The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-01
WAGES WAR ON
WHITE PLAGUE
And BAD MOVIES
Activities, of Kings Daughters
Shown In Reports Submit
ted In Meeting Here
MRS. WHITNEY PRESIDES
AT BANQUET TONIGHT
Speakers Include Bishop Will
liams and judge Murphy
Officers Named Tuesday

With 200 delegates, representing
circles in all Of the states and Can
ada, in attendance, the business ses-
shas OF the second biennial conven-
ton Of the International order OF
Kings Daughters and Sons began in
the assembly room OF Hotel Cadillac.
Monday.
Practically the entire morning ses-
sion was taken up with routine bush
ness, such reading OF reports and
presentation OF unimportant amend.
ments To the constitution.
Mss Clara NIoorehouse general
and corresponding secretary read re-
ports showing the work done by the
various state branches during the two
years. since the last convention The
other had been active in tuberculosis
campaigns. relief work, settlement
activities, etc, she said. Many of the
circles have been instrumental In the
construction and endowment OF hospi-
tails In their cities. while others have
endowed wards and cots for the poor.
A tribe OF Indians in North Dakota
had, she said offered to the order the
use Of an Indian tepee for two tuber-
culosiB patients
A campaign for the uplift OF the
moving picture theater rs being con.
Quoted in Ionkers, y. Y, she said
The committee OF that circle. not be-
ing content with simple censorship
over the theaters, is visiting the man
ufacturers and endeavoring to pre-.
vent the production OF suggestive or
improper themes
Several unimportant amendments
TO the constitution were offered but
debate upon them was deferred until
Tuesday
DR. Garabedyan, OF Detroit, repre-
sent!ng the Kings Sons, talked for
flee minutes, telling OF his expert
ences with the work In Asia Minor
and In Detroit He made an earnest
plea for the abandonment OF the "offi.
cious style" of welfare work now so
prevalent. He insisted that many OF
the patients In the free clinics main
tanned by many so-called charita BILE
societies are subjected TO so severe
a cross-examination as TO means and
family conditions that the effective
ness OF the gift Is destroyed. Many
OF the women. he said were question
ed so closely on matters OF merely
personal OF family interest that they
burst Into tears.
Good quiet work is always best"
he said. Aid which really comes
from the heart is not preceded by any
REORGANIZATION"
Miss Annie VI. Brown, second vice.
president, presided over the morning
session, which closed with quiet
hour conducted by Miss Sara Gugle,
OF Ohio
AT banquet tonight, Mrs. B. L.
Whitney, OF Detroit. will preside
Speeches will be made by Bishop
Charles d, Williams, the Rev. Myron
Adams, of Chicago; Stevens T. Mason
and Judge Alfred j Murphy.
The polls will be opened for the
nomination OF officers between and
8 o'clock this afternoon and the cleo.
toral ballot will be cast at / o'clock
Tuesday afternoon
Dean S. s. Marquis of St PauPs
cathedral. delivered memorial ad-
dress In the religious meeting held In
connection with the convention, Sun
day fol- Mrs. Sophie Wright. former
yice-president, who died In her home
in New Orleans year ago.
Several Of the delegates were speak.
ers In Detroit churches, Sunday.