Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05
PLAN TO HELP
ALL UNFORTUNATE
National Conference Of Charities and
Corrections Opens Meeting To
night in Seattle.
MANY CHARITY WORKERS
ARE ON COAST FOR MEET.
Men Prominent in Eastern Cities as
We'll as Governor West Of Oregon,
on Program.

Seattle, July 5.-H0W 70 amenorAle
the condition Of unfortunates who by
environment or force Of circumstances
have become public charges or inmates
of correctional institutions, was the
chief subject to be discussed when the
fortieth annual sessions of the Nation'
al Conference Of Charities and Correc-
tions open here tonight with 22OO dele
gates from all over the country in at
tendance.
The first session will be devoted
principally to addresses of welcome by
Mayor George f. Cotterill and Cover
nor Ernest Lister, and responses by the
delegates Among questions that will
come before the conference which will
be in session until July ~, are the de-
pendency and delinquency of children;
distribution and assimilation of immi-
grants; the relation of commercial or
ganizations to social welfare; the re-
lation Of health to productive power;
the probation and paroling of prison
ers; the care Of feeble-minded children,
the church and social work and the
standards of living and labor.
Other questions which will be taken
up in sectional conferences are mini
mum wage legislation, accident indem-
nifty, indemnity for trade diseases, old
age insurance, old age pensions and
employment insurance. Another Sec
tion Of the conference will discuss the
honor systems in vogue in various pen
al institutions throughout the country
and also the care of discharged pris,
Oners.
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 adal-
tion Of the parole system in the Oregon
state penitentiary. Many prisoners arc
now working in the open air outside the
prison gates of the Oregon penitentiary
and with no guards to prevent their es.
cape. The prisoners chosen for outside
duty are those whose records have been
good during confinement and ali that
is required Of them is that they give
their word Of honor that they will
make no attempt to escape. Remark
ably few have violated the governor 5
confidence, and he is expected To rec.
ommend the adoption Of the parole
system by every penal institution in
the country where it is now in vogue.
Among the prominent Eastern social
and charity workers in attendance and
who will participate in discussions are:
Henry t. Noyes, Jr., chamber of com
merce, Rochester, N. Y; Z. NJ. viii
liams, chamber of commerce, Cleveland,
Ohio; Francis II. Mclean, general sec.
retary American Association of Socie.
ties for Organizing Charities; Miss
Florence Kelly, National Consumers
League; DR.. Anna Louise Strong, New
York, director of child welfare exhibi.
tion committee; H. A. Halbert, mem.
Der Kansas City Board of Public Wei
fare; Mrs. Margaret Byington, asso.
ciate director of charity organization
society, Russell Sage foundation; Alex.
ander johnson, director extension de.
partment training school, Vineland. N
j.; DIR. Mary O'Brien Porter, Protec.
torate Catholic WOmen's League, Chi.
cago; r. j. Sessions, superintendent OF
the Soldiers and Sailors Institute
Davenport Ia; Stanley ]. Howe, secre.
tary Public Charities association, Penn.
sylvania. Tomorrow the conference
sermon will be preached by DR.. A. j.
McKelway, Of Washington, D. C.
Frank Tucker, Of New York CITY. i.
president of the National Conference
OF Charities and Correction, and Alex
ander johnson is secretary.
On account of the magnitude of thu
conference it was necessary to engage
the Moore, Metropolitan and Grant
theaters, besides several churches a,f
civic buildings. The conference will
consist Of II general sessions and min,
sctional meetings..
The National Conference Of Charitie.
is the aren't body of practically all q
lc national associations dealing witt
sccia' ana sanitary reform. Many o.
the policies enunciated in the plat
forms Of recent political convention
have been the result Of the delibera
tions of these conferences among then
heing the prevention Of industrial ac
cidents, occupational diseases, child Ia
bor, minimum wage the adoption O
the eight.hour day, application Of pris
oners wages to dependent families
vocational training, compensation 70
industrialist accident and trade dis
eases and social insurance,