The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-09
Sees KNOWLEDGE
AS BIGGEST need
OF SOCIAL WORKER
President Strikes Keynote as
Welfare Folk Of State Open
Convention Here

NOUvoNUOn 0oIe
Sounding the keynote of the confer
ence, which Is to gain a broader vision
and more constructive methods in
handling social welfare problems,
Harold H. Bond. president Of the
North Dakota State Conference Of
Work, urged . more thorough
survey Of each situation before
remedial work is begun. Mr.. Bond
gave his annual address at the OPEN
Ing session Of the two-day conference
for social workers which began Mon
day morning at the Masonic temple.
Asserting that people today are in
terested in social welfare problems
and eager to hear ways of solving
them, Mr.. Bond pointed out that the
duty Of legalised authority Is to-
educate, not punish the offending
child. He recommended q system Of
unified public administration which
will be able to give q type of service
which private agencies cannot and
asked that adequate standards for
welfare work be set up.
As . background for his talk, MI.
Bond reviewed special work carried
on in the state last year.
Shafer Offers Welcome
Assistance Of the conference in
carrying out the recommendations of
President Hoover, as worked out at the
white house conference on child well
fare last November. was made by
Governor George F. Shafer In his
welcoming address to the assembly
Monday morning. The governor ask
ed that social service workers outline
q definite program for child welfare,
declaring that this work Is n of the
greatest needs of today.
Because our future a. q nation is
dependent upon the way these neg
lected or dependent persons are made
useful members Of society, Governor
Stafer urged that the public general
.ly look upon these problems Is . re-
sponsibiiity which they share.
Justice A.. M. Chrstiahson Of the
state supreme court responded, pay
ing tribute to those trained and SYM
pathetic workers who have carried the
burden of work in the social service
field for so long. He pointed out that
every civic organization has = partic-
ular. interest in this work which di-
rectly concerns every American citt-
zen.
Talks ON Health
DR.. Robert w. Allen. head of the
bureau of communicable disease for
the state health department, was the
last speaker on the morning program.
Taking as his topic, Public Health's
Contribution to the Social Field" DR..
Allen discussed the relation between
disease and social and economic con-
ditions together With their influence
upon each other.
Environment and its effect upon
the mentality Of the child were dis
cussed during the afternoon. with DIR.
H. J. Humpstone, Of the department
Of psychology, University OF North
Dakota, presiding. Discussion OF en-
monumental conditions with regard
to the insane and the feeble-minded
were led by DR.. J. D. Carr, superin-
tendent of the state hospital for the
insane, jamestown; and BY DR.. A. r.
T. Wylie, superintendent Of the state
school for feeble minded, Grafton.
The afternoon session was shorten
ed somewhat, due to the fact that the
hour for the banquet had been set
ahead to $40 o'clock. It viii be held
in the Patterson hotel Terrace Gar
den, with Nelson Sauvain, president
Of the state board Of administration,
presiding.
Many Speakers Listed
Speakers for the program following
the banquet win be Miss Bertha Pal
mer, state superintendent. Of public
instruction: Mrs. Alice Bailey, juvenile
reonmiaStouer for Morton county; and
d. Charles. r. Hall, st. Paul, direc-
tor q the Minnesota children's bu-
reau.
Problems relating to Juvenile delin-
qucncy will be discussed at the Tues
day sessions which open 1t. $3.50
o'clock. Speakers will include A. A.
Iongeward, Ruoby;..L 2. Cooler; Dew
u Lake: and Frederick Davis. Het-
finger, Ill juvenile comManG30ners; .
we'll q Judge A. N. ChristiansCn.
Bismarck, and John rollock, E1fgo.
-Delegatos and visitors reeistere0 IT
the opening session weEe u. J. d.
Carr, jamestown: A. y. zuber, FeS-
sender; Mary NeuAmington Strand,
Wahpeton; A. M. Ohristians0n, Bis
marck; Daisy Du Board, Ainct: Mrs.
Alice Bailey, MandAn: II. n. Dick
son, Ninot; Harold H. Bond, Fargo:
Mrs. w. q. Rogne, Casseaton; Nrs.