The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-24

moral and intellectual health depend
on wholesome environment and sani-
tary conditions We recognize the need
Of a housing reform in Richmond.
Miss Harriet Fulmer, superintendent
of Visiting Nurses Association of
! Chicago, says. Two thirds of the
delinquent children come from homes
where dirty. lily ventilated rooms pre-
dominate: 1-3 of the physically i'll
from the same; Ia of the shiftless
mothers from the same. "a of the
deserving fathers from the same"
We need any must have a COM
pulsory education and child labor
law, Fairgrounds and juvenile courts.
but let u@ not neglect the home and
/ housing question as 1t will prove q
/ hidden poison, sapping the life OF
| the children.
The following was the detailed pro-
gram of the morning session which
was held in the Virginia Mechanics
| institute:
The Dependent and Neglected Child,
I Or. z. a. Irving, Farmvile, presid-
/ ing.
Report OF Committee on Home Re-
lief. Miss Hattie Sellers
| The Influence OF the Home" Rev.
Thomas Semmes, Richmond.
Child Labor" James b. Doherty,
/ commissioner of labor
Report of Committee on Dependent
I Children, J.. r. Christian.
THE Child and the Institution" Or.
r. II, Reeder. superintendent New
York Orphan Asylum. author OF
How Two Hundred Children Live
and Learn"
The latter part Of the morning ses-
sion was presided over by Rev. W. F.
DrewrE.
Round Table Discussion.
At l O'Clock the meeting took a
recess and adjourned to the Elks
Home. where an excellent lunch was
served by the girls auxiliary of the
Instructive Visiting Nurses Associa-
ton.
At the conclusion Of the lunch q
round table discussion was led by
MIR. Iiill Montague. the subject being
The Obligation of the Community &c
the Neglected Child"
O'Clock Lunch Thursday.
I On account of a change In the ar,
rangement OF Thursdays program tn,
. lunch Will be served by the youns
: ladies at O'Clock Thursday, instead
at o'clock Thursday, instead of ]
o'clock at the Elks' Home.
The Delinquent Child.
J The Wednesday night session viii
be held at the John Marshall High
school auditorium beginning at
o clock. The subject for the even
ing discussion will be The Delin
quent Child" and Mr.. Charles Hutz
Ter president Of the Laurei' Reform
School for Boys, will preside. TIL,
following Will be the features;
Report of Committee on Juvenil,
|, Court. g. r. Cooke. Civic improvement
League.
The Juvenile Court and What /
| Has Accomp lished," Judge Juiiai
Mack. court of commerce of tn.
United States. Washington. n. C., for
mer Judge of juvenile court. Chi
cago.
Child Labor in the South 0llus
trated>, DIR. a, j. McKelway. secre
tary of National Child Labor Com
mittee, Washington. u. G.
Tuesday Nights session.
The feature OF TUESDAY nights ses
!, sion was the address OF DR. H Fl
Goddard, director of the psych ologfca
research department Of the Traininl
School for the Feeble Minded 81
Vineland. n. ]. The subject of nr
Goddards talk was Problems of tn
Backward Child"
dard's address was not adopted 70
publication. 1T afforded ma tier 70
wise and serious reflection of expert
and men and women engaged ir
training the young.
He deplored the harm done by tw
: familiar maxims-that all men ar