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- has not impr . who was the presiding officer, ' Greek Merchant Fails in Suit for g WD SOCIAL WORK MEET 10 CLOSE TONEHT Three of Most Important Ad- | dresses of Conference as Concluding Feature. Three of the most important ad- Aresses of the entire week's program of the National Conference of Social Work are scheduled for tonight in Memorial Continental Hall at the closing session of the golden jubilee gathering. Mrs. Henry Moskowitz of New York, ex-secretary of the state reconstruc- tion commission and one of Gov. Al Smith's closest advisers, will. speak | on*“How Far Have Social Welfare Considerations Entered Into State, National and Local Elections?” I Gov. Willlam E. Sweet of Colorado will tell his views on free speech and public opinion. The closing address of the fiftieth anniversary session will be by Wil- liam B. Beazell, t managing editor of the New York World, who will discuss “Public Opinion and So- cial Progress. Electicn Results to Be Made Known. Announcement of the result of the election of officers for the next year will be mads at the evening session. Between sessions today the delegates are casting their ballots. The eftects and ue of public opinion on social work and the ex- tent to which soclal work in turn has influenced public opinton was the £eneral subject to which were de- Voted the concluding 2 George A. Hastings ¢ assistant chairman of t on public opinion of tk e conference, declared “the newspapers are the strongest allies al worker. on.” he said. “has begun needs the power hind it to securs nization for ac- to prevent, and onl of public opinion b the means a complishing results.” Leroy E instructor in sociology Columbia University, also Toted that the newspapers “are be- coming more favo disposed 1 their attitude toward social wor “unified social program drawing upon ali the groups in the community for its backing” rather than divergent efforts and attitudes. Howard W. Odum of Chapel Hill, N. and urged a C.. editor of the Journal of Social | Forces, declared social interpreta- tion through the scient publica- tion will help social workers to over- come dificulties and objections and develop new ideals and plans for their profession. Cites Opinions Found in Books. The most striking and effective books of the last decade, Carl Van Doren, ary editor of the C: Magazine, told the delegates, thought relatively little about social amelioration and relatively. much about challenges to the social order and how established.” Their attack, he added, has been directed against stupidity, complacency and the me- ife. ie said, “are the concern atives and_thinking the adicals. 1f radicals are he ascendant in literary America, it Is because thinking is in the _ascendant in intellectual America. Main street is to the present generation what the Declaration of Independence and ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ were to theirs.” Prof. Herbert Adolphus Miller of the department of sociology of Oberlin concern of Just now in t College, Okio, urged “a new public opinion’ which will condemn the egotism of a nation or a race as severely as it condemns that of an individual.” EMPHASIZES PLACE OF SOCIAL ACTIVITY | Speakers Say Work Has Not Yet Been Sold to the Public. ‘William H. Norton, secretary of the Detroit community fund, and C. M. Bookman, executive secretary of the community chest and council of social agencies, Cincinnati, emphasized the place of social work in the minds of the public and the need for a more thdrough understanding of its func- tions; before a group meeting today of the National Conference of Social Work in Memorial Continental Hall. Social work as a_community force ssed itself upon the gen- eral public,” asserted Mr. Bookman. “The whole program of social work, before it can be sold to the public, needs a_thoroughgoing testing in the ht of intelligent social experience and a restatement in words used by the man on the street, a simple ex- planation of its ideals and practice in the symbolism already in men's minds for charity, benevolence, in- dividual sturdiness and the recrea- tion of opportunity.” said Mr. Norton. George J. Hecht, editor Better "Times, and Rev. C. H. Le Blond. su- or of Catholic charities, Cleve- | Ohio, Mr. Hecht, said some contributors to charitable and social agencies are “mere check-sign- and declared social welfare or- ganizations should increase their ef forts to widen the bublic’s under- standing of their work. Social work needs faith by all the people of the nation in its ideals and in the practicability of its general program of commiserat struction and prevention,” continued Mr. Norton in his address. The first task of social work is to write that faith and bellef into the tradition of America. We have made much progress in that direction, but we could make faster and more certain yrogress if we could return to a sim- pler language in describing ourselves our_work. ocial workers should recognize the fact that sentiment cannot alone maintain public opinion,” said Mr. Bookman. “It must have something more tangible to build on. There is nothing so tangible as results, and, as the newer policy in sociel work has been followed long enough to show the first gratifying results, it is the duty of social workers to keep these results steadily before the people, so that the wisdom of this policy may appeal to their com- mon sense and develop a favorable public opinion. The policy of pre- ventlor is actually preventing and this is clearing the way for con- struction. We now have facts and figures and instances to prove the efficacy of prevention, and we must make use of them in forming a pub- lic opinion which will enable us to enter more effectively upon the still newer policy of construction.! " FIND BLOW JUSTIFIED. also spoke. m, * recon- Damages. A jury in Circuit Division 2 before Junl‘o‘”flolhlln( today declined to award damages to James Vassilas, a Greek merchant, who sued Willlam H. Harrison, a commission merchant of 907 B street northwest, for $10,000 damages for a blow on the jaw. Mr. Harrison admitted slamming his customer, but declared the'Greek had provoked the assault by calling him. vile name: :The jury said he was jus- g&%‘*mx ® o e deteniant: at one of the group meet- | Program of Closing Session. TONIGHT. Contlnental Hall. 8 p.m.—Closing Session. Presiding, Mr. Homer Folks, president, National Conferenge of Social Work. “How Far Have Soclal Welfare Considerations En- tered Into State, National and Local Elections?” Mrs. Henry Mos- kowitz, public relations counsel- lor, New York. “Spheres of Na- tional Life Untouched by -Publio Opinion,” Mary E. MeDowell, 'mmissioner, department of pub- lic welfare, city of Chicago. “Pub- lic Opinion and Social Progress.” William Preston Beazell, _as- sistant managing editor the New York World. NE&RO DEFENDED AT SOCAL NEETING Speakers Plead for More News of Colored People’s Achievements. Emphasizing the fact that action springs from mental attitudes. Gra- ham Romeyn Taylor of New York, |in an address today before a group {meeting of the national conference of !Socla\ Work in the Interior Depart- ment auditorium, declared the “negro !problem” s a “misnomer, the real iproblem being mainly the problem of ilhe white mind.” The topic “Public Opinion in Prob- lems of Race and Natlonality,” was spoken on also by Prof. Herbert Adol- {phus Miller, department of Sociology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio and Charles S. Johnson, formerly associ- ate executive, Chicago commission on race relations and now director, re- search and investigations, Natlonal jUrban League, New York. Allen T. i Burns, first vice president of the con- fereace, presided. Says Press Alds Prejudice. Mr. Taylor, who formerly was ex- ecutive of the Chicago commission on race relations, and now is execu- tive director, joint committee on methods of preventing delinquenc news about negroes which happen to coincide with these familiar beliefs, | discarding and ignoring news which lis more truly representative of the jfacts. As an example, he the prevalent notion that the ne is unduly inclined to crime, this lead- { of proportion to the negro’s real rec- ord of criminality. This in turn in- creases the impression that the negro {is inclined to crime, and so a vicious jecircle of thought and misconception {is created. He deplored the habit of | the press in labeling only negra nf- | fenders as such, when it rarely indi- | cates the race or nationality of other offenders, and declared this to be | fruitful cause of prejudice. | "He pleaded for more news concern- !ing the other facts of negro lifs, so | that the public would gain a round-d and balanced understanding of the {strugsles and achievemen:s of the negro population. In the promotion of bettar race re- {lations, Mr. Taylor declared that | there is no easy formula, but only { patient building of knowledge and | understanding. This requires the { joint effort of both races, and he de- |clared that the success of the efforts of the Chicago commission on race ¢ | relations was due in large measure to | relatively the fact that it was composed half of |leading white citizens and half of tleading negro citizens of Chicago. Mont Dangerous Tdens. Prof. Miller said 100 per cent patriotism and confidence in Nordle superforily “are the two most dan. {gerous ideas In the world toda {They lead exactly in the opposite {direction _from which {must go if it is to survive he added. “The alternative.” sald Mr. Miller, { “must be a new public opinion which will condemn the egotism of a nation or a race as severely as it condemns that of an_individual. When there are personal relations between people of different nations or races there is no basis of conflict, but when trained | prejudice is let loose reason vanishes. very man with a brogue is a evik or a hun, and every one |of different color is inferior. All |are to be exploited. and in the jopinion of certain captains of in- idustry the immigrant is merely a ilabor commodity. The breakdown of ! prejudice will come when the injunc- tlon of Immanuel Kant is followed to ‘treat every person as an end, not as a means. Egotism a Vice. “Individual egotism is a vice and there is a social demand for its sup- {as the 'highest virtue at | whether in religion, chamber of commerce, “Patriotism s beginning to descend |to chauvinism, and the next step must be national tolerance to correspond to | religious tolerance. All the new states {of Burope make constitutional protec- {tion of minorities to meet this neces sity. The relation of races has not yet |reached its crisis, so there is little Te- | straint on racial egotism. | poIn every case’public opinion has | trained its groups to rationalize about their respective superiority. But this training has been artificial and mythi- cal. People have been justified in sat- isfying their egotism through legend, {religion, the press, the law, neighbor- }hood gossip, and now by sciénce. Most {immigrants are learning to fear and sometimes hate America, just as the Jews have feared and despised the Christians for their haughty airs and much moralizing.” CANADIANS MEET HERE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL WORK Delegation Welcomed at Luncheon by Counsellor of British Embassy. The Canadian delegation, with representatives from Toronto, Mon- treal, Ottawa, Hamilton, and Vancouver, met at luncheon at the Chevy Chase Club yesterday to discuss the question of more actlve participation of Canadian social workers ' in the national conference of social work. The counsellor of the British .em- bassy, Henry Getty Chilton, wel- comed the delegates in the name of the ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes, | who 1s enroute to Europe. F. N. Stapleford of Toronto presided. He suggested the desirability of a joint meeting of nine Canadian national social service agencies and a com- mittes was appointed to try to effect 8. Rev, Peter Bryce read a resol which' has been submitted to the mi tional conference, asking that the name be changed to the American Conference of Soclal Work. Miss Foster of Bos- ton, formerly a worker in Canada, suggested that if a Canadian confer- anl’..\ra"n'r?r:‘;fdh“immm meet bi- ennially wi e National Confy of Soclal’ Worle 0 b rs. John McLennan, wife of th senator from Nova Scotln, who was born in the United States, made a plea for closer contacts between the two countries. Mrs. Sidney Small, chalrman of the Toronto department of health, and active in Big Sister Zork in the city, was at the speakers’ table. One Canadian delegate who can never be lost in any crowd was Rev. ‘Arthur J. Mc! of New Zealand, who 18 a student ‘ashington, imates vary -as whe present, nation, or the New York, said that traditional be- lefs causé press and public to ac- {cept and give currency to items of | discussed | | ling to the publication of news about | { crimes committed by negroes far out | ypression. Group egotism is magnified | MRS. HENRY MOSKOWITZ of New York, VALUE OF SOCIAL JOURNALS OUTLINED Editors Tell of Publicity Need in Work for Welfare of People. Social interpretation through the Scientific Jourpal will help social workers to overcome difficulties and objections, and to develop the newer ideals and plans of a growing pro- fession, according to Howard W. Odum of Chapel Hill, N. C., editor of the journal of Social Forces, who spoke at a group meeting of the Na- tional Conference of Social Work in day. The subject, “Printers’ Ink and Social Interpretation.” also w the theme of addresses by Mrs. Honore Willsie Morrow, former editor of the Delineator, New York, and Carl Van Doren, liter: editor of the Century Magazin York. Paul U. Kel- |logz of New York, editor of Survey, | presidea. ocial work is now entering upon ¢ reaches and meeting new chal- said Mr. Odum. “The history of progress in public health and pub- lice education in government and in cconomic and social programs indi- cates an important function of the demic and scientific journal. The esentation of sclentific information each of thesa fields has been a the desire for more dze, the means and methods ning this knowledge, and the nd active programs for the {ut on of this knowledge for the |common gond. To those who have in forerunner of for obt | plans |been sceptpical or prejudiced the { word of science has often proved con- i\'{nflng whe other evidence did not And in many spheres of pol‘t- economic and social progress 11 | the "academic question has preceded so fon. | re the concern of conserva- it and thinking the concern of radi- cals.” declared Mr. Van Doren. “The most striking and effective books of the past decade In America have been devoted to a form of social work which professional social workers rarely have the opportunity to do,” he sald. | “These books have thought relatively jlittle about soclal amelioration and much about challengzes to the social order and how established. | They have had, it is some desire t rouse the popular nce, but they have desired-evem more to sting | the popular intelligence. Thelr attack 1 has “been directed in: tupidity, against complacency, axa the mechanization and standardization Consequently, they seem toler- northodox behavior and intol- Mora |of life. \opposlte lant of u civilization [erant of orthodox thinking. {after all, are the concern of conser {tives, and thinking the concern of radi- cals. If radicals are just now in the ascendant in literary America, it is be- cause thinking is in the ascendant in intellectual America. SOCIAL WORK DESCRIBED AS SPIRIT EXPRESSION Has Not Claimed Credit for In- fluence on Opinions, Dr. Taylor Says. The soclal settlement movement is Taylor of Chicago Commons told a {group meeting of the National Confer- ence of Social Work, in the American Red Cross Assembly Hall this morn- ing, at which Dr. John Lovejoy Elli- {ott, president National Federation of Settlements, New York, also spoke. Robert A. Woods of Boston presided. “Because settlements have been so { much more the expression of a social spirit than am organization or in- stitution, they have neither attracted nor claimed credit for influence upon public opinfon and policies,” said Dr. Taylor. “Far would we be from pre- suming to claim parity of importance between our few, widely scattered little settlement centers and the big sweep of the social democratic tide through all the channels of life and labor upon which settlements have | been borne up and on. By life and act, they have exemplified, expressed and objectified the motive and hope of democracy in a way that appeals to the sympathies, imagination and idealism not only of their own local communities, but farther afleld. What- ever influence they have had, how- ever, has been sought, gained and wielded far more by standing in be- tween classes, parties, races and sects, than by identifying themselves with any one of them. ~Settlements have been justly regarded as stand- ing for the whole community, for taking account of the whole situa- tion, and for promoting formative policies and legislation rather than merely remedial | measures. From or reformatory this uniquely ad- Winnipeg | vantageous point of view and base of operations, the settlement &pirit has contributed an eppreciable in- fluence upon public sentiment and action.” 4 3 PROMINENT OFFICIALS TO ATTEND RAIL PARLEY | Bight Governors, “FPour - Senators and Twenty-Five. Represéntatives Will Take Part.’ Governors of eight states, four |senators and twenty-flve members of the House of Representatives have signified their intention of attending the conference on valuation of Amer- ican riflroads, called by the progre: sive” group in Congress, to meet Fri- day and Saturday. in Chicago. Repre sentative citizens from all sections of the country. Senator La Follett republican, of Wisconsin, one of thos in charge of arrangements, has an. nounced, also have accepted invita- tions to' participate. vernors who are expected to at- t ‘the _conference.. are: Davis, Kansas; Dixon, ~ Montan: Hunt, Arizona; Kendall, JTowa; Ritchie, Maryland; Ro; Wyoming; Sweet, Colorado, 'and Walton, Oklahoma. The senators expected as participants are: Capper, Kansas; Copeland, New York; Frazier, North. Dakota, and La Fatr the rose room, Hotel Washington, to- | the movement -of spirit, Dr. Graham. | | | | GEORGE A. HASTINGS of New York. MRS, MARY E. McDOWELL of Chicago. FORMER PRESIDENTS OF CONFERENCE DINE 24 Who Have Headed Social ‘Workers Meet at Reunion Lunch. A reunion luncheon of the fiftieth annual National Conference of Social Work was held in the hall of nations of the Hotel Washington, yesterday, with the ex-presidents of the confer- ence as guests. More than 300 dele- gates were in attendance. Of the twenty-four living ex-presi- dents, nineteen were present and spoke in the order of-their tenure of office. Homer Folks, who is both an ex-president and president, presided. The speakers, in their order of pre- cedence, were: Hastings H. Hart of New York, who paid tribute to the great men who were the founders of the conference fifty years ago; Alex- ander Johnson of Fort Wayne, Ind who held the office of conference sec- rotary for ten years; Charles §. Faulkner of Lal orth, Fla.; John E. Glenn of New York, Jeffrey R. Brac- kett of Boston, who read an original poem; Edward T. Devine of New York, Amos N. Butler of Indianapolis, Ind.; Jullan W. Mack of Chicago, Frank Tucker of New_York, Graham Taylor of Chicago, Mrs. John M Glenn of New York, Rev. Francis H. Gavisk of Indiavapolig Frederic Almy of Buffalo, Robert A. Woods of Boston, Julia G. Lathrop of Rockford, 1il.: Owen R. Lovejoy of New York, Alien T. Burns of New York and Rob- ert W. Kelso of Boston. Messages were read from three of the ex-presidents, Timothy Nichol- son of Richmond, Tnd, the qldest liv- ing ex-president, who is now in his ninety-fifth vear: Jane Addams of Chicago, who cabied her good wishes from Shanghal, China, and Col. Er- nest P. Bicknell of Washington, D. C., who sailed a few days ago for Eu- rope on official duty. Willlam Rhine- lander Stewart of New York was un- able to be present. SAYS VOTERS WILL PAY TO CURE TUBERCULOSIS Social Workers Told People Are Willing to Bear Cost of ‘Hospitals. Voters voluntarily will increase taxation to build hospitals for tuber- oulosts_if they are shown the need for such Institutions by well organ- ized publicity, said Dr. Philip P. Ja- cobs, publicity director- of the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association of New York, in an addres this morning before a.group meeting of the Na- tional Conference of Social Work in the National Museum. “The campaign against tuberculosis carried on by the national, state and local tuberculosie associations during the last elghteen years has brought this popular soclal question to the public's attention in a great variety of ways,” said Dr. Jacobs. “It Seems to be a fair conclusion from the ex perience of referendum campaigns, and particularly from that part of the experience that deals with tubercu- losis hospital referendums, to. say that if the voters of & community are given a chance to express theil opinion after a proper process of education upon a question pertaining to tuberculosis Institutions or similar provisions, they will in the great ma- jority of cases vote. overwhelmingly in favor of such proposition. even though the clear and definite implica- tion of such vote is an increase in taxation.” Franklin _Thomas, superintendent of the New York Orphanage at Hast- ings-on-Hudson, New York, but for- erly a professor of soclology in the Driversity of Oregon, told the meet- ing of the operation of public opinion machinery in Oregon. Dr. Alexander Fleisher, assistant secretary of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York city, urged the social workers to de- vote more attention to study of methods of reaching the public through referenda. John A. Kingsbury, secretary of the Milbank memorial fund, New York, presided. z TENANT LOSES SUIT. ‘Wyoming Apartment _ownon Win Verdict' From Court. Thomas H. Gitlin, a former tenant of the Wyoming apartments, has lost his suit for $10,000 damages. against John L. Barr and L. Stewart Barr, owners of the property. Justice Hoehling directed a verdict in favor of the owners. » Mr. Gauin claimed he had been deceived into vacating his apartment dnd put to the expense of crating his goods and seeking another nr.u!munt‘lnt summer by ed misrepresentation of the de. ts. Attorney John ¥. Laskey e O |Address Social Wprk Conference Homemaking Rated “Sweated Industry” in Need of Relief Wife Does Not'Know Whether She Owes Whole Existence or -to Task, Says Educator. Plcturing the wives and mothers of this nation engaged in homemaking as a “sweated industry,” Mrs. Edith Puffer Howes, author and educator, of Scarsdale, N. Y., urged upon the social workers assembled -in Memo- rial Continental Hall Monday night.a {foundation which would survey ex- isting conditions and develop the es- sential standards of home life. “Changes in Soctal Thought and Standards Which Affect the Family” were discussed by Porter R. Lee, di- rector of the New York School of So- cial Work, and “Social Work as It Contributes to the Strengthening of Family Life" was the subject of Kerl de Schweinitz, general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organiz- ing Charity. In arguing for “Sectal Progress Within the Home" Mrs. Howes sald that “homemaking is a sweated in- dustry, in the sense that it is still chaotic with reference to the pro- ducer. * Certain standards obtain #s to results, but not for theresponsible relation of the homemaker, who works forty minutes or sixteen hours as chance determines, and does not {¥et know whether she owes to home dutles her woman's whole existence or only her leisure moments Study Wife as Worker. She proposed that the experts-in so- cfal work should consider the wife and mother as a worker and as a sub- ject for research; her -industrial standards; her hours and other physi- {cal conditions of work, her rewards: | You have studied ‘the family status of breadwinning mothers.’ Study and | develop the status of the bread—well, | bread-purveyor, if not breakmaker. “Social progress within the home has more than kept step with commu- {nity progress, in material matters, but |this is not true in regard to mental and moral values. Changes there are, in the relations of husband and wife, of parents and children, but these through conscious self-direction. Real progress Implies clear thinking, agree- ment on values realized and an in- crease in these values. The impon- derables in the home need attention. “Take. for example, the status of the housewife and mother. The spirit of the home is hers to create, more than any other’s, yet her dutles as an individual, to herself, to her family, to the community, are not yet evaluated. Asks Survey of Home. “Such a study I envisage most seri- a foundation, which should survey existing conditions, from those of simple housewives to those of profes- sionally trained women; which should develop the essential standards of home life, the true amenities, as dis- tinguished from the traditional or the conventional; which should settle the question of drudgery versus dutie Revision of the curriculum and methods in schools generaily so as to “inculcate a spirit of international %ood will and appeasement in op- position to present tendencies to in | culcate a narrow, - exelusive .and | ijealous nationalism, miscalled pa- triotlsm,” was urged by Dr. John Dewey, - professor of philosophy at Columbla University, addressing the cvening session of the social work conference in Memorial Continental Hall last night. Schools, he declared, should “foster mutual respect among raclal groups, teach’ geography, history, literature and the arts in such a way that each raclal group shall learn to ad- mire the gifts and achlevements of all others, so that each group shall fcel that in becomirg assimilated to the spirit of American life, it has something worth while and dis- tinctive to contribute.” Dangers at Present. “There are certain marked dan- geTs at present,” he continued. “One of them is the growth of racial and sectarian animosities,- with the de- sire of some influential sections of the community to identify ‘Ameri- canization’ with conformity to the standards and beliefs of their own sroup. Along with growth of intol- erance there {s the disposition to re- sort to force rather than persuasion and reazon to attain ends; not only force in the form of violence, but force under the name of law. Such things are imgf@rtant as symptoms of underlying tendencies to strife +nd division. Dr. Rene Sand of Belgium, secre- tary general of the League of Red Cross ~ Socleties, declared “interna- tional good will {s but a legitimate and necessary expansion of patriot- ism," since “It is a guarantee, not a danger to the individual nation.” Referring to conditions in Europe, Dr. Sand described a “general ten- dency toward recovery,” declaring, “I think one can safely say that things will be kept goin Results of War, “There are no more advocates of he adds. “People have ceased to profess t| war s necessary to keep the natlons physically and morally fit—it has brought physical and moral decadence in its train. It everybody condemns war, how is it that war is still possible What it needed, is not simply the knowledge of the’ other fellow's viewpoint, but also the recognition that it is in principle just as good as ours. “The school can foster peace by permeating itself with the spirit of international sympathy and by al- lowing organizations like the Junior Red Cross to inculcate in the children the habit to act along the lines of in- ternational co-operation. “In order to start this work on solid ground, the relation of patriot- m to international sympathy has first to be made quite clear and to detached from any political mov ment. “Universities ought to be far more Internaticnal than they are now. Will Open Friday, Service a MEYER DA have rather evolved blindly than come | ously; ideally, perhaps, in the form of | Schools Must Combat Bigotry, | |service, American Red Cross, Madfson, | Social Work Speakers Declare Acannot spell, to the consummate fail- HOTEL POWHATAN Roof Garden Dinner,' Supper and Dancing WATCH FOR THE TWIN SEARCHLIGHTS Hotel Powhatan. Only Leisure Hours study, and above all widely experi- ment, with methods of release, prob- ably co-operative in nature, from the non-essential; work out the moral budget as between children, talents or-aptitudes, home Industry and com- munity interests; create, finally, the publfc interest necessary to make this subject an integral part of women's education. My experience as an edu- |cator indicates that action will be slow to begin in that field. I believe that Is a subject made to your hand.” | Advice 'to social workers not o be | stampeded to despair by reported in- | creases in divorce’ was given by Mr. de Schwelnitz, who said that: “While divorce is a testimony to human weakness, while in each in- dividual home is represents tragedy, it is perhaps the price of change, the sign of failure, it is true, but of fail- ure to attain to a higher ideal of the family. Men and women are no longer content with an adequate life | together. They are setting them- | selves a loftier goal of human asso- | clation, a goai that gives promise of | a happler future for the race.” “Social work has the distinction of having applied anew the art of dis- covery to the family. It has looked with fresh eyes upon an experience older than history, and it has found therein significanice and life. “Out of vast experience social work Has found a new appreclation of the family, It sees it as sapremely the place for.the culture of the individ- ual. It sees it meeting his needs as no other institution of society can meet them. It sees it fulfilling the fundamental desire of every human being to possess and to be possessed, to be pre-eminently himself and to be part and parcel of the life of other: to have an anchorage, no matter ho far he may depart from it; tq be se- cure and vet to be free. “Surpassing all these present re- | sponsibilities is the crisis in housing. {The physical standards of the home are under such an attack as they have not sustained for a generation. Overcrowding, the doubling up and tripling up of familles within the same house, the reduction in the number of rooms, the continued in- crease in rentals are threatening to nullity the accomplishment of thirty | vears. The heaviest indemnity, the {indemnity that every nation is paying | because of the war, is being paid here in the restriction of the number and quality of our dwelling places. It s an issue that demands the re- doubled attention and activity of so- clal woi “Scial work must continue to cul- tivate the spirit of discovery in its relation to every branch of sclence that approaches the home, reaching | out In particular to medicine, psychol- | ogy and economics. i | "“At the apex of the struggle for! better things stands social work. It is the Interpreter of the longings of people for a more wholesome social order, for a sounder family life.” { There is no French sclence, no Brit- | ish sclence, no American sclence. | There is just science, contributed by every nation, small and big. Man’s Worst Enemy. “The great enemy of mankind, the passion which has defaced history, fillipg’ it with horrors incredible and immemorable, 1s intolerance, relig- fous intolerance, political intoler- ance, soclal intolerance, international intolérance.” The theme also was discussed from the -viewpoint of the socia] worker by Miss M. Edith Campbell, director of the vocation bureau of Cincin- | nati, and from that of education by Dr. Joseph K. Hart of New York, formerly professor of education at the University of Washington. Miss Campbell pointed out tha “Failures, from that of the small boy who cannot meet the commer- cial standard for errand intelligence, of the young girl stenographer who citizens and ideals in a democ- are blamed upon the public stem, “The social worker is not the least of these critics. Fortunately, the abused system is still somewhat self- complacent and refuses to go out of existence. With all its faults it is the greatest and most potential chan- nel for social service. “The social worker insists that the inheritance, environment, disposition, experiences and recreations of the child must be taken into account in the educational process. The school has long been accustomed to making its curriculums on authority. It did not acknowledge the responsibility for the child's failure as well as for its succes: The child’s life outside the schoolroom and after leaving school was of no interest either to teacher ‘or to administrator. This rigidity .and stereotyped routine was indented by pressure from outside the system. CLYDE A. WALB HEADS INDIANA REPUBLICANS Elected State Chairman to Replace Lyons, Who Resigned After ‘Withdrawing From Klan. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 23.—Clyde A. Walb of Lagrange, Ind, was elected chairman of the Indiana republican | state committee to succeed Lawrence | Lyons, who resigned. Mr. Walb has been vice chairman. Lawrence Cartwright of Portland was | elected vice chairman. Mr. Lyons' retirement followed the publicity given his resignation from the Ku Klux Klan several weeks are of racy, | % been chairman of the twelfth congressional district. Mr. | Cartwright is eighth district chair- | man, The election of the new chair- man’_followed & strenuous campaign by varfous aspirants for the position. 6:30 P.M. May 25 . la Carte VIS MUSIC SOCIAL CONFERENCE GOING TO TORONTO Canadian City Selected for 1924 After Stiff Fight for Honor. The National Conference of Soclal Work goes to Toronto, next annual gathering. Carrying its fight for the designa- tion as a meeting place of next ye: session of the national coriference of social work to the floor of the con- ference yesterday, the Canadian dele- gation was able to command sufficient support to amend the report of the committee on time and place, which had reported In favor of Des Moines, owa. Miss Julia Lathrop of Rockford, Il formerly chief of the federal chil: dren’s bureau, and recently selected by the League of Women Voters as one of the twelve most famous women in the United States, championed the cause 6f Canada before the business meeting of the conference, at which Toronto was selected. She sald that the conference would receive much help and inspiration from the meet- ing in Canada, which, she declared, “has led the world in itg care of ex- service men." The argument that the psychologi- cal, time had come for the conference to meet outside of the United States in order to foster an international viewpolnt in social work had great welght with the delegates. The con- ference has met only once before in Canada, in 1897, at Toronto. By a curfous’ coincidence Toronto was se- lected on that occasion also by the conference rejecting the report of the committee on time and place. Denver was also a contender for 1924, with Gov. Willlam E. Sweet as spokesman on the floor of the con- ference. MISS ABBOTT NAMED TO HEAD WORKERS Washington Woman Nominated as President of Social Conference. The election of Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau of the Department of Labor, who was unani- mously nominated yesterday to suc- ceed Homer Folks ‘of New York as president of the National Conference of Soclal Work, will be formally an- nounced at the closing session in Memorlal Continental Hall tonight, after the delegates have had a chance to cast their ballots. Besides Miss Abbott the nominees for office are: For first vice president—Lee K. Frankel, third vice president, Metro- politan Life Insurance Company, New York city, and J. E. Hagerty, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, For second vice president—Rev. Peter Bryce, secretary, Social Service Council, ‘Ontario, Canada, and Ger- trude Vaile, fieid secretary, American Assoctation’ for Organizing Family Welfare, Denver, Colo. For third vice president—Kate Burr Johnson, director, department state board of charities and public welfare, Ralelgh, N. C., and James Hoge Ricks, Jjuvenile " ‘and domestic relations courts, Richmond, Wa. For ‘executive committee—M. Edith Campbell, “director, Schmidlapp fund, Cincinnati, Ohlo; Marcus Fagg, super- intendent,” Florida Children’s Home Society, Jacksonville, Fla.; Martha P, alconer, American Social Hygiens Association, New York city; John L. Gillin, national director, educational Wis.; Eugene Kinckel Jones, execu- tive secretary, National Urban League, New York city; Emma O. Lundberg, director, social service division, chii- dren's bureau, Washington, D. C.; C. MacLean, secretary, Federation fo! Community Service, Toronto, Canada. Amelia Sears, assistant general super- intendent, United Charitles, Chicago, I.; Lucy Ward Stebbins, dean of women, University of Berkeley, Calif, and Forrester B. Washington, director, research bu- reau, Associated Charities, Detroit. BOY CRUSHED BY TRUCK SUFFERS LOSS OF ARM William Ray, Eight, Hit in Front of His Home, 1229 California Street. Eight-year-old Willlam Ray, son of George 'N. Ray, an_architect, 1229 California streef, suffered severe in- juries when he was run over by an automobile truck after his skipmo- bile crashed into it on Connecticut avenue near California street, late yesterday afternoon. The rear wheels of the truck passed over one of the boy's arms, necessi- tating amputation at the Emergency Hospital today. It is belleved the boy Wwill_recover. Lewis Randolph, colored, 1020 King Court, operator of the truck, was ar- rested, but released on bond. Explaining It. From the Detroit Free Press. “Great Scott!” What was_ golng on at your house last night? The phonograph never let up a minut “I know it. I'm sorry 1f we dlis. turbed you, 0ld man: but you see we have a daughter who is In training for a marathon dance.” THERE IS YET TIME —to have a room or two papered and painted before the Shriners come. Few choice pleces of furniture specially priced. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. 714 13th 1110 G EST. 1879 SEMONES Graduate oCormick Medical Dr. CLAUDESs. Eyesight .m:... [ On 17th St Hotel, * corper _prope: - mercial gove. One of availe able corners in this desirable sec An_ excellent opportusity. for turnover. 2740 W.C. & A, N. Miller Realtors 1119 17th St. N.W. { gathering machinery California, | PUBLIC SUPPORTS - SOCIAL WORKERS Cenada. for 1t Byt Does ‘Not Believe Task Always Tactfully Done, Says Ohio Delegate. A cross-section of the prevailing opinions of social work and social workers shows that the public real- izes the nedessity for Soclal.work: that it wants soclal work performed. but that it does not find the workers always thoroughly informed, falr- minded, factfully considerate and practical. The foregoing are the conclusions drawn by Mrs. Lucia Johnson Bing of Rio Grande, Ohio, who gave an ad- dress in the Washington Hotel this morning on “What the Public Thinks ot Soclal Work.” To find out whit the public thinks of social work, Mrs. Bing sent out a questionnaire to teachers, merchants, legislators, club- women and other folk. Other speakers on public opinlon of social work were George A. Hast Ings of New York, assistant chairma of the committee on public opinion of the National Conference of Social Work, who also presided: Leroy I Bowman, instructor in sociology, Co- lumbia University, New York, and Gerald W. Johnson, associate editor, Greensboro News, Greensboro, N. C. The public “does give us-credit for being well intentloned and fairly telligent,” said Mrs. Bing in conclu ing her remarks, “all except one merchant, who wrote: ‘Social workers are 75 per cent nuts; otherwise tk would not be in this kind of wark Mrs. Bing apparently did not with- hold any expressions that criticized a social worker and his work. Perhaps the most valuable opinion .of all came from a forelgn woman who, because of . her position in soclety, had a first-hand opportunity to learn and know what social work According to Mrs. Bing, she “ex- pressed as well as any one who was interviewed, the spirit behind soclal service.” Mr. Bowman sald the newspapers of the United States are becoming more favorably dispesed in their atti- tude toward social work. His ad- dress was based on ‘a study of the amounts and kinds of material on social work published in newspapers today as compared with fifty years ago. The study disclosed an enor- mous increase in the number of ref- erences and the actual space allot- ted,” said Mr. Bowman. “But in pro- portion to the total news space in the papers, the amount remains substan- tially the same.” Mr. Hastings, who is publicit director for the conference, said the newspapers’ of America are strongest allies of social workers. “Many newspapers today,” he added “are giving news and editorial space to the developments in the field of public arid private socfal service which formerly left this great area of modern life’ and. community inter- est almost untouched by their news- “Newspapers are finding that social | work has a real news value, and that public welfare taday is something more than a Lady Bountiful distribu- tion of alms. The organized efforts to provide wiser distribution of re- lief, better health- facilities. better care of children and to improve w ing and living conditions, are a the most dynamic movements American life. 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