Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-04
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One of the most 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-
tions to contribute many thousands of
dollars 10 the foreign missionary en-
terprise. Having been especially in
terested in all forms of applied Chris
tianity, and having made himself a
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-
ing a member of the faculty of the
! divinity school. For many years he
was on the board of managers of the
! Baptist Missionary Union, and for
nearly twenty years has been mem
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 ap-
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 it's 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 1908-1910
he was secretary of the Illinois Com
mission en- 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
Chicago. AS writer his activity has
| been correspondingly 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
&C ntributing editor of the Journal of
! the American Institute of Criminal
! Law and Criminology. Including
! book in German, Die Arbeiterversich-
crung in den Vereinigten Staten Won
Nord Amerika" 09O7), 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" 1S96), Social Settle
men,s," Social Elements" nS90,
! Modern Prison Systems" "Modern
! Methods of Charity" O904, Indus
trial Insurance in the United
/ States" N90S), Social Duties from
a Christian Standpoint" N909D, Ed
ucation in Relation to Sex" O909,
ami preventive Agencies and Meth
DDS" N910). He has also edited five
/ volumes for the Russell Sage Founda-
ticn and for the International Prison
Congress.