Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-13
CHARITY WORKER IN PEACE TALK SPEAKS
 COUNTRIES OPINION
Mrs. John M. Glen, Jresident of National Conference of Char ities and Correction, Speaks of "A Prelude of Peace"

BALTIMORE. May 12-"A Prelude ! to Peace. was the subect of an ad- | dress by Mrs. John M. Glenn. Of New | York. President at tonights session , of the National Conference of Char. | ities and Correction. in which she sounded the note of high ideals in SO. ! cial service. and spoke Of the tide of emotional giving" which had detract. ed from the years usual preventative and constructive work.
 Social workers" she said. have passed through a winter during which heavier demands have been made upon them than in any other winter of their ] experience. Many of us have come to { this conference worn in body and de. 1 pressed in spirit after fighting what has seemed in many instances to be losing fight to keep standards of work | high. Torn by conflicting claims upon our sympathies, we have had to face retrenchment in work that we know 10 be important, and have seen the emphasis shift from preventative and constructive effort to remedial and palliative aid"
 Mrs. Gleen spoke of foes. senate and insenate, that have blocked the social workers path, and an "epi- tome of winters outburst of emotions. al giving. taken on it's lowest plans" she found in El Greco's famous paint ing of St. Martin dividing his rich cloak with a naked beggar. an act of. relief which was essentially palliative one. without the slightest gleam of hu. nor on the face of either the knight or the beegar to show there was felt to be any irony in the situation. This she contrasted with Fl Greco's painting of st. Paul. with the face of one who lives by the rule of charity who vaunteth not himself. who suffer- eth long and is kind. who believeth all things" The need of social workers, she said, was that they should bear such a stamp of personality as that borne by St Paul "The need of our field is that we move forward within it not as mere personages but as per sonalities whose general spirit marks
 
 only from a persons having struck some depth in his own being. To al- low ourselves to be hurried because of the impatient temper of the times into thoughtless action means that we become mere automatons and are in reality condemned ot almost total ab- scnce from our selves.
 We social workers are now being brought face to face with realities as never before. and it is we that are going to be put 10 he test Aore and clore if is 10 be hoped that He shall be brought to see that We stand in need Of something that will tran. scend our own intelligence.
 Sacrifices have been demanded of some of us this winter that have made us angry or solemn or have crushed our spirit or crippled our usefulness. But there are, also, others of us who through love of their task have sur rendered themselves to the new de- mands made by an increasingly diffi- cult situation. It is they in particular who by their act of surrender have learned to realize what it is to love not alone their special task. but the cause of which it is a part They have sounded clearly the note of per sonality
 Though the influence oi individual workers may seem at times to be SO extraordinarily biz. the need does not grow less of a steady increase in the l number that should be enlisted to serve. We cannot take our measure by count of ourselves, nor be able to