The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-05-31

gates will supply many of the pulpits
in this area. The sessions will be
held on the Steel pier, and the pro-
gram covers a wide range of topics.
The address of the president, Miss
Julia C. Lathrop, which will be made
at the opening exercises of the gen-
eral session Sunday evening, will be
of particular interest. The general
topic will be "Children." Miss La
throp has been closely identified with
children's work all her life. Grad
uated from Vassar college, she is high
ly esteemed in her home city of Rock
ford, H., because of her many activi-
ties for the welfare of children.
Miss Lathrop was appointed to the
Illinois State Board of Charities,
where she served acceptably, and did
some excellent work in improving con-
ditions in the charitable institutions of
that state. She was called to Wash
ington to take charge of the Children's
Bureau of the federal government as
its first director, serving more than
ten years. President Wilson sent Miss
Lathrop abroad nearly a year ago to
invite some of the experts of European
countries to attend some of the con-
ferences in the United States at which
problems incident to the reconstruc-
ton period will be taken up. These
delegates are now In this country and
will attend the National Conference.
The various divisions, covering the
different topics that will have con-
sideration at the sessions of the con-
ference, will be in charge of men who
have attained prominence in that line
of research and work. Division No.
l is children and Henry w. Thurs
ton of the School of Philanthropy, who
is a resident of New Jersey, is the
chairman. "Delinquents and Correc-
ton is Division No. 2, with Colonel
Cyrus B. Adams, superintendent of the
st. Charles School for Boys, st.
Charles, Ill.,, as chairman.
Division No. 8 is that Of Health"
and the chairman is DIR. c. E. A.
Winslow, Professor of Public Health.
Yale University Medical School, New
Haven, Conn. Public Agencies and
Institutions" is covered in Division
No. 4, and Robert w. Kelson, secre-
tary Of the State Board of Charity,
Boston, is chairman. Division No. 5
is Family" and the chairman is Jo-
anna G. Colcord, superintendent of
Charity Organization Society, 105 East
22d street, New York.
Industrial and Economic Problems
is the subject Of Division No. 6, with
Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secre-
tary of the National Consumers
League, New York, as chairman. 1.-THE
Local Community" is taken care of by
Division No. Z, and Frances Ingram,
head resident, Neighborhood House,
Louisville, KY, is the chairman. Men
tai Hygiene. is Division No. 8, and the
chairman is Major Frankwood e. VIII
liams, National Committee of Mental
Hygiene, New York City.
Division No. 8 coVer Organization
of Social Forces with William J. Nor
ton, secretary Detroit Patriotic Fund,
and Foreign Born in America is the
subject of Division No. 10, and Allen
T. Burns, Director of Study of
Methods of Americanization, Carnegie
Corporation, is the chairman.
The session Monday morning will
open with n discussion of Rural So
cial Work for Juveniles" by Prof.
Dwight Sanderson, Of the New York
State College of Agriculture. 'Proba-
tion and Parole" the next topic, will
be handled by Herbert G. Parsons OF
Boston. Other subjects to be con
sidered at the morning session Mon
day include: Estate Organization for
Public Welfare" Adjustments Be