Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-13
Child WELFARE
WORKERS PLAN
I l9l7PROGRAM
Legislation to Be Sought ard
Fiber Weaving Industry
Started

by Mrs. p. L. Weaver, delegate to the
central committe on child welfare
from the Women's Society Of Central
linton church at the annual meeting
of the society on January 8:
1.-THE corporate membership now
consists of ii societies OF women.
identified more or less closely with
various churches, Catholic and Protes-
tant, and the following secular socie.
ties: The Kindergarten. Children's
Aid and Playground Association, the
Manoa Circle of the Cooperative
> League. the Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution, Aloha Chapter; the
College Club and the Humane So
&. lciety. :. A, group may feel that Its
main object 10 not closely enough
Identified with child welfare TO make
wise q membership and yet occasion
ally be able to cooperate. A cordial
relation OF this sort has existed from
the beginning With che Outdoor Circle.
The japanese societies have worked
With us most generously In this gen.
eral relation and any group or indf
yidual interest 10 made welcome.
/, still the present need Is not SO much
TO increase the membership as 70
learn to work together with skfll and
smoothness. D.. e.. ~.
This years program Is as follows:
Standing Committees :.
standing committees: 49,: l..
Il. Legislation - Mrs. w. w.
Thayer, chairman. Two measures are
10 be put before the legislature.
neither requiring an appropriation
and therefore not in danger OF con-
flicting with other child 7. welfare
measures requiring financial support.
One asks for the appointment OF Q
special deputy, woman, to accom-
.pany any girl on the other islands
sent 10 the industrial school from her
home to that school. The small ex-
pense involved would come from the,
regular funds for, the courts. ; The
aecond Is the bill already having
come up in the last legislature tosput
D0ine teeth IN the law enforcing
parental responsibility toward way
ward girls.
g. Establishment Of q fiber weay.,
ing sindustry-Mis Sadie Sterl1tt.
chairman. This matter has nov.
passed beyond the hands OF the orig
ipal committee and Il being consid-
cred by businessmen and TO be tested
: soon In actual experiment II looks
toward the establishment OF Q whole
sale house, to standardize the supply
sof raw material, the prices paid. cash
down to the native producer. and the
wholesale market. II may result In
q business, not a charity, and give q
steady market to the producer, who
will be safeguarded against extortion.
ate profits on the part of the middle
man. II Is interested In the revival
OF the finer weaving of early Ha.
waiian art as we'll.
~ Vacation school work Mrs. p.
l.. Weaver, chairman. The committee
IS glad TO report that the work at
Kaiulani school next year Is assured:
Palama Settlement is 70 take that
over. thus leaving y joipf committee
OF the Kindergarten and Playground
Association and the College Club tree
togo into another field this year The
direction VIII be taken over by. the
Playground Association this time
Further details are to be announcec
later.
"a. Under the direction OF Or. j. S.,
B. Pratt and with the cooperation OF
II w. Kinney and j. A. Rath, the CEN
trai committee Is working on q pro
gram OF popular education for better
health for babies. Mrs. Wallace Far
rinEtop. delegate from the Humane
Society. has the matter in charge.
20 The last is as yet hardly more
than healthy desire to cooperate
with the schools along such lines as
the Mothers Club at the Liliuokalani
school has opened UP. But it has gone
beyond mere desire. has begun to get
direction from Or. Patterson as to
what he wants done and 10 visit out
lying small schools