Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-06-09
TEMPERANCE AND iNEBRIATES
UNDER DISCUSSION.
Section Meetings Of Annual Confer
ence Of Charities and Corrections
Held Today.

tBy Special Leased Wire to New Mexican,
Boston, Mass, June 9-Section
meetings Of the thirty eighth annual
conference of charities and correc.
tions were held here this forenoon.
Sex Hygiene was the topic at the
Ford hall meeting which was address.
ed by DR.. Richard c. Cabot of Bos.
ton, Miss Laura B. Garrett of New
York, and DR.. William Healy of Chi
cago, and others.
Delegates interested in temperance
and the case of inebriates held con-
tinued meeting in the Twentieth Cen
tury Hall.
/, A section meeting, continuing the
subject of housing and recreation at
Lorimer hall numbered among it's
speakers Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon
of Evansville, Ind Two section meet
ings, held in Pilgrim Hall and Kings
ley Hall, considered the standards Of
living and labor and the securing and
training of social workers. The labor
meeting heard arguments for stand
ard payment and working hours for
women and girls by Mrs. Raymond
Robbins, president of the Women's
Trade Union League, and Miss Jose
phine Goldmark, secretary of the Ma
|tionai Consumers League.
The subject of a professional train
ing school for social workers was con-
sidered by Professor r. c. McCrea of
New York and others.
Working Woman Must Have $500.
Boston. Mass, June 9.-"No work
ing woman can possibly live in simple
comfort on less than $12 week." de-
clared Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chi
cago today. Mrs. Robins is in Bos-
ton to attend the national conference
of Women's Trade Union Leagues, of
which she is president.
"If her wages fall below that amount
she merely exists" Mrs. Robins con.
tinued.
"She is obliged to deny herself prop
er food and suitable clothing. Until
such time as votes for women prevail
the women wage workers must join
a union and go on strike, If neces.
sary, for the protection denied them
under man made laws"
Address by Miss Laura 3. Garrett.
| Boston, June That children
should early be taught the facts of
procreation and sex hygiene was the
burden of an address by Miss Laura
B. Garrett of New York before the
section on Children of the National
Conference of Charities and Correc-
ton here this morning. To-day great
scourge of physical and moral degra.
dation," said the speaker, "is sweep
ing over our land because we in ignor.
ance have not grasped the situation
but we foolishly expect purity in our
people when they have been improp
erly taught from babyhood. Today
doctors and laymen are organizing in
to societies whose object is to study
the prevention and the cure of the
so-called Great Black Plague The
best means Of prevention, legislative
moral and Social, are being studied
and employed. The enlightenment OF
the public respecting the social evil
and the education of the young must
be accomplished by all working to
gether."
Address BY Frederick Aimy.
Boston, June 9.-That both private
and public relief giving charities have
been niggardly in the amount of relie1
given to the poor was the arraign
ment made by Frederic Almy, genera
secretary of the Charity Organization
Society of Buffalo in an address OF
Adequate Relief before the Nation
al Conference OF Charities and Correc
tion here this morning Mr.. Almy con
tended that the old cry which has 81
! frequently been raised against mod
ern chasity organization societies tina
they spent too much for salaries, ha
!, lost any point it may ever have hat
, and that on the contrary. 1t is neces
sary to provide in every city, the high
est grade Of trained men and womel
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