The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-21

Meriden April 29-May 1. The pro- gram for this section will be given during afternoon of April 30. General Secretary George l.. Warren of the Bridgeport Charity Organization So- ciety is chairman of the committee in charge of this section.
 Professor Fife will take as his topic
 County Temporary Homes for Chill dren; and Their Problem; Secretary Wallace will speak on "The Movement in Pennsylvania and New, Jersey for a State Board of Children's Guard ians'; and Secretary Kelso will speak on ''How Massachusetts Has Met the Problem
 The developments which have taken place in the public care of children entrusted to the state and county au- thorities has been towards central ization of authority and supervision in state board. In Connecticut, such a centralization iss considered to be badly needed, There was one note of great importance indicated in the ses- sions of the last Connecticut state con- ference, of charities and correction, at Norwich All agreed that a further centralization of authority in the care of children is badly needed in Connec- ticut and there was much interest shown in the ways and means of se- curing this state board of children's s guardians, which would have under it's supervision the admission to and dis charge from the county temporary homes of children and, in that way,
 standardizing the work of the state
 care of dependent children.
 The Round Table sessions of the
 section on Children" will be held at 9:30 o'clock the morning of May 1.
 Miss Mary Vida Clark, assistant sec retary of the New York Charities Aid Association, in charge of the placing out department with supervision of more than 2,50O children in private homes, willspea on Trained Ser vice in Children's Work; It's Need and
 How It May Be Secured" and Mrs. M. B. Baylor of the Boston Children's s Aid Society will speak on Placing of children under four years of age in family homes.'
 Mrs. Baylor has had a number of years experience in Boston in the placing of infants to board in private families. Her remarks should be of the utmost interest and importance to town selectmen and charity commis- sioners in all parts of the state. The care of children in Connecticut when under four years of age, rests with the individual towns Above the age of four years, they are committed to the county temporary homes.
 Prior to becoming general secretary of the Bridgeport Charity Organiza- tion Society, MT. Warren wasI for eight years district secretary of hte Boston Associated Charities and had charge of the city work among home less men and tramps. For number of years after graduating from liar ward, he was engaged in prison reform work in Boston, paying particular work to the aid of discharged con- victs and being largely responsible for a reorganization of the system. He was, for a number of years, a direc- tor of the John Howard Industrial Home, an institution for giving aid to
 discharged convicts. At the 1916 ses- sions of the National Conference of
 Charities and Correction at Indianap- olis he was a member of the commit tee on the unemployed. He is a mem
 Der of the committee on the family
 and the home for the 1917 sessions of
 the National Conference, which will
 be at Pittsburg in June.
 Dr. Valerie H. Parker of Hartford, field secretary of the Connecticut So-
 ciety of Social Hygiene, we'll known in
 Bridgeport and vicinity, will be the
 speaker at Friday nights session, of
 the Putnam Chamber of Commerce.
 "State Need of Care for Delinquent
 Women" explanatory of the reforma-
 tory bill now before the legislature,
 will be her tonic