. Bryce, ottawa, Canada
The committee on Immigrants" is
in charge of Miss Jane Adams of Hull
house. Chicago. Probably no person in
the United States is better equipped
to shape the program of a great con-
ference on the subject of immigration
than Miss Adams, who has spent all
of the years of her life since her grad
uation from college studying the life
and being a neighbor to the foreign
born citizens of Chicago, who have set
fled and lived in its river wards
Want Pay for Their Lands
DENVER, May 23.-The fruit grow
ers of Palisade, Colo, will present u