Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-25
District Welfare Conference at
Greenwood.

District Welfare Conference at
Greenwood. .
The Local Committee of the State
Board of Public Welfare for Edge
field county have announced the
plans for a district welfare confer
ence to be held in Greenwood on
Wednesday, June 1st. The Local
Committee here, consisting of Mr..
T. B. Greneker, DR.. A. R. Nicholson
and Mrs. J. L. Minis, have planned
the meeting in conjunction with the
committees of Greenwood, Newber-
ry, Mccormick and Abbeville coun-
ties.
Questions discussed will be the pub
lie care of indigents, the maintenance
of the county homes, the care and
maintenance of the modern Jail, the
work of the juvenile refornatories
of the state. This conference is ex-
pected to meet the needs of the Off
cials working with these institutions,
jailors, sheriffs, supervisors, superin-
tendents of county homes, foremen of
the chaingangs, foremen of the
grand juries, local committees of
the state board of public welfare,
and other public spirited citizens.
The program consists of morning
and afternoon session. The morning
session beginning at 1880 and rum
ming until 200 o'clock. One hour will
be given to the county home discus
sion. A representative of the Green
vile county Commission of Chari-
ties and Correction has been invited
to be present to tell of the work of
the Greenville County Home. The
Greenville Home is considered by
those who know as the best institu-
tion of it's kind in this State. In fact,
it is the only one, according to the in
spector of the State Board of Public
Welfare, that can be considered real
county HOME. Each inmate of the
institution is required to employ him
self at some useful task. He is given
his choice of a vegetable garden, a
flower garden, a cotton patch, a job
of quilting, raising pure blooded poul-
try, or some other task around the
home. Cleanliness in this institution
is considered next to Goodness. There
is a case on record of an old lady
who came to the institution and re-
fused to take a bath, stating that she
had not done so since she was school
girl. She was bound by the superin-
tendent and hired man and later his
wife and a helper gave her a much
needed bath. The Old lady is now COM
Portable and happy. The health of the
inmates is very zealously looked af-
ter by fine young physician of the
city of Greenville.
The second hour of the program
will be given up to a discussion OF
the needs of a. modern. Jail and the
Importance of the Jail question in this
group of counties. There were during
the last statistical year, 1885 COM
mittments to Jail in the State of
South Carolina. This according to the
census of 1921 is one commitment
for every 22S persons in the state.
The average daily population of the
"A jails of the state is 405. The care
and maintenance of these prisoners
will be discussed at the conference.
The last hour and aghalf of the
morning session will be devoted to
trips to the Greenwood county home,
jail and chaingang. The Greenwood
Chamber of Commerce extends the in
vitation to the visitors for this trip.
These institutions, While not by any
manner of means models may serve,
as one member of the Greenwood
committee put it, as examples of what
some of these institutions should not
be.
The afternoon session will be
chiefly inspirational. A speaker whose
name cannot yet be announced will
deliver the chief address of the oc-
casion. Mr.. G. Croft Williams of the
State Board of Public Welfare will
tell of the work now being done by
the juvenile reformatories of the
state. The State Board of Public
Welfare is a joint Board of Control
for the Reformatory for negro boys
in Lexington, the South Carolina In