Evening star., 1923-05-23
SOCIAL WORK MEET
| TO CLOSE TONIGHT
Three of Most important Ad.
/ dresses of Conference as
Concluding Feature.

Three of the most important ad-
dresses of the entire weeks program
of the National Conference Of Social
Work are scheduled for tonight in
Memorial Continental Hall at the
closing session of the golden jubilee
gathering.
Mrs. Henry MoskowitZ of New York,
ex-secretary of the state reconstruc-
tion commission and one of Gov. Al
Smiths closest advisers, will speak
on How Far Have Social Welfare
Considerations Entered Into State.
National and Local Elections"
Gov. William E. Sweet of Colorado
will tell his views on free speech and
public opinion.
The closing address of the fftieth
anniversary session will be by Will
liam B. Beazell, assistant managing
editor of the New York World. who
will discuss Public Opinion and So
cial Progress"
Election Results to Be Made Known
Announcement of the result of the
election of officers for the next year
will be made at the evening session.
Between sessions today the delegates
are casting their ballots.
The effects and value of public
opinion on social work and the eX-
tent to which social work in turn
has Influenced public opinion was the
general subject to which were de-
voted the concluding sessions today.
George A. Hastings of New York.
assistant chairman of the committee
on public opinion OF the conference
presiding at one of the group meet
fngs today, declared the newspapers
of America are the strongest allies
of the social worker"
prevention" he said has begun
to prevent, and only needs the power
of public opinion behind 1t to secure
the means and organization for ac-
complishing far-reaching results"
Leroy f. Bowman. instructor IN
sociology at Columbia University. also
noted that the newspapers are be
coming more favorably disposed In
their attitude toward social work
and urged unified social program
drawing upon all the groups in the
community for its backing" rather
than divergent efforts and attitudes.
Howard w. Odum OF Chapel Hill. \.
c., editor of the Journal of Social
Forces. declared social interpreta-
1ion through the scientific publica-
ton will help social workers to over
come difficulties and objections and
develop new ideals and plans for
their profession.
Cites Opinions Found In Books.
The most striking and effective
books of the last decade. Carl Van
Doren. literary editor of the Century
Magazine, told the delegates. have
thought relatively little about social
amelioration and relatively much
about challenges to the social order
and how established" Their attack,
he added, has been directed against
stupidity, complacency and the me-
Morals" he said. "are the concern
of conservatives and thinking the
concern of radicals. If radicals are
lust now in the ascendant in literary
America, it is because thinking is
in the ascendant in intellectual
America. Main street is to the present
generation what the Declaration of
Independence and Uncle Toms Cabin
were to theirs"
Prof Herbert Adolphus Miller of
the department of sociology of Oberlin
College, Ohio, urged "a new public
opinion which will condemn the egotism
OF a nation or race as severely as it
condemns that of an individual"