Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-15
WOMAN GAINS
SIGNAL HONOR
MISS JANE adams ELECTED
AT CHARITIES SESSION
DELEGATES SPEAK ON WELFARE
OF CHILDREN
Secretary from Maine Advocates the
Establishment of General Bureau
as Center of PhIanthropic
Activity
nv Associated Press.)

| BUFFALO, N. Y, June 14.-Mlss
Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago,
is the president of the national con-
ference Of charities and corrections
for 1910. The selection late today was
made unanimous.
This is the first time in the history
| of the conference that woman has
had this office.
| Children, lawbreakers families and
neighbors, immigrants and state SUI
pervision and administration were
the topics scheduled for discussion at
today's meeting of the conference OF
charities and corrections.
Frank Il. Wade member of the state
probation commission of Buffalo. was
the first speaker in the section de-
voted to lawbreakers.
c. e. Faulkner, superintendent OF the
Washburn Memorial Orphan asylum
Minneapolis, opened the discussion on
the care of dependent and neglected
children.
Under the topic estate Supervision
and Administration Howard s.
| Braucher, secretary of the associated
charities of Portland, Me-, spoke on "A
General Bureau and the State Boards
as Centers of Philanthropic Formation
and Publicity"
Need for Federal Bureau
The demand for federal bureau of
Information about charitable and social
activities was expressed in an address
by H. S. Braucher, executive secre-
tary of the National Playground asso-
citation. before the conference this
morning
ANY apparent lack of interest in
any line of social work." said MT.
Rraucher "has been due to the fact
/ ir,fo finn has he0n
damned UP and has not been allowed
to reach the public. One state for In
stance has needed to know the laws
under which the various state boards
of charities work and the results ac-
compished by the various boards; what
! laws for the protection or neglected.
children have been found proficient IN
other states; what form of juvenile
court law has given the most general
satisfaction; whether or not other
states permitted creditors to trustee
mans entire wages week after week,
| leaving nothing for the laborer's fam
lily; what laws for preventing the build
| ing Of such tenements as nave as
graced many cities of less than 10O,-
900 inhabitants. To secure Information
on these subjects 1t has been necessary
| to appoint special commissions to
gather the facts for that state, when
! a national bureau of charities would
have gathered the facts for the use
of all the states, saving much duplica-
ton of work.
Help for Weak Citizens
II Is lust as important for the ma
tional government to report on the
methods of helping weaker citizens, as
to spend 100000 year in reporting
on bugs"
Gino C. Speranza, attorney to the
consul general of italy at New York,
made the sweeping charge that for
eigners, including immigrants intending
to make the United States their home,
are Disseminated against in American
| courts He claimed that the United
States Disseminated between citizens
and prospective citizens by classifying
the latter when they come to an Ameri-
can port into desirable and I'M
desirable, and said that while the
country had a right to do this 1t
ought to be done by a court rather than
by summary, arbitrary and non-Judiclal
tribunals or boards of special inquiry.
He claims that this discrimination fol-
lows the immigrant after he has be-
come citizen both in civil and GRIM
! inal courts
In the report of the committee on
Law Breakers" submitted to the con-
ference tonight the rather unexpected
statement was made that the serious
crimes against society are not increas-
ing in/the United States In spite of the
thrush of foreign born people.
Increase In Petty Laws
The report of the committee which
was submitted by its chairman, the Rt.
Rev. Samuel Fellows of Illinois, con-
tinues, that the so-called increase In
crime is due to the fact that misde-
meanors are multiplying because of the
| nP naftU laws which are
enacted both in the states and various
municipalities, and cites as examples,
expectoration on the sidewalks, flip
ping street cars, giving or receiving
transfers in some cities, Tipping PEN
MES, buying and selling cigarettes.
The committee recommends the adop-
ton of adult probation laws similar to
those now enforced in eleven of the
states, recommends the more general
adoption of the indeterminate sentence
law and its extension to include mis-
demeanors. The committee also urges
some kind Of systematic relief for the
needy members of families of convicts
out of their earnings.
Child Neglect Is City Problem
Hon. C. e. Faulkner of Minneapolis,
| in an address before the conference,
placed most of the burden of child
helping work upon the state. He said
it was the place of private charity In
child-helping service to do the neces-
sary work which is not done by public
charity.
"Child neglect and dependency is
chiefly a city problem, and when the
children that are neglected or left de-
pendent are not provided for by the
state, private charity must conduct
we'll managed institutions to care for
the physical and moral needs of such
children, and for their training in cook
Il ing, sewing, housework and sloyd as a
preparation for self-support or for a
transfer from city to country lie.
| IN the Judgment of the speaker the
institution is an important child-saving
station, along the line of preservation
of the natural home life and the re
Mobilization Of the home life interrupted
by vice or misfortune.
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