The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

an accurate knowledge of the individ-
ual, Of the resources at hand and OF
the method Of application. Miss Mason
told of the summer school at Smith
College last year and outlined the
courses in psychiatric social work. med
ical social work. child welfare and COM
munity organization which are to be
offered at Smith College this summer.
The University Of Illinois presents a
moro general course and an eight
months course combining both theory
and practice, is given at the Psyche
pathic Hospital in Boston After this
preliminary training one can accept
positions In military hospitals or other
hospitals. or in connection with courts,
or one can engage in after care work
for the discharged soldier suffering from
shell shock.
The last speaker at the conference
was Meyer Bloomfield of Boston, who
since last October has visited France,
Belgium and England as a guest OF
the British Government. He said that
the war has brought many new argu-
ments in favor of vocational guidance.
In England there was a great awaken
ing on the part OF women to their share
in economic life. The danger was that
the long established institutions could
not develop with sufficient rapidity to
meet the new
Mr.. Bloomfield visited centres where
women had not been employed previous
to the war. going to the shfpyards, which
he considers the most efficient on earth
as they have AGzS. builShg ships for over
a century. There an expert told him
that II the war had lasted two years
longer women would have been able to
build a ship from keel to wireless with
out assistance from men. In no field
which women have entered have they
made a failure. They have learned to
make optical glass, and In one instance
woman perfected lens which ex-
ceeded the perfection of lenses turned
out by the ZeisS Optical Works In Jena.
The war has caught the English one i'm
portant lesson: They have learned that
the more training, the greater intelli-
gence. and the sounder physique a
woman has, the quicker is her adapta-
ton to new work and the more certain
Ia her rise to position of responsible
ity. Very few uneducated women held
important positions in Great Britain,
even in war work. This was no lack in
democracy. but simply due to the fact
that trained minds inevitably find their
way to the top. II has proved an argu-
ment for better education and more
preparation for ones vocation. 1t has
pioubht dDoul II new stTe5S OH general,
so-called cultural education. The war
has done away with two superstitions as
regards age and sex. The dead line of
age has been eliminated because of the
efficient work done by older men during
the war, and a new dead line has been
established. below which no one should
be employed. thus leaving more time for
preparation. One of the factors that
have brought this about has been the
world demand for more leisure. E9ne of
the most successfu! employers IN Eng
land has written book on the six hour
day. maintaining that the work OF tho
world could be done IN that time These
are times of trial. Tho preparation for
peace is going to be even harder than
the preparation for war, and our good
VIII, sympathy and impulse for SER
vice VIII be taxed 70 the utmost