East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-07-05
GOVERNOR WEST
AMONG SPEAKERS
WILL TELL SUCCESS OF
PRISON PAROLE SYSTEM
National Conference OF Charities and
Corrections VIII be Held in Seattle
"Opens Tonight-Many Prominent
Speakers Are OH the Program
Study Problems.

N'iTcCtOhS VII DC 1elu Ill Scdttlc
"Opens Tonight-Many Prominent
Speakers Are OH the Program
Study Problems.
Seattle, Wash, July 5.-How to
ameliorate the condition of unfortu-
mates who by environment or force of
circumstances have become public
charges or inmates of correctional in
stitutlons, was the chief subject to be
sessions of the National Conference of
sessions of the ational Conference of
Charities and Corrections open here
tonight with 22O0 delegates from all
over the country in attendance.
The first session will be devoted
prihl- gclly to addresses Of welcome by
Mayor O~orge F. Cotterill and Cover
nor Ernes, --.ster and responses by
the delegates. among questions that
will come before the conference which
will be in session until July IL, are
the dependency and delinquency of
children; distribution and assimila-
ton of immigrants; the relation of
commercial organizations to social
welfare; the relation of health to pro-
ductive power; the probation and pa
rolling Of prisoners; the care of feeble
minded children, the church and So
cial work and the standards of living
and labor.
Other questions which will be TAX
en- up in sectional conferences are
minimum wage legislation, accident
indemnity, indemnity for trade diseas-
es, old age insurance, old age pensions
and employment insurance. Another
section of the conference will discuss
the, honor system in vogue in various
penal institutions throughout the
country and also the care of dis
charged prisoners.
In this connection Governor Oswald
West of oregon will deliver an ad-
dress in which he will point out the
success which has attended the adop
tion of the parole system in the Ore
gen state penitentiary. Many pris-
oners are now working in the open air
outside the prison gates of the Ore
gon penitentiary and with no guards
to prevent their escape. The prison
ers chosen for outside duty are those
whose records have been good dur
ing confinement and all that is re-
quired of them is that they give their
word of honor that they will make no
attempt to escape. Remarkably few
have violated the governors conf
dence, and he is expected to recon-
mend the adoption of the parole sys-
TEN by every penal institution in the
country where it is now in vogue.
Among the prominent eastern So
cial and charity workers in attend
ance and who will participate in dis
oussions are: Henry T. Noyes, Jr.,
chamber of commerce, Rochester, n.
Y. E. NJ. Williams, chamber of COM
merce. Cleveland, Ohio; Francis H.
Mclean, general secretary American
Association of Societies for Organic
ing Charities; Miss Florence Kelly,
National Consumers League; DR.. An
ma Louise Strong, New York, director
National Child Welfare Exhibition
Committee; L. A Halbert, member
Kansas City Board of Public Welfare;
Mrs. Margaret Byington, associate di-
rector of charity organization society,
Russell Sage Foundation; Alexander
johnson. director extension depart |
ment training school, Vineland, n. j.; |
DIR. Mary O'Brien Porter, Protector |
ate Catholic Womens League, Chi |
cago; F. j. Sessions superintendent Of |
the Soldiers and Orphans Institute, !
Davenport, Iowa; Stanley J. Howe, |
secretary public charities association,
Pennsylvania. Tomorrow the confer
ence sermon will be preached by DR..
A. j. McWelway of Washington. d. c.
Frank Tucker of New York City is
president of the National Conference
of Charities and Correction and AL
exander Johnson is secretary.
On account of the magnitude of the
it was necessary to en-
gage the Moore, Metropolitan and
Grand theatS>s, besides several
churches and civic buildings. The
conference will consist of eleven gen.
erNl sessions and nine sectional meet
ings.
The National Conference Of Chari- |.
ties and Correction is the parent body
of practically all of the national as
sociations dealing with social and |
sanitary reform, Many of the policies
enunciated in the platforms of recent |
political conventions have been the |
result of the deliberations of these |
among them being the |
prevention Of Industrial accidents, oc-
cupational diseases, child labor, mini
mum wage, the adoption of the eight |
hour day. application of prisoners
wages to dependent families, vocation
al training compensation for industri-
alist accident and trade diseases and