APPENDIX C PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH SERIES OF NEW YORK CITY CON- Remarks of the Chairman, Hon. Paul Fuller... 142 How the Probation Officer May Become a More Effective Aid to the Court: 142 149 General Discussion..... 153 Address by Judge Edward Swann... Second Session: Probationary Treatment of Drink, Drugs and Other Injurious Habits: Address by Dr. Charles F. Stokes. General Discussion..... Third Session: Boy Problems: Remarks by Bernard J. Fagan.. Address by Dr. John W. Davis.. General Discussion...... Fourth Session: Work with Women and Girls: Address by Mrs. Mortimer Menken. General Discussion..... Fifth Session: Family Problems: Address by Francis McLean... Remarks by Frank L. Graves.. General Discussion....... Sixth Session: 159 165 178 178 . 183 194 201 207 209 209 Needs and Hindrances in the Development of Effective Probation Work: Address by Judge Louis D. Gibbs... Address by Arthur W. Towne... General Discussion... (For full list of speakers, see General Index.) 213 219 223 INTRODUCTION The fifth annual series of New York City Conferences on probation was held under the auspices of the State Probation Commission, beginning on April 22, 1915, and concluded on May 7, 1915. Six evening conferences were held in the City Hall. The meetings were well attended by the probation officers from all the courts of the city; also by a number of the judges and other persons interested in probation work. At the first and last sessions, this year for the first time, judges from the higher courts of the city appeared and delivered admirable addresses. Greater co-operation in arranging the meetings was brought about by the selection of a Committee of Arrangements composed of representative probation officers from the main divisions of the courts. This committee met with representatives of the State Probation Commission and agreed upon a program. The addresses presentede were extrmely practical and th discussion following was very animated and helpful. The addresses and discussions in part follow. The Commission believes that these meetings are of great value to the probation officers of New York City, affording practically the only opportunity of the year for the officers from all courts to meet and discuss exclusively the problems of their common work. Co-operation and mutual acquaintance are promoted by these meetings as in no other way. Unusual circumstances will make it inadvisable to hold the conferences in 1916, but the Commission intends to resume them in 1917 and will seek the co-operation of the probation officers and the judges in making arrangements therefor. |