The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-09


 lation. Therefore plead for the pub the city and the nation."
 And he dwelt, throughout the ad- dress, on the prevention of the things that breed fndigence and criminality. To deive deep into the causes of im- morality and decay and poverty, to study conditions, to think, and think and think upon every act that is ac- complished with charitable Intent, go that the real charity. the prevention of future misdeeds and future errors, may be achieved---for that he pieaded. Give to Protect Seff.
 Dr. Henderson asked for intelligence in the direction of charity and social service work, and for intelligent or ganization. Indiscriminate, superficial charity. the giving of aims to the case that comes to notice first is not all. ne said. ~
 "People don't live on charity.' he said. aThey die on 1t; they stave on 1t, and because the charity is done un- intelligently. and in a superficial man ner."
 He told of how charity was. as com prehended by most, sort of a hre in- surance, or how people gave to the poor, not to help the poor, but to pro tect themselves from hellhre.
 Tt was thus in medieval times, ne said, when people gave, and cared not what became of their aims. just so they gave. And they gave because their construction of the religion made 1t mandatory that they give. Just give and nothing more; not to watch the course of their money or their as- sistance not how 1t was spent or otherwise used, But just to give and thus to insure protection from nell nre."
 It was a plea for intelligence in all things that he made. He said that the most benevolent intentions were nothing short of criminal when car ried out indiscriminately, taking as example the national child labor laws This, he said, though upon the face appearing benevolent, was not. for II made as if to force a law upon the States when they. knew nothing of 1t, when their people had no intelligent idea of the motive and purpose of the law, and hence combat it.
 And going from the salient psfnci- ples of charitable philosophy, he told of specific instances where correction was needed. He touched the labor question, and especially the issue or child labor. N Vt
 our snation," said pr. Henderson. "cannot remain great and exploit its children. The children are our people the child is the basis of our ciyiliza- tion."
 pr. Henderson congratulated the people of Alabama on their movement toward organization for intelligent charity and social uplift work.
 ''rhe country needs such systematic work" he said. When charity Is ac- complisfed unsystematically, wrong is done. We want, not mere allevfaffon, but the prevention of pauperism and it's causes the prevention of extreme crime and it's causes .,-.
 "Thise movement promises we'll for it promises systematic and intelligent work. 1t will bind together thinking men and women to confront with an impregnable array the gheat problems that beset the nation-the growth of poverty and crime. Giving In altns will not prevent; it will but momen- tarily relieve and impregnate the germs of dependence deeper"
 His peroration was a magnificent ap- peal for courage and concerted, deter mined action.
 Organization to Come,
 Following the address of the evening, a tentative organization was formed, to lay plans for/ today's meeting. To- day, at 10 o'clock. at the auditorium of the Commercial Club, a State ore ganization will be formed. To draft a constitution and bylaws of the as. sociation, a committee was appointed as follows: Judge Samuel D. Weakley, Rabbi Ehrenreich. Mir. Willers of Bir- mingham, and Rev. Frank Seay of Mobile. The constitution, when com pleted, will represent the work of stu dents of sociology. of men who have studied the problems of crime and