New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-08
SOCIAL WORKERS DRIFTING
Changes in Population Puzzle
Brooklyn Organizations.

There is a peculiar condition existing IN
Brooklyn Just now in regard to her soclo-
logical problems. These are becoming
more complicated because Of the general
increase in population, while, on the other
hand. many of those best able to shoui-
der such responsibilities are leaving the
borough or lending their aid to the more
widely advertised social reform movements
across the river No reelection on the civic
pride or public spirit Of Brooklyn Is III
tended I'm this statement made by an active
social worker: II is simply a reminder 10
the needless who leave the burden TO the
few.
Generous i'm the extreme with their time
and means though these comparatively
few have peen. they can no longer ade-
quately cope with the increasing demands
on thom. They need the conscientious as
sistance Of the thinking people Of the bor-
ough They are many in this class ue
sirous TO help. but whose ideas on the SUD-
iect are vague and who are uhaple oy
themselves TO formulate any plans. Inns
state of affairs has been recognized lor
some time by those familiar WIN the so-
ciaI work in the borough and various
movements. more or less successful, nave
sprung up from time to time for remedy
ing 1t.
II was partly this need and partly the
steadily increasing interest in sociology all
over not only this but the European coun-
tries which led the Brooklyn Institute OF
Arts and Sciences to organize the Depart
ment Of sociology the first new depart
ment TO be created In the institute in TWEEN
| ty-fye years.
Some Of the most prominent people In
that field have been secured by the instl-
tute for lectures on pertinent subjects or
TO head the committees. Professor Frank
| lin H. Giddings, Phi. D.. Ii. D., of Column
| bia is president, and Miss Susan II. Hoag-
/ land is secretary. Connected with them
/ are Darwin r. James, ir., chairman of the
housing committee: Professor Charles Is.
Davenport, of Cold. Spring Harbor who
will head the committee on eugencs, and
| Arthur T. Wakeman, secretary of the Chill
| dren's Aid Society, chairman Of the COM
mittee on charity. Social conditions VIII
| be investigated by a committee under the
! leadership OF Rabbi Krasse, and the COM
! mittee Of education will have for its chair
man Charles Perrine. Bascelles White,
principal Of Public School 3, and Mrs.
! Moriarity. principal Of the school for Grip
pies I'm East New York, are deeply inter-
ested in this last
There will be conferences conducted by
James jenkins. jr, who as secretary OF the
anti-tuberculosis committee In Brooklyn
/ has done such good work; DR.. Edward 1.
| Deyine Dr. Edwin h. l.. Gould, Or. Henry
r. Linville, William /. Nichols, director of
! the BROOKLYN Bureau of Charities; IL. Clay
Preston. secretary and superintendent Of
the Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
10 Children: Professor Henry L. Champion,
of Columbia; o. f. Lewis. secretary Of the
Prison Association; Mrs George S. Frank
prominent in the Little Italy Settlement
and Junior League: Benjamin c. Marsh,
| Mrs. Lillian Belts, of the Society for the
Improvement of the Conditions OF Working
| Girls: Eli W. Weaver. of the Boys High
School; William r. Harmon, Professor
Annie Mclean, Of Adelphi; Mr. Wakeman,
Professor Davenport and Professor Gid
dlngs.
The subjects Of Professor Giddings's lect-
ures. given on Thursday evenings until
November s. are Some Possibilities Of
Civilization" 1.-The American Experiment"
'Tbe Significance OF Race" The Menaces
of Vice and Crime" and "Vltal Questions of
Social Economy"
Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay of the
New York School Of Philanthropy will give
a course Of six lectures on THE Social Re
formers Of the Nineteenth Century" This
course will treat OF the work Of the initi-
ators of some OF the important social
movements OF the last century, with some
accounts OF their ideals and their achieve
ments There will also be courses by Pro
! fcssor Earl Barnes, OF Philadelphia. on
"Our Human Hungers'; by Professor
/ Henry Rogers Seager. Of Columbia. on
social Betterment Measures In Europe
and America" "The Negro in the United
states" by Mrs. Mary G. Terrell. and by
John Martin on THE Labor Situation"
There are 10 Doe special courses by Pro-
fcssor Mclean and Professor Mary Schenck
Woolman. Of the Teachers College. Miss
Hoagland viii conduct a seminary I'm socio-
logical literature in the new Library OF So
GEOLOGY. or Montague street. She will be
assisted by the librarians of the Library OF
Sociology.