The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-29
EL0QUENCE
 CLOSES THE
 CONFERENCE
Graphic Recital of Children's Wrongs and Needs Spoken by Experts in Cause.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
 CLOSES THE SESSION
Visiting Nurses Meet and Score Home ConditiOns.-Tell of Infant Death.

Brilliant speakers acquainted with the habits of the delinquent boy fea- tured the fifth session of the Connec- ticut State Conference of Charities and Correction held yesterday afternoon.
 The session was in charge of the Committee on Children of which Mrs. M. H. Ford, visitor of the Fairfield County home was chairman. The speakers of the afternoon were Thomas M. Osborne, vice president of the New York Prison Association, an authority on prison affairs and thor oughly acquainted with the delin- quent boy. his wants, hi9 Temptations, and his care; Judge Walter H. Clark, of Hartford; w. J. Doherty, deputy charity commissioner of New York City; Brother Barnabas, the friend of the delinquent boy; Miss Mary c. Wells, Rabbi Maurice Thorner of New Haven; Hastings H. Hart of the Rus sell Sage Foundation, New York City; Charles M. Morse, superintendent of the w. L. Gilbert Home of Winsted; and James E. Fee, superintendent of the state minor wards, Boston.
 Each of these speakers is well known and the work they have done has spread their fame from coast to coast.
 Brother Barnabas of New York city is a world renowned figure because of his knowledge of the delinquent boy. He is known in New York city by 1 every street boy and is hailed as a friend This itself is an honor for l any man, for the street boy of New York city is the most Independent of any in the world His pictures of their life are so vivid that his readers place themselves in their place and | live their life. His description yester- 7 xx{xyS H,f pla.uded him wildly when he sat down l at the conclusion of his speech.
 The other speakers are as well known in the sphere of criminals and the delinquent boy. They realize the hotbed of sin and of degradation in which they are borne and they realize that special efforts must be made in | his case to bring him back into a life usefulness and respectabi1fty. PROGRAM OF SESSION The afternoon session was opened by a very interesting talk by Mrs M H. Hall. Her speech is printed com p1ete on another page of The Farmer. The program of the afternoon was as follows and the speeches will be found in another column of The Far mer;
 Methods of Dealing With Juvenile Delinquent" by Thomas M, Osborne. vice president of the New York Prison association of Auburn, N. r.
 Discussion and address by Judge Walter H. Clark of Hartford, and w. J. Doherty, deputy charity commis sioner, New York City.
 Vocational and Industrial Training of the Dependent Child" by the Rev. Brother Barnabas, supintendent Lin fco1n Agricultural school at Lincoln dale New York.
 Discussion and addresses by Miss Mary c. Wells. secretary, Consumers League, Newington, and Rabbi Mau- rice Thorner of Hartford.
 t.The Place of the Institution and the Placing out System in a State Child Welfare Program" by Hastings IT. Hart of the Russell Sage Founda,- ton of New York City. He scored the system used in Connecticut of placing out the dependent children from state and private orphanages.
 He declared that it was a disgrace for any state to have such a system. He scored the county orphanage plan state at the present time, only four are taking proper care of the children it places out, and, that no steps are taken to determine how these children are treated in their new homes
 STATE NEEDS NEW LAWS. He pleaded with the conference to impress upon the new officers of the | necessity proper legislation for this matter, and to plan child welfare program for the coming year. He suggested that 1 the next conference be given over wholly to this matter.
 He declaFed that. at the present l time, the only means by which | orphanages are secured is by luck. He explained that by this he meant that when some rich man dies. he leaves a. sum of money for the building of such an institutioIfr But he declared in many eases this philanthropist leaves the money stipuIeting that a building be erected, and leaves no means for the upkeep of the institution. New Orleans has such a white elephant as this on it's hands at present One mil lion dollars was left for the erection of building, with nothing for the l upkeep.
 He declared that the homes in 1 which dependent children are placed should be chosen only after careful and painstaking examination. He de- i clared that they should be selected for their home value and not merely to rid the state of the children. Charles M. Morse told the confer ence of his efforts in this line. He emphasized the need of investigation of all homes where these dependent children were placed.
 FEW OF THEM ADOPTED. He declared that very few of the children let out were adopted. He further declared that great many of ! these dependent children were not
 mentally fit for adoption.
 He declared that there was plenty of call for the pretty. bright child, bus the ugly and the deformed child none would take. He stated that in his ex- perience he has discovered that it is this sort of child that makes his mark