The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-06
SOCIAL SERVICE INSTITUTE.
Prominent Speakers Have Been Secured
for Saturday and Sunday.

One OF several social service Institutes
being held at central points in Vermont
viii open with round-table conference
in the Hedding Methodist church Satur-
day morning at 10 o'clock. This confer
ence is for the ministers of Barre and
vicinity. A second conference, open to
place at o'clock in the afternoon A
general mass meeting will be held in the
opera house Sunday evening at 7. The
Orpheus male quartet will render several
selections at this service.
Among the speakers who are expected
to attend the institute are such men as
the following: Rev. G. G. Wilson of
Burlington; j. N. Barss, superintendent
of the Vermont industrial school; Rev
S. z. Batten, ID. d., secretary of the ma
tional social service commission of the
Baptist denomination, and it is hoped
that Bishop j. w. Hamilton of the Meth
odist church may be present.
Concerning DR.. Batten, among other
resolutions, the Central Labor union of
Lincoln, Neb.. offered the following:
Resolved, That Lincoln Central Labor
union. made up of accredited delegates
from 26 trades unions and representing
approximately 5000 organized workers,
commend Rev. Samuel Zane Batten to
the union men and women of Des Moines,
Iowa, where he is shortly to make his
home, and assure them that in him they
viii find steadfast friend and cham
pion, ever ready to answer their every
call for helpers in the great task OF edu
eating not only the toiler, but the gen
eral public to the benefits of thorough
organization and complete cooperation.
DR. Batten comes to Barre as secre-
tary of the Federation of Churches. Yer
mont has been fortunate in securing this
keen, well-informed man of affairs for
two whole weeks. The first conference
of the week, in which he participated
at Nergennes, was very enthusiastic.
Sketch of Dr.. Batten.
Samuel Zane Batten has received three
degrees from Bucknell university: A. b.,
1886; A. NJ, 1883; d.. d., 1905. For
"a years he has been an active pastor
in four states: Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey, and Nebraska. He was
president OF the Nebraska Anti Saloon
league from 1908 to 1908. In 1908 he
was made chairman of the Baptist social
service committee. In 1910 he became
secretary of the international bureau.
He now holds the position of chairman
of the social service executive commit
tee of the Baptist World Alliance
From 1906 to 1918 DR.. Batten was head
of the department of social science in
Des Moines college, Des Mones, Iowa.
He is the founder of "The Brotherhood
of the Kingdom" and was their editing
secretary lSS6-lS99. He is one 49, e -
editors of "The Twentieth Century Quar-
terly." Dr. Batten has written a num-
Der of books, including: eThe New Citi-
1905; "The Christian State
1909; s'The Social Task of Christianity"
1911: "A Working Temperance Pro
gram" 1911.
In the present situation here in Barre
it might be well for both employers and
employees to attend the public meeting in
Methodist. church Saturday aft
ernoon and the mass meeting in the
opera house Sunday evening and hear
this sane and broad man speak on our
true civic, social and industrial relations,