Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-06
NEEDS OF NATIONAL CHARITY GALL FOR
 PROMPT ATTENTION

PRUMPl AllENHUN conditions which social and charity workers face as result of the Flu ropean war prompted the early am nouncement today Of arrangements ] for the national conference Of Char ities and Correction. although the meeting is stnl more than three 4 months on The conference win be ! held in Baltimore, May 12 to l9. The preliminary program points i out that this meeting will be the most important in the 42 years his tory of the organization. and prob ably one of the largest and most inn portant conferences Of the kind eyer held in America, owing to the fact | that social and charity workers all over the United States are having to face this winter. more serious ques l tions in relation to the relief of desti tuition. unemployment, care of chil dren, public sanitation and kindred | problems, many Of which are inci l dent Co industrial conditions caused by the European war. "These work 1 ers,' says Secretary William IT. Cross, "as we'll as public officials and those private citizens who contribute money and time to the support of | charitable and social agencies, are l feeling the necessity of getting to- gCther to discuss ways and means ] that the resources of the country may be made to go as far as possible in the alleviation and prevention of sui fering at home"
 The conference will endeavor to de- terninc some of the causes and rem edies Of unemployment as they have appeared throughout the United States during the present winter The function of free public employ ment offices win also be gone into as will the Need and Pracucability 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 1 Chicago, who will present a report on Outdoor Relief in the United States with the Consideration O. 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 discussed by Amos W Butler of Indianapolis, Ind
 ! Dr. Edward T Devine. professor Of Social Economy of Columbia Univer- sity. will discuss "The Policy Of Granting State Subsidies to Private Charities and Robert w. Kelso of Boston, "The Policy of Grantinl State Charters to Private Charities.
 This section of the conference will lay stress upon the increasing mag nitude and importance of public char ity work. and the need for effective cooperation between public and pri yate charities
 In view of the extraordinary dis arrangements of social relations all over the world during the year 1915 the section of the conference and the family and the community assumes 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 win hold it's annual sessions jointly with th, National conference Miss Mary F Richmond of the Russell Sage Foun dation will open the question of Case Work Fundamental in Social Effort"
 The fact that large numbers of i'm migrant women have come to Amen
 ca following every recent war has prompted the section on Social Fly giene to choose the general topic How Shall We Prevent Prostiu
 tion?" Among the speakers will be pr. Katherine E. Davis, Commission
 CT of Correction in New York City and MT c. c. Carstens, Secretary Of
 the Society for the Prevention oi Cruelty to Children of Boston.
 The section on Corrections will dis. cuss the Toronto plan and the parole
 law affecting prisoners sentenced to county jails. These subjects will be
 discussed by Warden J. T. GimouI of the CeHtral Prison of Toronto and
 Judge J. c. Backus of Milwaukee "The Payment of Funds to Prisoners"
 is to be discussed by K l.. Schreiyer
 of Kansas City "The Treatment oi
 lnebriety in a State Institution" by
 Dr. Erwin II. Nen. Superintendent oi
 the Peterborough State Hospital Of
 M-t5achusetts, and 'mebriety and
 Crime" by Dr. G. Milton Linthicum
 of Baltimore