New Britain herald., 1918-06-13
NATION AWAkENS ID SOCIAL OBLIGATION
Report on National Conference Given to Charity Organization

uOn, SuDnlILeQ her 1nOnCnlV statement of the organiza tion's activities at the meeting of the board of directors last evening. Here report, which likewise includes a resume of the National Conference of social workers i. here with printed:
 Tt takes a big map to depict journeys in the West, says the Bull letin of the National Conference of social wirk. The Parish of the con- ference stretches much farther to the westward of Kansas City than it does in the opposite direction. Mountain ranges and deserts separat te or lie about the population centers from which many of the western members hailed. Large numbers of workers from the states along the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi river went out to Kansas City, Missouri, the mid- dle-west to greet and exchange exper- ences with those of the mountains, valleys and plains of the great West, the real West which has a chara cter and problems of it's own.
 ''Of the conference this year. Rob- ert A. Woods, the president, said The general assembly call to the social
 
 Canada has this year a historic ur- gency. Right counsel and inspira- tion given and taken means full po- tental contribution to the vigor and spirit of the armed forces, to the pro- ductiveness and morale of the na- ton behind them, to the underlying energies which must build the new world of the future
 Throughout the entire week whether at the mass meetings com mencing with community singing led by military comp song leader, Or at the sectional gatherings great and small,-all subjects and discussions turned without fail to their relation with the present war situation
 The many changes of many things because of the war, the developments along all social and welfare lines all bring us nearer to international re- lationship.
 'Chares Blackman of the Uni versity of Kansas said, Every morn ing Is the dawn of a new social day these times and no one may safely prophesy.'"
 New Alignment of Nations.
 "A new interna tionalism will come out of the common hunger of the nations at war and the neutral coun- tries where food supplies have be- come hard ti obtain because of trans portation problems growing out of the war, was the prophecy voiced by Miss Jane Addams, president of Hull House. Chicago, "A number of the nations of the world have been dra wing closer together ho the war because of their common in terest in the food problem she said. It was necessary that they should do so in order that the peopel of no one of them should starve. This has brought about new international re- latlons that will have much to do with the terms of peace when thev are agreed upon. Coming together in thls close heart-to-heart way, the new internationalism that will result never consent to any nation being cut off from its food supplies in times of peace. Under the peace terms the food supplies of every nation will be the first consideration.
 And with the democrac,, tbo+ ,s becoming more distinctivelv charac-, teristic of the American nation and T Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest and A Protestant minister Joined in 2. dis cussion of "The Church Community and the Present Crisis" Their audi ence was as diversified as the relie- ious tenets of the churches and speakers represented. but each was acclaimed with the same degree of enthusiasm. That the war Is doing more to bring about religious unity than generations of peace might have done, was the opinion expressed by the Rev. Roy B. Guild, executive secretary of the Commission on In ter-Church Federations Every well fare hut in every soldier camp stands for religious unity, he declared
 But will we who have stayed at home be able to make of our com- munities fit habitations for the sol diers who have met the supreme test in the task of eliminating from the worlds politics that for which the kaiser and the Potsdam gang stand?
 '"The war is creating a deeper relig- ious sentiment throughout the world and in America particularly the fri volity that was rampant a few years ago has been hushed into silence by the roar of guns, the shriek of shrap- nel and the moans of the wounded and dying" said Rabbi H. Mayer of B'Nai Jehudah Temple.
 "The Japanese am bassador of so- cial welfare I. Tago, and his assist ant, pr. M. Talzenouch, who were touring America, England and Cana da Investigating social conditions for the Japanese Empire, were intro duced to the audience and were warmly received Neither spoke Eng fish, but statement from MT Tago, warmly commendatory of American snCial uNnf,Ir