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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
Social Conference Program
+. Includes Many Gatherings

Workers., annual meeting. Hall
OF Nations. Hotel Washington.
American Red Cross reception
to y. c. $. W. delegates. ma
tional headquarters, American
Red Cross :,
National Association of Visiting
Teachers, meeting. Sun room.
Hotel Washington.
National conference of social
work., South Grounds Of White
House, open to N. C. S. w. dele
gates
Women's International League
OF Peace and Freedom-2:30, peace
meeting. Church OF Our Father,
18th and J. streets northwest.
Conference on immigration pol
icy-3. meeting with national re-
search council committee, 1901
Massachusetts avenue.
DINNERS
American Association for Or
ganiZing Family Social Works..
the Raleigh, general secretaries
dinner
Committee on publicity methods
IN social work--6 O'Clock.
THE Follies," New Willard ball
room-following evening session
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20

Of the District, aud the rapid growth
of the use of motor -drlyen vehicles
has necessitated the, ERECTION OF
In whiSs to pupc
garages. has notably Increased OF
late In the District OF Columbia, IT
la common knowledge that the
streets and avenues In the fmme diate
H Dranssd OF f. tae sefthe ssnase in cues.
ton tsee IAN, .ever-increasinK traHtc
thereon. Connecticut avenue and
Columbia road In this vicinity bear
the added traffic of the street cars OF
the Washington Railway and Elee,
this road are. rapidly changing from
residential strcets to business ones.
The same els true of 18TH street. DuL
a block away, which is occupied. og
Company. Nineteenth street has
steep grade so has Connecticut
avenue and Columbia road in the
vicinity of the land In question, ana
on these streets has greatly increased
and that that traffic has consequent
~ become more haxardous.
Some of the hasards of trafiic
on t9th' street. could be avoided, FnU
doubt, IF the use as in effect play
grounds for children, as set out in
the bin of complaint, was forbidden.
The court is of the opinion that 1t
is not warranted either by the facts
or by law in declaring that the es-
Establishment and operation of this
garage would create a nuisance, In
the legal sense of the word. If the
injury TO the value Of property as
residents in the vicinity. apprehended
by the plaintiffs, follows the estab-
lishment and operation Of this garage,
it will, in the courts opinion, consti-
tute damnum absque injuria. Life In
growing city Is beset with incon-
veniences. and discomforts. some of
them reaching. no doubt. proportions
that work hardship and even direct
loss. but they are conditions that are
not easily avoided or overcome, II in
deed they can be at all. Home
owners and occupiers are not infre-
quently. in effect, driven from their
old homes by the changes that inevi-
tably attend the growth and develop
ment of an urban population. They
must accept such conditions with as
much eouinimity as they can invoke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
TRACES INDUSTRIAL
TREND TO WELFARE
Editor Stresses Child Labor
and Wage Law Decisions
as SetbaCkS. .

The Supreme Court decision that the
federal child labor law is unconstitu-
tional, and its recent adverse decision
! on the District minimum wage law,
were linked by. Paul L. Kellogg OF
New York, editor of the Survey. in
discussing the Changing Social
] Frontage on Industry" with the fact
that the American Iron and Steel In
stitute this month will hear the re-
port of committee headed by Judge
Gary on the abolition of the twelve
hour day in the steel industry, and
the fact that one of the great under
lying problems before the United
States Coal Commission is TO elimin-
ate the broken year in the coal fields
where over a thirty-year period the
men have only worked fraction OF
each year.
Mr.. Kellogg. addressing a group
meeting of the National Conference on
Social Work. declared these four facts
are bound together by "the principle
OF the industrial minimum"
Waste of Humanity.
I'VE have. been trying tn close up
the sub cellars of American indus
try" he said. ito set a floor level
below which life and labor shall not
go: analogous to our prohibition of
cellar dwellings in tenement legisIs-
tion. We stand for these things in
the knowledge that premature labor
night work for women, underpay-
rnent for women and children, excess
sfve hours of labor, unemployment
are all humanity wasteful.
But these are merely negative re-
forms. Except for the interruption
Of the war and the prejudices of
judgs they would have been over
come IN the last decade. We must go
back and make sure of them. But
NI-n oh fnn ffr ri nd
away at the industrial problems con
fronting a nation which has cleared
out its sub cellars. Here we come to
a new range of questions having to
do with security. with incentives to-
ward production. with democracy in
economic life paralleling our self
government in civic life.
Growth of Idea.
Democracy did not come over
night. politically speaking, either in
England or in America. We had our
beginnings at Plymouth rock and
Massachusetts bay and along the
coastal rivers to the south. 1t made
mistakes. threw out its prophets.
hung it's witches and buffeted royal
governors.
But gradually that scheme of or
ganized life which our forebears
brought with them spread to the
Alleghanies, across the prairies,
weaving CONFERENCE.-THE fabric OF
erned. England is today carrying tho
old principles over to industrial life.
Industrial democracy will not in turn
come over night. either with the
experiments in hundred ways. with
faults and shortcomings. the process
will go on in our effort to strike, a
new equilibrium between individual
tween state action and self-govern-
| ment, industry by industry"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
SPEAKER SEES AGE
MAIN DEATH CAUSE
Dr.. Brown Tells Social Work
=
ers There Should Be Few
Other Reasons.

"Old age should be the principal
like the famous one boss shay
which. after a century of life, went
to pieces all at once" said DR.. Walter
H. Brown Of Mansfield, Ohio, I'M ad.
dress yesterday before group
meeting of the National Conference
of Social Work. in the hall of nations,
Hotel Washington.
The topic Development Of Public
Health Protection and Promotion
also was discussed by DR.. Frank }.
Goodnow. president, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, and Dr. Eugene
r. Kelley, MASSACHUSETTS state com
missioner of public health.
Death Usually Premature.
Death as a rule. comes premature
ly," said DR.. Brown. Defects and
disease cause the machine to break
down before 1T wears ouk. This
mystery has challenged the attention
of man in all ages. and out OF IL have
grown all of our modern health
movements. In the past, they have
been largely negative battles to es-
cape disease.
Fortunately we are entering new
phase. Our health ideals promise %
exceed that of any other age. They,
will not stop at mere negative Of
disease, degeneracy, delinquency ana
dependency. They will be positive
and progressive. They will not stop
at the avoidance Of invalidisIn. bur
will aim at eXuberant and eXultaI.t
health"
Promotion OF Health.
DR.. Kelley. speaking on the develop
ment Of public administration in the
protection and promotion of public
health. said
Those who are today engaged IN
public health work as a life career
are calling as loudly as they can to
all their fellows, pointing out the
possibilities that lie in the sane de-
velopment of all these things, cpl
technology, infant hygiene, mental
hygiene, metabolism. industrial ny
giene. sanitary engineering, the
whole stupendous list of modern spe-
cialities which have demonstrate1'
that they have a definite contribution
to offer to this great course of health
conservation. They are pointing to
these truths on every hand and call
ing TO their fellow citizens every
where. This is not simply our job.
II is also yours. Come and help, for
only by every one doing his bit. By
each one putting his shoulder willing
ly to the wheel, can the old Specters
of ayoidable deaths, preventable jill
ness, unnecessary pain and needless
misery that have logged mans footI
steps from the infancy of the race be
successfully controlled and dimiE-
ished and finally overcome"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
BELGIUM INVITES
SOCIAL WORKERS
International Conference
Planned in Brussels
Next Year.

Plans are being formulated to hold
the first international conference of
Industrial social workers at Brussels.
next year, and the 5000 delegates at
the golden jubilee conference now in
session here have been invited to at
tend
This announcement was made by DR..
Rene Sand Of Belgium, secretary
general of the League of Red Cross
Societies. at the first business meet
ing of the national conference, late
Friday. - -
Homer Folks, president of the con-
ference, presided.
Robert w kelso of Boston, chair
man of special committee created by
the conference to report on recon-
mended changes in the bylaws, in
troduced an amendment regarding
membership which made it impossible
for a member to vote through two
annual conferences without second
payment of dues, regardless of the
date to which his membership carried
him. This is In accord with the pres
ent spirit of the payment of dues and
obviates the difficulty made by the
varying dates upon which the annual
conference meets. This amendment
was carried.
c. c. Carstens of New York chair
man of the kindred groups committee,
and Professor j. +. Hagerty of Column
bus, Ohio. chairman of Il special com
mittee Oh records and reports, were
not present to report so II was moved
TO continue their activities for another
year.
DR.. Sand gave an interesting resume
OF the growth of schools for training
social workers throughout Europe
since the war. and described the ex
tension of social work generally. He
proposed interna tionai conference
of social work which should meet in
different country each year. He sug-
gested that arrangements might be
made through the secretaries of the
League of Red Cross Societies, which
is to meet in Paris in ten days, and
which was to have an American rep
resentative, Col. Ernest p. Bicknell Of
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
PARIS DIVORCE RATIO
NEARLY ONE IN SEVEN
5,237 Gain Freedom in Year,
1858 Marry-Marriage Hard
Task in France.

PARIS. May 19.-Paris last year
had the largest percentage of divorces
to the number of marriages of any
city in France. Statistics show that
during 1922 there were 5.237 DEGREES
of divorce granted for $3.50 mar
riages celebrated.
In Versailles tho proportion was
one to eleven; in Rambouillet, one
to twelve; in Lyons. one to thirteen;
in Marseilles and Bordeaux, one TO
fourteen.
Court officials say that the number
of divorces in Paris to foreigners
many of them Americans, who did
not contract marriage in Paris, has
greatly helped in bringing up the
average
France is one OF the most difficult
countries in the world in which Ia
marry. A Frenchman DESTROYS of en-
tering the marriage state must sub
nit more documents than a total
stranger needs in cashing a check
at a bank-birth certificate, police
record and military discharge.
Furthermore. unless he has reached
the age of thirty, the applicant must
also present the written consent OF
his parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
NEW YOUNGEST MEMBER'
At CONFERENCE AGED TWO

wis, and Providence, p. I. When she
attended the session in Milwaukee
she was only four months old, but
she wore badge.
Ruth Mary's father is DIRECTOR of
the Jewish Big Brothers Club of
Pittsburgh. In 1915 and 1916 her
mother was a pupil at the Chicago
School of Civics of Alexander John
son of Fort Wayne. Ind. eX-presi-
dent and eX-secretary of the confer
ence-better known as Uncle Alec"
Uncle Alec. who admits being seventy
six years old. is the oldest member
of the conference in attendance at
the fftieth anniversary meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
MISS RICHMOND GUEST
OF WELFARE WORKERS
Mrs. Harding Sends Flowers in
Honor of Charity Director of
Russell Sage Work.

The family welfare workers of
the Associated Charities were hosts
yesterday afternoon TO Miss Mary r.
Richmond. director of the charity
organiza ton. depa of the
Russell Sage Foundation. Miss Rich
mond is a conspicuous figure among
those now in attendance on the ma
tional conference of social work.
Mrs. Harding sent flowers from the
White House cpnservatcries Mrs
Archibald Hopkins. wife OF the
chairman of the board of managers
of the Associated Charities, served
tea to the guests, who included old
friends of Miss Richmond as well as
readers of her books and former
students Of her institutes.
Opportunity was afforded tho Wis
ice house of the Associated Char
tiles and tuberculosis Associa ton,
1022 18th street northwest, where
the reception was held
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
ISSUE OF YEAR BOOK
SETS NEW RECORD
Department of Agriculture
Report Would Make Stack
Twelve Miles High.

Enough copies of the twenty-ninth
annual year book of the Department
of Agriculture have been printed by
the government printing Office to
make n pile 121 times as tall as the
Washington Monument, or more
than twelve miles high.
The 1922 year book is not only the
largest ever issued by the depart
ment but it was printed in record
time. The first copy was sent to the
printing office March Z, and the first
deliveries made May Z, more than a
month ahead of schedule.
Because of the size of the Job il
was necessary to complete II in two
"installments' of 100000 copies each
The plates of lead type were used
to cast copper plates, which were
plated with nickel, in order to stand
up under the great number of i'm
pressions necessary.
Marks Departure.
The 1922 year book is the second
OF a series which mark a departure
from the previous year books in the
kind of material presented. Last
years report represented an effort
to present in a somewhat detailed
way the economic situation with re-
cultural products-wheat, corn. beef,
and cotton.
The story is continued in the 1922
year book, which treats of five more
of the remaining major subjects
timber; hog production and market
ing: dairying; tobacco culture; oats,
barley, rye, grain sorghums. seed fax
and buckwheat. Other products will
be taken UP in succeeding issues, so
that in the course of a few years a
fairly complete picture of the whole
agricultural economic situation may
be presented.
approximately 10000 reams OF paper
were required for. the body of the
book. At forty pounds per ream, the
total wouldabe 100000 pounds. or
more than forty carloads OF paper.
For the binding of the book, $4,000
sheets of binder board, weighing
10000 pounds and equal to four and
one-half carloads, were required, as
we'll as $4,000 yards of book cloth.
Weighing 10000 pounds, and 675
spools OF thread.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
SOCIAL WORKERS
MAKE NOMINATIONS
Election of Officers to Be
Held During Business Ses-
sion on tuesday.

The election OF officers for the Ma
tionaI Conference of Social Work for
the ensuing year is to take place in
the business session next Tuesday
The list of candidates as announced
last night by Henry W. Thurston Of
New York. chairman OF the nominal
ing committee of the conference, is as
follows:
For president: Grace Abbott, direc-
tor, federal children's bureau. Wash
ington. d. c., and William j. Norton,
secretary, Detroit Community. Union:
for first vice president, Lee *.
Frankel. third vice president. Metro
politan Life Insurance Company, New
York city, and J. L. Hagerty, Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio; for
second vice president, Rev. Peter
Bryce, secretary, Social Service Coun-
Gil, Ontario, Canada, and Gertrude
Vale, first secretary. American Asso-
citation for Organizing Family wei
fare Denver, Colo.
For third vice president: Kate Burr
Johnson, director. department state
board of charities and public welfare
Raleigh, y. c.: James Hoge KICKS
Juvenile and domestic relations
courts, Richmond, Va.
For executive committee-M. Edlth
Campbell. director, Schmidlapp Fund
Cincinnati, Ohio; Marcus Fagg, SUI
perintendent, Florida Children's Home
Society, Jack sonville. Fla; Martha
P. Falconer, American Social Hygiene
Association. New York city; John l.
Gillin. national director. educational
service, American Red Cross. Madison
Wis; Eugene Klnckel Jones, executive
secretary. National Urban League
New York city; Emma o. Lundberg
director, social service division, chill
dren's bureau, Washington; c. Mac
Lean. secretary. Federation for Com
munity Service, Toronto, Canada
Amelia Sears, assistant general super
intendent, United Charities, Chicago
Ill; Lucy Ward Stebbins. dean OF
women, University of California. Ber-
kelley, Calf; Forester B. Washing
ton, director. research bureau, Asso-
cioted Charities, Detroit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20


approximately 5000 persons from
than score of countries. assembled
here for the golden Jubilee of the
National Conference of Social Work
are observing Church day" today
with special programs In many
churches. theaters, clubs, hotels and
educational institutions.
The principal meeting of the con-
fere is tonight at S o'clock in Polls
where the speakers will be DIR. Alice
Solomon of Berlin. Germany. Able
Jean Violet of Paris and DIR. Smaller
Mathews of Chicago.
Scores OF conference officers and
speakers Will deliver addresses in the
churches of the different denomina-
DR.. Solomon is head Of the Berlin
school of Social Work. She has held
wide experience In promoting
remedial legislation relating TO social
workers, and was instrumental in Sc
curing recognition from the German
Ministry Of Social Welfare of the
need for professional training of its
employees. She has written a text
book on training of social workers
ana mas been contributor to Ameri-
can magazines.
Hns War Record.
Abbc Violet was an army chaplain
during the war and was wounded in
service. He is the founder of the
Family Dwellings Association of
Paris and the moving spirit in the
Workfngmen's Family Welfare Asso-
citation, established In 1900, which
maintains many mutual welfare ac-
tivfties. Editor of Assistance Edu-
catfve. a magazine similar to The
Survey.
Rev. Smaller Mathews. D. D.. has
been an educator and writer for more
than thirty-six years. Six colleges
have given him degrees. He joined
the staff of the University of Chica
go in 1894 and since 1908 he has been
dean of the Divinity school
Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
SOCIAL WORKERS TO END SESSION
WITH ANNUAL THEATER FROLIC

An unusual feature of the National
Conference OF Social Work now meet
ing in Washington will be perform
ance of conference Follies" tonor-
row evening at Polls Theater, at
1890 pm. This will be a Tired
Social Workers Revue" produced un-
der the direction of George r. Bed
niger of the Public Charities Associa-
ton of Pennsylvania
The Follies will consist of five dis
tinct acts, as follows:
The Health Fairy" direct from the
New York Monday Club, by arrange
ment of Jessamine Whitney in which
a prominent part will be taken by
Philip P. Jacobs of the National Tu-
berculosis Association. The Kitchen
Cabinet Orchestra, made up of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred c. Croxton of Column
bus. Ohio, with twenty Buckeye bellies,
will be followed by the "Workhouse
Ward the we'll known one-act play
by Lady Gregory. produced by Robert
w. Kelso. former president of the
conference; Herbert c. Parsons. COM
missioner of probation of Massachu-
setts and Fannie Z. Barnes of the
Boston Children's Friend Society.
A group of ST. Louis social work ers,
led by Elwood Street of the ST. Louis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
ADDRESSES TO GROUPS.
Social Workers Hear Discussions of
Governmental Topics.

Two Juvenile experts. Charles "
Hoffman, Judge of the Juvenile Court
of Cincinnati, and Frederick r. Cabot
Judge of the Juvenile Court Of Rns-
ton. spoke on the subject How Far
Should Juvenile and Domestic Rea-
tions Courts Undertake Social Case
Work Administration" at group
meeting of the National Conference
of Social Work, yesterday in THE
American Red Cross Assembly Hat.
The meeting was joint session with
the National Probation Association.
Herbert c. Parsons, Commissioner Of
Probation for Mas sachusette. presid-
cd.
At about the same hour. 1.-THE
Movement Toward Government b.
Boards and Commissions" was dis
cussed at another group meeting Of
the conference in the New willard
Hotel The speakers were: Frederic
p. Lee. craftsman. United States Send
ate. Legislation Drafting Service, on
Development in Law" and Kenneth
l.. VI. Pray. director. Pennsylvania
School of Social Work and Health
Work. Philadelphia, on THE Growth
in Social Service" Robert w Kelso,
vice chairman of the committee on
law and government presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20

CONTINUED from First Page.)
University Law School, chairman Of
the days meetings on Law and Gov
ernment,", spoke on Preventive Jus
tice and Social Work" =.
preventive justice" declared Dean
Pound, is no less a possibility than
preventive medicine. Team play be-
tween law and social work is neces-
sary, and IL applied rightly. proven
tive Justice Is not far in the future"
The economic organization of So
ciety today is SO delicate, coptfnued
Dean Pound, that we can't deA with
circumstances after the eventS We
must have legislation and admins
tration before" He said the develop
ment of preventive Justice in criminal
law was a great problem. There are
the police. but they operate only at
the crisis. 1--WE need to reach things
very much further back" he added.
There also Is q problem In proven
tive justice on the civil side of law,
continued Dean Pound. Today there
profession and among the features
emphasized Is the personal relation
OF the lawyer and the client. He
said IL the working man, who fndi-
Viduaily Is unable. to employ the
services of a lawyer. bands together
with his fellow workers and retains
an attorney to help each man in thu
group. should the occasion arise,
there IL an unhappy situation for
those individually and the profession,
as ethics stand in the way collec-
lively"
Dean Pound discussed In detail the
possibilities" OF preventive Justice,
which he numbered as punishment,
redress and prevention"
Law Turns to Redress.
Finding punishment futile as q mode
for vindicating rights, continued Dean
Pound, the law turns to redress, spe-
officially by placing tho matter exactly
right where 1t should be-" by rewarding
money for property damaged, etc. but,
he added, the law cannot repossess a
man of a reputation dispossesed. The
law also finds II extremely difffcult to
value broken leg or damaged repu-
!, The third method Of prevention, equi.
ty. said Dean Pound. developed the in
junction which protects property threat
ened. Of injury, but beyond that II has
done very little. Equity will advise, but,
Dean Pound added. we don't know the
Me&ning Of contract until we break It.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
British Women on Railroads.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the han5ds CITY BUT.
Nearly 10000 women are employed
by the railways of tho United King
dom. OF this total the majority. of
course. are employed in clerical work.
A considerable number, however are
engaged in work not usually done by
women. Nearly a hundred are en-
ployed as Iaborers and a thousand
more are classed as mechanics and
artisans" There are woman signal
meu, statf6nmasters, foremen, police
men, engine cleaners, oilers and
rrcasers. and at least one who is en-
gagged in the dangerous and arduous
work Of a switchman.