New Britain herald., 1923-03-15

ishing necessary temporary material aid over hard places: through corre- spondence serving many organizations all over the United States by visiting relations in town. verifying addresses and records; supplying physicians for the sick, clothing and shoes for adults. school children and babies. food and fuel to the needy, work for the idle, transportation when necessary. and friendly, neighborly counsel to all to the best of our ability. With three workers on the stan and one big fam fly of 60,000 to serve, our small bud- get wears exceedingly thin spreading over such an area.
 Need of More Nurses. An out of town visitor comments on the absurdity of city of 60,000 having only one visiting nurse to ,ev-l cry ten thousand persons, for there arc only six nurses on the Visiting Nurse association local stan, to do bedside nursing and teach . health program in striving to eliminate ill- ness. With every nurse doing her ut- most through the long hours of the day she can cover only certain amount of work. The great balance must be left undone. The wonderful opportunity for constructive work can- not be touched. Double the number of district nurses are needed and it would mean double the work done and just so much more accomplished for the benefit of our city.
 Just so can we as city aid our youth. Just so can we be instrument tai in producing the best kind of citi- zens, through the means at hand for standards in our boys and girls, giv- ing them additional instruction through clubs and organizations. teaching them to enjoy work, to be upright and honest and square. to Nbe- come clean minded citizens.
 Social workers with their enthusi- asm for the work, with the Knowledge of what can be done and their assur- ity of a successful outcome of their plans, have unconsciously Lillian Brandt says. been assuming responsi- bility for acting as the social con science of the community; and the average citizen, vaguely affected by all this talk about social problems and social responsibility, is convinced that something ought to be done, so well comes the word of the expert, hands over check, and says in effect "al right go ahead" and forgets all about it.
 Contribution of thought is the nrirnary dity Tho first duty then of the man who gives money to philan- thropic purposes. is to inform himself on the social problems of the day and to reach an independent judgment on the value of the social work which he is asked to support. If he does that, the amount of his contributions may safely be left to take care of itself
 Because social work contributes to the common welfare it is but reason able that all should share in it's sup port. As one of the organizations benefting by the United Community the Welfare Association invites your intelligent interest and criticism, hoping that contributors will not be limited to small group but that citizens sGsttered far and near over our city Nay be privileged to join in the support"
 The directors voted to send Miss | Beale to the fiftieth annual conference on welfare work which will be held in Washington. D. C., May 16 to 23. The association will also be represented at the state conference in New Haven, April II to IA.