The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-14
THE HOME IS THE
FOUNDATION OF
final PEACE
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press)
Baltimore, May IA Prelude
to Peace" was the subject of an ad-
dress by Mrs. John NJ. Glenn, of
New York, President, at tonight's
session of the National Conference
of Charities and Correction, in
which she sounded the note of high
ideals in social service, and spoke
of the tide of emotional giving"
which had detracted from the years
usual preventative and constructive
work.
Social workers." she said, have
| passed through 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 depressed in
spirit after fighting what has SEEM
ed in many instances to be a losing
fight to keep standards of work high.
Torn by conflicting claims upon our
sympathies, we have had to face re-
trenchment in work that we knew
to be important, and have seen the
emphasis shift from preventative
and constructive effort to remedial
and palliative aid"
i Mrs. Glenn spoke of s'foes, SEN
safe and insensate, that have block
ed the social workers path" and an
"epitome of the winters outburst of
emotional giving. taken on it's low
est plane" she found in Ell Greco's
famous painting of st. Martin divid-
iding his rich cloak with a naked
beggar, an act of relief which was
essentially palliative one, without
the slightest CLEAN of humor on the
face of either the knight or the beg
gar to show there was felt to be any
irony in the situation.
This she contrasted with Ell
Greco's painting of st. Paul, with
the face of one who lives by the rule
of charity, who vaunteth not him
self, who suffreth long and is kind,
who believeth all things" The
need of socialsworkers, she said, was
that they should bear such 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 personals
tiles whose general spirit marks each
as having tone such as can come
only from persons having strucl
some depth in his own being. Tt
allow ourselves to be hurried be
cause of the impatient temper o
r the. times into thoughtless actor
y means that we become mere auto
S nations and are in reality condemn
s ed to almost total absence from our
l selves.
s I'VE social workers are now bein
9 brought face to face with realitie
as never before, and it is we that ar
: going to be put to the test. Nor
u | anu ~ 10 w NC hoPSu thu
: we shall be brought to see that W
i stand in need of a something tina
d will transcend our own intelligence
e Sacrifices have been demanded {
e some of us this winter that hay
l. made us angry or solemn or ha,
Is crushed our spirit or crippled OF
Il p,,k ole
E. others of us who through love
ID their task have surrendered then
10 selves to the new demands made |
an increasingly difficult situation
IL 1t is they in particular who by the
lie act of surrender have learned
r. realize that it is not to love >aloi
m their special task, but the cause
to which it is part. They have SCUM
ci clearly the note of personality
Il Though the influence of indivi
ed ual workers may seem at times
be so extraordinarily big. the me-
p does not grow less Of steady /
ty crease in the number that shou
slT Ue eullSttu W SeTNc. we CdHuot "a
al, our measure by count of ourselv'
he nor he able to gauge orr Gualit
but we can hold to an ideal of
world moving to one measure of 4
ng voted service.
Id. 1--WE cannot tell what founts
on strength may be drawn on to bri
Or recuperation to the world as
oft now know it. But we do know I'll
nd from whatever source the strene
nd for recuperation comes, the r,
,ut strength will lie In the simply-plf
APP ned, the virtuous home, in the
ere tegrity of family life; in the but
lit ancy of disposition which finds
ing own opportunities for play; in
nd ability to stand up to the drudge
Ike OF the days job; in the readin
He to see the other fellows point
led view; in ties of comradeship. in a
m. of worship, in knowing God. We
.es, cial workers can do our part as
en-, termediaries to interpret one gro
hen to another, to supplement and to
zen lease energy, to prevent oppressi
and to equalize opportunity, to
he forth the means of service.
fol- 'Our collective offering will b
ed: prelude to the peace which 81
lick endure"