Show DR OR DRIVERS BYERS IS HERE H HEREr HERETO r TO CONFER CONFER WITH OFFICIALS Dr Joseph P. P flyers Byerc executive secretary sec SOC of the national committee on onI I provision for the feeble minded with headquarters in Philadelphia arrived I in m in Salt Lake at noon today to confer with Dr E E. E G. G Gowans state superintendent sUperintendent of public instruction and Dr I Charles G. G Plummer who wiio compose the commission created by the last legislature legis legis- lature t to make a survey of conditions in in Utah relative to the feeble minded Dr Byers is one of the most widely I known authorities on prison and feeble feebleminded feebleminded minded welfare work In the United States and has assisted in Conducting investigations into local conditions In I all parts of the country lIe He is the present secretary of the American congress and former president of ot the same organization and former superIntendent superintendent superintendent super super- of ot the House of Refuge In New York City When President Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son was the governor of New Kew Jersey he recognised Dr Byers by appointing him superintendent of ot the prisons of New Jersey A conference will be held this afternoon afternoon after aHer- noon by Dr Byers with Dr Plummer and Dr Gowans and another meeting will be held this evening at the Hotel Utah No set program has as yet been arranged but the conferences will be informal discussions of the feeble minded problem In this state Dr Byers is the guest of ot Warden Varden Arthur Pratt of ot the state penitentiary president of the American prison congress congress congress con con- I gress and an anold old friend of ot Dr Byers They will discuss plans for the meetIng meeting meetIng meet meet- ing of ot the congress in Buffalo October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 7 to 12 while Dr Dr Byess Byes's is here Sunday Dr Byers will go to Denver to assist In the starting of a similar Investigation in investigation investigation In- In of feeble minded conditions conditions conditions condi condi- in Colorado |