The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-25
 CONFERENCE
 TOMORROW
Meetines Continue Under Guidance Of Experts, Un= til tuesday
Bird S. Coler will Deliver Address On "SociaT 
 Hygiene"


 Throughout the state people are making preparations to attend the fourth Connecticut State Conference of Charities and Correction, which is to be held in this city. beginning to- morrow at 3 D. m-, and continuing through Tuesday evening.
 The last conference was held at Waterburye in 1912 where large at tendance was registered Bridgeport's conference should be larger than any of those which aye been held before. as the interest of the public in the subjects with which it deals has been increasing rapidly during the past two years
 4 number Of widely known speakers Of broad experience in the WorK on Whieh they talk are to deliver Ehe prdncipaH ad dr esses. Many of the 1ec- lures are to be i1Iusrated by stereop- tfcon views.
 Inc opening session begins tonor- row afternoon at o'clock and that of the evening at 8. Monday and Tuesday mornings are to be devoted to Round Table meetings, that of Monday morning beginning at 10:15 o'clock and the five on Tuesday morn ing at 10 o'clock.
 All meetings of the conference are to be held in Warner hall, in the r M. e. A. building
 
 o'clock "a. reception will be held at the home of the president, 174 Park place for the members, delegates and visitors to the conference. On ac- count of tn absence of the President and Mrs. Edwards in Europe, Mr. and Mrs. George IT. Edwards viii re- ceive.
 Schuyler Merritt, president of the Associated Charities of Stamford, and one of the vice. presidents of the con ference, is to preside in the absence of the president, George e. Edwards open with an invocation by the Rev Matthew J. Judge of the Sacred Heart church
 Mayor C7inord B. Wilson is to make the address of welcome and he will be followed by the chairman Of the com mittee on social service. Schuyler Merritt.
 Rev. Dr. Thomas c. Hall, of the Union Theological Seminary of New York will then deliver his address, Value of the Church in a Denoc- racy.s .ss
 Mrs. Josephine Clement, of Boston. follows him, speaking on the, Social Aspects of Motion Pictures The session will be closed by benez sherman, rector. of St. Johns church, of this city.
 The committee of public health. of which George E Hill Of this city is chairman, has charge of the evening session. There are to be three ad- dresses given, the first of which is by Dr. Thomas Darlington ex-superin- tendent of the Health Department of New York city, who is to give an H. lustrated lecture on Sanitary Vel fare
 Jonathan Godfrey. of this city, and -t>-- rNL.. Comm ss1on, is the second speaker His subject is, Some Important Ac- cessories in the Solution of the Tsu- bercuIosis ProbIeni.''
 The last speaker of the evening will be Bird S Coler, ex-comptroI1er Of as q lecturer His topic is Social Hygiene e. Monday at Warner Hall at 1o:I5 a. m. there will be a round table discus sion at which the speakers will be former local Superintendent of Char tt1es Fred R. Johnson, now general secretary of Associated Charities Of Boston; Rev. J. R. Brawn, DID,. pas tor or First Baptist church; S. R.. Cor don, the present superintendent Of To- cal charities; Miss Edna Owen, gen eral secretary of charities. Stamford; Robert A Crosby, of New Haven; Mrs. Jennie G. Phillips. principal of the Sprague school, Waterbury; and Rev Father Komara of St. Johns S1ovak church, this city.
 Monday afternoon at 9 at Warner Hall the program as outlined follows:
 Committee on Detectives, chairman, George Blunber, M. D., New Haven, trustee, Connecticut School for Imbe- ciles;. The Special Class for Mentally Defective Pupils, Miss Jessie Park man, New Haven, teacher of Special Class in Public Schools; Discussion, led by Prof. A. l.. Gesell, ale Univer- sity; The Economic Burden and Col ony Care of the Feeble Minded, (illus- trated by stereopticon,1 Alexander Johnson, yin1and. N. J.. director Fix tension Department the Training tContinued on Page sl