Pennsylvania Conference of Charities and Correction
NEWS AND COMMENTS.
The Second Annual Conference of Charities and Correction of Pennsylvania will be held in the High School Building at Altoona, Pa., on November 15, 16, and 17, 1910. The committees which make up the conference will each have charge of one meeting, in the following order: On Infant Mortality and Its Prevention; On the Care of Delinquent Girls and Women; On the Feebleminded and Epileptic at Large in Pennsylvania; On Relief Work of Public and Private Agencies; On Industrial Education and Child Labor; and On Immigrants. At the meeting of the Committee on Feebleminded and Epileptic at Large, to be held Wednesday evening, November 16tli, at eight o’clock, Charles K. Mills, M.D., of Philadelphia, will speak on “Epilepsy and the Modern Methods of Treating and Caring for Epileptics,” and Henry II. Goddard, Ph.D., of Yineland, N. J., will report on “Four Years’ Study of the Feebleminded, Results and Suggestions.”
The Secretary of the Conference is Mr. Fred S. Hall, 1533 Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia. Proposed International Congress on Pedology. An international committee, “formed to promote union between societies in different countries engaged in child study and research,” is now being organized by the executive committee of the International Congress on Pedology. Dr Elmer E. Brown, Commissioner of Education, has been appointed chairman of the American section of the international committee, with power to choose nine other members to assist him. It is planned to hold the Congress in Belgium some time in
Southern Educational Association.
The twenty-first annual session of the Southern Educational Association will be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., on December 27, 28, and 29, 1910. The territory covered by the Association includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
The Association has just completed the organization of the Southern Educational Council, composed of thirty of the leading educators of the South, many of whom have been presidents of the Association. One of the main objects of the Council is to make systematic studies of educational problems and conditions. The results of these investigations, when published, will be valuable contributions to educational literature, not only of the South, but of the country at large.
Readers of The Psychological Clinic desiring further information may address Mr. H. E. Bierly, Secretary, Chattanooga, Tenn. American School Hygiene Association.
The Fifth Congress of the American School Hygiene Association will be held in New York City on February 2, 3, and 4, 1910. The Orthogenic Value of Public Libraries.
Mr. Samuel II. Ranck, Librarian of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Library, sends us an interesting communication in reference to the orthogenic value of public libraries. He says, “When Ayres’s report was first published I was struck with the fact that with one or two exceptions the cities that have the lowest percentage of retardation are the cities that as a rule are doing the best work for children through their public libraries; in other words, in the cities where the libraries are getting hold of the children and developing reading power through the use of library books outside of school, the percentage of retardation is low. Last week I was at the meeting of the Michigan State Teachers’ Association at Saginaw, and discussed this matter with a number of superintendents there, and was particularly interested in some data which Superintendent Ferguson, of Sault Ste. Marie, had with him, bearing on this same point. Superintendent Ferguson is pushing the children’s reading in a systematic way, and has records’ of the books read by each child in a number of the grades in different schools. His studies and records show that if a child can be induced to read good books, his work in every other branch is more than likely to be very much better, and it was interesting to see the gradual improvement in the percentage or average grade of the children with their increased reading of good books.”
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