Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-04
OF
NOTE COMING
THROUGH

One of the mos noted sociologists
OF the United States will shortly pass
through Honolulu.
Prof. Charles R. Henderson, Phi D.,
head of the department OF sociology
in Chicago University, is going
through to Japan this month. He will
deliver a series of lectures in the
Orient, those taking place in Tokyo
being scheduled from March to the
18th.
For twenty years DR.. Henderson
was pastor over large churches, dur
ing which period he was always deep
ly interested in Christian Missions,
and actively interested his congrega-
lions to contribute many thousands of
dollars to the foreign missionary en-
terprise. Having been especially in
terested in all forms of applied Chris
tianity, and having made himself
recognized authority in the field of
sociology, he was called to a profess
sorship in sociology in Chicago Uni
versity, in which institution he is now
the chaplain of the university with a
parish of 5000 students. as we'll as be-
divinity school. For many years he
was on the board of managers of the
Baptist Missionary Union, and for
nearly twenty years has been a men,
Der of the committee which examines
candidates for the foreign mission
airy field from the middle west of the
United States.
In his own department of sociology
Professor Henderson is one of the
foremost experts and leaders in the
United States. In 1909 he was APP
pointed by President Taft as the COM
missioner for the United States on the
International Prison Commission, and
when the Eighth International Prison
Congress met in Washington in 1910
he was elected its president. He has
been chairman of the American Sec
ton of three international associa-
tons, viz, the International Union of
Criminology, the International
Workinmen's Insurance Association,
and the International Conference on
Unemployment. He is a member of
the international Committee on Pub
lie and Private Relief. In 19g8;1910
he was secretary of the Illinois Com
mission on Industrial Diseases. He
has been president of the National
Conference on Charities and Correc-
ton, president of the American Pris-
on Association, and president of the
American Association for the Study
and Prevention of Infant Mortality
He is the chairman of the executive
committee of the United Charities of
TO iHif, han
been CORRESPONDENCE extensive and
prolific. Beside numerous occasional
articles in the scientific Journals of
America, France and Germany, Prof.
Henderson is associate editor of the
American Journal of Sociology and
contributing editor of the Journal of
the American Institute of Criminal
Law and Criminology Including a
! book in German, die Arbeiterversich-
erung in den Vereinigten Staten Won
Nord Amerika" $500. Professor
Henderson has published eleven vol
umes. introduction to the Study Of
the Dependent, Defective and Delin-
quent Glasses" (three editions in 1893,
1901 and 1909, THE Social Spirit in
America" 1885, Social Settle
ments," Social Elements" 0ssO,
Modern Prison Systems" Modern
Methods of Charity Q904, Indus
trial Insurance in the United
States" 0908(, Social Duties from
a Christian Standpoint" 0909). Ed
ucation in Relation to Sex" Q909),
and preventive Agencies and Meth
DDS" 091O). He has also edited five
volumes for the Russell Sage Founda-
ton and for the International Prison
Congress.