The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-26
CHARITIES CONFAB WILL BE HELD
 AT NEW LONDON

People from Bridgeport and Rhod,
 Island as well as from all over the
 State are planning to be present a
 the afternoon meeting, Monday
 April 18th of the Connecticut State Conference of Charities and Correc- ton, the subject of which is to b, Family Life and Social Reconstruc tion."
 Miss Mary P. Wheeler, formerly O. 1 this city. now executive secretary 0 the Home Service Station of tn, American Rod Cross at New Have5 l will preside. Miss Wheeler has beer ! engaged in Family Welfare Work fo. a number of years with the Charity Organization Society of New York and is now on a leave of absence from that society to take charge O. 1 the Red Cross work at New Haven. Bridgeport people who are on tn, section committee of which Mis- | Wheeler is chairman are: Miss Hele1 1 Boyd, representing the Visiting Nurse ] Association, Miss Victoria Larrnour i representing the Catholic Charitabls l Bureau, Mrs. Herbert Sutton, repre- 1 senting the Fairfield Red Cross Home l Service, and MT. Warren represent 1 ing the Charity Organization.
 The opening address will be on the i subject, The Family Workers Place 1 in the Reconstruction Period" Law 1 son Purdy, general director of the | Charity Organization Society of New ! York, will deliver this address. MT ] Purdy is a E~2duate of Trinity Col 1 lege, Hartford, in the class of 1881 i receiving an L. l.. D. from that col 1 lege in 1908. From 1898 to 1908 he l was secretary of flo New York Tax 1 Reform Association. In the year | 1906 he was a. member of the Specia- 1 State Tax Con mission. and iron. 1906 to 1917, was President of thu 1 Department of Taxes and Assess 1 ments of the city Of New York He l is an authority on Housing Reform, ! and is vice-chair1nan of the commis- ] sion on Building Districts and Res 1 triCtO1s of New York He was dele
 gate to the International Tax Con- ference of 1907 and 1913 by virtue of
 his appointment by the governor of
 New York, anA was president of the
 National Municipal League in 1916 He will bring to the conference a
 wealth of experience and observation
 of such fundamental causes of ab- ] L.
 about by bad housing and inequitabIe taxation.
 Dr. Samuel McChord Brothers
 pastor of the First Unitarian Church of ambridge, Massachusetts vii
 speak on Ideals of Family Life After the War" Dr. Brothers is { graduate of Princeton University, Ina. attended Union Theological Seminary , and Harvard Divinity School H. 3 was granted 8, doctors degree by St 5 Lawrence College in 1904 and b1 ) Princeton in 1909. He has Beer \ pastor of churches at Eureka, auC ' Gold Hill, Nevada. He has occupied
 his present pastorate since 1894. H. is a generous contributor to rnaga zines and periodicals, and is the au I thor of he following: Members 0 - One Body Miss Mufet's Christina 9 Party The Gentle Reader" ''Th
 Understanding Beart,'' The Pardon . CTS Wallet" The Endless Life,' ''B, @ the Christmas Fire Oliver Wendell e Holmes and His Fellow Boarders g Among Friends "HumanIy Speak e ing Three Lords of Destiny, ,. ''NIeditations of Votes for Women ,. and Pleasures of an Absentee Land q lord''
 o One Of the most important meet | ings to be held at the Conference
 the general session of the Section O y Children. This will be held at tn @ Y. M. c. A. on Monday evening, Apr c 18th. Mrs. Bernard T. Williams c Q Hartford-president of the Hartfor = Orphan Asylum is the chairman c
 this section of the Conference an g will preside at this meeting.
 a Two neOOla T1-O,,1f-e1+ fo -1,i1 r dren's work in this country are to b
 the speakers. Both have had year! e of experience in this field of socia 8 work in one form or another
 e Robert W. Kelso of Boston wi r speak on the subject. The Nation g Responsibility for Child Conserva t. ton" He is the secretary of tn f Massac achusetts State Board of Charit q and has been largely responsible fo 1T the splendid administration of tn Il Massachusetts Mothers Pension Lav
 Due to him this method of hell Il ing needy mothers to keep their chi g dren at home so that they may hay '- has been most successfully develope
 in that state.
 In addition to this meeting tn 5. section on children will hold a roun
 table meeting on Tuesday nornin, # April 29th at which problems l. child welfare work in Conn ecticr = will be discussed. Bridgeporters w1l l. are on the program are Mrs. P. ! n Staples, Miss Sally Wihnot, G. l n Warren. and Mrs Herbert Sutton