After discussion, these recommendations for amendment of Section 13 were adopted. The report of the Tellers was read by the chairman, Mr. Angus P. Thorne, as follows: The following is the result of balloting for officers of the National Conference of Social Work: For President, Julia C. Lathrop 57 (Blank 2) For 1st Vice-President, LeRoy A. Halbert 50 "9 For 2nd Vice-President: Dr. Thomas J. Riley 49 James F. Jackson, Cleveland 1 Lawson Purdy, New York 2 "7 For 3rd Vice-President, Albert S. Johnstone 52 '" 7 Members of Executive Committee for three years: Robert A. Woods 54 "5 Amos W. Butler 53 "6 Mary E. Richmond 55 "4 Dr. William T. Foster 50 "9 M. Edith Campbell 51 Mary Byers Smith, Boston 1 "2 According to the rules of the Conference the following named persons are the officers of the Conference chosen at this meeting: President, Julia C. Lathrop 1 First Vice-President, LeRoy A. Halbert 1 Second Vice-President, Dr. Thomas J. Riley 1 Third Vice-President, Albert S. Johnstone 1 Members of Executive Committee for three years: Robert A. Woods, Amos W. Angus P. Thorne, Committee. The officers whose names were indicated as having received the highest number of votes were declared elected. The action of the permanent Divisions (Nos. I-VII inclusive) in choosing chairmen for the ensuing year and committees in groups serving for one, two, and three years, as indicated, was reported by the General Secretary. Those nominated to chairmanships and memberships on committees, as shown by the following list, were elected Division by Division, up to and including Division VI. (See list on pages 704-5.) The following subsequent action was taken in case of Division VI: A motion by Dr. Hart prevailed to the effect that the Conference reconsider its action in regard to Division VI. Dr. Hart then moved that Mr. J. J. Sonsteby, of Chicago, be added to the membership of the Committee of Division VI. It was seconded by Mr. Frederic Almy. On question the chair ruled that the motion was in order. A substitute for the motion was offered by Mr. Otto W. Davis, as follows: That in accepting the report of Division VI the Division be authorized to add three more members to the Division Committee, and suggest that they be representatives of organized labor; that this action by the Division be subject to the final approval of the Executive Committee. The substitute was accepted by Dr. Hart and Mr. Almy. An amendment to the substitute motion of Mr. Davis was moved by Mr. Sonsteby to the effect that the three members to be added to the committee of Division VI should be those of Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, and John C. Manning, of the American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. The motion was seconded by Mr. William H. Davenport. The motion to amend was lost. The substitute motion by Mr. Davis prevailed. On motion of Dr. Hart the original nominees for the Division officers and committee were elected, subject to the addition of three persons as provided in the substitute motion of Mr. Davis. The nominations for Division VII were presented by the General Secretary as listed on p. 705, with the exception that no indication of terms of one, two, and three years for the Division committee was made. A motion prevailed to the effect that the first third in the list as read should serve terms of one year, the second third, terms of two years, and the remaining third, terms of three years. With this amendment the nominees were elected. The appointment by the Executive Committee of chairmen and committees for temporary Divisions (Nos. VIII, IX, and X) as shown on pp. 705-6 was announced by the General Secretary, with the indication that Division VIII was established for a period of three years and Divisions IX and X for one year. It was indicated that the Committee of Division X would be enlarged later by action of the Executive Committee after consultation with the chairman named. The following resolution (relating to the Second International Conference on Child Welfare) was presented on behalf of the Executive Committee by Dr. Hastings H. Hart (see page 702). The resolution was referred to the Committee on Resolutions. Upon the suggestion of the Chair a motion by Mrs, Kelley prevailed to the effect that the greetings of the Conference should be sent to members of the Conference in service in France through communication with Mr. Homer Folks, Mr. Edward T. Devine and Mr. Ernest P. Bicknell, of the American Red Cross; and to absent members of the Conference as follows: Timothy Nicholson, Rev. Francis H. Gavisk, Mr. George S. Wilson, Mr. Alexander Johnson. The suggestion by Mr. Terry, of Pittsburgh, that a resolution of endorsement of the Board of Public Welfare of Kansas City be passed, was referred to the Committee on Resolutions. A motion by Mr. Charles C. Cooper, of Pittsburgh, prevailed to the effect that the Executive Committee consider the question of holding the next meeting during the week beginning Sunday. On motion of Mr. Frederic Almy a straw vote was taken indicating a slight preponderance of sentiment of those present favoring the plan suggested. A motion was made by Mr. Hornell Hart, of Cincinnati, and seconded by Mr. John Daniels, of New York, to the effect that a referendum vote of the membership of the Conference be taken in deciding the question of the weekly period of the annual meeting. The motion was lost. Tuesday, May 21, 1918. At Convention Hall; President Woods in the Chair. Mr. Jeffrey R. Brackett, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, presented the following report: Your Committee on Resolutions, consisting of Jeffrey R. Brackett of Massachusetts, George F. Damon of Missouri, and John Daniels of New York, has carefully considered the resolutions which have been referred to it, and reports unanimously as follows: It recommends the adoption of this resolution: Whereas, the Government of Uruguay has called a Second International Conference of Child Welfare to meet in December, 1918, and has requested the United States to send official delegates; and Whereas, it is most important at this time to foster friendly relations between the United States and the other republics of his hemisphere; Resolved, that the National Conference of Social Work earnestly requests that Congress authorize the Secretary of State to appoint several delegates to represent the United States at the Congress, and that a sufficient appropriation be made to cover the traveling expenses of such delegates. Your Committee reports to the Conference the news that an international treaty providing for the extradition of family deserters between the Dominion of Canada and the United States has been negotiated and is awaiting ratification by the Senate of the United States, and recommends that the officers of this Conference express to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate our gratification at such a treaty and our hope that it may be ratified. One resolution referred to your committee requests that this Conference urge upon the nations now at war the duty of providing an international council for exchange of prisoners. Your Committee recommends that the Conference take no action in this matter, leaving it to be dealt with by individual members, with public officials of this country. The same recommendation is made touching another resolution which asks that a bill pending in Congress for the aid of war cripples shall be extended to include persons crippled in industry. Another resolution referred calls attention to the large percentage of drafted men who have been rejected because of physical unfitness, and the varying percentages between states, and urges the use of federal money, in cooperation with the states, for physical education. Another resolution asks that the President of the United States be urged to give us an immediate war time prohibition. Your Committee recommends that these two resolutions be not dealt with beyond the statements in a resolution which will be offered you by the committee itself. One other resolution tells us that our fellow conference member, Hastings H. Hart, has just completed a continuous service of twentyfive years upon the Executive Committee. Your Committee does not offer eulogistic resolutions, for we all hope that he will again serve on that committee, by election! But we now make this honorable mention of Mr. Hart's unusual services. Your Committee now presents to you from itself, for your adoption, two resolutions: First, The Conference desires to record its grateful appreciation of the liberal co-operation and hospitality of the Local Committee on Arrangements and its several sub-committees, the Chamber of Commerce, the press, including the county papers of Missouri and Kansas, the Board of Public Welfare, Board of Education, Park Board, Provident Association, Collegiate Allumnae, Junior League, Minute Circle, Athenaeum, St. Luke's Hospital Club, and other social service agencies, the management of Convention Hall, the Bell and Home telephone companies, the Kansas Citv Street Railway companies, the Jackson County Medical Society, the federal officials at Leavenworth, and churches of all denominations. The members of the Conference, as they return to their homes throughout the country, will take away with them lasting memories of the neighborliness and enterprise of the people of Kansas City, and will leave behind them their heartfelt best wishes for this city's future welfare and continued progress in the family of American communities. No names of Kansas City citizens are given in the resolution, for many of them have done so much for the pleasure of the Conference. But we remind you that the Conference has just chosen for its first vice-president for 1919 a public official of Kansas City. In substituting the next and last resolution, your committee recalls that the constitution of the Conference prescribes that the Conference is a forum for discussion and "does not formulate platforms," but the Committee hopes that this statement can be approved by every member of this great association present or absent: The National Conference of Social Work renews the pledge which was made last year, of hearty devotion to our country in the effective prosecution of the war; and stands for the concentration of all the resources and energies of the people and their government for that end. The Conference rejoices at the progress which is now being made toward the elimination of alcoholism and vice, as evils which prevent the fullest exertion of the nation's strength. It rejoices also in the growing realization of the need of a thorough system of physical and health education. And the Conference urges upon our government that all possible preparation be made for a truly democratic representation of the nations in the making of peace and in measures of reconstruction. On motion, the report was received and filed. At the Muehlbach Hotel; President Woods in the Chair. Mr. Jeffrey R. Brackett, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, moved the adoption of the report of his committee, which had been presented the previous evening. Carried. The foregoing minutes of all business sessions of the annual meeting, having been posted as required, were presented by the General Secretary and were adopted. Adjournment. (Signed) Robert A. Woods, President. William T. Cross, General Secretary. PART 3. ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFERENCE FOR 1919 Officers. President—Julia C. Lathrop, Chief, Federal Children's Bureau, Washington, D. C. First Vice-President—L. A. Halbert, Kansas City, Mo. Second Vice-President— Thomas J. Riley, Brooklyn, N. Y. Third Vice-President—Albert S. Johnstone, Columbia, S. C. v General Secretary—William T. Cross, 315 Plymouth Court, Chicago. Treasurer—Charles W. Folds, 208 South La Salle Street, Chicago. Assistant Secretaries—Rowland F. Beasley, Raleigh, N. C; Mrs. E. T. Brigham, Kansas City; Pearl Chase, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Roscoe C. Edlund, Baltimore; T. J. Edmonds, Washington; Alexander Fleisher, New York; Julius Goldman, New Orleans; Virginia McMechen, Seattle; A. Percy Paget, Winnipeg; L. H. Putnam, Charleston, W. Va.; J. B. Rawlings, Fort Worth; Elwood Street, Louisville. Executive Committee. Ex-officio—Julia C. Lathrop, Washington; L. A. Halbert, Kansas City. Term expiring 1919—John Daniels, Katharine B. Davis, New York; Rev. Francis H. Gavisk, Indianapolis; Minnie F. Low, Graham Taylor, Chicago. Term expiring 1920—Ida M. Cannon, Cambridge, Mass.; Otto W. Davis, Minneapolis; Mrs. W. L. Murdoch, Birmingham; Rev. Frederic Siedenburg, Chicago; Roy Smith Wallace, Philadelphia. Term expiring 1921—Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis; M. Edith Campbell, Cincinnati; William T. Foster, Portland, Ore.; Mary E. Richmond, New York; Robert A. Woods, Boston. Chairman of Divisions, ex-officio—Henry W. Thurston, New York; Col. Cyrus B. Adams, St. Charles, 111.; Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, New Haven; Albert S. Johnstone, Columbia, S. C.; Joanna C. Colcord, New York; Mrs. Florence Kelley, New York; Frances Ingram, Louis ville; Maj. Frankwood E. Williams, New York; W. J. Norton, Detroit. DIVISIONS I. CHILDREN. Chairman—Henry W. Thurston, School of Philanthropy, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York. Vice-Chairman—C. V. Williams, Director, Children's Welfare Department, Board of State Charities, Columbus, Ohio. Secretary—C. C. Carstens, Secretary, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 43 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. Grace Abbott, Washington; Ralph S. Barrow, Birmingham; George R. Bedinger, Detroit; Frederick P. Cabot, Boston; C. C. Carstens, Boston; Arthur Dean, New York; A. Madorah Donahue, Baltimore; Joseph M. Frost, Lansing, Mich.; Sally Lucas Jean, New York; Lilburn Merrill, M. D., Seattle; Jessica Peixotto, Washington; Wilfred S. Reynolds, Chicago; Rev. Michael J. Scanlan, Boston; Hobart H. Todd, Industry; Elsa Ueland, Philadelphia; Mrs. Benjamin West, Memphis; Mrs. Helen T. Woolley, Cincinnati. II. DELINQUENTS AND CORRECTION. Chairman—Col. Cyrus B. Adams, Superintendent, St. Charles School for Boys, St. Charles, 111. Secretary—Leslie F. Hayford, Executive Secretary, Trustees of the Massachusetts Training Schools, State House Boston. Rowland F. Beasley, Raleigh, N. C.; Demarchus C. Brown, Indianapolis; Edith N. Burleigh, Boston; Joseph P. Byers, Philadelphia; Frank L. Christian, Elmira, N. Y.; Charles L. Chute, Albany, N. Y.; James A. Collins, Indianapolis; Edwin J. Cooley, New York; J. T. Gilmour, Toronto; Bernard Glueck, M. D., Ossining; Mrs. Jessie D. Hodder, Framingham, Mass.; Charles W. Hoffman, Cincinnati; Major Bascom Johnson, Washington; F. Emory Lyon, Chicago; Maude E. Miner, New York; Lottie S. Olney, Columbia. S. C.; Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, Washington; John J. Sonsteby, Chicago; Arthur J. Todd Minneapolis. III. HEALTH. Chairman—Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, Professor of Public Health, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn. Secretary—Mrs. Bessie Ammerman Haasis, Educational Secretary, National Organization for Public Health Nursing, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York. Carol Aronovici, St. Paul; Paul L. Benjamin, Minneapolis; Ida M. Cannon, Cambridge, Mass.; Katharine B. Davis, New York; Edna G. Foley, Chicago; Charles J. Hastings, M. D., Toronto; Emery R. Hayhurst, M. D., Columbus, Ohio; Edna G. Henry, Indianapolis; Mary E. Lent, Washington; Grace Meigs, Washington; George J. Nelbach, New York; Katherine Ostrander, Lansing, Mich.; Lieut. Col. Claude C. Pierce, Little Rock, Ark.; John E. Ransom, Chicago; Maj. W. A. Sawyer, Washington; Anna A. Stevens, New York; Mrs. J. M. Taylor, Boise, Idaho; Katherine Tucker, Philadelphia; Lawrence Veiller, New York. |