Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-10-24
APPOINTMENTS ON
COMMITTEES MADE
ToNIeHr's PROGRAM.
Place - First Presbyterian
church, Fourth and Washington
streets.
Time-Eight o'clock.
speakers-charles F. Weller,
secretary Of the American Play
ground association: w. L. kusAr,
superintendent Of boys Industrial
school at EIdora.
ToNIcHT's PROGRAM.

. 1917 meeting Of the Iowa state confer-As
ence Of charities and corrections
which opened this years session In
Ottumwa Sunday afternoon and closes
Tuesday afternoon.
With the final business meeting to-
decide 1t coming Tuesday morning thes
race Is tightening about Muscatine and Z.
Mason City. The former is working
especially hard for it. Its representa-. Y
tives at the conference are Senator Il
G. M. Titus, Alderman H. B. Horst,
Supervisor A. J. Wood, Miss NJ. Oral
Zimmerman, general secretary OF the !
Muscatine Welfare association.
Charles Kern. superintendent Of the
association, Rev. C. L. Young and -
c. H. Orbach, directors.
Appoint Committees.
Today's business meeting, whiele.
was held from o'clock until 9:46S;
o'clock in the Commercial club audi ~
torium, resulted in the appointment q &
committees. This is one of the most e
important features of the conferenC4# 81
and the contest for places is spirited ~
The following are the committees:
Time and place.. ]. Sessions. naNs
export; w. J. Dixon, Des' Moines, m6u-
ber Of state board Of control; Mi1S3
Ruth Reed, Waterloo. S%
Organization-Prof. F. G.. Ena1un.
state university, Iowa City; Fred l
Mahannah, superintendent orphano
home. Davenport; A. L. Unck, stat6
labor commissioners, Des Moines.
Auditing-C. L. Young, Muscatine II
Mabel Tibbott, Fl. Dodge.
Resolutions-Rabbi Eugene Mann
heimer. Des Moines; David Glasco6s ii
Keokuk: Miss Anne Sheehan, Davent
port.
Round Table Sessions.
Today's meeting has been in the nAs1s|
ture OF round table discussions for apo
cial groups.
Conferences on detectives and insj
sane, corrections, charity administf1s1
ton and child welfare have been i1S
charge Of DR.. George Mosridge 0e
Glenwood, Prof. F. C. Ensign Of tt
state university. Miss Ada NJ. PalmG
Of Grinnell and f. J. Sessions Of DaVS
export, respectively. ~
Miss Mary Nemer Of Des M0ine
discussed A Study in Eugenics; Rev
Horace L. Houghton, probation %
Ger Of Sioux City. talked on Juven1lo
Delinquency In Iowa; Miss Mabel IL
bott, general secretary Of the ASS0u
ated charities and overseer pf til
poor at Ft. Dodge, has had Praceien1
Workings of Widows Pension ~
Blind Pension Laws in Iowa; and Mn
Anna L. Burdick, supervisor OF Voc
tional guidance in the Des Moines pot
lie schools, is discussing Child Wet
fare from a Vocational Standpoint th10H
afternoon.
This evenings meeting in the ENu(
Presbyterian church will be very ~
teresting and the general public ~
urged to attend.
& Outlines a Program.
A rewriting of the laws in terms o&
social service. education Of public ol
scials along these lines and the nAmS
ing of social workers on legislAtive
committees to assist in drafting the
measures Is the state program for soH
cial progress which J. NJ Hanson CT
Youngstown, Ohio. outlined Sunday
evening before two mass meetings Of
fthe citys churches held in connectiOn$]
with the conference. III
One meeting was held in the First%
Methodist church for the people o9s3
the north side and the other In the
Willard street Nj. T.. cuurcn lot tu0z@
people Of the south side. Mr.. Hanson,
who is secretary of the charities or
ganization at Youngstown and work.
er in the social service department q
the Ohio institute Tor public eficiency
alternated on the program with Joel DV3
Hunter chief probation officer OF Chit
cago who talked on the Social SigniN
canoe Of the Probation Oficer and Hie
Work. S1
Iowa Goes Ahead.
Mr.. Hanson sees Iowa preparing ~
be first in social service as well as q
agriculture and beginning to place tho
same importance upon the stock, fron[
which her children are sprung. q &
placed upon the parentage OF her cat
tile and her hogs.
He divided the attitude of the Coz
munity toward social reform into thl1
periods:
The first one was of indifIer0n6
neglect and lack of interest That a
tinued from the beginning of the Ul
ed States until about fifty years ao
fCanfinuod m po4A N