The Ohio Bulletin of Charities and Correction (Volume 24)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918-01-01 Excerpt: ... OHIO BULLETIN.. OF.. CHARITIES AND CORRECTION Volume 24 June, 1918 Number 2 PROCEEDINGS OF OHIO STATE CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION Springfield, Ohio, October 2-4, 1917 The Twenty-Seventh Annual Session of the Ohio State Conference of Charities and Correction convened in Springfield on the evening of October 2, 1917, and concluded on the evening of October 4. All sessions were held in the rooms of the Clark County Memorial Hall. The opening session was in charge of W. W. Witmeyer, Chairman of the Springfield Committee on arrangements. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS J. O. White, Superintendent Of Department Of Public Welfare, Cincinnati; Member Of Board Of State Charities Fifteen years have passed since the Conference last met in Springfield and I am free to say that the president of the Conference this year might do well to deliver the president's address of fifteen years ago. His vision then showed him the need for a much larger state program in charitable and correctional work. Some of the things Mr. Gunckel advocated have been achieved, for instance our State Board of Administration. He showed the need of unified management for similar institutions and the economy of a central purchasing department. He pointed out the need for a central children's department which would have control and supervision of child care and placing. He called attention to a need that has not yet been met, that the legislators of the State should be educated to the state's great human needs. I am going to take the privilege, at this point, of reading an answer made to Mr. Gunckel from one of the legislators of that time, when a certain bill was given no consideration. Oh that Board of State Charities makes us tired, they are eternally after something and always something tha...