Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-22
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FOR NEXT WEEK
At the Eleventh Maryland Con-
ference of Charities and
Correction.
OBJECTS OF CONFERENCE.
Personnel Of Officers Public Invited
to Daily Sessions.

uary 27, the Eleventh Maryland Con-
ference OF Charities and Correction
Will be held here in the old Senate
Chamber at the State House. The fol-
lowing are the objects of the Confer
ence
/. TO provide an opportunity for free
public discussion of the problems Of
the dependent, defective and delinquent
| classes, and by such free exchange of
| experiences and opinions. to heir point
the way for better care of the weaker
members Of society.
2. To spread information about and
encourage cooperation in humanita-
rian efforts, with the purpose OF fur
ther improving the charitable and cor
rectional system of the state.
The officers for 1916 are: Presi-
| dent, Harry j. Hopkins, Annapolis first
yice-president. Mrs. Robert Moss. An
napolis; second vice president. George
L. Wilson, Washington D. c.: treas
urer. Waldo Newcomer. Baltimore:
general secretary. VIM. H. Davenport.
Baltimore.
Section Chairmen-Charity and the
Budget System. Dr. j. H. Mason Knox,
Jr., Baltimore; Health, Dr. c. Hamp-
son Jones, Baltimore; Education. p. X.
Purdum, Baltimore; Industry. Or Geo.
f. Barnett, Baltimore; Children. Geo.
L. Jones. Baltimore.
The following is the preliminary
program:
Tuesday. January 25, 3 p. m-Gen-
eral Session. Presidential address and
business meeting; Committee on Char
ity and the Budget System, DR.. J. Ma
son Knox. Jr.. chairman; The Policy
of Subsidies to Private Charities
Advantages of a State Board Of Ad-
ministration,' H. II. Shirer. Secretary
of the State Board of Charities. Ohio.
Discussion opened by DR.. 4. p. Herring
p. m.-General Session. Committee
on Health, DR.. c. Hampson Jones,
chairman; School Survey, DR. Tolliver
Clarke; Open-Air Schools. Miss Persis
X. Miller, of Baltimore; General Dis
trict or County Hospitals for Advanced
Cases of Tuberculosis Edward A.
Moore, New York.
Wednesday. January 26, $50 a. NJ
Section Meeting Children's Commit
tee. George l.. Jones, chairman: IN
fant Mortality. DR. Geo. Walker, chair
man Statewide Vice Commission. Bal
timore; Parental Responsibility for
the Legitimate Child. Miss Madorah
Donahue, of Henry Watson Children's
Aid Society, Baltimore; Why Baltimore
City Places Children in Foster Homes,
Nathaniel G. Grasty. secretary Super
visors of Charities, Baltimore. IL a.
m.--Section Meeting. Industrial Com
mittee, Dr. George E. Barnett. chair
man; Hours of Working Women, Miss
Sarah Martin. r. ~, Chief Inspector
Ten-hour Bureau, Baltimore; The Bal
timore Newsboy, Miss S. L. Johnston
Maryland Bureau OF Statistics and In-
formation, Baltimore. ) p. m.-Sec-
ton Meeting Health Committee, DR..
c. Hampton Jones. chairman; Rural
| Nursing Among Negroes, Miss Doyle;
| r. n, Instructive Visiting Nurse, An
napois; Industrial Nursing, Miss Re
| becca NJ. Cole: discussion: The Field
| of Public Health Nursing in Small Com
munities, Miss Nellie Casey, r. ";
| Committee on Charity and the Budget
| System, Dr. j. Fl. Mason Knox, Jr..
chairman: Attitude of the Private IN
| stitutions Toward State Subsidies Mrs.
| A. E. Upham superintendent Baltimore
| Orphan Asylum, Baltimore; discussion
| opened by DR.. r. w. Wright, superin-
| tendent Maryland General Hospital !;
| Present Methods of Appropriating
| Money to Private Institutions, discus
sion opened by VIM. H. Davenport. 8
| D. m.-Generai Session. Education
/ Committee. B. X Purdum, chairman
Policy of the State in Its Relation to
| Higher Education. NJ Bates Stephens,
| State Superintendent of Public Educa-
ton: The Right of the State TO De-
termine the Quality of Its Citizenship
Through Compulsory School Attend
ance, A. ]. McKelway. National Child
! Labor Committee Washington. d. c.;
/ Oscar B. Coblintz, School Commission
| er. Frederick, Nd; Industrial Educa-
ton Applicable to City and Country
/ Schools, Millard b. King, Director OF
| Industrial Education, State Department
! of Education, Harrisburg, Pa.
Thursday, January 27. $50 a. m.-
Section Meeting Education Commit
tee, B. K. Purdum, chairman: Recon-
| mendations of the Survey Commission
| NJ. Bates Stephens. State Superintend-
ent of Education, Annapolis; Super
vision as an Essential Feature of a
| County School System, Albert S. Cook
/ superintendent of Baltimore County
Schools, Towson; State Certihcation OF
Teachers, Edward s. Buchner, Profes-
sor of Philosophy and Education. Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore II a
m.-General Meeting. Harry j. Hop
kins. presiding Round Table Discus
sion, topics to be suggested by mem
bers. p. m--General Session. In.
dustrial Committee, Dr. Geo. E. Bar.
nette. chairman; Advantages of State
Industrial Commission. DR.. John B. An
drews. Secretary American Association
for Labor Legislation. New York; dis