Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
CONFERENCE NOTES

Mrs. Henry Ford of Detroit is at
tending the fiftieth anniversary
meeting of the National Conference
of Social Work The report was
confirmed by William Hammond
Parker, secretary of the conference
Mrs. A. Henry Of Detroit. Mich"
Registered at the New Willard Hotel
on Tuesday and has been attending
meetings OF the National Conferences
and of the Big Brothers and Big Sis-
| terS organizations. 1t was said at
the Willard that Mrs. Henry" had
checked out.
Mrs. Henry" is said to be in
terested in crippled children.
Mrs. Ford is interested in Big
Brother work and is reported to be
helping 500 boys.
With four days yet to go. the reg
t istration at the fiftieth anniversary
session has now broken all records
for attendance. A total of SAB per
sons have regiStered-and still they
come. To date every state in the
Union is represented with the excep-
ton OF Wyoming and New Mexico.
ana delegates are expected to arrive
from there before the end of the
session.
Two delegates have registered from
the Philippine Islands. Porto Rico
Is also represented.
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Cuba: but no delegate has yet ar
/ rived from there. nor from Alaska
Tile total registration at last year
annual conference in Providence was
3,406.
Mrs. John Campbell Forester has
! opened her house at 1900 Rhode
| Island avenue for reunion supper of
an social workers who were in France
| during and after the world war, to-
morrow evening, May p. at 6 o'clock
Even the overflow meetings are
| oTerfowing. Crowds at the general
sessions have so taxed the capacity
or the halls that arrangements were
| made to hold overflow meetings in
connection with each session. The
general session in Continental
Memorial Hall was held in the Red
| Cross building and the Red Cross
auditorium was soon filled to over
flowing.
Among the preachers listed for
services in Washington churches to-
day are. the following representa-
Churches of Christ in America: DR..
Worth NJ. Tippy, DR.. John NJ. Moore,
DIR. Howard r. Gold, Rev. Carl Bar
nett, Rev; F: Ernest Johnson. DR..
clergymen are also among the
preachers: Canon c. w. Vernon and
DR.. J. G. Shearer.
The special outline for Sunday
school services prepared by the COM
nittee on the churches will be used
by conference delegates at several
of the Sunday schools in Washington
churches today.
| The round table of the America II
Association of Hospital Social Work :
ers to be held Tuesday at e pm. at
the National Catholic Service School.
will be on Records" and not for
the neuro- psychiatric group as prev
iously announced.
Delegates who were DISCOURAGED
from registering by the crush of the
first days, are urged to register i'm
mediately in order that the record of
may be complete. Another reason for
registering is that only registered
delegates wearing official badges
(name. plates) will be admitted to
the south grounds of the White
House tomorrow afternoon.
Colorado, seeking the 1924 confer
ence for Denver, has sent a delegation
twenty-one delegates to take back
to Des Moines the promise OF the ext
meeting. Canada has a delegation of
eighty, all roofing" for Toronto in
1924" '- 30
The Ohio breakfast for past, pres
ent and future Buckeyes will be held
on Tuesday at am. at the Hotel
Ebbitt.
The American Prison Association
| committee on delinquency and COM
munity agencies, which was SEIZED
uled to meet at Mrs. Van Wrinkle
home tomorrow, has postponed its
meeting until Tuesday at 1 pm. Mrs
Wan Wrinkle has invited the commit
tee to remain for supper.
The National Association of Visit.
ing Teachers, one of the last of the
kindred groups to convene, will hold
its annual meeting tomorrow and
Tuesday. Sara NJ. Holbrook of the
University of Vermont Is president.
Headquarters are at the Hotel Wash
ington.
More than thirty organizations,
committees and groups OF allied in
iterests have held meetings In Wash
ington coincident or in connection
with the conference.
| The National Popular Government
League invites members of the con-
ference to luncheon-forum on
Thursday at 1880 pm. in the crystal
room of the New Ebbitt Hotel. DR..
A. r.. Hatton Of Cleveland, charter
consultant of the National Municipal
League, will speak on The New City
| Government"
! The committee on publicity methods.