Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-07
TO DISCUSS JAIL
AND PRISON PLANS
Jersey Conference to Be Held
Early Next Month in
PIainfieId.

in annual session in the Plainfeld
High School, Plainfield, February 2,
and A. A meeting to complete the
arrangements for the State conven-
ton was held yesterday afternoon at
the Public Library. Members of the
executive and program committees
We're present.
The conference at the Plainfield
High School will open Sunday after
noon, February 2, with an open meet
ing. Invocation will be offered by the
Rev Father B. NJ Began. of Plain
field. Mayor Percy Fl. Stewart, of
Plainfield, will make the address of
welcome. The response and presi-
dents address will be made by DR..
Frank Moore, of Railway. Joseph
P. Byers, commissioner of charities,
OF Trenton, will make brief address.
No session will be held Sunday aft
ernoon. On Sunday night at o'clock
two union services will be held. The
Rev. ]. Howard Melish rector of
Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, will
sneak on 1.-THE Church and Social Ser
vice" A sermon will be delivered by
a speaker to be announced later. At
o'clock an Informal meeting Of dele
gates will be held in the High School
gymnasium.
To Discuss Jails.
The general topic of the Monday
morning session, starting at $50
o'clock, will be "Jails, Almshouses
and Inebriety' c. L. Stonaker. Sec
rotary of the State Charities Aid and
Prison Reform Association, of this
city. will speak on "Our Jails and
Almshouses." Major Wallace VIM
chell,s of the Jersey City Salvation
Army corps, will speak on 'Inebri-
ety." considered as a social problem.
The same subject, considered as a
physical problem, will be the subject
of an address by DR.. Alexander
Lambert, of New York city. DR..
Richard C. Cabot. of Boston, viii con-
slider the same subject as a mental
problem in his address.
The Monday afternoon session will
open at o'clock with an address on
"Mental Hygiene" by speaker to be
announced later. Prostitution" as
a physical problem, will be the sub
ject of an address by DR.. Elizabeth
b. Thelberg, resident physician of
Vassar College. Miss Maud e. Miner,
secretary of the New York Probation
Association, will speak on "Prostitu-'
ton al mental problem. A general
discussion will take place after the
adjournment of the session
prisons and Reformatories.
"Prisons and Reformatories" will be
the general subject at the Monday
night session which will open at 8
o'clock. Seymour L. Cromwell. presi-
dent of the State Charities Aid and
Prison reform Association, of Ber-
nardsviile, will act as chairman. Miss
MAY Caughey, superintendent OF the
Womans Reformatory at Clinton,
will make brief address. DR.. j. A.
e Leonard, superintendent of the Re-
form School at Mansfield, Ohio, will
speak on estate Use Plan" DIR. j. L.
Gimour. of the Central Prison. To-
ronto, Canada, will take Outdoor
Penal Work" as his subject.
The Tuesday morning session will
open at $3.50 o'clock. The general
topic will be "Feeblemindedness' and
.Eugenics." Professor e. r. john
stone. of the New Jersey state Train
Ing SCUOOl DIT liClctAut Will NC NhdAA
man. Speakers, who will be an
nounced later, will speak upon sEu-
genics' and Feeblemindedness" from
the standpoint of Schools and 1.-THE
institutions" Professor II. H. Laugh
lin, of Cold Harbor, N. Y, will make
an address on 1.-The Inheritance of
Human Defects"
'fhe closing session on Tuesday
afternoon will open at 2 o'clock with
an address on Rational Recreation"
nv Mrs. Charles H. Israels, chairman
of the Committee on Amusement Re-
sources of Working Girls, of New
York city. 1.-THE Place and Power of
Stories and the Problems of Child
hood" will be the subject of an adj
dress by Miss Sarah B. Askew, library
organizer for the State commission
at Trenton A speaker who will be
announced later will take the subject
of Moving Pictures as a Social Fac
tor Judge Thomas A. Davis, of
Orange, will be the chairman of the
afternoon. A general discussion Will
follow and questions will be answered
by Judge Davis.
An exhibition, representing the insti-
tutional work of the State, will be
open daily in the gymnasium of the
high school from 8 a. m. Representa-
tiyes of the various. institutions will
be in charge.
The members of the COMMITTEES who
completed the arrangements yester-
day at the Public Library are: DR..
Frank Moore, of Railway, president
of the conference and chairman of
the executive committee; Mrs. James
e. Cheesman of South Orange, chair
man of the program committee; DR..
Madeleine Hallowell, of Vineland;
Prof. e. r. tombstone, of Vineland;
DR.. David F. Weeks, of Skillman;
Blocker Van Wagenen, of Orange;
Seymour L. Cromwell, of Bernards-
vile: Isaac c. Ogden. of Orange,
treasurer of the conference, and the
Rev. e. Boyd Edwards. of Orange