The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-05-11
INSURANCE IMPORTANT
DECLARES SOCIAL EXPERT AT
NATIONAL CHARITY CONFERENCE.
of Constructive Legislation Proposals Be
fore American People To-day, Says DR. Rubinow.-
Everything Done in Name of Charity Not Defensibe,
Says Miss Acton.

bard, secretary of the ST. Louis, Mo,
Provident Association in a paper on
standardization of social agencies.
''In st. LOUIS he said, ARRANGE
ment has been made by the Business
Mems League for a six weeks (exam-
ination of all the social agencies by
national expert. The rapid multiple
cation of agencies made it necessary to
sort them out and grade them accord
ing to efficiency.
Frank J. Bruno, General Secretary
of the Associated Charities of Mime
apolis, said in discussing charity that
the enormous quantities of records
kept by charitable agencies regarding
their wards are likely to become dust
laden and forgotten under the pressure
at which these societies work. He
made a plea for more thoroughness in
Office work.
Carol Aronovici, PHI. D., Director Blu
reau for Social Research, Philadelphia,
revealed the silver lining to the old
rhyme:
ttOrganized charity, squirt and iced
In the name of a. heart1ess, statistical
Christ
Speaking for an audience of special
lists who control hundreds of thous-
ands of detailed records of the poor
and near poor in the large cities, he
showed that the antidote for criticisms
for keeping tab on these classes is,
more and better records. This is the
only scientific way that we shall get
at our fundamental social problems.
In a paper on Mobilizing Against
Alcohol, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Tilton,
chairman of sthe Poster Campaign
against Alcohol, Boston, Mass, said
among other things:-
What makes men stop drinking? If
you study. the large declines in various
drink-consumption tables, you find
that they usually work back to two
characterization and forms of prohi-
bition, making liquor, harder to get.
This is true in Sweden, Norway and of
the United States.
There is no one thing you can do
that will help the world so much as
fighting alcohol and the way is to gen
crate the state of mind that brings
down drink consumption. Get the
facts, the cost to the people. Get the
thinkers back into the cause; teach
them Form an alcohol education
committee, set it to using posters, like
the posters of the Boston Associated
Charities, which make alcohol new and
news and carries it into the press and
SO to the people,"
educational Work to Prevent A1co-
holisn," was discussed by Haven En-
erson, MD, Commissioner of Health,
New York City, who read g, section Of
the sanitary code of the New York
: City charter and explained the extent
to which the public authority had
gone in a practical way. Alcohol was
described a depressing, habit-fornn-
ing drug causing easily recognized dis
eases of the brain, nerves and special
senses. The speaker said:
when alcohol is. used so moderate
1y as to cause none of the special dis
eases due solely to its effects, it is
known to damage the unborn babe.
Alcohol can be used as a food but at
a cost both economical and physioIog-
zeal which causes bankruptcy of pock-
ct and health. In few diseased con-
ditiohs,. it has been found useful but
! not Indispensable