Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-21

for this event, and will have charge of
the local arrangements for the meet
ing
While the conference program Is at
present tentative it is understood that
1t win open at p. NJ, Oct. 20, with an
address by the president, George E.
Fogg, of Portland.
The principal address of the evening
will be by either John Nj. Kingsbury,
commissioner of charities of New York
city. or his assistant, Stewart Rice.
The subject win be The Municipal
Lodging House and Unemployment of
the Floating Laborer
Mr.. Rice, the assistant to Mr.. Kings
bury. is a confidential inspector, and
has made first hand Investigations of
the situation, going out without money
and posing as one of the great army
of unemployed, 1t is more than likely
however, that Mr.. Kingsbury, himself
will be able to be here. He is one of
the most prominent of the social work
ers In the country, and will be heard
with great deal of interest.
The business sessions of the confer
ence together with those of the afflli-
ated organizations will be held at 8 A.
NJ. on the following day.
The Need of a National Child Labor
Law will be dinscussed by Hon. Scott
Wilson Of Portland, attorney general
of the State of Maine, and If possible,
arrangements will be made for some
prominent manufacturer in the state
to discuss the problem from his stand
point.
NJ mi w
be discussed by Mrs. Florence Brooks
Whitehouse of Portland and by c. C.
Carstens of Boston, secretary of the
Massachusetts Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children.
Tho afternoon session will be handled
by the State tuberculosis Workers as
ISOLATION and the Maine Anti Tubercu-
losis Association. The speaker and the
subject for the first-named association
has not been determined at present.
The Maine nti-tuberculosis associa-
ton expects TO have as its principal
speaker Seymour H, Stone, secretary Of
the Massachusetts, Anti-tuberculosis
League.
In the evening Judge Harvey H.
Baker of the Juvenile court of Boston
will discuss the needs of q juvenile
court and Miss Gertrude L. MacDon-
aid, principal of the Maine Industrial
School for Girls at Halloweli, and Dr..
Hastings H. Hart of New York, direc-
tor of the department of Child Welfare
of the Russell Sage Foundation, will
discuss the need of n Woman's Re-
formatory.
1t Is possible that some arrange
ment will be made to have a speaker
to give some authoritative idea of the
practical workings of the Maine Pa
role law.
A conference of trustees and officials
of the State Charitable and Correction
al Institutions and the State Aided
Charitable Institutions will be held
also at Bangor on the afternoon of
Tuesday, October Goth. The progrs m
for this has not been decided upon,
but ii is in the hands of a committee
consisting of James F. Bagley, Angus
ia. secretary of the State Conference
of Charities and Corrections, Prescott
II. Fose, president of the Eastern
Maine General hospital, Bangor; DIR.
Forrest c. Tyson, superintendent,
Augusta State hospital Charles Dunn,
Jr., superintendent, State School for
Boys, South Portland; Frank j. Ham,
warden State Prison, Thomaston; and
Mrs. Grace A. Wing, member State
Board of Charities and Corrections,
Lewiston. This committee will meet
at the State House on the afternoon of
Aug. rs.
The officers of the Maine State Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections
are the following; George E. Fogg,
Portland. president; Francis H Hitler.
Portland, vice president: Charles A.
knight. Gardiner. vice president;
James F. Bagley. Augusta, secretary;
Ralph Whittier, Bangor, treasurer.
The affiliated organizations are the
Maine Child Labor committee Rev.
Henry Blanchard, ID. D., Portland,
chairman; Maine Prison association.
f. P. Wentworth. Portland. chairman;
Children's committee, Rev. Robert w.
Plant, Gardiner, president; Maine An
ti-tuberculosis association, William c.
Peters. NJ. D., Bangor, president; and
the Maine Visiting Nurses association.
DR.. A. U. Desjardines, waterviIIe.
president.