Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-06
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
CHARITIES AND CORREC-
TON WILL HOLD IMPORT
ANT MEETING.
PREVENT SUFFERING HERE
Problems of Unemployed in the
United States Will Be Among
Matters Handled.

pCAl .H WA - pAOAAlpLCu LAG ; "A
nouncement~today of arrangements fol
the national conference OF charities
and corrections, although the meet
ing is still more than three months
off. The conference will be held in
Baltimore May IL to 10.
An Important Meeting.
The preliminary program points
out that this meeting will be the
most important in the forty.two years
history of the organization, and prob
ably one Of the. largest and most i'm.
portant conferences of the kind ever
held in America, owing to the fact
that social and charity workers
workers throughout the entire United
States are having to face this winter,
more serious questions in relation
to the relief Of restitution, unemploy.
ment, care of children, public santa
lion and kindred problems, many of
which are incident to industrial con.
q OBS caused by the European war.
'"i hese workers." says Secretary
William 7. Cross, "as we'll as public
officials and those private citizens
who contribute money and time to the
support of charitable and social agen-
cies, are feeling the necessity of get.
ting together to discuss ways and
means that the resources Of the coun.
try may be made to go as far as pos
slble in the alienation and proven.
ton Of suffering at home"
The conference will endeavor to de-
termine sorue of the causes and rem.
edies of unemployment as they have
appeared throughout the United
States du, irg the present winter. The
function IF free public employment
offices will also be gone into, as will
the Need and Practicability of Illness
Insurance in the United States"
One of the most important discus
sions will be opened by Prof. Charles
R. Henderson Of the University of
Chicago, who will present a report on
Outdoor Relief in the United States
with the Consideration of Some of the
Lessons to be Drawn from European
Experiences" The same subject
with especial reference to the rural
sections Of the country will be dis.
cnssed by Amos W.(,Butler of Indian.
apOlis, Indiana.
DR.. Edward II. Deyine, professor of
social economy Of Columbia Univer-
sity, will discuss "The Policy of Grant.
ing State Subsidies to Private Chair.
ties" and Robert W. Kelso of Boston,
The Policy of Granting State Char.
ters to Private Charities"
This section of tie, conference will
lay stress upon the increasing magni-
tude and importance of public charity
work, and the need for effective CO.
onera''ion between public and private
charities.
In Joint Session.
In view of the extraordinary disar.
rangements of social; relations all
yer the world during the year 1915.
the section of the conference on the
family and the community assures
Immediate Importance and the topic
Maintaining Standards of Work in
Times of Stress is. proposed by the
american Association of Societies for
organizing Charity, which will hold
Its annual sessions Jointly with the
national conference. Miss Mary f.
Richmond of the Russell Sale founda.
ton will. open the question of Case
Work Fundamental in Social Effort"
The fact that large numbers of i'm
migrant women have come to Amer.
lea following every recent war has
prompted the section on Social lily.
glene to choose the general topic,
How Shall! We Prevent Prostitu.
TOM Among the speakers will be
DIR. katherine D. Davis, Commission.
er OF Correction in New York City,
and Mr.. c. c. Carstens, Secretary
OF the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children of Boston.
The section or Corrections will
discuss the Toronto plan and the par.
ole law affecting prisoners sentenced
to county jails. These subjects will
be discussed by Warden J. T. Gil
mour of the Central Prison of Toron.
to and Judge J. C. Backus of Mil.
waukee. "The Payment os Funds to
Prisoners," is to be discussed by X.
l.. Schreiver of Kansas City. "'The
Treatment Of lneSriety in a State
institution" by DR.. Erwin H. Neff,
Superintendent of the Foxborough
State Hospital of Massachusetts, anu
''Inebriety and Crime" by DR.. G.
Milton Linthicum OF Baltimore.