The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-05


 George Huddleston. consressman-elect, will be the first speaker this morning at l the sociological. congress. MT. Huddles-
 ton was on the programme for Monday, but circumstances necessitated change
 and he will speak today
 The features of yesterdays session of the Alabama Sociological congress were the first aid' demonstration, the young boys and girls of the Vivian first aid corps; the address of J. B. Reynolds of New York on social hygeine and the ad- dress of Superintendent D. M. weakley of the Alabama Boys Industrial school. The sessions are being held on the sec- | ond floor of the Hotel Hillman. and the l attendance Is large.
 At the morning session reports of mem- bers of the social service committee were received, and in each instance the report | showed decided progress since the last session of the congress The following responded: The Rev. Francis Tappey. Huntsville the Rev. George Lang, Annis- ton; Prof. J. Y. Graham. Tuscaloosa; s. w John, Selma, the Rev J. P. Cotton. New Decatur; Miss Frances Griffin | Mont tgomery Henry Forscheimer. presi- dent Federate Jewish Charities Mobile Isadore Shapiro. Birmingham; L. N | Buell.. Cullman.
 J. B. Reynolds, assistant district att torney of New York and secretary of the 1 National Hygeine association. spoke on Social Hygiene and It's Relation to So- cial Problems. He strongly advocated
 the teaching of social hygene in colleges
 and higher institutions of learning and
 urged that the teachers of normal schools be required to take a course In order to
 properly meetN the requirements of the
 present day teacher. He spoke optimis- tically of the elimination of the social
 evil and pointed out the fact that over
 800 cities in the United States had abol-
 ished the segregated district and that the
 European countries were doing the same.
 Hine Explains Exhibit Lewis w. Hine of New York, director of
 the exhibit of the national child labor
 committee. made brief talk in which l he declared that child labor was a na- l tional menace and not southern prop I lem. MT. Hines explained his exhibit l which is composed of charts showing
 the status of child labor in the several
 states of the union. The exhibit proved | of much interest.
 l The afternoon session was devoted to 1 Child Welfare" The subjects and speak CTS were:
 Child Welfare in Alabama, Mrs. C.. B. Spencer, chairman, president Mercy Home board; first aid work. Dr. W. S.. Rountree of Wylam; The Feeble-Minded l Child" Mrs. R. DuPont Thompxon; Pro gramme for Child Welfare in Alabama" '"
 Mrs L. J. Haley, Jr.. president Alabama 1 Federated Women's clubs; The Delin- quent Girl" Mrs. Ophelia Amigh, super
 intendent Alabama Home of Refuge; "rhe Delinquent Boy, D. M. Weakley, super
 intendent Alabama Boys Industrial school; ''The Dependent Girl" Mrs. M. R. l Jordan, superintendent Mercy Home In- dustrial school; Juvenile Probation Work R. s. Barrow. chief probation off, | ficer juvenile court. The address of Superintendent Weakley was listened to with much in- terest by the congress and many ex- pressions as to the excellence of the Alabama Boys Industrial home were heard Mir. Weakley went into his sub 1ect at length and gave . most in- ] teresting account of the boys home.
 He said in part:
 Wsakley Tells of School Our Boys Industrial school Is an eieemoeynary lnstitution, purely edu- IceuonalN ana lnduotrial in its organixa- ton, maintained by the state of Ala bame for the spirltuai. mental and physical training of that unfortunate class of wayward and misguided boys who. by tho very nature of their er : vironment. are either homeIess or without visible means oe support. or who have. in some manner trans greassd tho Gtate's laws. eome people call them delinquenta. others mistahsnly ana un- justly aiiudc to them as juvenile ortm. ltnals. Tt must is understood that our work is principally to build from the bottom
 upward Necsssarily it Ia slow: for
 we ofton encounter clanh whore viii
 has heen their only law. They do not
 readily take 10 OUT way of thinking;
 nor do they always rasr 5nd quickly to
 our treatmsnt: often stsy are unnp. precintive and inattsnttxe to duty, "This seheoi alma to make 1t ns
 easy as possible for the boy to do the right thing; and while we must oon- fess that all of our boys do not pos- sess fine natures, yet we realize that | our aims are best attained--not by hard, unc0mpromisinsj sj lines of rjgidtty,
 nr sinapiy by sxoiudiAg had nsseciates l-but rather by good lexampiss by pa