Evening star., 1923-05-16
to Open Social Work
Conference at Polls Tonight
Washington Cro,oded With Notable
Health and Charity Leaders of This
Country, Europe and South america.

+! England; Frank o. Lowden. former
Governor OF Illinois; DR.. Ludwik
| Rajchman, director of the health sec
! tion of the league of nations. Geneva,
Switzerland: DIR. Charles J. Hastings,
| commissioner of health, Toronto.
| Canada; DR.. w. S. Rankin, secretary
of the state board of health of North
Carolina; Rev. John A. Ryan Of the
National Catholic Welfare Council,
Washington; DR.. Frank j.. Goodnow.
| president of Johns Hopkins Uni
| versity. Baltimore; Mile. Annie NoLf-
! f1ard, director of social service in the
tuberculosis hospitals of Paris: Dean
| Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law
I School, Cambridge. Mass; Abbe Jean
| Violet OF Paris, editor Of LAssist-
| French Family Dwellings Associa-
tion; Miss Julia c. Lathrop of Rock
! ford, ILL.,, recently selected by the
| League of Women Voters as one of
| the twelve most famous women in
[ the United States; Robert w. kelso.
| executive secretary of the Council of
| Social Agencies. Boston, Mass; DR..
| Rene Sand of Paris. secretary gen
eral of the League of Red Cross So
| cieties; DR.. Alice Salmon Of Berlin,
! cial Work, and Mrs. Henry Mosko-
| witz of New York, ex-secretary of
] the reconstruction commission of New
| York state.
| All Governors Invited.
| Governors of all of the states in
the United States have been invited
to the conference. During the past
| fifty years twenty-five governors have
| been members of the conference. and
| twice a governor has served as its
president-Gov. Tilden of New York
! and Gov. Bagley of Michigan.
| President and Mrs. Folks arrived in
Washington last night, accompanied
| by Able Jean Violet and Mile. Annie
! Nouffiard of Paris. France, and DR..
Alice Salomon of Berlin, Germany.
| Able Violet is editor of LAssist-
ance Educative and leader in the
housing reform movement in Paris.
| Mile. Nouff1ard is founder of the syS-
tenn Of social service in the tubercu
losis hospitals in France. DR.. Salo-
dean Of social workers in Germany,
is director of. the Berlin School of
Social Work.
Other noted foreign representatives
include DR.. Ludwik Rajchman of
| Poland. executive officer Of the
health division Of the league of ma
| tions; DR.. Rene Sand of Belgium. sec
! retary- general of the League of Red
Cross Societies and James J. Mallon
Of London, England. head warden OF
| Toynbee Hall, the first settlement
house ever organized.
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Since the war DIR. Ratchman has
helped to protect European countries
| from lnvasionS of typhus, cholera and
other epidemics from Russia and the
near east BY stationing sanitary Of
hcers at the borders of Poland and
the Ukraine and by securing action
by the league to strengthen sanitary
! measures taken by the governments
Of Czechoslovakia and Rumania. He
was formerly head of the public
heaith laboratory service in War
saw. Poland
| Or. Sand was for some years pro-
lessor of Industrial medicine at the
University of Brussels. He visited
the United States in 1919 to attend
the child welfare conference of the
iederai children's bureau. He had a
prominent part in organizing child
welfare work in Belgium, which, dur
ing the war and despite the enemy
invasion. reduced the infant death
time: DR.. Sand is interested in the
possibility OF creating an interna-
tional association of social workers.
MT Ma11on. who will speak at the
conference May is on The Public's
Concern in Industrial ORGANIZATION. -
sailed for America on the Adriatic
April rs. arriving May s. From clerk
In a watch and clock firm in Liver
pool. Mr.. Mallon has become a lead
ing hgure in social and industrial re-
tci Al III IHk idHQ he was one of the
prime movers In the enactment of the
British trade board act and is a mem
Der OF the British National Industrial
conference, treasurer of the Work
ers' Educational Association and a
lecturer at the London School OF
Mechanics.
Greet Turkish Omcial.
Washington today greeted the first
Turkish official since the outbreak of
the great war in the person of DR..
Fouad Bey. the former minister of
public health and social welfare of
the Angora government. and a mem
Turkey.
DR.. Fouad Bey will represent Tur-
key at the conference The main pur
pose of his visit to the United States
is s, TO study social institutions and to
IDEAS and methods back to Turkey.
DR.. Fouad Bey will stay in Wash
fngton about five days and will meet
some of the officials of the State De-
Headquarters will be at the New viii
lard. He went to Arlington this
afternoon and put a wreath on the
tomb Of the unknown soldier on be-
nalt OF the new democratic Turkey.
Canadian Delegate Here.
The Rev. Brother Barnabas Of the
Canadian Child Welfare Council, To-
ronto. has arrived. He Is the first
member OF the Canadian delegation to
arrive. Canada is very anxious to
entertain the conference at Toronto
next wear" said Brother Barnabas.
Inc conference has met in Canada
only once in its history-at Toronto in
1897. This year Canada has sent the
largest delegation in it's history.
NICARAGUA Will be represented by
DR.. Manuel Maldonado, author, psy-
chologist and philanthropist, who is
vice president OF the Universal Con-
gress of the Press. DR.. Maldonado is
a leading welfare worker in Mica
ragua.
u Miss Alice F,arrer Of Costa Rica,
who Is now with the Pan-American n
| Union. Will attend some of the ses-
SONS. MISS Farrer said that Costa
Rican social workers are interested
work.
Mayor Breidenbach heads the dele
cation from Newark. \. j.. which
numbers twenty-five officials and rep
| resentatiVes of private welfare agen-
! cies. Headquarters are at the Hotel
Gordon.
Newark's Active Work.
Newark has recently established a
welfare federation containing seventy
organizations. In addition to attend
ing the meetings of the conference,
the Newark delegates will attend a
conference called by the mayor for a
discussion of Newark's welfare prob
lens. H. d. Burrell Of the federation
and Ernest D. Easton of the New
Jersey tuberculosis League and presi =
dent OF the Social Service Workers
Club. are in charge Of the arrange
ments for the pilgrimage from New
ark.
Twenty-four former presidents of
the National Conference of Social
WORK are living. and most of them