Evening star., 1927-04-05
DRIVE FOR $4,000
FUND FOR CHARITIES
Welfare Organizations Start
Joint Easter Campaign
to Meet Needs.

increasing current need for their work
in the District OF Columbia the Asso.
ciated Charities and Citizens Relief
Association today inaugurated the
eighth annual Easter campaign. fol
! lowing the forty-siXth anniversary
meeting of the Associated Charities
board of managers last night at
RausCher's. The campaign is to con
tinue until Easter Sunday.
DR. William Mather Lewis. presi-
dent of George Washington Univer-
sity, delivered the address Of the cve-
ming before the board on "The Impor-
tance of Trained Service in Social
Work" Walter :. Ufford, secretary.
reviewed the work of the organization
for the year. and Miss Louise Q. Beail,
assistant secretary. discussed with
the assistance of the stereopticon.
family welfare work.
Officers and board members were
elected as follows Cuno H. Rudolph,
president: Corcoran Thom. vice presi-
dent John Joy Edison, treasurer, and
Herbert A Poole, assistant treasurer;
members Of the board of managers for
three years. terms expiring in 1850,
Miss Mabel r Boardman. Airs. James
+. Curtis. Judge William II, DeLacy,
Sc
SON Franklin X Ellis. William J,
Flather jr.: Arthur HELEN Mrs.
Archbold Hopkins, Judga j. Wilmer
Latimer A. Lisner, Miss Helen NicO-
lay, Mrs John H. Proctor, IL. G.
Smithy and CorcoFan Thom.
President Sends Gift.
President Coolidge has already sent
in his contribution for the Easter cam
paign ii was announced by Mr.. Uf-
ford at the close of the meeting.
DR.. Lewis stressed the economic i'm
portance of the work of the Associ-
ated Charities, and suggested that
such institutions as schools, colleges,
universities, hospitals and social
agencies should stress more their
financial value TO the community.
Telling of the great success some
fraudulent, getriCh.quicll artists had
had in putting over their propositions
to the public by dramatic presentation
of untruths Dr. Lewis suggested that
it would be well for all worthy and
creditable organizations to begin the
process OF dramatization of their own
very worthwhile claims and virtues,
especially their economic value to
society.
Il don't believe in going about hat
institution or any other" said Or.
Lewis, declaring that the average
man in the street" did not understand
the real work that was being done by
such institutions as colleges, and espe-
clally the Associated Charities. The
service work of the organization, for
instance, DR.. Lewis said, should be
stressed. as the work of finding the
cure for a maladjustment in a family
and putting it on its own feet on the
road TO self-support and independence
was more important than the mere
satisfying OF an immediate need such
as the provision of a bowl of soup.
Appeals Not Understood.
Urging further a dramatization Of
the work of the Associated Charities,
DR. Lewis said that the average man
did not understand many appeals sent
out to the public because they were
not expressed in his language.
I'VE have a superabundance of pro
fessionai vocabularies in America,
declared DIR. Lewis. '"There is also
prevalent at times a professional atti-
tude which repels the very people we
want to reach. We should talk more
in terms that the average man can
understand
Outlining the kind Of courses he
would suggest for social workers, DIR.
Lewis said potential social workers
should have their emotions we'll un-
der control. I'VE hear some surgeons
criticized" he explained, because it
is said they are hard-boiIed. But the
surgeon who doesn't have his emo.
tions under control is not the man TO
trust with that dangerous operation.
The social engineer should have emo
rions under control, but should have
a feeling for humanity and a sincere
desire to help. The worker should also
keep from becoming professional A
prevalence Of workers who would take
up this kind of thing just for a job
would be dangerous to our social or
der. They should have intelligence,
training, tact and sympathy"
Among the things which a social
worker should study to be fitted for
the work which he characterized as a
profession DR.. Lewis proposed a
broad training for cultural back
ground, courses in English literature,
basic economics, history, natural
| sciences, mental hygiene, ''intelli-
gent" psychology child welfare, case
work, diagnosis of social problems, a
study of the history of communities.
public health, juvenile courts and
criminology.
University Helping.
George Washington University, he
said, was attempting to help the com
munity in this respect in Offering
courses for persons who were occu-
pied in gainful work during the day
| and wished to prepare themselves dur.
| ing the evenings for this work.
| mo profession In America" de-
| clared Dr. Lewis, has gone ahead
more rapidly in advance OF ideals than
social work
| With the aid of stereopticon. Mr..
| Ufford presented a graphic outline Of
| the work Of the Associated Charities,
disclosing it's rapid growth. He EN-
phasized the rapid increase in the
amount Of material relief, such as
money spent for food. fuel, clothing
| house rent and similar items. For
example, he pointed out that in 1915
the expenditures for these purposes
alone amounted to $l5.080. Since then
year by year. the material relief has
grown until last year it reached the
total Of SAC, ,855.
/! During the current year, he said