New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-15
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FOLKS ARE CONTENT
Mrs. Glenn Takes Worry OF Our
Fighters Shoulders

Mrs. John NJ. Glenn, who Is to
speak in the Section on Family and
Community of the State Conference
Of Charities and Correction on Mon
day evening April 70 is chairman OF
the Home Service Section of the
American Red Cross in Manhattan
| and the Bronx, New York, a section
which has had more soldiers families
under its care than any other Home
Service Section in the country. She
was also president or the National
Conference of Charities and Correc-
ton In 1915 when the national body
met at Baltimore. For many years
she has been identified with the char
ity organization movement and has
been particularly prominent in the
societies in Baltimore and New York
Mrs. Glenn is looked upon as the
leading volunteer social worker Of the
country.
The Importance of her work with
the American Red Cross at the pres
ent time is very keenly appreciated
! by those interested in Red Cross &C
tivtties. t Is becoming increasingly
evident from the experience Of the
Allies and that of our own troops that
a soldier cannot be an efficient SOL
der unless he goes away happy and
contented in feeling that those whom
he has left behind are to be well cared
! for and will receive the same tndivid-
ual attention from Red Cross Home
Service Workers as he himself would
have afforded them. One Of the Red
Cross Commits oners having recently
returned from Italy is very positive
in his statement that the breaking
down of the Italian morale some
months go was due entirely to the
fact that the soldiers We're so very
much concerned by conditions of
their families back at home knowing
that they were without coal, food and
shelter. On this account those who
appreciate the situation fully appre-
ciate the constructive opportunity to
help in winning the war that Mrs.
Glenn's euviable position affords her.
What she has TO say, therefore, will
be of extreme interest to New Britain
folks.
Boston Official to Speak.
j. Prentice Murphy, who is to
speak at the Section on Children
Monday afternoon, is at tho present
time the general secretary of the Bos-
ton Children's Aid Society, a society
which has under its care upwards OF
700 children placed entirely in fam
| lily homes throughout the state. OF
recent years the society has made
rather notable contributions to the
knowledge Of social work through it's
| excellent work with mothers of lille
! climate children. This problem has
| been one Of growing Importance to
| this and European countries since the
| outbreak of the war
Mr.. Murphy is a graduate Of the
| University or Pennsylvania 1907 was
! superintendent of the Philadelphia
! Chi1dren's Bureau 1907 to 1911. and
! has been secretary Of the Boston
! Children's Aid society since that
| date. He is likewise q member of
| the faculty of Simmons college,
| school for social workers. and is on
the executive committee of the Bos
ton Metropolitan Red Cross. likewise
chairman of the Massa chusetts Child
Welfare committee.
Mr.. Murphy was one Of the prom
nent relief workers who went imme-
dtately to Halifax to organize relief
work Of that stricken city. It has
been said that the speed and direct
y ess with which the work there was
accomplished will be a lasting tribute
+ not only to those professionally inter
ested but to the generosity Of those
who responded throughout the coun-
try to HalifaX's need and likewise to
| the people Of Halifax whose spirit %
| cooperation, thankfu1ness and graft
tude will always be remembered by
Of reconstruction after the explosion.