The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-19
SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM
Able Speakers to be Present at Fifth
Annual Conference


Annual Conference
! The program committee of the Yer
mont conference of social work an
Inounces a program of unusual interest
TO Vermonters. The central topic of
the conference will be The Rural
Community" and the committee has
been fortunate in securing a number
of able speakers who have had excep-
tional opportunities for study of the
social questions to be discussed
The fifth annual session of the Yer
mCnt conference of social work will
meet in St Johnsbury in Fairbanks
Museum, Wednesday and Thursday,
October eighth and ninth. The date
has been moved back from January in
the hope that the possibility of motor
ing to the meetings will serve to in
crease attendance.
AS usual the Wednesday evening
is the big time of the conference. The
Presidents address en- Community
Planning" viii then be delivered by
Professor X. r. b. Flint OF Norwich
University Professor Flint, well
known as a forceful and instructive
speaker has won new fame as Soc
ial thinker by his recent published
manuel of Town Planning. The sec
end speaker for the Wednesday even
ing session is John NJ. Thomas, the
eloquent and gifted President of Mid
.dlebury college. President Thomas
will deliver an address upon "Ameri-
.canization" which is perhaps the liyest
social problem of our country today.
The program for Wednesday after
noon includes: Social Work for Girls
in Vermont, by Marion Gary, field sec.
rotary CT the Vermont Y. w. c. A.;
Child Welfare Work, by Mrs. Ernest A.
Linderhom formerly on the staff of
the Chicago School of Civics; The
Social Life of the Farmer, by o. l..
Martin, master Of the state grange;
and Rural Recreation, by Charles F
Ernest, formerly of the South END
House, Boston, now Burlington agen,
of Community Service, Inc.
Thursday morning, Professor A. h.
Clifford, secretary of the conference
and President of the Vermont Child
ren's Aid society will discuss "A pro
gram of Social Legislation" former
Commissioner OF Industries, r. w 81.
monds, will answer the question: Has
Vermont a Child Labor Problem?" Dr.
c. f. Dalton, secretary of the State
Board of Health, will have an impor-
tant paper on Rural Sanitation and
Professor G. G. Groat CT the University
of Vermont will speak on Adoption OF
the Associated Charities Scheme to
Rural Communities.
On Thursday afternoon the Vermont
Children's Aid society viii hold its first
annual meeting for election of officers
and transaction of business relating
to the matter of inaugurating the work
of the new fun time salaried General
Secretary To this meeting, as to all
sessions of the conference everyone
interested is invited most cordially.
Following the Children's Aid meeting
there viii be held an Open Forum in
which anyone may join in the freezer
all discussion of the salient topics of
the conference program This promis-
es to be the liveliest time of the. con
ference since there will he no formal
program, but the trend of discussion
will be allowed to follow the way sug-
gested by the interests and convictions
of volunteer speakers.
The Vermont conference of social
work since its organization in 1916 has
played an important role. Through its
agency the State Board of Charities
and Probation was established by legis
lative enactment. Through its good
Offices was organized the Vermont
Aid society which aims to
with the and supplement the
of the State board Because
Of its fine record OF achievement as
well as the timely interest of its pro-
gram, the st. Johnsbury meeting of the
is expected to set a new
record fer attendance The conference
has become easily the most important
social forum in the state and it is hop
ed that this year all social workers
paid and volunteer-will make a spec
al effort to be present.