The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-13
CONGRESS TO STUDY
CARE OF ANIMALS
Humane Society Completes
Conference Oh Children.
VIEWS MAY BRING DEBATES
Question of Vivisection VIII Come
Before Meetings and May Cause
GOeIet Gerry PresIdeS over Last
SessiOn-Fight L. Against Laws.

The American International Humane
Cchference completed its discussion Of
the campaign on behalf OF children yes
terday and win open the consideration
of the cruelty TO animals problem this
morning. II is expected that spirited de-
bates will arise over certain phases or
the subject, especially that relating to
vivisection.
Presided over by Peter Goelet Gerry. OF
New York. the meetings yesterday were
largely OF a routine nature. A reception
was rendered the delegates by Mrs. ]. B.
Henderson at her residence, Boundary
Castle, last evening.
IN explaining the present status OF the
fight against child labor, Owen r. Love-
Joy general secretary OF tho National
Child Labor Committee. OF New York.
spoke yesterday afternoon in part as fol-
lows:
Our new Industrial processes call for
new definition OF cruelty. The powers
infiicting cruelty on the working child are
not personal but Institutional It is not
usually the harsh mother or the cruel
father against whom we must guard the
child. Nor is II the individual employer.
We have seen pictures OF the employer
as monster Of cruelty and greed. We
have not found these pictures in real life.
Fight L. Against Laws.
I'VE fight not against flesh and blood.
but against certain economic laws. which
must be overcome by higher laws. Laws
which demand the conservation OF human
life; which demand the education Of the
child; which demand thorough physical
equipment. and which demand that he be
SO trained for the problem OF earning his
livelihood and supporting those who in
the future will be dependent upon him
that he shall become. not by accident. but
by deliberate design. a social asset and
not a social liability"
Protecting children from the stand
point of conservation OF national re-
sources" was the subject Of an I'M
poFtant paper given by Bernard y, Baker,
OF Baltimore. president OF the national
conservation congress OF 1910.
4 believe in the moral conservation OF
the child" he said. AT the present time
there is a tendency 70 minimize Christian
and moral instruction in the schools, and
the results are apparent in the young
generation. In speaking TO tho superln-
tendent OF a girls seminary not long ago.
7 was told that unquestionably the stand
ARD OF morals, the outlook upon life, Is
not as exalted as Il was thirty years ago.
The child is father TO the man, and there
is no question that the moral training OF
the boy and girl should begin when they
are young
Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture HAYS
supported the address OF Mr. Baker in
q brief discussion. He advocated the re-
turn OF the old-fashIoned readers and
copy books IN the public schools, because
the moral precepts they inculcated were
rarely forgotten in after life.
Obscene and pernicious moving picture
films were subjected 10 a heavy fire at
the morning sessions OF the conference
Thomas H Agaew, OF New Orleans.
stated there were many demOralizlng
shows found in the large cities Of the
The suggestion was made that
a censorship be established over the pic
lures, and that the society for the pre-
vention Of cruelty 10 children exercise
proper supervision.
Thomas W Wrenne. chairman OF the
Humane Society board OF commissioners,
OF Nashville. Tenn, furnished a paper
on the so-called Nashville system"
which proved interesting.