The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
Plan
CONVENTION On
SOCIAL WORKS
|Fiftieth Annual Conference
TO Open at Hotel Washing
ton, May IS, to Last Week
DIFFERENT TOPICS DAILY
Many Group Meetings to Be
Held and Papers VIII Be
Read BY World Authorities.

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Washington social workers viii
have prominent part in the pro.
gram of the fiftieth anniversary
session of the National Conferences
of Social Work to be held here with
Headquarters at the Hotel Wash.
ington May 1928.
REV. RYAN BIG WORKER.
The Rev. John A. Ryan Of the
Catholic University is chairman Of
the committee on industry. That
committee, like each Of six others.
dealing similarly with q vital factor
in American life, win have charge
of the program for one Of the seven
DAYS Of q public forum that has come
to be one Of the most important Oc-
casions for the Qualification Of
thought and Decentralization OF
method in welfare work The cons
mittee on industry will have charge
OF the sessions on Friday. May IL.
At q. group meeting Of the day on
health, Thursday, May II, DIR. George
w. Mccoy, Director Of the Hygienic
Laboratories OF the United States
Public Health Service, viii give
PAPER entitled, Practical Applica.
ton OF Research Findings"
MISS FOX 10 PRESIDE.
Miss Elizabeth Fox. director Of
Public Health Nursing, American
Red Cross, win preside at another
group meeting on the same day, ct
which the general topic viii bel
THE Growth Of the Social Point o.
View
DR.. Robert M. Yerkes Of the Ma
tional Research Council viii preside
at a group meeting of the day on
school, Tuesday, May %. The topic
School Programs for Mental
On the day on health. DIR. Yerkes
will give paper on, 'The Signin-
canoe Of Intelligence in the Con-
servation of Health"
On the same day at other group
meetings, DIR. Caroline B. Hedger OF
the Bureau of EDUCATION will speak
on medical inspections for school
children and Miss Josephine 3.
Timberlake Of the Volta Bureau Will
speak on the provision for tnstruc-
ton Of the deaf in the schools.
TO PLAN CHURCH WORK.
At a group luncheon on Sunday.
May 20, the day on church, the Rev.
DIR. William ]. Kerby Of the Catholic
University will direct discussion
on the topic, The Theological
Seminary and Training for Social
| Work"
The coming conference viii be the
third in Washington. The previous
ones were held there in 1885 and
1901.
At the Providence conference last
year, the national capital was select
ed as the 1928 meeting place because
it was the opinion that its environ
ment would lend itself most effec-
lively to changed form of program
| for the semi-centennial. Instead OF
a program devoted largely to dis
cussions of social work on its tech.
nical side, the conference this year
will engage in what is perhaps the
most ambitious effort ever under
taken for a general discussion OF
American life with reference to Or
ganized endeavor to make it better.
ONE TOPIC EVERY DAY.
Each of the seveuIdays Of this
years conference will be devoted to
consideration of a single topic; the
relation between social work and one
Of the following: health, the home,
law and government, the church,
| industry, the school and public
| opinion.
The discussion OF health matters
will take in the great movements
that are demonstrating that a great
deal of sickness is preventable and
| that large part Of deaths short OF
a normal old age are premature.
The home means the family and
living conditions generally.
Industry includes consideration
of many problems such as child
labor and the living wage.
The school includes not only
elementary education but the health
work that in recent years has come
to play an important part in school
routine.
Public opinion, new subject for
general discussion by conference
members, will involve a search for
definition of What il Public
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