The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-24
CONFERENCE TO
Be HELD IN JUNE
Men and Women Engaged in
Philanthr0piC Work to
Gather at Buffalo.
AN IMPORTANT PROGRAM
PAPERS TO BE READ WILL COVER
A WIDE FIELD.

Buffalo. y. Y, May 23,-What gives
promise Of being the largest and most
important session of the national con-
ference of Charities and Correction in
the thirty-six years of its history will
be held here June 9-16, inclusive. This
national conference, which is really
seven or eight large bodies Of men and
women engaged in as many different
lines of social and philanthropic work
an the United States and Canada, is
one Of the unique institutions of Amer
lea. 1t has no constitution or laws,
save few unWritten rules which guide
its proceedings: it has never committed
itself by resolution TO any particular
idea or program Of reform or prog
ress, but has always remained, as its
name indicates, a conference. Out of
Its discussions from year to year have
grown important movements of nation
al, and sometimes worldwide, signifi-
canoe. The countrywide effort to Grad
icate tuberculosis was born I'm this con-
ference, so also was the playground
movement, as well as the effort 20
solve the problem Of overcrowding of
people in city tenements, the betterment
Of the national system Of jails, aims
houses and other institutions for de-
pendents. The conference has also
proved a common meeting ground for
sociologists, economists and the medi-
cal 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.
President of Conference.
The president Of the conference this
year is Ernest p. Bicknen, director Of
h. hT~Na ID
Washington. Mr.. Bicknell is one of the
foremost men in the philanthropic
world in America. He is a graduate of
the University Of Indiana, and was for
number Of years a reporter on the
Indianapolis 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 forerank of those
states which most nearly meet their /
responsibility to the dependent, defec- |
tive and delinquent classes were laid.
In 1898 he resigned this position to |
become general superintendent of the |
Chicago bureau of charities, hich 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 straighten out /
the tangles in the relief work there. His /
efficiency and diplomacy won for him 1
national recognition and he was soon /
after called to Washington to become |
the executive head of the American |
National Red Cross. Since that time /
he has supervised the work of relief in
the forest fire region of the northwest,
ia the southern flood region, and most
recently in the earthquake zone in italy.
He has just returned from the latter
field of activity. and his presidential
address TO the conference here in June /
viii deal with Problems of Relief |
Growing Out Of Great Disasters"
Divided Into Sections.
As has been indicated above, the ma |
ti0Ral conference being composed of q /
number of groups of people engaged in |
different kinds of related work, the pro 4
gram Of its meetings naturally falls into /
sections. This year there will be dis /
tinct conferences on Detectives. in /
GLIDING insane. feeble-minded. idiotic. /
and epileptic people, Families and
NeighbOrhOO IS" Health and Santa /
ton, Immigrants" 'Lawbreakers." I
Press and Publicity" Statistics"
State Supervision and Administra-
ton" children" On account of the
far-reaching 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 |
viii give color to the entire proceedings
for the week
The committee on Detectives" will
lay special stress on the treatment of |
criminal insane and some very inter-
esting experiments are promised hy DR..
Henry II. Goddard, paidologist Of the
New Jersey Training school Of Vine
land, n. J., In the physical and psy-
chical examination of detectives illus
trated on the ergograph, the psychom-
eter, sense tests. etc.
Charity Workers.
The committee on Families and
Neigh6OrhOOds. of which Robert A.
Woods Of South End House, Boston. is
the chairman, is comprised of charity I
organization workers of the country.
together 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 neighbor- !
hood. Certain municipal problems will
be discussed by Professor Graham Tay-
Tor of Chicago, Paul l.. Kellogg of New |
York, Miss Mary f. Mcdowell of Chi
Cago, Dr. L. H. Gulich of New York
and others. One Of the interesting de-
Nelopments i'm social work in the Unit
ed states in recent years has been the
application of the methods of organ
lied charity to work for social better
ment In country communities. This ,
matter viii be discussed by Professor /
L. II. Bailey Of Cornell university. who
was chairman Of President Roosevelt's
country life commission.
DR.. John s. Fulton Of Philadelphia | 3
and Baltimore, who was the secretary
general of the recent International con-
Frcss on tuberculosis. is chairman Of ,
the committee on health and sanitation I
nile this IL a comparatively new sec
ton Of the national conference II prom =
Uses to point the way to many reforms :
in che matter of nuh1ic health :