The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-06
TO DISCUSS SOCIAL PROBLEM.
At National Conference on Charities and
Corrections.

Chicago, March 6.-Social problems
ranging from how to deal with the bad
boy to the nations preparedness for
dealing with the mass of human wreck
age which is expected TO be cast on our
shores after the European war, will be
taken up by the forty-third annual meet
inf of the national conference on chart
ties and correction at indianapolis, May
| 10 to II.
Announcement of preliminary plans
| for the gathering was made from the Of
! fee of w. L. Cross, general secretary of
the conference, here to-day. Half doz-
en- allied organizations will meet in con-
| junction with the general conference.
/ Business men, newspaper editors and
public officials will be invited to give
their views of social workers and the
practical value of organized charity in
a symposium arranged by Graham Ro-
meyn Taylor of New York. This will be
held in connection with the section on
local program.
In the section on corrections, Arthur
Woods, police commissioner of New
York and Mrs. Alice Stebbin Wells, a
member of the Los Angeles police force,
will discuss the police as social force.
Closer cooperation between social agen-
cies and the public schools will be con-
sidered in a section devoted to discussion
of children. The program for this part
OF the convention calls for the appear
ance of William Writ, superintendent OF
schools at Gary, Ind, and Miss Anna
Herkner of the Maryland bureau Of stat
istics and information. Mr.. Writ will ex
plain the Gary system" insofar as it
has social bearings, and Miss Herkner
will speak on Steering the Child Into
Work.
Conditions adverse to efficient public !
work nnder popular government will be
considered in section on the family and |
the community. This section also will |
take up methods of coordinating the !
civic work OF smaller communities, Ray |
mond A. Hoyer, director of the tri-eities |
social center at La Sale, ILL.,, being |
among the speakers.
Sections on health and alcoholism will |
discuss phases of the varying relations
Of health and heredity to poverty and
crime. DR.. c. A. l.. Reed of Cincinnati,
former president of the American MedI-
cal association, will speak on "The Right
to be Well Born" and the results of an
into the attitude of large
employers toward the use of alcohol will
De reported.
The function of the psyeopathic hos
,ital and Joseph P. Byers of Philadelphia,
executive secretary of the national COM
nittee on provision for the feeble mind
ID, will discuss results obtained by state
on mental deficiency.
Public outdoor relief, which has been
lnder the ban of expert charitable work
RS in large cities for several years, viii
Re considered again in a section devoted
o public and private charities.
Anticipation of the character of immi-
ration after the European war will dom
nate the discussion on unemployment. :
me of the high officials of the federal !
ureau of immigration is being sought
S speaker on this subject.
All told more than sixty sessions will
e held by the general conference and
he sections into which it will be di-
ided. In addition plans are being made
Or a series of large popular gatherings
4 the evenings, the first of which viii be
ED May 10 and serve to open the con
erence week. The address on this occa
on will be delivered by Father Francis
[. Gavik. of indianapolis, president OF
ne conference.