The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . nted out a distinctfeeling of distrust between trade union-ists and social workers, particularly onthe part of the former, which he heldmust be recognized and should bebridged. Interesting comments weremade by Peter Brady, secretary of theAllied Printing Trades Council; AnnHogan, a member of the WomensTrade Union League; W. E. McLen-nan, headworker of Welcome Hall,Buffalo, and Mary Van Kleeck, of theRussell Sage Foundation. Lee K. Frankel, of New York city,was elected president of the next con-ference, to be held at Binghamton. AGAIN THE FEEBLEMINDED IF con
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . nted out a distinctfeeling of distrust between trade union-ists and social workers, particularly onthe part of the former, which he heldmust be recognized and should bebridged. Interesting comments weremade by Peter Brady, secretary of theAllied Printing Trades Council; AnnHogan, a member of the WomensTrade Union League; W. E. McLen-nan, headworker of Welcome Hall,Buffalo, and Mary Van Kleeck, of theRussell Sage Foundation. Lee K. Frankel, of New York city,was elected president of the next con-ference, to be held at Binghamton. AGAIN THE FEEBLEMINDED IF consciousness of an evil is the firststep toward its eradication, thespread of feeblemindedness bids fair tobe checked, as measured by attentiongiven it at this years state conferencesof charities and corrections. The lastconference to devote practically all itssessions to this problem, according toT. L. Gillen, of the University of Wis-consin, was that of Wisconsin, held inShebojgan, October 17-19. 212 THE SURVEY FOR NOVEMBER 25, 1916. CIRCULATORS A new membership class of Survey Associates The fact, writes Mr. Gillen, that thereport of the standing committee of theconference on feeblemindedness, pre-sented by Mrs. George A. Chamber-lain, of Milwaukee, estimated some14,000 feebleminded of all grades inWisconsin, led, quite naturally, to a dis-cussion of whether the state as a whole,the Board of Control, and the variousmunicipal and school authorities areawake to the gravity of the situation. Itwas pointed out that the one state in-stitution for the feebleminded has awaiting list constantly of between threeand four hundred, while the new insti-tution for epileptics and feebleminded,which the Board of Control is buildingat Union Grove, will not be completed,according to the present plans, fortwenty years, and even then will onlycare for 1,500 inmates. The inter-relation of feeblemindednesswith blindness, disease, and crime wasanalyzed. Dr. W. F. Lorenz, directorof the Wisconsin Psy
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