Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-10
Conference of Charitiea
and Corrections Will
Come in October
PEOPLE ARE ASKED
TO RESERVE DATES
Business Sessions and An
Will Be Open to the u
General Public IA u


State Conference of Charities and Cor
rections, to be held in Ottumwa O.
October %, % and "a, have been pra121
ucally completed and include som
very excellent subjects and speakers
A special called meeting Of the e.
cutive committee from the state assS
citation, held at Grinnell this WeeI
was attended by Miss Sara A. Brow
secretary of the Wapello County Asa07
ciated Charities, and resulted in MOS
of the preliminary work for the se62
s1ons being mapped out. Only or
or TWO details In regard to local ma
ters and the out Of the state Speaker
remain to be settled and these are o1
pected to be out of the way BY Sc
tember l. The Grinnell meeting wd1
attended by w. L. Kuser, president a.
the state association and superintsn1
ent or the Iowa state industrial schoQ
for boys at Eldora; Prof. Paul
Pierce, vice president, a professor G.
economics at the state universityH
Mrs. Sam Weinstock, second vic
president, superintendent of the ri
Grated Jewish charities of Des MoineS7
w. J. Dixon, member Of the state boar2
OF control. and Miss Bessie McClenGs1
han Of the extension department or th1
state university.
Opens on Sunday.
The conference will open on SundANa
October %, and close with the Tue
day afternoon program on October 1<
The program consists Of general mas
meetings at 3 o'clock and o'cloc
Sunday and 8 o'clock Monday eveniI
and centers on special subject Coz
ferences which will be in progreS
from 9:45 o'clock until IL: 10 o'clock q
Monday and Tuesday and from
o'clock until o'clock on the san
days.
The subjects which will probably
discussed in the general meet1nS
will be The State Program for Soci2
Progress, The States ResponsibilIl
Toward the Neglected Child, The q
cial Significance of Juvenile Proh
ton Officers, Recreation and the plaS
grounds.
Have Special Subjects.
Subjects to be discussed at tho 81
cial meetings will be entirely IN @
charge of committees made up ofs fspG
sons actively engaged in that partic
lar work. Each committee will
limited to one hours program. III
to consist of one formal paper. n
to exceed twenty minutes, and the ~
Of the hour to be left for an open a
cussion.
The subjects likely to be taken
will be a, conference on detectives all
insane with special emphasis on lows
next step toward the control Of feehl
mindedness; conference on cOrr0
tions. with emphasis on Iowa's situ
tion as regards juvenile prObatioa
conference on charities administrator
with emphasis on out door relief ai
pensions; conference on child w1
fare with emphasis on vocatiou1
training; conference on labor pro
lens with emphasis on child 1abo
street trades, etc.; conference on 0
cial research with emphasis on ca
rent research subjects now being e.
ried on over the state; conferences
public health, with emphasis on a
forms for the prevention and truG
ment of tuberculosis.
All Open to Public.
All the sessions, mass meeting
business meetings and conferences
special subjects will be open to
public. A business session will
held at o'clock on Monday and Tue
day mornings. The people Of
county are asked by Miss Brown
reserve the dates and attend 80 TIL
they may see what the state has don
has not done and must do along q
lines of charities and corrections.
All local matters will be left
charge OF local COMMITTEES. AZ
work Of this committee will be "a
make the arrangements for holdi
the meetings, establish headquarters
arrange for hotel accommodations,
list membership and arrange the
cial affairs Of the session.
State is Represented.
This convention will bring togetn
between $50 and 200 Of the most pro-
inent social workers from all parts
Iowa. State, county and city oficiA1
will be in attendance and in additS
to having number Of the more pro1
inent workers Of Iowa on the progr1
there will be at least two from outst
the state who will speak.
NOTED RAIL MAGNET DIES.