The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27
FOURTH MEETING OPENED SUNDAY
 WITH ENTHUSIASTIC ATTENDANCE
Housing Speeches Yesterday And To- day By Eminent Phi1anthropists And Educators From Far
 and Near

Godfrey of this city. and the enthuss iastic clapping which greeted the mem ton of his name, showed the esteem
 with which he is held in Bridgeport.
 MT. Godfrey's address was on Some Important Accessories in the Solution of the Tuberculosis Problen-' MT. Godfrey is we'll qualified to speak on this, as he is a member of the State Tuberculosis commission.
 The last speaker of the evening was Dr. Thomas Darlington; ex-supertn- tendent of the health department of New York cit1, and now secretary of the Welfare committee of the Ameri- Ircan Iron and Steel Institute. His subject was Welfare Work in the Iron, Steel and Allied Industries.
 "There is no country in the world where the is more philanthropy than in the United States, but-is that what we need? Is 1t not rather prevention that is needed ?.'
 said Dr. Thomas Darlington in his speech last night.
 Prevention means money. u pays in dollars and cents. He spoke of the benefit of allowing worknen to wash their hands before they eat their lunch and showed how their dirty hands carry disease germs into their stomachs. He told how he had caus- ed the arrest of the now famous Ty- phoid Mary who communicated ty- phoid to numberTess families because she did not wash her hands. He stat ed that the average person has an average Of A disease germs in his mouth and that failure to brush the
 teeth allows these germs to be car
 ried into the stonachs and there they
 cause Fermentation of food and the
 person does not get the good of tn cir food that they would otherwise. He showed how even the psychological eff. feet of workers surroundings by flying him a s'grouch'' might interfere with the digestion on his food and hinder his efficiency.
 l He stated that the first requisite of health is work and asked why. it was that the worker who has retired sell dom lives long.
 T am going to live to be a hun dred, said Dr. Darlington, because I have work and I intend to keep on ! working-'' He showed by facts and figures that industrial care of work CTS is not plrilan nthropy but a good linvestment and how a good supply | of drinking water increased the en. ergy of men and demonstrated the fact by scientific reasoning. He show led how water diminished alcoholism how it diminished fatigue and by it was mighty good investment. fol, the Carnegie Steel company to spend Sl25,o00 on water supply for it's em- ployes.
 His address was heard with deep l interest and it was one of the most lstrikfngly convincing that could be inn agined
 Dr. Thomas c. Hall took the ground
 that too much emphasis has been placed in the past on the definition Of
 a democracy and that it is not really i an aggregate Of individuals but a 1 combination of groups within groups and that religion is one of the strong est of these groups, one which no DO r. kS~.--I r. Q H. tory reveals no diminuition in this re- ngious force. He stated that the church is not co-terminous with re- ligion as there was much re1igion outside the churches. Personally, he saids he should likeSto see fewer de- nominations and a closer union but not at the expense of the present elas- | ticity and breadth covered by the var l ious denominations, even though they caused tremendous economic waste through their present form of compe- 1 tition.
 RELIGION EXPLOITED. 1 He took the ground that there had never been an actual combination Of state and church and that there never could be. that the state still aids the l church largely by remission of taxes and in other walls.
 He explained why there have been so many wars in the interests of re- ngion by the fact that the church | was the only power worth prostitut- ing and that many men had been wise enough to link the great religious feeling of the people to the further ance of their own ends and he said he believed the charities workers and those striving for social betterment could link the churches to their
 movement with great benefit.
 The chief feature of education,
 contended the speaker was to free
 mems minds and the church should
 sound note of redemption and let l the world know that the world is not
 what it-shou1d be.
 The second session of the confer
 ence opened this morning at 10:15.
 The cornnitte on social service, of
 which Schuyler Merritt president of
 the Associated Charities of Stamford,
 was chairman, had charge of the ses-
 sion.
 The first speaker of the morning
 was Fred R. Johnson and he spoke
 on the necessity of the .SCo-o ordination Sof Charities He went into the ne-
 cesity Of the cooperation of both the
 public and private charity organiza-z
 tions taking proper care of the charg-
 es that are thrust upon the city. Tn
 Connecticut he explained this coop
 eratIon was much in advance of that
 in other states. but that there is still
 much room for inprovement