The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
TORONTO WINS
SOCIAL AID
MEET
| Defeats U. S. Cities in National
900 Dele
gates Will Attend.
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New York, publicity director for the
great gathering, in an address TO-
| day:
MANY newspapers today are Civ.
Ling news and editorial space to the
developments IN the fields of public
and private social service which
formerly left this great area of mod.
ern life and community interest al
most untouched by their news gath.
| ering machinery. Newspapers are
| finding that social work has a real
news value"
Editors Aid Work.
There is a general agreement
among newspaper editors and re-
porters,' declared Leroy E. Bow
man, of Columbia University, that
social service. as it has been devel.
oped in the past fifty years, Is. OF
immense practical Importance, but
that it's publicity depends upon
| human interest, number of people
! involved, and reference to women.
These facts are revealed in the an
editors and a like number sent to
reporters.
Bowman decried tendency
cate the form in which social work
ers submitted their news items.
The program for today, in gen.
eral outline, Is as follows:
General topic, Public Opinion.
Morning group meetings.
1. Washington Hotel. Topic. How
Far Has Social Work Influenced
Public Opinion
2. Washington Hotel Topic,
Printers Ink and Social Interpre-
tation.'
8. Interior Building auditorium.
Topic, Public Opinion in Problems
of Race and Nationality"
4. National Museum. Topic, Pub
lie Opinion on Social Welfare Cues
tons as Indicated by the Referen-
dunn.
5. Continental Hall. Topic, aSocial
Programs and Public Support
s. American Red Cross Assembly
Hall. Topic. THE Settlement as an
Influence in Public Opinion. 1896.
1928"
Meetings of kindred groups in the
afternoon.
Evening general session, Con.
vention Hall, o'clock.
While most of today's speakers
discovered steady growth in pres
tige and appreciation of social work
some turned the other side of the
shield to view.
Must Show Results.
Social work as a community
force has not impressed itself upon
the general public" asserted c. H.
Bookman. of Cincinnati.
Social workers should recognize, =
| said he, that sentiment cannot alone
| maintain public opinion. 1t must
have something more tangible to
build on. There is nothing so tangi-
BILE as results, and as the newer pol
| Icy in social work has been followed
long enough to show the first graft
flying results, it is the duty Of social
workers to keep these results steadily
before the people, so that the wis
dom of this policy may appeal to
their common sense and develop a
favorable public opinion. .
Among other speakers bringing
messages of great interest to the
delegates were DIR. Philip p. Jacobs,
Public Opinion on Social Welfare
Questions as Indicated by Tubercu
losis Hospital Referendum Cam
paigns:" Owen r. Lovejoy. NEW
York Miss M. Edith Campbell, . Gin
c;nnati, The Strategic Position of
the School in Problems of Social
Work. William H. Norton. Detroit,
Social Programs and Public Sup
port" DIR. Alexander Fleisher, New
York, Public Opinion on Social Wei
fare Questions AS Indicated by the
Referendum" Howard w. Odum.
Chapel Hill, n. c.. Printers Ink
and Social interpretations" Prof.
Herbert Adolphus Miller. Oberlin
College. THE Myth of Superiority
| Carl Van Dorem, New York editor,
and Franklin Thomas, Hastings-on-
Hudson, N. Y.