New Britain herald., 1915-06-10

ssstek AeeIAAl ESpotlCSo SoNli
 of a few years ago and the
 as copied exactly by Baltimore,
 suggestion. sEven the printing
 cards in different languages was
 As a. result 20, 900 carloads
 lse was cleaned up in that city.
 ear Baltimore again copied New
 {n with her tsc1ean up-paint up
 Miss Ridgley has expressed
 ntentions of visiting Miss Os-
 and seeing for herself what n
 city this is.
 e Charity Organization held it's
 hly meeting last night at which
 Osborne reported in part as
 Many We'll Known Speakers.
 ervice to humanity, the Tighten
 of the burdens of the weak, and
 rtrengthening of the backs that
 hem, was the Keynote of the
 annual, session of the National Ference of Charities and Correc-
 held in Baltimore May 12-19
 attitude. was typical of the spir-
 which the 2,OOO delegates came Ae. conference sessions. The main
 dYantage, to the delegates was
 the seonference was so large and Kfeldy that eleven different meet
 places were called into use and xvarious section meetings were so
 Apart as to prevent any unity. The atest gain, as usual, came through ksor1al association with the best .8wn social workers of this coun-
 Dr. Devine, Alexander Johnson, hos Butler, pr. Richard Cabot, lia Lathrop; Maude Miner and Eny others.
 Concefning Feeble Minded. |0ne of the most vital subjects un-
 discussion was. the urgent need better provision for the feeble [nded in America. MT. B1eecker |n Wagenen of the noted vineland |aining School said that the most |Servative estimate of the feeble- Limited States is 20O,0O0. Since the knnber of feebleminded taken into |stodial Institutions at present in eases by only 1000 a year, there is eat need of public opinion which Iii force the various states to en- rge their facilities. As usual the Iree grades of feebleminded were Lrefully defined idiot, imbecile and Ioron. and as usual three metin- IS of attacking the problem were scussed ,-sterilization (which will ways have many non-advocates,) .arriage laws, (which the feeble linded will not heed,) and segrega- on in colonies, the most feasible Ian of all.
 Hartford Man Heard.
 Z There was a very s inspiring Red srpss meeting with addresses by Ma lame HansstaengI of Munich who has 'oTne to this country to describe war Dnditions, and Rev Cranston Bren- on; formerly of Hartford, who is in l23sree sof the Bush Terminal in New Fofk Discussion of all phases of the Far was widespread and the general varfare is merely a question of the lest guns. the most modern war-ma- 'hfnery and the longest purse.
 One session was devoted to the sub- ecta of unemployment. Prof. Seag- sr Of New York pointed out that ir New York City aIofig during last Jan siary and February, the unemp1oye6 100000. ~ The principa causes were described and remedies Suggested, which included unemploy. n1ent Insurance, like that in England public work to afford employmen during times of depression, dovetail Ing together of industries with alter nate busy and dull seasons, ant public employment bureaus. Thes, lasts according to MT. Charles Barnes director of the New York State Blu reau of Employment, are in the Iittl red school stage of their career Such bureaus, he said, should cate 10 the needs of every industry an, every class of worker.
 Loan Sharks Killed.
 Remedial loan societies were dis cussed exhaustively. One man speak 1ng on Loan Shark Agencies'' de cIared that the day of the loan shar is nearly over, and said that legit mate agents and more stringent law were responsible for this change. H quoted from several guides for tn conduct of loan sharks, recent seized in an illegal agency. Tines gave advice to agents as to the be- way of bluffing their victims an methods of obtaining new loans.
 On the subject of alcoholism, D Linthicum of Baltimore said that il ebriety like disease should be prt vented as well as cured. The pla of farm colonies turns out at lea thirty per cent of cures, he said. D Neff Superintendent of the Norfo State hospitaI in Massachusetts col siders 1t as much the duty of the sta to provide a1state farm for inebriat as to provide care for the epilept insane or feebleminded.
 Looking back on the conference . whole, although many of the lar, meetings were helpful and inspirin 1t was the constant meeting and e changing of ideas with other wor ~a xrlfS -L-... S.xsa. :.