New Britain herald., 1917-02-21

OO-NSSSANNC CCdLC OOnI6rGnCe of charities and Correction, to be held al mer1oen April 29-May 1. The pro- gram in this section is scheduled for the afternoon of April 3O George IL. warren, general secretary of the Bridgeport Organization society. is secretary of the subcommittee in charge of this part of the program and Superintendent of Schools Stan ley H. Holmes of this city is a mem- Der of the committee.
 Professor Fife will take County Temporary Homes and Their Proh- lems' as his topic, Secretary Wallace Will speak on i'The Movement in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for a State Board of Children's Guardians'' ana Secretary Kelso, recognized as one of the leading social workers in the country as well as prominent in the organization and affairs of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, will speak on "How Mas sachusetts Has Met the Problem of the Dependent child." ~- P z
 The developments which have taken place in the public care . of children entrusted to the state or county authorities have been towards centralization of authority and su- pervision, invested in state board. In Connecticut, it is considered that such centralization is badly needed. This was one important note sound ed at the last State Conference of Charities and Correction at Norwich All agreed that a further centraliza- t1on of authority and supervision ill the care of children Is badly needed in Connecticut and that there is. h into @r1.1 means of securing this state board of Children's Guardians, which would have under it's supervision, the ad- mission to and the discharge from our county temporary homes and, in that way, standardizing the work of the state care of dependent children.
 The Round Table session of the committee on Children" will be held at 9:3O the morning of May 1. Miss Mary Vida Clark, assistant secretary of the New York State Charities Aid association, in charge of the placing out department of the organization with supervision of more than 2.5OO children placed in private homes. will speak on Trained Service in Chi1- dren's Work; Its Need and How It May Be Secured" Mrs. M. H. Rav- Tor, representative of the Boston Children's Aid society," much sim liar organization, will speak on "Placing of Children Under Four Years of Age in Family Homes" The care Of children, at present, rests on the individual towns, when children are under four years of age. If above the age of four they are committed to the temporary county homes At the general session of the section on ~ Nlo,I
 over four years of age in the county homes will Le considered. Mrs. Bay Tor will discuss the problem of caring for the, children under four, a prob lem that particularly concerns the individual towns.
 Mrs. Baylor has had a number of years experience in Boston in the placing of infants in private families. Her remarks should be of much in terest to town selectmen and charity commissioners from throughout the state. An attempt is being made to secure speaker to explain the "cot- tage plan" of institutions and it's place in the entire program of child care.
 Prior to his coming to Bridgeport, lMr. Warren was, for eight years, dis trict secretary of the Associated Char ities of Boston and had charge of that city's care of homeless men and tramps, who applied for aid For several years following graduation from Harvard, he was in prison re- form work, along the lines of aiding discharged convicts. He inaugurated numerous reforms along this line and was, for a time, director of the John Howard Industrial Home, an institu- tion for aiding discharged convicts. At the 1916 sessions of the National Conference of Charities and Correc- tion at Indianapolis, be was a mem Der of the committee on the unem- ployed and Is a member of the com- mittee on the family and the com munity for the 1917 sessions of the National Conference at Pittsburgh in June.