New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-09-22
COMING SATURDAY
ANOTHER BIG MEET
CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND
CORRECTION is NEXT ON
THE LIST
EVERY ADULT CITIZEN OF NEW
ULM SHOULD PRESENT
AT SESSIONS

OF real Importance, not only to New
New Ulm but to the people Of the entire
state is the conference of Charities and
Correction which is to be held here be-
ginning next Saturday and continuing
until the following Tuesday. Repre-
sentatives of our state institutions which
care for the orphan and the neglected,
for the defective and the criminal;
workers in private organizations for de-
creasing poverty, for preventing wrong
doing and for promoting safe and sane
living for both boy and man will meet
to discuss social service in Minnesota
National experts will participate. "Pre-
vention" will be given chief emphasis.
A complete program of the ground to
be covered will be found on page of
this issue and the Committee in charge
asks the Review to announce that there
will be no admission charges for the
sessions and every adult in the city is
most heartily welcome and is urged to
attend as many sessions as possible.
Likewise, all who wish to accompany the
party which will visit the St. Peter
Hospital on Monday, may do so by
purchasing on Saturday round trip
tickets, (price $1.30) for the special train.
No tickets for this train will be sold on
Monday. All interested in the success
of the convention are very anxious that
the attendance by New Ulm citizens be
large in recognition of the Importance
of the Convention which honors the city
by holding it's sessions here.
Some of the important features of the
Conference need special mention &C
cording to Otto W. Davis, Secretary, and
are herewith presented. The day when
each subject is to be considered can be
learned from the official program on
Page 2.
How to solve the problem presented
by the ''gang" and the Corner loafer''
will be told by Mr.. Chas. F. Weller,
Field Secretary, National Playground
and Recreation Association. Mr.. c.. C.
Carstens, Secretary, Massachusetts, So
ciety for Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, will present complete Com
munity Plan for Children's Work" The
proposed plan will be discussed by Judge
Grier M. Orr, Juvenile Court, St. Paul,
Judge Clarence B. Webster, Grand
Rapids, and Senator Henry N. Benson,
St. Peter.
The State County Commissioners
Association will hold it's annual gathering
in connection with the Charities Con-
ference. The subjects to be discussed
by them include Good Roads, "Coun-
ty tuberculosis Senatorial" and the
"Best Location for Almshouses."
A striking feature of a conference on
Social Service is the exhibits that are
on view, representing the various sorts
of work done by the philanthropic
agencies at the Conference. It is the
custom in the State Conference of
Charities and Correction to hold such
an exhibit. To this exhibit are sent
specimens of handicraft work produced
by the different institutions, placards
descriptive of the motive or purposes of
state agencies, and pictures of conditions
to be corrected or results attained.
1t has taken good deal of ingenuity
to reduce into small compass the work
of such an agency, as for instance, the
School for Boys at Red Wing, and it is,
of course, impossible to represent all the
kinds of work that is done in any one
place. But considerable success has
been achieved in representing certain
outstanding features, so that the eye can
readily grasp what is being done and how
and who does it. 1t is interesting to
know that the blind can be taught trades
that make the worker independent, and
it is worth while knowing what those
trades are. This, the exhibit does.
It comes as surprising fact that institu-
lions for the insane and minded
can produce results in handicraft not
surpassed by the best workers. The
basket work at Faribault probably
equals anything done in the world in this
respect.
The exhibit at New Ulm this year will
contain exhibitions of the work done by
the institutions under the State Board
Of Control, which include the hospitals
for the Insane, the Boys School at Red
Wing, the Girls School at Sank Center,
the State School for Dependent Children
at Owatonna, the State School for
Crippled Children at st. Paul, the Inc