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SOAL DELEEATE it ATWHTEHOLSE Entertained by President and Mrs. Harding—Marine Band Plays. ] “HOME” TOPIC FOR DAY Several Speakers to Take Up Vari- ous Phases at Memorial Continental Hall. More than 5,000 registered delegates to the National Conference of Social Work, including some of the most| noted philanthropists, humanitarians and educators in the world, are today enjoving the hospitality of President Harding and the “first lady of the 1and” on the south lawns of the White House. The Marine Band is furnish- | ing a concert. Practically every na- tion in the world represented at this gathering. This fete at the home of the Presi- dent typifies the topic for all-day dis- cussion at more than a score of meet- ings—"The Home." Various phases of this subject and its relation to social work were explained and argued from numerous angles. Many Speakers Listed. The principal gathering is at Me- morial Continental Hall this even- | ing, with Homer Folks, president of | the national conference, presiding. | “Changes in Social Thought and Standards Which Affect the Family will be discussed by Porter R. Lee, ! director of the New York School for | Social Work. Karl de Schwelinitz, | zeneral secretary of the Philadelphia | Society for Organizing Charity, will peak tonight on “Social Work as It Contributes to the Strengthening of Family Life” Mrs. Ethel Pufter Howes of Scarsdale, N. Y. has the | subject “Social Prosress Within the Home.” “Social attitudes conditioning immi- { grant maladjustments effects of in- dustry on the home, co-operation of social workers with public officials in | the enforcement of laws affecting the | family welfare, progress in social | case ‘work and the human side of ! housing were subjects coming before | the several group meetings through- | out the day 1 Ratio Must Change. | Speaking on the “Human Side of Bad | Housing,” Bleecker Marquette of Cin- | cinnati, executive secretary of the Bet- ter Housing League, declared rents and | building costs must come down or wages must go up if the housing problem is 0 be solved. “Every family in the low ‘income : group that has to pay more than one | week's wage for one month's rent,” he | said, “is a prospective victim of social | breakdown and a candidate for relief.” | s. Edith Elmer Wood of Cape | Court House, N. J., addressing the | same ~group, declared the United States government was the “only | clvilized government in the world which does nothing practical to fa- clliate home-ownership.” She advo- cated long-term loans from postal | savings deposits to enable working | men to build homes. 1,060,858 Child Workers. Miss Viola 1. Pararise, formerly connected with the children's bureau, addressing the group meeting on in- dustry and the home, cited census figures showing 1,030,838 child work- ers in the United States, and de- clared the nation was “blind hearted” with respect to the question. Framk J. Bruno. general secretary of the Family Welfare Association of Minneapolis,” Minn., explained that social case workers organize to create, amend snd strengthen laws, #nd express vheir judgment on tha choice uf enfcreing offcials f their experience with gal equipment and adminitration, and because they see, better probably | than any one eclse, the legal failures in terms of numan suffering, injus- tice, and tragedy.” SCHOOL AND HOME VISITORS GATHER Variety of Topics Listed in Program in Conjunction With Social Work. | { | | The National Association of Visit- ing Teachers and Home and School Visitors began their program in con- junetion with the National Confer- ence of Social Work today with a business meeting in the Y. W. C. A. building and a discussion in the sun parlor of the Washington Hotel this afternoon, with Miss Margaretta Tay- lor of the department of ungraded classes, New York city, presiding. The subjects and the speakers this afternoon are: “A Note on Some of the Extra-Curriculum Problems of the Classroom,” Dr. Bernard Glueck, director, children’s guidance bureau, New York city. “What Might Have Been Done for Harry? In the City"— Jessie L. Louderback, New York city. “In the Town"-—Pauline Fairchild, Hutchinson, Kans. “In the Country”— Elizabeth Alling, Huron county, Ohfo. Group Meeting Tomorrow. One of the group meetings of the national conference tomorrow morn- ing has been turned over to the Visit- ing, Teachers' Association. The topics and speakers are: “The Visiting | Teacher in the Schools or Soci ‘Work as Applied in the Schools.” Pre- siding, Jane F, Culbert, secretary national committée on Visiting Teach- ers, New York city. “The History and Present Status of the Visiting Teach- er Movement,” Howard W. Nudd, di- rector Public Education Association, New York city. “Courses of Training for Visiting Teachers,” Anna B. Pratt, director White-Williams Foundation, Philadeiphia. “The Technique of the Visiting Teacher,” Emma G. Case, di- rector visiting teacher department, department_"of public instruction, Rochester, N. Y. “Relation of Secial Case Work to School Program James' Fitzgerald, executive secre- tary, Soolety of 8t. Vincent de Paul, Detroit, Mich. The 'program for the 1 o'clock general session tomorrow is: Topic: “Future . Trends in the Development | of Social Programs Through the Schoola” Presiding: J. Prentice Murphy, vice chairman, committee on schools, child welfare bureau, Phila- delphia. “The School as a Means of | Developing a Social Consciousness and Social Ideals in_ Children,” Dr. John _Dewey, Columbia University, New York. “Provision by the Schooi of More Adequate Means of Solving the Individual Problems of Children,” Supt. H. S. Weet, Rochester, N. Y. “The Future Responsibility of the School Toward Children Under Five Years, Both Directly and Through Training for Parenthood,” Helen - T. Wooley, Merrill-Palmer Schaol, Détroit, Mich. .. - " Other Features. 1:00,- luncheon, national headquar- ters of the American Association of University Women, 1634 I street| northwest. Chairman, Mrs. Joseph R. Swan, New York city. Brief reports from the fleld. 3:00, meeting, national headquar- ters.of the American Association of University Women. Chairman, Anne Davis, director Bon Case | | earn Addresses Social Work Conference ALICE SALOMON of Germany. 465,000 MARRIE WOMEN IN TRADES Speaker Cites Number Manufacturies, Discusing Industrial Problems. The fact that 466,000 married wom- en in 1920 were emploved in manu- facturing and mechanical industries alone shows that when “we discuss married women in industry, we are tackling a subject which is protound- ly important to both the soclal and the industrial organization of the coyntry,” declared Miss Mary N. Win- slow of the women's bureau, Depart- ment of Labor, in an address before a group meeting of the National Con- ference of Social Work in the Mount Vernon M. E, Church today. With two million married women working for money and with no ade- quate body of facts on which to base policies regarding the employment of such women, social workers also are confronted with a problem demanding mmediate analysis, added Miss Win- slow. Miss Viola 1. Paradise. formerly with the Children's Burcau heve, was the other speaker at the group meet- ing. Mies Emma O. Lundberg of the bureau presided. Spenks of the “Galnfully Employed During the past ten vears, sald Miss Winslow, the number of gain- fully emvloved marrfed women has increased at = far greater rate than the number of all women gainfully employed. Continulng, Miss Wins- low said: “We have many expressions of prejudices or of convictions that married women should or should not work in industry. We have the ardent feminist who thinks that all women should work for wages, that the married woman is a slave if she cannot go out into industry and be a_wage earrer as her husband i We have others just as strongly op- poged to the idea of a married woman leaving her home and chil- dren to lock out for themselves while shs goes out to work. “We have not yet adequate facts on which to base policies regarding the employment of such women. “We know that married women when ‘they do earn. often make only a small wage, which amounts as 'a rule to less than one-third of the total fam- ily income. We know that most mar- ried women use every cent that they to help out with family ex We know that the ver large majority of married women in industry ~ have to do housework, cooking and washing, in_addition to their work in industry. But we have no adequate figures to show the re- sult of the employment of married women, to show the effect on in- fant mortality, on childre health and education, on family standards. “We need to apply real case work methods to the “solution of thos questions. Combining the results of pense. such case work with the general | basic data which government hodies lMke the bureau of the census and the woman's bureau and chillren's bureau of the Department of Labor are constantly assembling, we may eventually be able to lift the ques- tion above the prejudices and old wives' tales which now: surround it, 2nd to see that a constructive policy is outlined for the treatment of this large and vitally important group of women.” “Industry and the Home.” Miss Paradise in her address under the general topic, “Industry and the Home,"” deplored the fact that “after fifty yvears of social work all our labors and statistics have not as yet secured for us even so obvious and elementary a protection as a federal child labor law. “The_census shows that there are 1,060,858 child laborers in the United States, but, unfortunately, quoting & figure seems to satisfy the nation, for we do_nothing about it continued Miss Paradise. “To show in detail what lies behind a millionth part of that figure would require nearly a vhole nove: t takes something hair-raising, shudderful, to stir our sluggishn What is more terrible than the slow, grinding torture of poverty, the crushing of the spirit of childhood by child labor, of which the figure 1,060,858 is the coefficient? But that is just a statistic No one says: ‘Why. look here, what about this national superstition that the home and the family are sacred in America? “Students wrestle with statistics, soclal workers with their patches of poverty, supreme courts with tech- nicaliti Our great American wealth flows swiftly along, by the millions of dollars. But the nation is blind hearted. Who is trying to tap our great wealth of energy? Whose fullness has given us feats of engi- neering, and created so much of what America is proud—commerce and luxuries and ?\Ig standards of living for the few? ' Who is trying to tap enough of this energy to do some- thing about the low standards of liv- ing and hunger and dearth and squalor and emptiness which stalk. a dark, ever present shadow to what we imagine 1s our wealth? Must the task be left to the colossal patience of the social werker, willing to keep lon laboring, moving millimeter by| millimeter toward an uncertain mil: lennium, out somewhere beyond the horizon?” — Bureau of Vocational Guidance, Chi- cago, Tl Topic, Teacher as School System. “The Superintendent and the Visit- ing Teacher,” J. J. Oppenheimer, Ste- vens Junior College, Columbla, Mo. “The Principal and the Visiting Teacher,” Newton W. Hegel, direc- tor Bureau of Attendance and Guid- ance, Minneapolis, Minn, “The Classroom Teacher and Visiting Teacher,” Grace Day, Todc ers’ College, Columbia University, New York city. Discussion. EVENING—8:00 GENERAL SESSION. Presiding, Homer Folks, president of_the conference, Toplc, “The Strategic Position of the School in Programs of Social Work.” “From the Point of View of the Educator.” “From the Point of View of the Social Worker.” Edith Campbell, director vocation bureau, Cincinnati, Ohio. tablishing the Visiting Integral Part of the the |as exist rather than duplicate their ac- |gaged in_ conference luncheons dur- in| {ana {no reference to the child. {the community itselt can conduct,” but { URGES REBUILDING |S OF FAMILY ALTARS French Abbe Blames Break- Up of Home for Many Social Evils. EXPLAINS CHURCH STAND | Chicago Dean and Berlin Woman Also Address Confer- ence Here. Pleading for preservation of family life, Abbe Jean Viollet of Parls, edi- tor of L'Assistance Educative and founder of the Family Dwellings’ Association of France, stirred a gathering that filled Poli's Theater last night, in a feature address of the National Conference of Social Work, i “There great danger family in modern society from the demands of industry, the love of pleasure and luxury, and the exag- gerated development of the indi- vidual,” he said. The church in fts relation to social work was the general theme of yes- terday’s program, discussed by scores of delegates who occupied local pul- pits during the morning and en- is to the da I e evening program with Abbe Viollet were Dr. Shailer Mathew dean of the divinity school of University of Chicago, and Dr. Alice Solomon, director of the Berlin Train- ing School for Social Work. Fears Lesser Faith. Abbe Viollet warned that, “in con- sequence of the lessening faith in modern nations, material interests ab- sorb time and attention” declaring the “only remedy s a return to the Christian idea of work." France and America, both filled with enthusiasm for justice and for a high moral ideal,” he sald, “are meant to work together in the present erisis of civilization.” He also found cause of danger “in the idea of love which is gaining ground everywhere.” ““The right to love' " he declared. “seems to many the right to love how they please, with no sense of consequent responsibilities, and with “In consequence of the lessening faith in modern nations, material in- terests absorb time and attention The only remedy is a return to the Christian idea of work. Employers and employed must realize their cial responsibility and understand that work is service rendered to the community at large. “The church has no intention to lay hands on every form of soclal activ- ity. She encourages her children to take their share in them, but warns them to be faithful to principle, and{ that is why she trains them care- full Dr. Mathews declared the “churches must develop _intelligent interest and sympathy sufficient to make social re- construction _possible without revolu- tion.” He described the churches as “laboratories for experimenting in vari- ous types of soclal activitles” and added that they had “no need of under- taking any form of social service that should co-operate with such agencies tivities. Blamed for War. | Dr. Salomon blamed war and other ills’ of society on the “pernicious phi- sophy of individualism” and urged the d_of mutual aid." i ‘Service for the wesk." she asserted. “is not a_setimental idea, but & hw of life, on which, in the end. even self- preservation depends. Dr. Salomon came from Germany especially to attend and address the fiftieth anniversary meeting of the con- | ference as its guest. This is her first trip to America. RATES SOCIAL WORK AND RELIGION EQUAL Rev. Howard R. Gold Favors Closer Relations’ Between Two Forms of Service. That personal religion and wcinll work are not in conflict was empha- | sized by the Rev. Howard R. Gold, secretary* of the hoard of education of the United Lutheran Church, who preached yesterday morning at the Luther Place Memorial Church at Themas circle. Mr. Gold, who is pas- tor of Trinity Lutheran Church at New Rachelle, N. Y., fliled the local pulpit at the joint invitation of that church and of the National Confer- ence of Social Workers. Both personal religion and social work have divine sanction, the visit- ing clergyman pointed out; both are reflected_in the best experiences of men, and it is a mutual misfortune that' there is not a closer fellowship botween those whose main energy goes into either line. of endeavor. “There is no denving that one's personal relation with God grows richer as one seeks to realize God's kingdom among men,” said Mr. Gold, in part. “It is recognized that some do not receive the impetus from with- in to enter the fleld of service, but rather are drawn by the misfortunes or.the wrongs endured by their fel- fow men. They, however, are just as earnest as others who are impelled by the consciousness that God calls them into vice. “Many individuals and many groups are pressing for an order of things that & a better indication that the purpose of God, who has said ‘The silver and gold are mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills,’ is actually carried out. There may be consid- erable difficulty:.some may start on wild courses; others may run tan- gents and be lost to usefulness. Th sentiment that is our motive force must be not more progressive, and surely not less so, than that of Christ Himself.” SAYS MRS. STILLMAN OFFERS TO TAKE BOY NEW YORK, May 21.—Florence Leeds, former show girl, who figured with her little son, Jay Leeds, in the Stillman diverce case, in which it was established that James A. Still- man, . millionaire banker, was the boy's father, today asked the Asso- clated Press to.say_thgt she did not contemplate any ‘court action to compel Stillman to provide for her son. Confirming -reports that Stillman had abandoned her and witydrawn his support from her and her child, Mrs. Leeds said: % “When my maney gives out I can always get out and work for my boy She did not indicate whether she planned to return to the stage n which she had - appeared for six monthe before she niet Stillman, or ‘would’ take. u work. . She said she had received an- offer from Mrs. Anne U.- Stillman. wife of the banker. to take Jay Leeds into her home and- give him & chance with her own children. While she indicated she would not offer, she characterized ‘wonderful offer” and ' sald she was deeply touched by Mrs. Stillman's l(mplthntje interest. . “Mrs. Stiliman knows, he de- “that I was pot the woman {uru in his divorce case.” Sh& explain this remark further. some other line of{ TONIGHT, 8 O'CLOCK. CONT! TAL HALL. Presiding, Homer Folks, presi- .dent of the conference. “Changea in Social Thought and Standards Which Affect the Fam- #ly," Porter R. Lee. director New York School of Soclal Work, New York. ocial Work as It Contributes to the Strengthening of Family Life,” Karl de Sohweinitz, gen- cral secretary ' Phlladelphia §o- cloty for Organizing Charity, Philadelphia, Pa. . “Soci: Progress Within the Home.” Mrs. Et Scarsdale, N. Y. TOMORROW. General Topic, “The School.” Dr. Helen T. Woolley of Detroit, Chairman. MORNING GROUP MEETINGS, 9-10:50. GROUP MEETING 1. Mt, Vernon M. E. Church South. Topic, “General Programs for Physical Health in the School. Presiding, Dr. Thomas D. Wood, professor physical education, Teachers’ College, Columbia Uni- versity, New York. The Theory and Practice of Health Education in the Schools During the Last Fifty Years,” the presiding officer. “Medical Inspection in the Schools Technique and Its Result. . Caroline _Hedger, medical adviger of the Elizabeth McCormick memorial fund, Chi- cago, 111 Hhietruction of School Children in Health Hablts and Ideals,” Miss Sally Lucas Jean, director health education division. American Child Health Assoclation, New York GROUP MEETING 1I. American Red Cross Assembly Hall. “Provision for Physically Children in the Schools. Presiding, Dr. Ellen C. Potter, commissioner, department of pub lic welfare, commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa. “Public School Classes for Crip- pled Children.” Miss Jane A. Neil, principal, Spalding School, Chi- cago, 11" (Illustrated by stereop- ticon.) “The Blind Child; Provision for His Schooling.” Edward M. Van Cleve, principal, New York Insti- tute for the Education of the Blind, New York. “The Deaf Child and the Hard of Hearing Child,” Miss Josephine B. Timberlake, superintendent of the Volta Bureau, Washington. GROUP MEETING TIL First Congregational Church. Tople, “School Programs for Mental Health.” Presiding, Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, chairman research information service, National Research Coun- cil, Washington, D. C. “The School and Its Relation to the Mental Health of the Average Child.” Dr. Jessie Taft, djrector, department_of child study, Chi dren’s Aid Society af Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Pa. “School Provision for Gifted Children in the United States.” Dr. Guy Montrose Whipple, professor of experimental education, 8chool of Education, University of Mich- igan, Ann Arbor, Mich. “The Schools and the ‘Slow- learning’ Child.” Dr. Elizabeth L. Woods, director division of spectal education, department of public Instruction, state of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. GROUP MEETING 1V. Interior Building Auditorium. Topic. “Spe¢ial Provisien in the Schools for Handicaps.” Preeiding, Dr. Nellie Perkins, psychologist, of Wayne County Psychopathic Clinie, Detrolt, Mich. “Special Class Training vs. Insti- tutional Care for Mentally De- fective Children,” Dr. Francis Maxfleld, director, bureau of sp cial education, state department of public instruction, Harris- burg, Pa. “The Problem of the pathie Child,” Topic. Handicapped Psycho- . suida; 4 “A Speech Correction Program for the Public Schools,” Dr. Smiley Blanton, assoclate professor in speech hygiene, department of speech, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. GROUP MEETING V. Rose Room, Hotel Washington. Topic, “The Relation of the School to Occupational Life.” Presiding, enry J. Gideon, chief of the bureau of compulsery eduecation, Philadelphia, Pa. “Child Labor and Education, Owen R. Lovejoy, ‘secretary, n tional child labor committee, New York. “Vocational Gyidance in the Schools,” Miss M. Edith Campbe! director, the vocation bureau, Ci cinnati, Ohjo. “The School and Its Relations to the Vocational Life of the Negro,” Mrs. Elsie Johnson McDougald. teacher in charge of vocation guidance, public schools 89, 119 and 5, New York. GROUP MEETING VI Natlonal Museum. Topic, “Social Case Work as Ap- plied in the Schools.” Presiding, Miss Jane ¥. Culbert, secretary, National Commiitee on Visiting Teachers, New York. “The History and Present Status the Visiting Teacher Move- nient,” Howard W. Nudd, chair- man of the National Committee on Visitin, Teacher: affiliated with the Public Education Asso- ion, New York. 'Courses of Training for Visit- ing Teachers” Miss Anna Pratt, director, White-Williams Founda- - tion, Philadelphia, Pa. “A " Day With the Teachers,” Miss Emma G. director visiting teacher dep: ment, department of public struction, Rochester, N. Y. (lllus. trated by stereopticon.) “Relation of Social Case Work to School Programs,” James Fitz- gerald, executive secretary, So- clety of St. Vincent de Paul, De- troit, Mich, GROUP MEETING VIL Corcoran Art Gallery. Topic, “Schoql Programs for Sex Education and for Recreation.” : Presiding, Harry H. Moore, United States public health serv- ice, Washington, D. C. “Sex Education in the Schools.” Dr. T. W. Galloway, associate di- rector of the department of edu- cational measures, American So- cial Hygiene .Association, New York.. “Methods of Instruction in Sex Education,” Dr. Florence Harvey Richards, medical director, Wii- llam Penn Hl‘h School for Girls, Philadelphia, “Children’s Organization for the Development of Social Ideals and Practice, and Their Co-operation with the School.” Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, national director, Girl Sco&tl‘ Ne‘w ‘Y,oryrlh “Recreation ograms of the Schools.” Mrs. Dlll{ Altu'rd Heth- erington, director of health educa- tion, San Francisco Tuberculosis Association, San Francisco, Calif. GROUP MEETING VIII New York Avenue Presbyterian - o un oo CBYPGh: o - Topic,-“The Contribution of the School to Soclal Work with Adults.” . 3 Presiding, E. C, Lindeman, spe- cialist in research, New York. “Commupi Centers in Rela: tion to the School and' the Com- munity,” Mrs. Eva Whiting White, acting director, lgnmkan College S E i ybl Foabody Hosse, Rural Boston, Mass. bilities of th Puffer Howes, Those With Mental . i | 1 | Bismarck, D. C, MONDAY ocial Conference Program s For Tonight and Tomorrow Bchool in the Development of the Community,” Leroy A. Ramsdell, instructor, ' Department of Com- munity Organization, New York School of Socfal Work, New York. “The Parent-Teacher . Associ- ation _as a Link between -School and Communit; Miss Elizabeth Cleveland, supervisor of girls' and women’s activities, Detroit public schools, Detroit, Mich. MORNING GENERAL SESSION, 11:10-1 Continental Hall. Future Trends in the Development of Social Progra: Through the Schools,” Presiding, J. Prentice Murphy. vice chairman, committ, schools, Child ' Welfare Bureau, Philadelphia, Pa. “The School as a Me veloping a_Social Co and Social 1deals in Children,” Dr. John Dewey, Columbia University, New York. “Provision by_ the School of More Adequate Means of Solving the Individual Problems of Chil- dren,” Herbert S. Weet, superin- kgnf‘l’enl of schools, Rochester. Topi “The Future Responsibility of School Toward Children Under Flve Years, Both Directly and Through . Training for Parent- hood.” Dr. Helen T. Woolley, Mer- rill-Palmer School.” Detroit, Mich. BUSINESS MEETING OF CON- FERENCE, 5 P.M, EVENING bk.\':.\l}AL SESSION, 8 P:M. Continental Hall. Topic: “The Strategic Position of the School in Programs of Soeial Work.” Presiding, Homer Folks, dent of conference. “From the Point of View of International Relations,” Dr. Rene Sand, secretary general, the gue of Red Cross Socleties, Paris, France. From the Point of View of the Social Worker,” Miss M. Edith “ampbell, director vocation bureau, innati, Ohio. rom the Point of View of the Educator,” Dr. Joseph K. Hart, formerly professor of education, University of Washington, now editor, educational department, the Survey, New York. MEETINGS OF KINDRED GROUPS. Luncheons. Luncheon to ex-presidents by National Conference of Social Work, Hotel Washington, 1:15. Natfonal Association of Visiting Teachers, Women's City Club, 1 pm. presi- Afternoon. Meetings. American Association for Com- munity Organization—2:30 o'clock, business meeting, auditorium of Interior building. American Assoclation of Hospi- tal Social Workers—2 to 4 o'clock, meeting, roseroom, Hotel Wash- ington. American Association for Organ- izing ~ Family | Social Work—2 o'clock meeting, Hotel Raleigh. Child Welfare Legislation Group —2 o’clock, meeting, sunroom, Ho- tel Washington. Committee on Publicity Methods in Social Work—2 o’clock, meeting, Corcoran Art Gallery International Association for the Promotion of Child Welfare (American members)—4 o'clock, meeting, children’'s bureau National Association of Visit- ing Teachers—>Meeting following luncheon, Women's City Club. National Conference of Seocial Work—3 o'clock, business meeting, Hall of Nations, Hotel Washing- ton. Protestant Episcopal Church—2 o'clock. meeting, “The Moron fn the World,” Assembly Hall, Epiph- any Church; 3 o'clock, trip to Mount Vernon. Dinners. Protestant Episcopal Church— 6:30 o'clock, parish house, Trinity Church, American - Association of Social Workers—s8 o'clock, Penguin Club, 1304 G street northwest Committee on Publicity Methods in Social Work—6 o'cloc SOCIAL WORK PLAN - INCHILDWELFARE Speaker Before Conference Group Tells of Efforts for Destitute Orphans. Miss Anna C. Haskins of the child- placing department of the State Charities Aid Association, New York, which has found family homes for more than 3,600 orphaned and desti- tute children, addressed & group meeting of the National Conference of Social Work in the First Congre- gational Church here today on “Prog- ress in Social Case Work as Related to Child Welfare. Other speakers were Dr. Jessie Taft, director_of the department of child | study, Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Gor- don Hamilton, Charity Organization Soclety of New York; Miss Henrletta J. Lund, Children's Code Commission N. D., and Df. Alice Salo mon, director, Berlin Training School for Social Workers, Berlin, Germany. 01d Mcthod Outgrown. “We have outgrown our old methed of superimposing our ideas on the child,” said Miss Haskins. “The suc- cessful case worker spends endles: time learning to understand her child, what he thinks and feels, and then gulding him to make his own deei: sions and plans, being careful that he does not suspect how muchshe is influencing him. It is the longest way round, but the shortest way home in the end, as it is the only way to develop a child’s sense of re- sponsibility, as well as gain his co- operation. “The use of psychology and psyehi- atry has taught us to recognize the tendency to suspicion and fear, of the presence of which a careful case these things are the direct cause of many failures to adjust in new en- vironments. . This is "especially. true. of the dependent child who has been separated from all that really be- longs to. he ‘Work Among Indians. Miss Lund, who has just been ap- pointed by the state of North Dl‘knu as its first state child welfare direc- tor, told of welfare work among the: Anlnrxeu: hxndunn.lhvgi '"'i a‘ threc‘k- oning with a race that has ope.’ she said. “Especial emphasis should be placed on the fallacy of condemn- ing the Indian as hopelessly shift- less and degenerate. The trouble lies in the exploitation of the white man, who has given little attention to con- structive work for the Indfan.” Karl' de Schweinitz, general secre tary, Philadelphia Soclety for Orga: ising Charity, presided. : SET ASIDE RATES. Court Revokes " Copsmission. i -~ Rates and charges of the South- western Bell Telephone Company in Missouri as fixed by the public serv- ice commission of that state were set aside today by the Supreme Court, which held that the commis- sion should have tak: into consid. eration the present vfl\zt of -the PFo] -rty.‘ ‘The courts qfi.}' uri had. ned the orders o e com- mission. A ) worker should always be aware, ,rnrj Supreme State | lowest Aw MAY. 21, 1923 POSTAL BANK LOANS FOR HOMES URGED: Experts Say Savings Should! Be Turned Back to Work- ing People. Federal encouragement of home bullding through utilization of the postal savings system was urged at a ocial work conference today. Declaring the United States is thirty years behind Central and! Western Europe in the theory and practice of housing, Mrs. Edith El- mer Wood of Cape May Courthouse, N. J, in an address before a group meeting of the national conference of social work in the New York Avenuo Presbyterian Church today urged: the utilization of postal sav- ings depostis for housing loans to working people. Mrs. Wood is & housing authority and author., hav- ing writter. several books on the subject. From the s platform Bleecker Marquette, executive secretary of the Better Housing League of Cin- cinnati, stated that rents and build- Ing costs must come down or wages must go up If the American nation Is to be housed. “Not for many years has the housing problem been 80 serious as during 1921 and 1925, sald Mr. Marquette. The general| topia discussed by the two speakers | was “The Human Side of Housing.” Lot of Workers. Mrs. Wood asked if working people | must live in dingy, second-hand, out- | at-the-elbow houses when “we don't | any longer expect them to eat broken fragments of other people's food or to wear cast-off clothing. But we do—in America—expect the rank and file of wage earners to be born, live | and die in shabby, depressing hand- | me-down homes. “The speculative builder does not put up new houses for them, because there is no profit in it. The profes- sional lender does not advance them money to build-their own houes for the same reason. But by cutting out the'item of profit, by putting housing on a public utility basis, like city water, it was found to be possible in Europe before the war to supply 800d houses at cost to the working classes, and it will soon be poseible again, without the aid of subsidfes. | Western and central Europe are com- mitted to the policy of supplying a real home for every family. We are | thirty yvears behind them in the theory and practice of housing. “What I want to suggest today is a very small thing—only one step in | advance, but so practical and so ob- viously just that there ought not to be any difference of opinfon about it —the utilization of postal savings de- posits for housing loans to working people. Une of Savings their own money—their own | savings. The government pays them 2 per cent on it, and deposits it with banks, which pay the government 23 per cent. Then the banks lend it out | at 6 or § for their own benefit. Why | shouldn’t the government lend it, in- | stead, to working men who want to| build themselves new homes—at the | same low rate of Mmterest that it} pays? And give them twenty-five | years to repay the principal in, as | they do in Belgium, or thirty-six, as they do in New Zealand? “In Belgium upward of 80,000 work- ing-class ~ families have acquired homes through loans at low interest rates from the general savings bank. In New Zealand a working man walks into the nearest post office and fills out an application for a housing loan with as little fuss as he would fill out & money order. About one- | tenth of the population owns homes built through this means. It i not | by accident that New Zealand has the deathrate "and the lowest fni- fant mortaliy rate in the world— hardly more than half of our In his address Mr. Marquette stated | that rents have increased from 50 to 75 per cent since 1914; building costs | are 75 per cent higher and during the | jlast vear there has been an increase | of 20 per cent, almost uniformiy throughout the country in the cost of | home bullding. Losing Battle. “We have been fighting a losing {battle during the past three years, {he continued. “The war trampled Iduwn pur efforts to get better homes {for our people. We not only have {made no real progress, but more |alarming, we have lost ground. It has been next to impossible for many years to build houses for really poor ipeople. Today it is almost impossi- {ble to build a home that the man of moderate means can buy. The 34,000 and $5,000 house has become almost obsolete in our average cit “I am very glad to be able to bring a happy note from Cincinnati. Through the foresight and generosity of one of our foremost woman citizens, Mrs. {Mary Emery, there is being lald out what is probably the most ambitious | garden suburb so far projected in the United States. It will be a| garden city of 1,000 homes. After years | of planing and studying, her dream of a wonderful garden spot with well- grouped, well planned economical homes is about to be realized. It isa civic enterprise undertaken for the( purpose of producing desirable homes at low costs for people of moderate means. Yet it is not charity, for it will be planned in a business-like way from start to fin- ish. Dividends will be limited, yet the project will pay a reasonable return on all money invested. “Mariemont is one of the bright| | spots in the present rather dark field | of housing. It glves promise of be- ing the most outstanding example of what got housing is that the United | jStates has ever had. and it will, we hope, have some influence in 'this country on.the future for people of moderate means.” | IMMIGRANT PROBLEMS 1 gt ¥ IN HOME ARE ANALYZED ‘Social Workers Hear Experts of Y. W. C. A. Discuss Subject of Foreign Born. migrant Maladjustments” was con- sidered by a group meeting of the| Natlonal Conference of Social Work in the New Yori Avenue Presbyter- ian Church this morning. Miss Ethel Bird, department of ork_with foreign born women of ‘the Young Women's Christian Asso- lem of Home Building for the Immi- ant Family. &l he Tnvisible Environment of the-} Immigrant” was the subject of Mil Mary E. Hurlbutt's address. Mi Huributt is director of the migration ce bureau of the Young Wom- Christian Association, New York. w York, who it chairman of the day's meetings de- voted to “the home,” preside Deaths Reported. following deaths have been reported to the " henlth" depariment in the Taet tmenty. o Hendricks, 60, Galllnger Hospital, Peter Clerico, 27, St. Elizabeth’s Hospit: Emma Mount, 52, Tuberculosis Hospital. Robert Talbot, 67; the Plaza apartments. Jobn .‘) !ln;l;i.afl)l.fi'bfi:'fi Bates st. L ver, . . D, L‘“Ill’l Pn.(e er,’ 19, George Washington Uni- T Hiervin Whis: 24, 1107 X. 7. ave. g Amands Hawkins; 61, Bt. Eliza) ’“i-nfin T. Jackson. 47, 74 L st. ph D. Carrington, 60, 15] Thomas Coleman, 52,- Freedme: Tebert Miles, 62, 008 1st st. ». Price, 33, 814 O-st. - Granville Poll 44, reedmen’s Hospit: Lepa T. Brown, 36 ?;alozr;an st :.e. 8. Henson, 42, 22 . g:r.: E!y.u'-) months, 603 Girard st ———— "It is said that Turkish women who ant to be plump ith butter. ;.clzllon, Chicago, spoke on “The Prob- | upon {cation also spoke. | ordinarily {workers are all they do have the opportunity to give, “Social Attitudes Conditioning Tm-{N American social workers who were in France during and after the war have been invited to & reunion sup- per at the home of Mrs. John Camp- bell Forrester, 1700 Rhode Island avenue, this evening, to meet Abbe Jean Viollet, Mile. Annie Noufflard and Mlle. Lucile Sumpt of Paris. Mlle. Lucile Sumpt is & house gyest of Mrs. Forrester during the national conference of social work. The Rev. Charles P. Hall, superin- tendent of the Assoclated Charities of Pawtucket, R. I, and minister of the Universalist Church of Valley Falls, R. 1, is attending the national conference of social Workers; also Miss Jeunie Lols L. Ellfs, state mis- sion and social worker of the Penn- | sylvania Universalist state conven- tion. Miss Ruth M. Hysolp, general sec- retary of the Assoclated Charities of Attleboro, Mass., is attending the na- tional conference of social workers, and is at the Ral. gh. Miss Hysolp is also a delegate from the central council of social agencies and the community fellowship of her city. SPEAKER STRESSES HELP OF OFFICIALS, Says Social Workers Must Co-operate to Improve Conditions. Enforcement of law is dependable an intclligent and interested pergonnel of enforcing officials and co-operation between the soclal worker and such officials, Frank J. Bruno, general secretary of the Family Welfare Assoclation of Minneapolis, told a group meeting of the National Conference of Socidl Work today, at the First Congrega- tional Church. The subject discussed was “The Co- operation of Social Workers with | Public Officials in the Enforcement of |Laws Which Affcct the Welfare of the Family.” Federal Miss Tracy Copp of the Board for Vocational Edu- Migs Frances Per- kins, member of the industrial board, state department of New York, pre- sided. Gains Striking Results. If such relationship between the official and the social worker exists for a considerable length of time, | continued Mr. Bruno, ‘striking results and 1aws in interpretation, application of may be secured.” “Formally or informally social case workers organize to create laws, to amend or to strengthen existing la and to express their judgment on the choice of nicials. experience with existing legal equip- ruent and administration, and because they see, better probably than any one else, the legal failures in terms of human suffering injustice, and tragedy. enforcement. even ordinary Many Laws Fall “In the passage of laws and their emendment, soclal workers have made a striking contribution, al- though most laws introduced by soclal workers in any one legislation fail of passa “The most difficult of all tasks is securing the right personnel in the persons of judges and prosecuting ofs | ficlals. The hurdle of election, or appointment, requires-a combination of qualities not at all reluted to the qualifications in which soclal workers are interested. The tradition of the legal profession, which does not give the sanction of its highest approval to law enforcing positions, makes it impossible to secure the best equipped men for such positions. “As a direct political but negligible, but specialist information to ‘groups in- terested in the improvement of social conditions, such as women's clubs, League 0f Women Voters, and even political parties themselves when in the alignment of social forces it be- comes worth while for political par- ties to adopt a social program. Qur experience in Minnesota is that the League of Women Voters is by all 0dds’ the most effective of these chan- nels.” AWARDS SEPARATION. Chief Justice McCoy today awarded Mrs. Melissa A. Pettey a legal separa. tion from Richard M. Pettey and gave her the custody of the child with alimony of $70 per month. A counter sujt for divorce filed by the husband was dismissed by the court. Attor- neys Wilton J. Lambert and Rudolph H. Yeatman appeared for the wife. 475 there are only the proper enforcing of- | This they do because of their | force - social | SOCIAL WORK TOPI; INLOCAL CHURCHES [Following Pulpit Addresses Conference Delegates At- tend Luncheons. | g ! Delegutes to the national conference of social work heard “Personal Re- ‘\llxum and Progress Through Secial Work"” discussed in many churches of varfous creeds and denominations yes erday morning by local pastors and guest clergymen,” and then divided i themselves into four luncheon con- | terences, which occupied the early hours of the afternoon. The conferences were held at the Men's City Club, the Hotel Washing- ton, the Women's City Club and the | Hotel Ralejgh. Rev. Dr. Kerby Presides. Rév. Dr. William J rby of Catho- Jlic University presided over the meet |1ns at the Men's City Club, at wh the topie, ological Semi: and: Tra cial Work” was taken up from several angles. With Dr. Kerby, Dr. Shailer Matthews, dean of the Divinity School. University of Chicago, spoke on “The Seminary View of the Role of the Seminary in | Training for Social Work.” Dr. Jef- i trey R. Brackett, former director of | School "of - Social Work, Boston, and Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, director of i social service, Free Synagogue and | Jewish Institute of Religion, New | York, talked o “The Sociolo | Training, of .Mir s us Viewed b {the Professional School of Social | Work.” The third divisional topic a; | the Men's City Club, “Opportunities ifor Practical Social Work and for | Directed Reading During the Period {of Seminary Training,” was reviewed by Rev. Charles T. Bridgeman, Na- tional Episcopal Chur New York. Duty of the Churches. “How the Church May Relate Itself to the Social Work of the C nity,” the topic at the Hotel Wa, ton luncheon, was divided into “Rela- ftion of the Pastors” and “Relation of the Church Members.” The former was spoken on by Rev. Julius Sauber, sec- |retary gocial service commission | Protestant Episcopal Church, Pitts burgh; Rev. Worth M. Tippy, exe tive secretary, commisgion on_churc jand social service of the Federa | Council of Churches in America, and Arthur Holt, secretary of the gregational Education Society, Bos ton, Mass. ‘Relation of the Churc Members” was Homer Borst's sub- {ject. Mr. Borst is executive secretar jof the.Indianapolis_community_fund { Indianapolis, Ind. Frank J. Brunc | general secretary, Family Welfare { Assoclation, Minneapolis, Minn., pre- | sidea ‘Women’s City Club Luncheon. Howard S. Braucher, genera) secre tary of the Playground and Recr tion Association of America, was one of the speakers at the Women's Ci Club luncheon, at which ‘the to “Social Work Under Church Aus and Spcial Work Under Commu { Auspi from the standpoint of the {urban community was dis 4 |Others who participated were {sephine Schain, associate head w. {Henry Street Settlement, New Rev. Samuel )L o Federal Council of | York; John C. Gebhart 2 | partment of social welfire, N {C. P., and Rev. A. Ray Petty {son Memorial Church, New York. T! Irnksld!ng officer was Rev }White, secretary, Union fNew York 2 Roval €iyde Agne, director of w I'service-.of “the American Red C here, #poke < “Socinl Agencies operating with the Rural Chur Ithe Raleigh Hotel luncheon. L. Vogt, director of rural | board of home missions and © extension, Methodist Episcopal lof Philadelphia, Pa, also | this ‘subject {in Community ject of an add v Miss Ma i Patten ef fle worker, com on social and religlous surveys, | York. Edmund de Brunn jrector of town and ceuntry sur }committee on soctal and religion surveys of New York, presided. Other Conferences Held. In conjunction with the nationa conférence, the American Birth Con- trol League met in the Hall of Na- tions, Washington Hotel, yesterd afternoon, and the Intercollegiate Community Service Association gati- jered in Rock Creek Park. 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