Evening star., 1937-01-28
CHILD CONFERENCE
OPENS TOMORROW
American Legion and Allied
Organizations Tenth An
nuaI ParIey.

The American Legion and its allied
ORGANIZATIONS will open its tenth
annual Area B Child Welfare Confer
ence at the Wardman Park Hotel to-
morrow.
Area B includes seven States
in the vicinity around the Dis
trict of Columbia. The chairman and
representative from each are as fol-
lows: District Of Columbia, chairman,
Mrs. Mary E. Kolhos; representative,
Miss Annie K. Harkins, and auxiliary
representative, Miss Minnie May
Hardy; Delaware, chairmen and rep
resentative, Howard T. Ennis; aux
iliary representative, Mrs. c. M. Dill
lon; Maryland, chairman, Rev. Father
John Carol Moore: representative,
Rev. Ray w. Cook. and auxiliary rep
resentative, Mrs. Jean Elsenberg; New
Jersey, chairman and representative,
DR.. Samuel A. Loveman; auxiliary
representative, Mrs. Walter G. H.
Ryan; New York, chairman, William
w. Moore; representative, Fred H.
HYATT; auxiliary representative, Mrs.
Ethel Murphy; Pennsylvania, chair
man. Frederick H. Bachman; repre-
sentative, John F. Harrison; auxiliary
representative, Mrs. Josiah F. Reed;
Virginia, chairman, Mrs. Janet R. Eng
lish, and representative, LAWN N.
Davis; West Virginia, chairman, DR..
Russell H. Paden; representative,
-. ovd o1IYiliQrV rPn-
resentative, Mrs. Rufus Yost.
Presiding Officers.
Presiding officers for the confer
ence will be DR.. Samuel A. Loveman
and Miss Edna Musser, who are the
area chairmen.
The conference will open at 8 am.
with the registration of the delegates.
The first session will be closed TO
members of the organizations par
ticipating and will open at $50 am
with the roll call of department. cnl!o
welfare chairmen. A round taoie
discussion will follow, led by Rev. Ray
w Cook. Several assigned subjects
will be taken up at this time ana a
closed informal luncheon Will follow.
The afternoon session starting al
e.oo o'clock will be open to the puollc
At this time greeting from the Dlstrlc!
will be extended by the department!
commander, Horace w. Lineburg, ano
the department auxiliary president
Mrs Mary K. Killeen. The meeting
will be addressed by Roland b. ao"eu
rational child welfare officer OF the
Legion. and Mrs. Elsie Diers. who holds
a similar office in the auxiliary; Johr
D. Crowley, national child welfare
chairman of the Forty and Eight, ano
Mrs. Mollie Averill, LIE Chapeau Ma
tionale of the Eight and Forty, Wnlle
Judge Richard Hartshorne, national
chairman of the Legion and Order
Committee, will deliver an address or
Juvenile Delinquency and Some Pre-
ventative Measures"
Evening Session Open.
The evening dinner session Will pe
held at $50 O'Clock in the Continental
room and will also be open to the
public. After being introduced by j
Fred Johnson, national vice COM
mander, Frank Samuel, national adju-
tant Of the Legion, will address those
present on the subject "The American
Iegion,s Service to America" He will
be followed by Miss Katherine Lenroot
chief Of the United States Children's
Bureau, whose subject will be "Some
present-Day Problems of Child We'll
fare"
Saturday morning, January 80, at
e:30 o'clock another round table dis
cussion will take place. The session
will close with a luncheon at 1890
pm, during which time Frank Bane,
executive director of the Social Secur-
ity Board, will make an address on
"The National Social Security Pro-
gram"