The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-16

vember 81, %. 20 and so, Will be the
greatest meeting in the history of the
society and the interest taken in the
coming program gives promise of ar
| important gathering to the state.
The object of the Kansas state con-
ference of charities and correction Is
to make a statistical study of the con-
ditiOn of the charitable and cOrrec-
tional institutions in the state of Kan
sas and to study the most improved
methods for the management or the
same, to organize all the workers in
the work, to encourage scientific re-
search regarding the treatment OF
crime, insanity, epilepsy, ETC., to assist
all prisoners and inmates or the sew
eral charitable and correctional instt-
buttons to a work of reform, to ad-
vance and encourage proper legisla-
ton for the support and MANAGEMENT
of the Institutions, to take practicable
measures for the prevention of crime
and degeneration and to remove all
evil influences of PARTISAN politics
from the management Of state chari-
table affairs.
The program this year is especially
strong along the line of the purposes
of the Organization. President Knapp
has secured some of the best known
America can afford. And he has not
overlooked Kansas products The
program is richly favored with Kan
sas officials and we'll known workers
lines.
The conference will open Saturday
night, November 81, with an address
by Governor Stubs. The governor
will speak on the THE States Wards.
DIR. Hastings H Hart of New York
city, who is in charge of the Russell
Sage foundation work, will occupy
Sunday evening with an address or
special interest to the private char1t-
able institutions and societies Of the
state.
John Day Smith, juvenile judge of
MINNEAPOLIS Mimi. author Of the state
wide Juvenile court law and also of the
law giving to the juvenile courts Juris-
ward Juvenile dependency and delln-
quency in that state. will deliver an
address on Monday evening of vital i'm
portance to the Juvenile court judges
and probation officers.
Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, state president
of the w C. T. u, will deliver a paper
on Temperance. Degeneracy and
Crime" Among the rest of the speak
ers the following should be mentioned
H. c. Bowman. chairman
of the state board of control, paper
on 1.-The Duties of the State, Counties
and Relatives for the Support of In
mates of State Institutions F. L. Mar
tin, mayor of Hutchinson; H. W.
superintendent boys industrial
school: President F. w. Knapp; Pro-
lessor Maurice Parmelee, department
of sociology of Kansas university; w.
F. Schoch, juvenile judge of Shawnee
county; Rev. T. G. Brainerd, secretary
IF Associated Charities of Kansas City; |
Guy T. Justis secretary of the Provi |
dent association Topeka; Mrs. c. c. |
Goddard, president of the State Fedora |
ton of Womens Clubs, Topeka; |
Reformation of Young Men and What |
the State Industrial Reformatory Is
Doing Along That Line Thomas W. |
Morgan, treasurer board of managers, |
state reformatory-
Every probate Judge, officials of the |
charitable institutions, all the repre- |
from. the state charitable in
situations and every person interested |
In this charitable and correctional work |
will attend. II is a matter of state |
wide interest and the reports of the |
are always published in full |
free of charge by the state and dis |
to all who wish them.
The officials of the association this |
year are: President, F. w. Knapp, To- |
peka; first vice president. ]. A. Cady. |
second vice president, |
Judge A Artman, Lincoln; secretary
treasurer, L. A. Halbert, Kansas City.