The Washington times., 1923-05-19
JUSTICE DENIED
POOR, SAYS
SPEAKER
Half Million in U. S. Unable to
Pay High Costs Of Court
Proceedings.
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Proceedings.
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Social Work, at today's general SEES
sion,
''The courts the immigrant comes
in contact with" she said, are
mostly lower courts, and some OF
them have treated him very badly
and still are doing so. In many
police courts his case is decided by
political considerations rather than
by principles of justice" She
wrged the special understanding"
of immigrant types and adequate
Interpretation service in all tribu-
nails handling cases of newcomers
to our shores.
Building Costs.
Rents and building costs must
come down or wages must go up II
the American nation is to be housed,
declared Blocker Marquette, of the
Better Housing League, Cincinnati,
in an address here today before a
group meeting of the conference.
mot for many years has the
during 1921 and 1922" said Mar
quette. Every large city in the
country has been short of houses.
Rents have increased from so to IS
per cent over what they were In
1914. Building costs today are cas-
lily rs per cent higher. Even during
the last year there has been an in
crease of 20 INIr cent. almost uni
formly throughout the country in
the cost of home building.
Working Women.
Two million wage-earning married
women in the United States furnish
q problem demanding analysis, be-
cause there is no adequate body of
facts upon which to formulate poll.
cies regarding their employment,
declared Miss Mary N. Winslow, of
the women's bureau, Department of
Labor.
There is strong advocacy of
every woman's right to engage in
wage-earning occupations, and there
is also strong opposition to mar
ried women so working, and the
matter must be threshed out in the
interest of establishment of definite
standards, she said.
Encroachment by the Federal
Government upon State preroga-
tives, was held responsible by DR..
Frank j. Goodnow, for notification
of such legislation enacted by Con-
gress for the purpose of safeguard.
Ing the public health, in addressing
the conference.
DR.. Goodman cited several in
stances of this, notably the act of
Congress prohibiting the transpor-
tation in Interstate Commerce of
articles made by child labor. and
subsequently it's notification by the
Supreme Court. On the grounds
that it unwarrantably encroaches
upon the States powers and regu-
lates the manufacture and not the
transportation, the latter in nowise
Care Of Orphans.
Robert w. Kelso. OF the Boston
Council OF Social Agencies, prophe-
sled that it will be only few
years before every orphanage in
the land will be- no more than a
temporary shelter, and it's inmates
will be placed in foster homes
The foremost child-caring agen-
cies in the world" he said. "are
child-placing enterprises. The aban-
donment of a child in favor of any
one willing to walk away with it is
disappearing as a phase of the
movement from barrack orphanagss
to the foster home. Standards of
home life and standards of eff
cheney in the supervision of chill.
dren placed in foster homes have
come into being. The congregate
institution is to disappear. leaving
behind it the temporary shelter.
housing only few little ones at a
time, and keeping those for the
briefest practicable period"
Other Addresses.
Among other interesting addresses
delivered today were the following:
The Development of Public Health
protection and Promotion" DIR. Wal.
Ter n: Brown, Mansfield, Ohio;
transition from Charities and Con.
TeGtlons TO Public Welfare" Miss
Iulla LAthrop, former chief of the
Children's Bureau, Department of
LAbo; "Gowth of Scientific Unde.
standing of Mentality in It's ReIa
tionship to Social Work" DR.. Adolnh
Meyer, Johns Hopkins Hospital: and
me Social Challenge to Industrial
management" William H. Johnson.
president, international Association
OF Machinists."
LII: Rene Sand, secretary general
OF the League of Red Cross 81,
ccieties, with headquarters in Paris
france today that ARRANGEMENT,
nave been completed to hold an
international conference of social
work in Brussels, Belgium, IN the
summer of 1924.
This will be the first international
conference of social workers ever
held.
DR.. Sand extended an invitation
10 the members of the national
conference to attend.