Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1923, Page 4

Sz SOCIAL WORKERS MAKE NOMINATIONS Election of Officers to Be/ Held During Business Ses- sion on Tuesday. The clection of officers for the Na- tional Conference of Soclal Work for the ensuing vear is to take place In the business session next Tuesday. | The list of candidates as announced | fast night by Henry W. Thurston of | New York, chairman of the nominat- ing committee of the conference, is as follows: For president: Grace Abbott, direc- tor, federal children's bureau, Wash- ington, D. C.. and William J. Norton, | secretary, Detroit Commu Union; | for first vice president, Lee K.| Frankel. third vice president, Metro- | politan Life Insurance Com New York city, and J. B. Hagerty, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.; for | sccond vice president, Rev. Peter Bryce, sceretary, Social Service Coun- cil, Ontario, Canada, and rirude ile, first secretary, American Asso- ciation for Organizing Family Wel-| tare, Denver, Colo. ¥or third vice president: Kate Burr| Johnson, director, department state | boaurd of charities and public welfare, Naleigh, C.; Jumes Hoge Ricks, Juvenile and domestic relations courts, Richmond, Va. 7 For executive comm l_,d\lh Campbell, director, Schmidlapp Fund. Cineinnati, Ohio; Marcus Fagg. su- perintendent, Florida Children's Home Soctety, Jacksonville, ¥la.; Martha P. Falconer, American Social Hygiene Assoclation, New York ecity; John L. i Gillin, national director, éducational service, American Red Cross, Madison Wis.; Bugene Kinckel Jones, executive secretary, National Urban League, New York city; Emma O. Lundberg, director, social service division, chil- dren’'s bureau, Washington; C. Mac- Lean, secretary, Federation for Com- munity Service, Toronto, Canada; Amella Sears, aseistant general super- intendent, United Charities, Chicago, I11; Luey Ward Stebbins, dean of women, Univergity of California, Be! keley, Calif.; Forrester B. Washing- ton, director. research bureau, Asso- ciofed Charities, Detroit BELGIUN INVITES SOCIAL WORKERS . 1 International Conference Planned in Brussels Next Year. ity I | | i Plans are being formulated to hold the first international conference of | industrial social workers at Brussels, next year, and the 5,000 delegates at the golden jubilee conference now in session here have been invited to at- tend This announcement was made by Dr. | Rene Sand of Belgium, secretary general of the League of Red Cross Socleties. at the first business meet- ing of the national conference, late Friday 3 Homer Folks, president of the con- ference, presided obert W. Kelso of Boston, chai man of & special committee created b the conference to report on recom- mended changes in the by-laws, in- troduced an amendment regarding membership which made it impossible for 4 member to vote through two annual conferences without a second payment of dues, regardless of the | date to which his membership carried him. This is In accord with the pres- ent spirit of the payment of dues and | obviates the difficulty made by the varying dates upon which the annual conference meets. This amendment was carried C. C, Carstens of New York. chair- { man of the kindred groups committee, and Professor J. k. Hagerty of Colum bug, Ohio, chairman of a special com- | mittee on records and reports, wera | not present to report so it was moved to continuo thefr activitles for another year. Dr. Sand gave an interesting resumo of the growth of schoolx for training social “workers throughout Europe since the war, and described the ex- tensfon of social work generally. He proposed un international conference of soclal work which should meet in a different country each vear. He sug- gested that arrangements might -be made through the secretaries of the League of Red Cross Societies, which is to meet in Parls in ten days, and which was to have an American rep- resentative. Col. Ernest P. Bicknell of Washington. ASKS PROTECTION IN FLEEING “KLAN”| 1{ { Hyattsville Man Tells Daugherty and Maryland Governor of Warning. An appeal to Gov. Ritchie of Mary. Jand and the Department of Justi for protection was made esterday by Prof. R ard Paul Otello, music teacher, who charges, that by reason of threats made against him by the Klu Klux Klan of Hyattsville, Md., N was forced to abandon his home and business in that community. Tn “addition to appealing to the local police department Prof. Otello also has put his case in the hands of the Prisoners’ Relief Soolety, of which E. E. Dudding is tho head and Raymond Neudecker is counsel Mr. Neudecker has addressed a lengthy letter to Gov. Ritchie, setting out in detail Prof. Otello's case, in which the Klu Klux Klan is charged with sending him a threatening letter ordering him to leave Hyattsville on penalty of severe punishment for al- Jeged misconduct in the family of a resident of Hyattsville. He asks the governor for protection. A similar letter hus been addressed to Attorney | General Daugherty, asking the De- | partment of Justice to protect him and his business in the Maryland town. I Prof. Otello will, Mr. Dudding sajd last night, remain in Washington until such ‘time s he may feel sure of protection from the Maryland au- thorities and the Department of Jus- tice. Tt was stated last night by Mr. Dudding that Prof. Otello had’ sald that jealousy of a former friend, at whose home Otello had boarded, is| the basis of the Klan threat. CLEMENCEAU REFUSES FRENCH SENATE SEAT PARIS, May 19.—Former Premler Clemenceau hus just refused a senator- ship which would have been his for the asking. Representatives of the differ- ent partles offered to make him their common cholee as successor to the late {1¥ing prohlems { g0 | back and THE Public Garages Ruled by Court | A Necessity in Residentidl D. C. Justice Siddons Dismisses- I Suit—Denies ‘Nuisance’ Is Tnvol in Auto A public garage in a residential neighborhood is not a public nulsance, but rather a present-day necessity, according to the views expressed by Justice Frederick L. Siddons of the Distriet Supreme Court in an opinion dismissing a suit for injunction brought by residents in the vieinity of the Dean tract to prevent Harry A, Blessing from building a garage on 19th street just north of that prop- erty. The people of a growing city, the court suggests, must muke up their minds to accept as one of the penalties of city Mfé the hazard of traflic due to the Increased use of motor-driven vehicl The court also finds that the Dis- trict Commissioners were Jjustified, when computing the number of neces- sary consents of residents in ig- noring the possibility that Vernon street might some day be extended according to the highway plan, so as to cut off the Dean tract from the land adjacent on the north. The high- way extension act. the court declares, was _but a declaration of the policy of Congress and not an exercise of eminent domain and did not take the property included in the proposed streets. The plans of the highway extenslion do no more, says the court, than warn property owners of the future possibility of the extensiou of streats and that a use of their prop- erty not in harmony with that plan may expose them to disappointment and possible 1oss whenever actual ex- tensions of the streets take pi The increasing use -of. the and_avenues of the District,” says Justice Siddons, “by swiftly moving vehicl undoubtedly increases the hazard of traffic. both to pedestrians as well as to motor vehicles, but this is a condition which the people of a growing city must make up thelr minds to accept as one of the pen- tles of life in such a city. The Capital grows' vearly in population and business activities of various kinds. Indced, it would be safe to say that each day sees some addi- tions to the number of vehicles using the streets. venues and highways TRACES INDUSTRIAL TREND T0 WELFARE Editor Stresses Child Labor and Wage Law Decisions as Setbacks. The Supreme Court decision that the federal child labor law is unconstitu- tional, and its recent adverse decision on the District minimum wage law were linked by Paul U. Kellogg of New York, editor of the Survey, in cussing - “the Changing Social ¥rontage on Industry,” with the fact that the American Iron and Steel In- stitute this month will hear the re- port of a committee, headed by Judge Gary hour -day in the steel industry, the fact that one of the great under- before the Inited States Coal Commission is to elimin- ate the broken year in the coal fields 1 have each year. Mr. Kellogg. ddressing & group ting of the National Conference on ml Work. declared these four facts are bound together by “the principle of the industrial minimum.” Waste of Hamanity, ve been trying to close up lh»”.~ b-cellars of American indus- try” he said, “to set a floor level below which life and lubor shall not analogous to our prohibition of cellar dwellings in tenement legisla- tion. We stand for these things in the knowledge that premature labor, night work for women, underpay- ment for women and children, exces- s!ve hours of labor, unemployment are all humanly wasteful. But these are merely negative re- forms. Except for the interruption f the war and the prejudices of judgay they would have been over- come In the rast decade. We must go make sure of them. But we should face forward and square away at the industrial probleins con- fronting « nation which has cleared out its sub-cellars. Here we come to a new range of questions having to do with security, with incentives to- ward production, with democracy in nomic life paralleling our self nment in civic life Growth of ldea. “Democracy did not come over night. politically speaking, either in England or in America. We had our beginnings at Plymouth rock and Massachusetts bay and along the coastal rivers to the south. It made mistakes, threw out fits prophe hung its’ witches and buffeted royal governors “But gr ganized brought ouly worked a fraction of “We h go dually that scheme of or- which our forebears hem spread to the Alleg across the yprairies, weaving a continent-wide fabric of government by consent of the goye erned. England is today carrying the old principles over to industrial life. Industrial democracy will not in turn come over night, either with the mother country or with us. ~ With experiments in'a hundred ways, with faults and shortcomings, the process will g0 on in our effort to strike. a new equilibrum between individual liberty and the common welfare; be- tween state action and self-govern- ment, industry by industry.” ROOSEVELT IS SPEAKER AT FLAG DAY EXERCISES Honors Are Awarded Students at National Cathedral School Assistant _Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt was the speaker at the Natlonal Cathedral School for girls in Cathedral Close vesterday afternoan, Members of the senior class raised the flag and the entire student body swore allegiance to it. The inspira- tion of heroic traditions, which the flag symbolized, was stressed by Col. Roosevelt. Honors to students who had excelled in studies and athletics were awarded. Diplomas will be awarded tomorrow morning at the commencement in Bethlehem chapel. Candidates for the flag yesterd )afternoon were Margaret Faucette, Elizabeth Greenless, Margaret Mc- Gowan, Elizabeth Niles and Bernice Taylor. he winner of the Hyde prize was Mary Nadia Richardson. the color bearers, representing girls with bast record in the maintenance of school standards, were Kathleen Brown and Taeko Miyasaki, daughter of the president of the General Blectric Company of Japan. The following field day prizes were awarded: Basket ball throw, Franoes Morgan, first; Sally Lewls, second; running broad jump, Mary Buckner, first; Cornella Gregory, second; run- ning high jump, Elizabeth Niles, first; Henator Leroux in the “Tiger's” birth- lace, the reglon of La Vendee, where fie stinl retatns a seaside home. Clemen. ceau refused, kaying he was determined not to re-enter parliament and -would not_accept the seat'if he were “elected 1o it R o Elolse Roberts, second; 50-yard dash, Mary Buckner, first; ‘Eloise Roberts, second. Class pennant, clags of 1923; fall tennis touriament, Mary Ar. cher Willlamson: spring tennis tour. nament. Taeko Miyazaki,. Margare! |-Mackal 2 on the abolition of the twelve- ! and | —where over a thirty-year period the, i Storage. of the District, and :\:g'fivjd growth of ‘the use of motor-driven. vehicle! has neccssitatéd e, —erection o garages In which to ovlt thiem, and the bysiness of ' conduc Iél‘ *public garagep .bas notably Increased of. laté In the District of iColumbfa, It i common - kriowledge that the streets and avenues {n‘the immediate vicinit: dof'lho-f':n‘dhguzzn which it is o erect Plon wHee an’ -over-Indronsink Lraffic theréon. ', Conneeticut~ axenue and Colum®iu' ‘road. in this vioinity bear the added traflic of th® stret cars of | the Washington Railway- and Blec- tric. Company, and’ thia avenue and this toad gre rapidly changing froth rosidential’ utreets to business ones. The seme-is true of 18th street. but. a block away, which is ocgupled by | the cars of the Capital Traction Compuny. =~ Nineteenth street has i, steep grad® g0 chas “Conneeticut avenue and_Columbia road .in the vicinity of the lanhd in question, and it cannot be gainsaid that the traffic on these strests has greatly increased and 'that -that traffic. has -consequent- | | 1y _bécome more-jpasardous. b | ““Some of the hasards “of trafiic on 19th’ street. could be mvoided, uuv | | doubt, - if ‘the use ‘as in effoct play grounds’' for- children, as set out inf the bill of complaint,’ was forbidden. | The ‘court is of the opinion that it | is not warranted either by the facts |or by Yaw .in declaring that the es- tablishment and operation of this | garage would create a nuisance, in | the Jegal sense of the word. If the injury to the value of property as residents in the vicinity, apprehended by the plaintiffs, follows the estab- lishment and operation of this garage, it will, In the court's opinion, consti- tute damnuni absque Injuria. ' Life in a growing city is beset with incon- veniences and discomforts, some of them reachin no doubt, proportions that work hardship and even direct loss, but they are conditions that are not easily avolded or overcome, if in- deed they can be at all. Home- owners and occuplers are not infre- quently, in effect, driven from thelir o0ld homes by the changes that inevi- tably attend the growth and develop- ment of an urban population. They | must accept such conditions with as { much equinimity as they can invoke.” \Social Workers W ill Be Guests | At White House| | Registered delegates to the | golden jubilee conference of social workers, humanitarians and phi- lanthropists, wearing name-plate badges, are to be guests of Presi- dent and Mrs. Harding on the south lawns of the White House tomorrow afternoon. There will be a band concert by the Marine Band at 5 o'clock. PREMIER AIRMEN IN SHRINE RANKS -Lieut: Macready and . Kelly, Noted Cross-Country Flyers, Com- ing to Washington. | i As members of the Dayton, Ohio, ! temple of the Mystic Shrine. Lieut 1John A. Macready and Oakley ¢ ! Kelly, America’s ~ premier airmen, whose flight across the continent from coast to coast has been ac- jclaimed the greatest accomplishment in all transportation history, will at- tend the Shrine week festivities in ) Washington. They are due here June 1 and are to recelve a substantial bestowal of the nation’s appreciation of their contribution to aviation dur- ing the week, according to plans of the National! Aeronautic Assoclation Inow in the making. The two flers gave their personal indorsement of the National Aero- nautic Association and its movement to place “America first in the air.” it was annouynced. They had a list of prominent officers and men in aero- nantics, who have signed s charter members of the San Diego chapter nll the nationul association. The others are Licut. Commander Patrick N. L. Bellinger, United States Navy, who( commanded NC-1 in the trans-Atlantic flight: Maj. H. H. Arnold, - assistant director of the Army air service dur- ing the war; H. E. Morin of the San Diego Union, official observer of afr- plane contests for the N. A. A. and others. Macready and Kelly aleo ! head the committee that is working to get the biggest charter member st on record in the city that was the upper-time” terminus of their flight in the T-2 monoplune. LOWDEN ATTACKS U. S. CIVIL SERVICE (Continued from First Page.) TUniversity Law School, chairman of the day's meetings on “Law and Gov- ernment,”. spoke on “Preventive Ju tice and Social Work “Preventive justice,” declared Dean Pound, “is no less a possibility than preventive medicine. Team play be- tween law and social work is neces- sary, and if applied rightly, preven- tive Justice s not far in the future.” The economic organization of so- clety today is 8o delicate, captimued Dean Pound, “that we can’t delj} with circumstances after the event§ We must have legislation and adminis- tration before” He sald the develop- ment of preventive justice in criminal law was .4 great problem. There are the police, but they operate only at the crisls. “We need to reach things very mueh further back,” he added. "There also s & problem in preven- tive justice on the civil side of law, continued Dean Pound. Today there is & struggle to re-establish the legal profession and among the features emphasized {s the personal relation of the lawyer and the client. He said if the working man, who indi- vidually is unable. to employ the services of a lawyer, bands together with his fellow workers and retains an attorney to help each man in tha group, should the occasion arise, “there s an unhappy situation for those individually and the profession, as ethics stand in the way collec- tively.™ Dean Pound dlscuss:d in detail the “possibilities” of preventive justice, which he numbered ‘punishment, redress and prevention. Law Turas to Redress. P‘lndlnf punishment futile as a for vindicating rights, continued Dean Pound, the law turns to redress, spe- cifically by placing the matter “exactly right where it eould be by rewarding mone; lor property , etc., but, ded, {ha law cannof he repossess a man of a reputation dispossesed. The law alse finds it extremely difficult to vunll:xo a broken leg or Tepu- lon, The third method of prevention, equl. ty, said Dean Pound, mflonot in- Junction which protects Tty threat- ened lnill? but that done very lit: Equity will advi Dean Pound added, we den't know the - monning of & contract until we broak it. SUNDAY s Speakers at Conference in quea- |- MRS, JOUN M. GLENN 2 __Of New York city. Social ‘Conference Program . Includes Many TONIGHT, POLI'S THEATER. Presiding: Hopmer Folks, president of the conferance. “The Opportunity and Task of the Chugch in View.of the Facts and th Experience Which Social Work Now Presents. Abbe Jean Viollet, editor, L' Assist- ance Educative and founder 1'Habi- tation Famillale, Parls, France. Dr. Shailer Mathews, dean of the divinity school, University of Chica- go, Chicago, Iil. MEETINGS OF KINDRED GROUPS. THIS AFTERNOON. American Birth Control League— 4:20, hall of nations, Washington Hotel. Intercollegiate Community Service Assoclation—Meeting 8-1, Rock Creek Park Local Y. W. C. A.—Tea to confer- ence delegates, 4:30-6, 1333 F street northwest. Girls' Friendly Soctety tea to con- ference delegates, 4:30-8, Elizabeth Roberts memorial rest rooms, 1624 H street northwest. TOMORROW. SNERAL THEME, “THE HOUS Porter R. Lee of New York, chair- man. MORNING GROUP MEETINGS, 9-10:50. GROUP MEETING York Avenue GE 1 New Presbyterian Church. Topic: “Soclal Attitudes Condi tioning Immigrant Maladjustments.’ Presiding: ~Porter R. Lee, chair- man_committee on the home, “The Problem of Home Building for the Immigrant Family,” Miss Ethel Bird, department for work with forelgh born women, National Board of Young Women's Christian Assoclations, Chicago, 111 “The Invisible Environment of the Immigrant,” Miss Mary E. Hurlbutt, director of the migration service bu- reau, department for work with for- elgn-born women, National Bourd of Young Women's Christian Associa- tions, New York. Group Meeting 11 MT. VERNON M. E. CHURCH OUTH Topic: “Industry and the Home." berresding: Miss Emma O. Lund- . berg, children's bureau, Depart becgcnl partment “Home Life 7 ] in Tsolated Tndustrial Centers, Miss Viola 1 lflrndv:- formerly with children's bureau, Department of Labor. i “Married Women in Miss Mary N. Winslow, bureau, Department of I. Industry,” women's sabor. Group Meeting 177 T CONGR] TIONAL CHURCH Topic “The Co-operation of Socia! MWorkers with Public Offciai in the inforcement of Laws Which Affec the Welfare of the Family." 1 C' Presid Miss Francis member of the Industrial State department of labor, York From the point of iew of th h:l(’l“‘ worker In the private agenc = ;fl::,l‘ll‘( J\"nll;un(l, general secretary, ily elfare Assoclation of Min- neapolis, Minn o From the point of view t public officlal, Miss Tracy vo,.h: federal board for vocutionul educa: FIR Perkins, board. New of Group Meeting IV. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH “Progress in Social Case de Topic Work."” Presiding: Karl Schweinitz, :E:’Or‘l| '.\g«:remnn Philadeiphia Soclety for Organizing Charity Philadelphia, Pa. gEs “The Development of its Stand- lflrdx. Methods and Meaning,” Mlgs Gordon Hamilton, Charity Organi- zatlon Society, New York. “Progress in Social Case Work.” @ In Mental Hygiene, Dr. Jesse Taft, director department of child study, Philadelphia, Pa. b. In Child’ Welfure, Miss Anna C. Has- kins, State Charities Aid Assocta- tion, New York. .c. ~ Among the American Indians, ‘Miss ‘Henrtetta J. Lund, children’s code commis- sion, Bismarck, S. D. “Social Case’ Work as it is De- Yeloping in Europe,” Dr. Alice Salmon, director, Berlin Training School 'for Social Workers, Berlin Germany. B Group Meeting Vv NEW YORK AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Topic: “The Human S| i D man Side of Presiding: John J, Murphy, secre- tary tenement house committee, Charity Organtzation Soclety, New ork. _ *“The Human Side of Bad Hous- ing,.’ glewkatrflr uellr executive secretary, er housin Cincinnati, Ohfo. £ longan; “Must Working People Live in Frayedout Houses?' Mrs. Edith Elmer Wood, Cape May Court House, N. J. jocial Aspects of ning and Housing,” Thomas Adams, advisory planning group. plan of New York and its Environs, spon- sored by the Russel Sage Founda- tion, New York. Fete and band concert on White House lawn at 5 p.m. EVENING GENERAL SESSION, s P CONTINENTAL HALL, Presiding: Homer Folks, presi- dent of the conference. “Changes in Social Thought and Standards Which Affect the Family,” Porter R. Lee, direcdpr New York School ot Social Work, New York. “So- cial Work As It Contributes to the Strengthening of Family Life,” Karl de Schweinitz, general wecretary, Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Philadelphia. “'Soclal gus ‘Within ~ the Home,” Mrs. Ethel Puffer Howes, Soarsdale, N, Y. MEETINGS OF KINDRED GROUPS. LUNCHEONS. ‘AAmerican Association of Haspi- tal Soclal Workers, Rauscher’s, 1:30. Mothers' pensions committee, New Ebbitt, 1:15. 5 AFTERNOON MEETINGS. = ° ‘Amerioan Assoclation of Social Service Exchanges—2:30 mecting. Corcoran Art Gallery. ’ American Association for Com- munity Organization—2:30 meet- ing. Auditorium of the Interlor 1ding. . “A- jo&n Awsociation of Soclal- egional Plan- TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 20, .| are obsérving ABBE JEAN VIOLLGT .- Of Franee, ’ Gatherings Vorkers—3, annual meeting. Hall | Nations. Hotel Washington. American Red Cross reception to N. C. 8. W. delezates—4, na- tional headquarters, American Red Cross. H utional Association of Visiting Teachers—2, meeting. Sun room. Hotel Washington. National conference of =ocial work—3, South Grounis of White House, open to N. C. 8. W. dele- gates. Women's International League of Peaca and Freedom—2:30, peace meeting. Church of Our Father, 17th and 1. streets northwes: _ Conference on immigration pol- icy—3, meeting with national re- search council committee, 1701 Massachusstts avenue DINNERS American Assoclation for Or- ganizing Family Social Work—s, the Ralelgh, general sccretaries’ nner. Committee on publicity methods in soclal work. o'clock, “The Follles,” New Willard ball- room—following evening sesséon. o CONFERENCE NOTES Mrs. Henry Ford of Detrolt is at- tending the fiftieth anniversary {meeting of the National Conference | |of Social Work. The report was jconfirmed by William Hammond | | Parker. secretary of the conferenc | “Mrs. A. Henry of Detrolt, Mich registered at the New Willard Hotel | fon Tuesday and has been attending meetings of the National Conference and of the Big Brothers and Big Sis, ters organizations. It was said at the Willard that “Mrs. Henry” had checked out. Mrs. Henry” s said to terested in crippled children | _Mrs. Ford is interested in Big | Brother work and is reported to be helping 500 boys. ! i With four days vet ‘to go. the reg- | {istration at the fiftieth anniversary seseion has now broken all records) for attendance. A total of 5,473 per- | sons have registered—and still they come. To date cvery state in the Union is repregented with the excep- tlon of Wyoming and New Mexico, | |and delegates are expected to arrive { from there before the end of the| session. Two delegates have registered fron {the Philippine Islands. Porto Rieo! also represented. B i i | | be in- A members Cuba. but no delegate has yet ar- rived from there, nor from Alaska ear’ The total registration at last was | in nnual conference in Frovidence 3.408. Mre John Campbell Forrester has opened her hou at 1700 Rhode Island wvenue for a reunion supper of all kocial workers who were in France | during and after the world war, to- morrow evening, May 21, at 6 o'clock, | Even the overflow meetings are overflowing. Crowds at the general segsions have so taxed the capacity of the halls that arrangements were made to hold overflow meetings in connection with each sewsion. The | overflow meeting from last night's | general session in Continental | Memorial Hall was held in the Red Cross building and the Red Cross auditorium was soon filled to over- fowing. Among the preachers listed for | ! services in Washington churches to- day are the following representa- tives of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America: Dr. Worth M. Tippy, Dr. John M. Moore, Dr. Howard R. Gold, Rev. Carl Bar- nett, Rev. F. Krnest Johnson, Dr. Arthur C. Holt. Two Canadlun clergymen are also among the preachers: Canon , W. Vernon and Dr. J. Shearer. The special outline for Sunday &chool services preparcd by the com- mittee on the churches will be used by conference delegates at several of the Sunday schools in Washington churches today i The round table of the American Assoclation of Hospital Social Work- ers to be held Tuesday at 2 at the Natlonal Catholic Service School, will be on “Records” and not for the neuro-psychfatric group as prev- iously announced. Delegates who were discouraged from registering by the crush of the are urged to register im- mediately in order that the record of the fiftieth anniversary conference may be complete. Another reason for registering is that only registered delegates ~ wearing official badges (name_plates) will be admitted to the south grounds of the White House tomorrow afternoon. Colorado, seeking the 1924 confer- ence for Denver, has sent a delcgation of twenty-nine. JTowa has sent twenty-one delegates to take 'back to Des Moines the promise of the nex meeting. Canada has a delegation ui :"‘2'4“,?' all “rooting” for “Toronto in The Ohio breakfast for past, pres- ent and future Buckeyes will Be held on Tuesday at 8 am. at the Hotel ! t. The ,American Prison Association committee on delinquency and com- munity agencles, which ‘was sched- uled to meet at Mrs. Van Winkle's home tomorrow, has postponed its meellnT until Tuesday at 4 p.m. Mrs, Van Winkle has invited the commit- tee to remain for supper. The National Association of Visit- ing Teachers, one of the last of the kindred groups to convene, will hold its annual meeting tomorrow and Tuesday. Sara M. Holbrook of the University of Vermont is president. Headquarters are at the Hotel Wash. ington. More than thirty organizations, committees and groups of allied in. terests have held meetings in Wash- ington coineident or in connection with the conference. X ‘The. National Popular Government League invites members of the con- ference to a luncheon-forum on Thursday at 12:30 3y in the crystal room of the New Ebbitt Hotel. Dr. A. R. Hatton of Cleveland, charter consultant of the National Municipal League, will speak on “The New City Government.” ‘The committee on publicity methods, W | old, this is her third conference. jwas at the me 1923—PART 1. “Church Day” Services Attract | Interest of 5,000 Social Workers SPEAKER SEES Aot Approximately 5,000 persons from 46 states in the Union and from more than a score of countries, assembled here for the golden jubilee of the National Conferenco of Soclal Work hurch day” today with special programs in many churches, theaters, clubs, hotels and educational institutions. The principal meeting of the con- fere o is tonight at § o’clock in Poli's where the speakers will be Dr. Alice Salomon of Berlin, Germany, Abbe Jean Viollet of Paris and Dr. Shailer | ua}haw; of Chicago. Scores of cenference officers and speakers will deliver addresses in the churches of the different denomina tion, In Washington this morning. Dr. Salomon is head of the Berlin School of Social Work. She has held | a “'wide experience In promoting | remedial legislation relating to social | workers, and was instrumental in se- curing recognition from the German | Ministry of ' Soclal Welfare of the | need for professional training of 'its | employes. She has mwritten a text book ‘on training of social workers | and has been a contributor to Ameri- | can magazines. Has War Record. ol Abbo Viollet was an army chaplain | during the war and was wounded in !j-r\'lcu. He is the founder of the Family Dwellings Association of | Parls ‘and the moving spirit in the Workingmen's Family Welfare Asso- clation, ~ established In 1900, which | maintains many mutual welfare ac vities. Editor of L’Assistance Edu- cative. a magazine similar to The urve: Rev. Shaifler Mathews, D. D.. has been an educator and writer for more than thirty-six vears. Six_colleges him degrees. He joined have given the staff of the University of Chica een [ g0 in 1894 and since 1908 he has b dean of the Divinjty School. Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers of | SOCIAL WORKERS WITH ANNUAL THEATER FROLIC An unusual feature of the National Conference of Social Work now meet- ing in Washington will be a perform- ance of “Conference Follies” tomor- row evening at Polf'a Theater, at 10:30 p.m. This will be a “Tired Social Workers' Revue” produced un- der the direction of George R. Bed- inger of the Public Charities Associa- tion of Pennsylvania. The Follies will consist of five di tinct acts, as follow, & _“The Health Fairy,” direct from the | New York Monday Club, by arrange- ment of Jessumine Whitney in which a prominent part will be taken by Philip P. Jacobs of the National Tu- berculosis Association. The Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra, made up.of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Croxton of C | bus. Ohio, with twenty Buckey | will be followed by the “Workhouse | Ward,” the well known one-act play by Lady Gregory, produced by Robert | Kelso, former president of the | conference; Horbert C. Parsons, com- | missloner of probation of Massachu- setts and Fannie E. Barnes of the Boston Children’s Friend Soclety. H A group of St. Louis social workers, | led by Elwood Street of the t. Louis ' NEW “YOUNGEST AT CONFERENCE AGED TWO Ni social workery as Louise Putnam * (knewn to “Pete). who laid | claim to being the youngest u\embcri of the National Conference of Social | Work, lost her distinction yesterday. | when Ruth Mary Wolff, aged two | vears and two months, of Pittsburgh. | Pa, was registered by her parents, | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Wolff. and took out a regular membership of the conference in.her own name. Though she is.not.yet three years She ngs in Milwaukee, | which tried its wings in Providence has definitely found itself in Wash- ington and will continue as a member | of the conference family of kindred groups. A committee has been named to chcose members of the group tol arrange the 1824 program. T. J. Ed- monds of Des Moines is chairman of the nominating committee, which will report at a_business session in_con- nection the day at 2:30 p.m ‘The publicity group will have a din- ner tomorrow night to discuss “House Organs.” J. Byron Deacon of the New York Tuberculosis Association. will preside. and George J. Hecht of Bet- ter Times will speak program for Tues- The complimentary dinner of the ex presidents of the conference to Pres- ident and Mrs. Folks will be given at the Cosmos Club today at & pan A resolution addressed to the die vision on industry, passed at an in- formal group meeting, asks that al the program for 1324 be given to the subject “Training and Placement of the Physically Handi- capped.” Those interested igning it should see Miss G. L. Fletcher, Bos- ton Bureau for the Placement of Handicapped Women, tomorrow be- tween 1 and 2 p.m. at information desk, 1414 F street. FOR LEGION SILENCE ON TRAINING CAMPS Owsley Thinks Expression Should Await Assurance of Equality as in Battle. . INDIANAPOLIS, May 19.—In open- ing the sersion of the national exe- cutive committes of the Americand Legion today, National Commander Alvin Owsley, declared it was his opinion that 'the legion should re- “frain from any but a formal endorse- ment of the governments.military training camp project until given as- surance that equality would be e falished off the battle field as well as on, His statement referred to thel recent defeat of the Bursum bill for the relief of disabled emergency officers. ¥ Owsley said in speaking of the im- migration situation that a survey of unemployed showed more than 300.- 000 men out of work this year. He for limiting all immigration over a for limiting all imigration over a fixed period of years. OFFER PRIZE FOR ESSAY ON MISSIONARY WORK Catholic Society to Give $100 for Study of Labor Among Colored. A prize of $100 is offered by they American Cathollc Historical Society for the best historical essay on the subject of Cathollc missionary work among ‘the colored people of the United States (1776 to 1866), it was anpounced yesterday. The, prize money has been donated by _Archbishop Messmer of Milwaukee. Everybody is-eligible. The condi- tions includs ‘a word 1imit of 4,000 minimum_end .8,000 maximum. Theé: gueays” eritered for the prize must secretary of fean 3 l%z?’l(l%orletl Soeiaty, 715 Sprac eet, Phija: 1a; Dot, later -tH# DEtember T, 1938.. From this- addredd addition: Ilm_llonl may be obtained, | mont | Bethany Baptist, | with accidental m | dent and ex-secretary of the confer- tho | & the Unitarian Chureh, Cambridge, Mass., and preacher to Harvard Uni- versity, will speak in the Keith Theater at 11 o'clock this morning. At 1 o'clock four luncheon cenfer- ences will be held. One will be at the Men's City Club, with Dr. William J. Kerby of the Catholic University presiding: another at Hotel Wash- ington, Frank J. Bruno, general sec- retary of the Family Welfare Asso- cfation, Minneapolis, presiding; the third at the Women's City Club, Rev. Gaylord 8. White, secretary Unfon Settlement, New York, presid- ing, and the fourth at Hotel Raleigh, Edmund de §. Brunner of New York presiding. Washington churches of various creeds and denominations have ex- tended an Invitation to delegates to attend their services. Among the churches 'in which conference dele- gates will deliver sermons and ad- dresses are: First Congregational, Dr. Graham Taylor; Flrst Baptist, Dr. John N. Moore; Ascension, Dr. Hugh Birck- head; ' Luther Place Memorial, Dr. Howard R. Gold; Foundry Methodist, Dr. Worth M. Tippy; Metropolitan Methodist, Dr. Hastings Hart; Uni- tarfan, Dr. Crothers; Church of the Covenant, Dr. Charles Stelzle; Ver- Avenue Disciples, Rev. Carl Barnett; Mount Vernon Place M. E. South, Rev. Ross Sanderson; New York Averiue Presbyterian, Dr. F. Er- nest Johnson; Ninth Street Disciples. Rev. E. D. Solenberger; St. Andrew’s Episcopal, Dean Charles N. Lathrop F. H. McLean; In- Memorial 'Congregational, Dr. Johnson; Rhode Island thodist Protestant, Dr. J. Eastern Presbyterian, Dr. J. G. Shearer; Washington Heights Preshyterian, Mr. Robert Kelso; Cleveland Park Congrega- tional, Mr. Allan T Burns: All Souly Episcopul. Canon Vernon: St. Pat- rick’s, Mgr. Thomas; Church of the Advent, Rev. Charles R. Gilbert; Co- lumbia Heights Disciples’ Church, Dr. Arthur . Holt TO END SESSION gram Alexander Avenue M R. Brackett; will give a “Community Cauncil of Social Agent: burlesque entitled Chest-nuts.” “Social Workers, Scrub Team” will as Seen by the be a sing-song sic by Clara Tous- ley of the Charity Organization So- let of New York city and Alice andish Buell of the New Yori State Consumers’ League. Mildred Graham of Loulsville will be chief usher, assisted by a dozen socialized flappers. Music will be conducted by Ray H. Everett, Ameri- can Soclal Hyglene Assocfation and Robert K. Atkinson, Russell Sage Foundation. David J. Terry, Chil- dren’s Service Bureau. Pittsburgh, is stage manager and Mrs. Kaemmerer of the District of Columbia Tuber- culosis Assoclation is in charge of properties. The National Committee of Repra- sentative Social Workers, which fs re- ponsible for this production of “Con- ference Follies” for 1923, is as fol- lows: George R. Bedinger, Philadel- phia, chairman; Clare M. Tousley, Xev' York, secretary; Robert W. Kel- . Boston; Louise McGuire, Chicago: W. J. Norton, Detroft; ‘Evart Grant Routzahn, New York; Edward Streét St. Louis; Jessamine Whitnoy, New York. MEMBER” ‘Wis,'and Providence, R. I. When she attended the session in Milwaukee she was only four months old, she wore a badge Ruth Mury's father is diretcor of the Jewish ~ Big Brothers' Club of Pittsburgh. In 1915 and 1916 her mother w pupil at the Chicago School of Civics of Alexarder John- son of Fort Wayne. Ind., ex-presi- ence—better knowun s “Uncle Ale Tnecle Alec. who admits being seventy six vears old, s the oldest member of the conference in attendance at the fiftieth anniversary meetin 19SUE OF YEAR BOOK SETS NEW RECORD Department of Agriculture but | MAIN DEATH CAUSE Dr. Brown Tells Social Work- ers There Should Be Few Other Reasons. “Old age should be the principal cause of death—everybody should b like the famous ‘one hoss shay which, after a century of life, went to pieces all at once,” said Dr. Waltoy: H. Brown of Mansfield, Ohlo, in‘an ad- dress yesterday before: a group meeting of the' National Conferenco of Socfal Werk, in the hall ©f nations, Hotel Washington. The toplo “Development of Public Health Protectfon and Promotion' also was discussed by Dr. Frank Goodnow, president, Johns Hopki Uniyversity, Baltimore, and Dr. Eugen R. Kelley, Massachusetts state cor missioner of publfc health, Death Usually Premature. “Death as a rule, comes premature 1y, sald Dr. Brown. . “Defects and disease cause the machine to br down before it wears ouR mystery has challenged the attentio of man in all ages, and out of it hav. grown all of our modern hea movements, In the past, they hu been largely negative battles to cape disease. FFortunately we are entering a phase. Our health ideals promise exceed that of any other age. T will not stop at mere negative disease, degeneracy, delinquen depcndency. They will be Do and progressive. They will not at the avoidance of invalidism. & will aim at exuberant and exuits health w Promotion of Health. Dr. Kelley, speaking on the devel ment of public administration in thc protection and promotion of public health, said “Those who are today engaged i public health work as a life career are calling as loudly as they can to all their fellows, pointing out the possibilities that lie in the sane de- velopment of all these things, epi- demiology, infant hygiene, mental ygiene, metabolism, industrial hy- giene, nitary engineering, the whole stupendous list of modern &j clalities which have demons that they have a definite contribu to offer to this great course of heaith conservation, They are pointing to these truths on every hand and ca ing to their fellow citizens every- where. This is not simply our jc it is also yours. Come and help, for only by every one doing his b each one putting his shoulder will 1y to the wheel, can the old specters of avoidable deaths, preventable i Ness, UNNECESSAry i and needless misery that have dogged man's foot steps from the infancy of the race b successfully controlied and dimin- ished and finally overcome.” MISS, RICHMOND GUEST OF WELFARE WORKERS Mrs. Harding Sends Flowers in Honor of Charity Director of Russell Sage Work. { The family welfare workers of the Associated Charities were hosts yesterday afternoon to Miss Mary B Richmond, director of the charits organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Miss Rich- ond is & conspicuous figure among 1o%e now in atgendance on the na tional confarence of ocial work Mrs. Harding sent flowers from the White House conservatories. Mre Archibald Hopkins. wife of the tchiarman of the bourd of manag. of the Assoclated Charitles, served tea to the guests. who included friends of Miss Richmond as well readers of her books and forme | students of her institutes Opportunity wus afforded |itors to inspect the new soc ice house of the Associated |ities "ana Tuberculosis Aes: 1022 11th street northwe: was held ADDRESSES TO GROUPS." Social Workers Hear Discussions of 1 cla i i | Governmental Topics. { _Two juvenile experts, Charles Hoffman, Judge of the Juvenile Co: of Cincinnati nd Frederick P. e t Judge of the Juvenile Coyrt of Bos !lhn poke on the subject “How Far Should Juvenile and Domestic Rela e o e Socia1 Work CAdministr ARG meeting of t ational Conferenc of Social Work, yesterday in !‘f American Red Cross Assembly H; W Report Would Make Stack Twelve Miles High. Enough copies of the twenty-ninth annual year book of the Department of Agriculture have been printed by the government printing office to make a4 pile 121 times as tall as the Washington Monument, than twelve miles high. or more The 1922 vear book is not only the | lurgest cver issued by the depart- ment, but it was printed in time. The first copy was sent to tho printing office March 7, and the first deliveries made May 7, more than a month ahead of schedule. Recause of the size bf the job it vas necessary to complete It in two istallments™ of 200,000 copies each The plates of lead type were used to cast copper plates, which were plated with nickel, in order to stand | up under the great number of i pressions necessary. Marks Departure. The 1932 year book §s the second of a series Which mark a departure from the previous vear hooks in_the kind of material presented Last year's report represented an effort ta present in a somewhat detailed way the economic situation with re- spect to four of the principal agri- cultural products—wheat, corn, beef, and cotton The story is continued in the 1922 year brak, which treats of five more of the remaining major subjects— timber; hog production and market- ing; dairying; tobacco culture; oa bariey, rve, grain sorghums, seed flax and buckwheat. Other products will be taken up in succeeding issues, £o that in the course of a few years a fairly complete picture of the whole agricultural economic situation may be presented. Approximately 30,000 reams of paper were required for. the body of the book. At forty peunds per ream, the total wouldgbe 1,200,000 pounds, or more than forty carioads of paper. For the binding of the boolk, 68,000 sheets of binder board, weighing 170.000 pounds and equal to four and one-half carloads, were required, &s well as 50,000 yards of book cloth, welghing. 20,000 pounds, and 675 spools of thread. British Women on Railroads. From the Kansas City Star. Nearly 30,000 women are employed by the rallways of the United King- dom. Of this total the majority, of course, are employed in clerical work. A considerable number, howéver, are engaged in work not usually done by Wwomen. Nearly a hundred are em- ployed as laborers and a thousand more are classed as “mechanics and rtisans,” There are woman signal- mey, statfénmasters, foremen, police- men, engine el ers, ollers and groasers, and at who is en- gaged the dungerous and arduous work of a switchman. record ! The meeting was a joint session w [the National Probation Associatio { Herbert C. Parsons, Commissioner o Probation for Massachusette, presid ied. 1 At about | Movement the same hour, Th Toward Government | ! Boards and Commissions.” was d | cussed at another group meeting o {the conference in the New Willar ‘.Hvlfl The speakers wer Freder {P. Lee. draftsman. United States = { ate. Legislation Drafting Service. “Development in Law” und Kennet 1. M. Pr director, Pennsylvan {School of Social Work and Hea Philadelphia, on “The Growtl in Social Service.” Robert W. Kelso vice chairman of the committee ¢ law and government presided. {PARIS DIVORCE RATIO | NEARLY ONE IN SEVEN { Work, {5,237 Gain Freedom in Year, 38,659 Marry—Marriage Hard Task in France PARIS, May 19.—Paris last had the largest percentage of divorces to the number. of marriages of any city in France, Statistics show that during 1922 there were 5,237 decrees of divorce granted for 38,659 mar- riages celebrated. In Versailles the proportion was one to eleven: in Rambouillet. one to twelve; in Lyons. one to thirte in Marseilles and Bordeaux, one fourteen. Court officialy say that the number {of .divorces in Taris to foreigner many of them Americans, who not contract marriage in Paris. greatly helped in bringing up average. France is one of the most diflic countries in the world in which marry. A Frenchman desirous of ¢ tering the marrfage state must sub mit more documents than a to stranger needs in cashing a check at a bank—birth certificate, police record and military discharge. Furthermore. unless he has reached the age of thirty, the applicant must also present the written consent of hig parents. NECK BROKEN IN DIVE. NORFOLK, May 19.—M. JI. Brown twenty-one years old, apprentice sea man, attached to the Naval Base herc dled late this afternoon as a result of dislocation of the neck, sustaincd while diving in shallow water of Ocean View. ‘WALES BETROTHAL DENIED he Asseinted "éinfil?rfi‘f wdea. May lt—uv?; Biythswood deelared today that the: was no truth whatever in the report that her daughter was engaged (v the Prince of Walea { | to has the