The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-06
NATIONAL CHARITY
CONVENTION OPENS
Prominent Workers From
All Over the Country
Meet at Boston.
SESSION LASTS A WEEK
Topics to Be Considered This
Year Will Cover a Very
Wide Range.
National News Associa.ion)

sSattouht ssews Ssso'idstohy
Boston. June with representa-.
tives from every charity organization
OF prominence in the United States
and leading opponents OF uplift in all
its forms in attendance. the National
Conference OF Charities and Correc-
lions. which begins tomorrow and con-
tinues In session until week later.
was the cause of much preparatory
activity today Considerably more
than "a thousand delegates to the con-
ference are already here, and the
scene around Ford Hall, where reg
istry headquarters have been opened
was n most busy one.
The advance arrivals Of delegates
indicated that this conference would
surpass by far the one held in st.
Louis year aao--the thirty.second
annual one. Men and women fore
most In work for the general welfare
Will take part In the sessions. which
will be held twice each day, morning
and evening.
Address Of President.
The formal opening OF the confer
ence will be In fremont Temple to-
morrow night. The meeting will be
called TO order by John +. Moore.
chairman of the local committee, and
addresses OF welcome will be made
by Governor Foss and Mayor Fitzger-
aid. The president of the conference
Dr. Homer Folks of New York. will
then deliver the presidential address,
reporting on the progress in charity
and correction work during the year:
The topics to be considered by this
years conference cover n wide range.
Some two hundred papers will be
read at the various sectional meetings
but several in particular are of more
than ordinary interest. Louis d.
Brandeis. the noted Boston lawyer
and opponent of trusts, will speak on
a subject with which his name has
seldom been connected. standards Of
Provision for Old Age Miss Jane Ad.
dams. former president of the confer
enc and probably the most active So
cial and charity worker of Chicago
will read several papers during the
course OF the conference, among them
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ucation for Industrial Life"
Dr. Charles w. Eliot. president en-
eritus OF Harvard university. will pre-
side over a special meeting OF the
childrens' section which will consider
the problem of "sex hygiene" and the
advisabillty Of teaching the subject
with thoroughncss in grade schools
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the National Women's Trade Union
League will discuss the topic Of
Standards Of Payment for Women
and Girls" before the section on liv.
ing and labor. Miss Mary f. Rich.
mond. director Of the charity organiza.
ton department Of the Russell Sage
Foundation will speak on the sub
ject OF families and neighborhoods.
Jacob Riis. the historian and econom.
lot. will read paper on "What Bad
Housing Means to the Community 81
Prominent Workers.
Other persons OF prominence who
will DO active in the conference are:
Frederick Howard Wines; DR.. jeffrey
r. Bracket. director of the Boston
school for social workers; Henry w.
Thurston. superintendent of the iii.
nois children's aid society: A. B. vii.
Mams. secretary Of the Cleveland HUI.
mane society; William Healey. direc-
tute. Chicago; DR.. NJ. G. Schlapp. New
York; Professor Maurice Parmalee.
University Of Missouri; Ernest X.
Coulter, New York; Professor Light
ner Wilmer. University OF Pennsyl.
vania; Frank Moore. superintendent
OF state rcformatory. Railway, N. j.;
Joseph Lee, president of Playground
association OF America: Miss Jane
Adams. the famous socialist and char.
ity worker Of Chicago: DIR. Charles p.
Emerson Of Clifton Springs. N. Y:
Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary OF
the National Consumers league: Paul
Y. kellogg. assistant editor of the
Survey: DIR. Richard c. Cabot of Bos.
ton; Miss Laura h. Garrett OF new
York; Miss Jessie ID. Holder. super.
intendent Massachusetts state reform.
atory for women: Miss Josephine
0oldmark. publication secretary Ma.
tional Consumers league: Miss Mary
=, Richmond. New York: Mrs. Albion
Fellows Bacon, Of Evansville. Ind /:
Frederick Almy, secretary c. O. S.,
Buffalo, N. Y; Robert Biggs. presi
dent Particular Council st. Vincent de
Paul. Baltimore. Md: Professor RIOS
well c. McCrea. associate director
New York School Of Philanthropy
Professor c. W., Doten. Massachu
sets Institute OF Technology; John
Glenn. director Russell Sage Founda
ton; Professor c. r. Haynes. Fisk un
iversity; Professor A. r. Hatton OF
Western Reserve university. Cleve
land. Ohio; DIR. Irwin Men. Massa
chusetts hospital for lnebriates; Por
ter r. Lees. general secrtary Philadcl
phia society for organizing charity
DIR. Edward r. Devine. editor OF the
Survey: Joseph G. Logan. secretary
OF the Atlanta associated charities
William II. Baldwin. Washington: j
Prentice Murphy. superintendent OF
the Children's Bureau. Philadelphia
Miss Mime F. Low, of the bureau OF
personal service. Chicago: A. ]. Nc
kelway. secrtary OF the Southern
States national child labor commit.
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