Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-29
Dr. Sumner Offers Suggestion fol
Correction of Nations Evil.
POVERTY FALLS ON CHILDREN
Dean Declares Child Labor is the
Greatest Curse Of Want.
INSTITUTION Is UNNECESSARY
Greed Drives weaklings Into the
Factories, RobbIng the Adult Of
n Fair Compensation for
His Efforts.
MONDAY MORNING.


u. e. jenkins presiding.
A. M.-Registration Of delegates.
Opening business session Of conference
Presidents address.
The Educational Value Of the Tubcr-
culosis Dispensary." Miss Nan Dorsey
! st. Joseph,
Discussion, MISS Louise Mcpherson
| president Omaha Visiting Nurse assoeia-
/ tion.
sSome Aspects of Social and Civic
Progress" Dean Walter T. Sumner.
Social Evil in Nebraska" Rabbi Fred
A MONDAY AFTERNOON.
d. Il. jenkins presiding.
Newer Ideals in Administration of
Philanthropy" Miss Julia A. Lathrop.
Centralized Administrative Control in
Iowa." George Mogridge, III. D., superin-
tendent Iowa School for Feeble-Minded
Youth.
.'Nebraska's Need of Improved Admin
istration in Philanthropy, Rev. Joseph
Ruesing, West Point.
THE Pending Amendment of the Ne
braska state Constitution" Hon j. Il.
General discussion. Mrs. +. II. Cole.
philanthropy and Five Per Cent, the
Solution OF the Housing Problem" ]. NJ.
Hanson.
General discussion.
MONDAY EVENING.
A. l. Weatherly presiding.
Mustc-Violn solo, Henry q. Cox.
Character Building Charity" J. M.
Hanson
'sThe Attitude OF society Towards the
Social EVIL Dean Walter T. Sumner
An unqualified, merciess denunciation
of child labor. the causes leading to 1t
and Correction at the Boyd theater yes
mate It characterized the opening session
OF the Nebraska Conference OF Charities
aud Corrections at the Boyd theater yes
terday. The arraignment Of society for
suffering the institution Of child labor
was made by Dean Walter I. Sumner OF
the Cathedral of SIS. Peter and Paul OF
Chicago, superintendent of city missions
and chairman OF the Chicago vice COM
mission. He pleaded for the passage Of
the bill pending in congress. providing
for the creation OF new cabinet officer
whose business II would be to superintend
the conservation Of children, being as
sisted by the PRECEDENT and the other
members of the cabinet.
A resolution, drawn by Judge Howard
Kennedy. president Of the Nebraska Child
Labor league, was presented by Miss
Lucille Eaves Of the sociological depart
ment OF the University OF Nebraska, and
unanimously approved, The resolution
urges the passage of the new law. which
Miss Eaves explained q committee had
been working industriously to promote
for the last five years. and was wired at
once TO the national child labor commit
tee, which is meeting in Louisville, Ky.
lit follows:
Believing that the conservation of the
children of our country is a matter OF
quite as much national concern as the
conservation of any material resources,
and cordially approving of the measure |
now pending before congress to create |
in the Department OF Commerce and La
Dor a federal nhildren's bureau TO gather, |
classify and distribute for popular use IN
the states and territories accurate infor- |
nation on all subjects relating TO the well |
fare of children, be II resolved,
fare OF children, be 1t
Resolved, BY the Nebraska Confer |
enee OF Charities and Correction. |
meeting In the city of Omaha, In its four |
teenth annual session, that We hereby
earnestly request the senators and repre-
sentatiyes of this state actively to further |
the passage Of this bill hv the congress |
of the United States and personally 0
vote for the same, towtt, senate bill 20
and house roll 1924; and be II further
resolution be sent to each senator
and representative from Nebraska,
and that information OF this action
he teiegraphed to the national child
lsbor committe. which has been for five
years unselfishly promoting the estab-
lishfnent of this bureau. and which Is now
holding its annual convention in Louis
vile, ny.
Says Poverty Is Curse.
Poverty is ugly and repellant." began
Dean Sumner, following an introduction
by II. II. Baldrige for the Men and Re-
iigion Forward movement, which had
charge Of the concluding program, 'and
st falls heaviest on the children. The
greatest curse of poverty in child labor"
Endorsing the work Of the Psycopathic
Institute Of Chicago. which inquiries into
the eanses of delinquency and inbecility
In children, Dean Sumner declared there
were Seoaooe persons lying in hospitals,
costing the country SscaoOooOo annually.
who could have been made healthy and
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