The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-20
Child Welfare Work In
 State Progressing We'll

Hartford, March 20-It was an- nounced today by the State Child Welfare Commission that the work of Investigating child welfare in Con necticut in progressing, and that many phases of this line of work will be thoroughly investigated before the 1921 session of the Legislature con- Venes. Announcement was also made today of the complete makeup of the commission an3 executive staff.
 The personnel of the Commission is fairly representative of the public of the state, consisting of lawyers business men, clergymen, doctors social workers and educational lead ITS, who were appointed by Governor . fioIcomb to serve without pay Rev. William P. Ladd, Dean, of Berkeley Divinity School of Middletown. is chairman of the commission; Aneus r. Thorne, Supt. of City Charities of Bridgeport, is secretary, and Judse Moss Ives of Danbury is treasurer
 The other members of the commits sion are: Wilbur F. Gordy of Hart- ford, president of the city board of educat1on and formerly Supt. of schools of Springfield, Mass. Rev -Jo ohn +: Ryan, of Danbury, formerly member of the Hartford. Juvenile
 OAAAAA4@N7N7AC1I cLIlo SeCTeIary or the Din- cesan Board of Charities, Arnold I, Gesell, M. D., Ph. D., of New Haven Professor of Child Hygiene at Yale University and School Psychologist for the State Board of Education Walter H. Brown, M D.. formerly Health Officer of Bridgeport and member Of the Public Health C,o1,n- Gil, now connected with the America n Red Cross; Jacob B. Klein of Bridee- port lawyer, member of the Commits sion on Public Welfare stabIished by the legislature of 1917; Charles A Templeton, of Waterbury, merchant. member of the State Senate, 1919. and chairman of the Committee on Humane Institutions; Harold N Meech, merchant, of MiddletoWn. rem resentative and Chairman of the House Committee on Humane Institu- tions of the 1919 session.; Mrs. Rose | mary Anderson of New London, mem- Der of the executive committee of the 1 Associated Charities, formerly mem Der of the Health and Recreation Committee of the State Council of De fense; Miss Caroline deF. Penniman of Middletown, Supt. of the Connec- | ticut Industrial School for Girls, Miss Marjory Cheney of South Manchester active in local child welfare work 1 dnu lofmefiy Red Cross worker overseas; Miss Katherine Farnam of l New Haven, social worker for the ] New Haven Dispensary, and Miss Louise H. Merritt of Stamford, a trus- tee of the Mansfield State Training School for the Feeble minded.
 In order to carry on this work, the Commission has engaged the services of an executive staff, composed main 1 ly of Connecticut people. Professor i Henry F. Fairchi1d of New Haven. is
 executive secretary
 Miss Mabel F. Thompson, the onIy non-Connecticut member of the staff | is the field agent. She was appointed i because of her experience in the U s Children's Bureau, which qualifie.
 her specifically for her task here. Hel
 residence. at present is in Hartford.
 The executive committee of tn,
 State Child Welfare Commission ha.
 sanctioned the idea of having prom
 inent men and women deliver ad
 dresses on the subject of child welfar throughout Connecticut, at pubIi
 gatherings. That there is urgen need of better legislation for the wei
 fare of the children of the state i
 conceded by those who have studio,
 the subject.
 Among those who will speak a
 these public meetings are Rev. Dr