El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-12
vAGRaNT PROBLEM
PUZZLES STUDENTS
Hebberd Urges Colonizing
Them as in Some Euro
pean Lands.

Boston, Mass. June 712.-"Colonize
Migrants" was the dictum of Robert
W. Hebberd, secretary of the state
board of charities of New York as de-
livered in an ADDRESS before the Ma
tional conference of Charities and cor
rection here this morning.
Mr.. Hebberd said in, part:
The question of vagrancy has thus
far been carelessly and inadequately
dealt with in this country. Despite
the experience of a number Of Europ-
can countries and their success in deal
ing with this problem. we are just
awakening to a realizing sense Of It's
importance. Vagraney has long exist
ed in this country to- an alarming ex-
tent. and is in an acute stage in some
Of our cities, notably in New York
where it seems impossible to stem the
advancing tide The cheap lodging
house evil greatly helps TO foster it.,
and the magistrates are in most cases
not alive to its Importance. That
much Of it is due TO enfeebled men
tality requiring custodial care seems
20 be beyond question. But how to
secure such care is really the problem.
The only feasible plan, and this
plan is one that has worked success
fully in Switzerland, Germany, Holland
colony to which. Migrants can, upon
conviction, be committed for long
terms"
jackson, on Prisons.
The experiment. of the city Of Cleve-
land in removing its city prison or
workhouse from the city. to the country
was explained by James F. Jackson
general superintendent of charities and
correction of that city. The. success
H. III is1,t
of charitable institutions in the. coun7
try led Cleveland to make this expert
ment with penal institutions.
Supt. Jackson announced his belief
that a prison should be conducted for
the purpose of making men for the
state. and mot to make money for the
state.
Urges Rural Amusements.
IF we give properly protected and
sufficiently numerous amusement re-
sorts for rural districts we MAJ sucN
coed in overcoming the wild d'.ssrs of
thousands of country boys aE1 girls
to rush to the large cities" said Mrs.
Belle Linder Israels, chairman of the
committee on amusements and vaca-
ton resources for working girls of
New York city, in an address before
the conference.
Wilson on Religion.
In an address on the Religion OF
the Land" by the Rev. Warren III. VIII
son of New York. superintendent of the
department of church and community
life of the board of home missions of
the Presbyterian church in the United
States, the members of the conference
were told that the redistribution OF
farm land now going on throughout
the United States has definite relig-
ious effects
This change in the ownership o.
land said the speaker, lis religious
because it means shrinkage ~of the
rural population with undiminished
production. The tillage of the soil is
done today by one-third of the people
of the country and more is produced
than when it was done oy so percent
of the people. Tlis has an effect In
smaller country churches, in the ahan-
donment Of many churches in the
country, and in condemning the divi-
sions in churches. 1t destroys mucn
of religious organization
Miss COoley's Address.
The regeneration of the colored pop
ulation in the rural south was the