The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-24

gives promise Of being the largest and
most important session of the Natonal
Conference Of Charities and Correction
in the thlrtv.six years of its history will
be held here June GIG, inclusive, rms
national conference, which is really
seven or eight large bodies OF men ana
women engaged in as many dittcrent
lines of social and philanthropic work
in tho United States and Canada, is one
of the unique institutions of America
IL has no constitution or laws save
few unwrittcn rules which guide lts
proceedings: it has never committed IT.
self by resolution to any particular lGea
or programme of reform or progress, but
has always remained, as its name lndi-
Gates, conference, Out of its discus
sions from year to year have grown I'M,
portant movements of national, ana
some time world wide, significance. The
country. wide effort TO stamp out tuber'
cnoss was born in this conference, so
also was the playground movement; as
! well as the effort to solve the problem
of overcrowding Of people in city tene,
ments, the betterment of the national
system of ials, almshouses, and other
institutions for dependents The con
! ference has also proved n common meet
ing ground for sociologists, economists.
and the medical profession in develop
ing those lines of preventive medicine
and hygiene which are going far 10 I'M
prove living conditions among the peo'
pie of the American states.
Prominent Man President.
The president of the conference this
wear is Mr.. Ernest p. Bicknell, director
! of the American National Red Cross IN
| Washington. Mr. Bicknell is one of the
foremost men in the philanthropic world
| in America He is q graduate OF the
University Of Indiana, and was FOR
number of years a reporter on the In
dianapolis News. He left newspaper
work to become the secretary of the
| State board of Charities of Indiana.
and during his administration very
many of the plans and laws, which have
! placed that state in the forerapt OF
those states which most nearly meet
their responsibility 10 the dependent.
| defective, and delinquent classes were
laid. In 1898 he resigned this position
TO become general superintendent OF the
! Chicago Bureau of Charities, which he
held until about a year ago. At the
time of the San Francisco disaster, Mr..
| Bicknell was called from Chicago to
| that stricken city to help stralghten
ont the tangles in the relief work there.
His efficiency and diplomacy won for
him national recognition and he was
soon after called to Washington TO be-
can National Red Cross. Since that
time he has supervised the work of re-
lief in tho forest fire region. and most
! recently in the earthquake zone in
| Italy. He has Just returned from the
latter field Of activity. and his prcsi-
dental address to the conference here
in June will deal with, Problems of
Relief Growing Out of Great Dis
asters.''
Scope of the Work.
AS has been indicated above, the Ma
tlonal Conference being composed of
number of groups Of people engaged In
| different kinds of related work, the pro-
! gramme of its meetings naturally falls
into sections, This year there Will be
distinct conference on Detectives. -
including insane feeble minded, idiotic,
and epileptic people; Z" Families and
Neighborhoods. - "Health and Santa
tion," Immigrants, "Lawbreak-
ers, - "Press and Publicity "Statis-
tics, - estate Supervision and Admin
| istration, - "Children, +" On account of
the far-reaching effect of the recent
conference 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 "Defectivesn will
Law special stress on the treatment of
criminal insane, and some very interest
| ing experiments are promised by DR..
Henry f. Goddard, paidologist of the
New Jersey Training school of Vine
land, n. j., in the physical and psychi-
cal examination of detectives illus
trated on the ergograph, the pyscho-
meter, sense tests, etc.
The committee on "Families and
Ncighborhoods. of which Robert A,
Woods of South End House, Boston,
| is the chairman. is comprised of charity
organization workers of the country, to.
gcther with people engaged in social
! settlements and allied activities. This
section, as its name indicates, deals with
problems of social service as they affect
the family and the neighborhood. Ger
tain municipal problems will be dis
cussed by Prof. Graham Taylor Of Chi
cago, Paul L. Kellogg of New York,
Miss Marv +. Mcdowell of Chicago, DR..
! l.. II. Gulich Of New York. and others,
One of the interesting developments in
social work in the United States in re
cent years has been the application of
| the methods of organized charity to
work for social bettcrmcnt in country
| communities. This matter will he dis
cussed by Prof l., II. Bailey of Cornell
! University, who was chairman Of Pres
| ldent Roosevelt country Llfc commiS"
| sion.
DR.. John s. Fulton of Philadelphia
and Baltimore. who was the secretary
| general of the recent International Con-
| gress on tuberculosis, is chairman of
the committee on "Health and Sani-
tation.F While this is a comparatively
new section of the national conference,
! it promises to point tho way to many
reforms in the matter of public health.
Some of the addresses scheduled for its
meetings are:
Abstract Of Programme.
"The Great Wrong of Sending Advanced
| Consumptives Away from Home Rev.
| w s. Freedman, Denver, Colo.
| means of Safeguarding the Sale Of
| Narcotics, Especially Cocaine. Opium.
and Morphine" William Jay Schieffelin,
| New York,
Medical Supervision of Schools" DR.
| George II. Leslie, Los Angeles.
! Food Supplies OF Charitable and Semi
charitable Institutions" DR.. Harvey II.