The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-11-23
WELL ATTENDED SESSIONS ARE
BEING HELD IN THE no.
TEL M'lURE.
Many Prominent Welfare Workers
Address Delegates on Timely
SubIeets-interesting
Exhibits.

With representatives OF both sexes
from all parts OF the State present.
the first West Virginia conference OF
Charities and Correction opened at
the Mcclure hotel yesterday afternoon.
The sessions will continue throughout
to-day and Wednesday morning. and
a permanent organization. which will
meet each year in the future. will be
effected.
Present at the convention are some
Ct tho greatest authorities and believ.
ors in charities and correction in the
country. Me who have made life
studies OF the problems OF poverty
and insanity. and all accompanying
conditions. are making addresses and
heading discussions.
The planning for this meeting has
been well lone by seven committees.
Executive. Archdeacon b. NJ. Spur.
chairman; program. A. +. sinks.
chairman: finance. T. o. Clark. chair
man; publicity and membership.
Rabbi a. II. Silver. chairman; loCa-
ton. Leon b. Stein. chairman. enter
tainment, George ". Lutz. chairman;
general. A. r. Sinks. chairman.
In the convention hall are exhibits
showing the benefits of various forms
of social work. There is a profuse
supply OF photographs in illustration
OF Juvenile work in particular. Pic
lures of different reformatories are in
teresting many OF the delegates.
Evening Session.
Following a very successful opening
meeting yesterday afternoon "a gen
eral session was held last evening.
George W. Lutz. OF this city. was the
chairman. Judge $. ID. Black, judge
of the juvenile court of Columbus, was
TO have been the first speaker. but ne
was unable to be present. In his
place Eugene G. Foster. assistant SUI
perlntendent Of the Lakeside Hospit-
al, Cleveland, o.. delivered an address
on Transient Men and n Lodsing
House"
He spoke of the hobo hotels that
have been built In the larger cities.
Here "a bed may be obtained for l.
cents. He estimated the number OF.
poverty striker men who sleep IN
these hotels each night as about 2Jo.-
600. He divided the hobo into three
classes: the youth. the middle aged
man and the old man.
The best efforts OF correction. ne
said. should be directed to the youth.
Ambition should be stirred and the.
kindly hand given 20 keep him out OF
the downward path. The middle aged
hobo. he declared. was happy in mis-
lot. He does not ask for sympathy. but
only for the "handout' and the dime.
He is content TO drift through life as.
long as he has anything 10 eat. In
dealing with these men. the speaker
pointed out. charity ORGANIZATIONS
often make a great mistake by pro
..Hra- g. 3D. .N.HaF... ...a nd L.HnH
ing him 10 desert the support OF his
family. He closed 10y describing the
hopelessness OF tine hobo who is past
the CO-ycar mark.
On Fecble-Minde5ness.
Joseph Byers. executive secretary
committee on Provision for the feeble
minded. was the next speaker. His
address was well illustrated by the
use OF p -st,rcopjiC1n slides. lie
opened by telling OF the ever increas-
Ing numbers Of paupors. In tho past,
he said. correction organizations had
attempted 20 solve tine problem by
aiding the paupor. by appealing TO
his self respect. hy getting him "a OBJ.
or by falling him. Now the dawn OF "a
new epoch is coming. Present day
organization are bcsiuufrr to look
az mental effectiveness and insanity
as the cause Of an the trouble. The
remedy OF the evil. the speaker point
ed out. was the proper segregation OF
the mental defective and the insane
the passing Of the proper laws 10
restrain man or woman of weak utn-
tally from marriage In this state.
said the speaker. the problem and .rs
solution must be drilled into the minds
OF the Legislators.
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W. Francis Hyde. recreation man
aver OF the Wheeling Playground AS
ISOLATION. closed the session with an
instructive talk on Conserving the
Health and Morals of the Community