The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-30
NOTED SPEAKERS TO BE OBTAINED
 FOR CONFERENCE
Prominent Specialists Sought By Committees of State
 Conference of Char
 ities and Correction. 2 4
CONVENTION HERE IS
 TO BE MOST IMPORTANT
Sub Committees Meet at Strat- field and Plan For Work of the Conference
 Here in April.

l
 Substantial preparations have a1- ready been started for the State Con- ference of Charities and Corrections
 which is scheduled to be held in this city on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday. April 26th,.27th and 18th.
 All of the various committees. to
 which many Of the most distinguished
 business and professional men Of the state have consented to lend their time and energies. have now met and have each mapped out plans for their share of the program. A number of inter esting topics have been prepared, in ciuded among which are many vital questipnS of the hour, and efforts are
 now being made to secure speakers of national renown to discuss these.
 Besides the afternoon and evening
 program for these days, several of the committee have arranged for a 1 tsR ound Ta.b1e,' afor their particular i topics, to be held on Tuesday morn ing in different assemblaEe rooms.
 This will be. practically, a technical discussion of the various uuestions by those most interested and to which and to give ideas.
 The purpose of the conference, while statewide in it's scope, is pT1- marfly. the education along these lines ] Of the general public of the conmun- 1 fty in which 1t is held. Each confer
 ence. which is held every two years, 1 is in a different city Of the state and 1 thus new radius is obtained each time This will be the fourth confer
 ence. previous ones having been held 1 in Hartford, New Haven and Water l bury.
 I ing a, meeting, a number of the prorni- nent men of the conference, including George c. Edwards, president; Charles F. Kellogg of Waterbury. secretary; A w. Burritt and A. E. Lawery, of l this city, both members of various committees, and other equally well l known men,. lanched together and de- 1 ter1nined definitely to arranged for the Sunday meetings in Polls Theatre l and the Monday and Tuesday meet | fngs in Warner Hall.
 At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, i the committee on Public Aid and Bet 1 terment, considering poor relief by
 cities and towns. public pIay-groundss
 municipal betterment, etc.. met in the iStratheId Hotel. ss Those present were the chairman of the committees, Rev. John Mac Rev. Matthew J. Judge, James G. I4udlam, J. B. Holman of Saybrook. and as guest of the committee,
 Frederick c. Johnson, superintendent l of charities. Tt was decided to have three sec l tions to their evening entertainm ent. I The first subject to- be ttPlaygrounds' I; the second, The Relation Between IsRlblic and Private Charities; and the third, "The Control of Public Amuse- Inents in GeneraI.'
 B Supty Frederick Johnson is to be the speaker for the second topic while several very prominent men from without the state were suggested for
 the others, and the committee is now endeavoring to secure the services of I two of them for the evening.
 l It was also decided to try to get as 1 many Of the s1periuFendents of the poor in the state as possible to attend l this particular section Of the confer
 ence. and to take part in the Round 1 Table on Tuesday morning.
 TFiis committee has Monday even
 ing. April 2 27th, for it's part Of the si program.
 z At Q. m. the following members s of the committee on Public Health, i'm I cIuding the work of hospitals, anti-
 tuberculosis societies, visiting nurses, .l social hygiene, and any public health
 movements, also met in the Stratheld, the chairman, Attorney George E. j Hill, county health officer; Jonathan I Godfrey. of the State Taberculosis I Commission; W. W. Jones. superin- T tendent of the Bridgeport Hospital; q Mrs. w. E. Allen, president of the Queens Daughters of this city; Mrs. l william B. Glover of Fairfield; Dr. C. F. Botsford, superintendent of the Hartford Board of Health; Dr. J. q. I Black, city health officer Of New Lon
 don; and Judge W. D. Pearne, of
 MiddIetown.
 Like the first coumittee they, too, I decided to have three sections to their evenings program The first Is to be
 <I1<a T1ssuin question discussed by a speaker well 1 versed in the subject; the second, a talk on Social Hygiene for which two
 very widely known speakers have been
 suggested and efforts are now beins
 made to obtain their services: and the
 third, ssThe Work of the Organization
 of Visiting Nurses" a very interesting
 subject, about which the general pub lie cannot know too much.
 This cornrnittee has charge of the
 Sunday evening session of the confer
 ence
 Il on "Wednesday afternoon, at the home
 of the chairman. pr. George Blumer. l 64 Truin bull street, New Haven, Conn.
 Arrangements were made for their session of the conference, Monday
 afternoon, April 27th. Three topics
 chosen: First, .sThe Economic Cost I and Possible Value of the Feeble I 1r1inded'.; second, Special Glass Care
 for Backward Children in Public Schools; and third, Defective De l linauents'' sA Round Table, dis cussion was also arranged for Tues
 day morning, the topic to be: 'oThe Needs of Connecticut in the Care of I Detectives, GncIuding the insane. the feeble minded, epileptics, etc-"9 l On the whole. the conference prom ises to be an exceedingly interesting 1 one, as all of the topics are Tive ones'' l and it is supposed that the general I public will eagerly grasp the oppor-
 tunity to hear such well-versed and interesting speakers talk on them.
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