The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-04
.|HlDER WILL SPEAK AT MEETINGS TODAY Sociological Congress Gets
 Down to Real Work ELECTION TONIGHT
Session Which Was to Have Been Held Tomorrow Called Off--To Visit
 Various Social Service Insti- tutions of the City

hor, vesterday morning, will be the ad- dress this afternoon by John, lhioer oi New York. ofithe Russell Sage Founda- tion. Mir. Ihlder will arrive this morn iny and will make an address this aft
 ernoon as well as at the meeting to- night. The last address will be Illus" trated with stereopticon views.
 The greatest interest is being manl- fested in the discussions by MT. lhlder' His eminence in housing work and the fight of tuberculosis has brought him into nation wide fame. MT. Ihlder VIII more than likely discuss some of the papers that are to be read at the session
 this afternoon and tonight prior to his own talk.
 No Session Tomorrow
 1 If was announced last night that the session of the congress which was To ,, have been held tomorrow morning has
 been called off Two papers Which were to have been given then Will De
 read this afternoon and tonight. Mrs
 R. Dupont Thompson will read her pa
 per on What Women Can Do for Mu-
 nicipal Progress" tonight just preced- l ing the lecture of MT. 1hlder. In the
 afternoon Frank Lulls paper on "Mu-
 nicipal Finances" will be presented.
 The election of officers will be held i, at the meeting tonight.
 Instead of the morning session to-
 morrow the delegates to the congress
 will tour the various social service in- stitutions in the city. Leaving at , o'clock from the city hall they will go first to the Mercy Home and then Vis't inc juvenile court, going from there to inc Boys Industrial school at East
 Lake. where lunch will be served
 1 Delegates Are Welcomed
 The Sociological congress opened yes I,erday morning at 9:s0 o'clock The
 sessions are being held ill the ballroom of the Tutwiler. The public generally or as many as are interested Tn sociai uplift. are very cordially invited to at- tend the sessions and hear the discus ' sions. The morning session was devoted . to organization and listening to words , of welcome which were given by Col
 tCrawford Johnson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and James , Weatherly of the board of commission ' CTS. The Rev. George Lang Of Anniston ; vice president of the congress. re- , sponded
 { The first session was given over tc l lthe discussion of the child labor laws o' Alabama. Mrs. w. L. Murdoch opened t the discussion in her usual vigorous : style. She charged the legislature with heinz a commercial body more inter
 ested in monetary propositions than th'
 conservation of children. The Juvenile
 court was reviewed by Judge 5. D, Mur- @ phy, and was discussed by Rabb
 Ehrenreich of Montgomery.
 a pr. George Denny. president Of the
 University of Alabama, presided at th'
 afternoon session. George Huddlestor n ldealt with the ethics of labor legisla y ton and his address was discussed b, tlJ. B. Wood of the Trades Council, r Rural Borrowers was the subjec
 lof C. w. Thompson of Washington, o . the office of markets and rural organ :. ization. President John H. Frye. one o a the best known bankers in this state . discussed the theories of MT. Thomp : son. Dr. J. H. Phillips discussed schoo |. maintenance and was followed by w
 lF. Feagin,y superintendent of education : of Alabama. l. Shapiro was to hav' ! spoken on illiteracy in Alabama, 'bu was unable to be present in the afternoon The feature of the meeting last nigh . | which started at o'clock was the ad . dress of Miss Madge Nave of Louis {. vile. factory inspector for Kentucky ', Miss Nave is accredited with being oi Of the best informed axomen in tn south on factory conditions. She gay :, a synopsis of the laws that have beel z enacted in her state and detaiie' . survey of the way they are enforced z Her theories and statements were dis ls cussed by Isadore Shapiro. Senator Whit z teleera phing that he had missed his trai V in Mobile. In addition to Miss Nave. tn i. other papers last night were Prison Proh ,, liems.' by pr. w. H. Oates. state priso = Inspector; "The Leasing of Convicts." b '' be necessary to effect an arrest. but
 always be as kind and considerate