Evening star., 1931-06-15
STUDIES AID WORK
. OF SOCIAL GROUPS
Council of City Agencies Has
Planning on New Scale
After Reports.

Social planning win be undertaken
on q larger scale than ever before as q
result Of three major studies just COM
pleted by the Council of Social
Agencies, the organizations annual re-
port revealed yesterday. The studies
involved family welfare. transients and
health.
The study Of the transient situation
in washington already has resulted in
the establishment Of Q Bureau for
Homeless Transient Men, operated by
the Travellers Aid Society under the
of the Council, of which Mrs. John Jay
O'Connor Is chairman. A. w. Boeh-
ringer is in charge Of this bureau.
A Family Welfare Association OF
America survey Of the family welfare
field in washington was made under
the direction Of Francis II. Mclean,
assisted by Mrs. Roy L. Hun and Miss
Miriam McCaffery. A program was
marked out on which certain subcom-
mittees are to work. Miss Louise o.
Beall Is chairman Of the Committee on
Legal Aid.
Rev. Lawrence J. Shehan is chair
man OF Tic OOILLL1AttcC Oaa SSSAoSAOhtSAAAR
of Family Agencies to Other Social
Agencies.
Health Survey Lauded.
Z. Claude Babcock Is chairman Of the
Committee on Ex-Service Men, the OBJ
iect Of which Is to coordinate the work
of the many organizations dealing with
veteran affairs. Miss Clyde Schuman
is chairman Of the Family Budgets
Committee, which win bring up 70 date
budget form compiled three years ago.
and win work to establish q new stand
ard budget for dependent washington
man of the Case Work Technique Conn
mittee.
The completion Of the health survey
by the American Public Health Asso-
citation late in 1880, and the formulation
Of q program to carry out the recon-
mendations of this survey. have occu-
pied the attention Of the Health Com.
mittee, of which Miss Gertrude H.
Bowling is chairman, almost exclusively
during the year.
Mrs. Whitman Cross Is chairTnan Of
the Public Health Committee. DR.. 8:
B. Ragsdale is chairman Of the Hospital
Administration Committee, with sub
committees on Hospital Social Service
chronics. Elwood Street, director OF
the Community Chest. is chairman OF
the Committee on Interpretation.
Child Aid Carried On.
The Health Committee is co-operat-
ing closely with the committee appoint
ed by the Commissioners Of the District
of Columbia to study the child health
and welfare situation In Washington.
The Child Welfare Committee, OF
which Miss A. Patricia Morss is chair
man, has functioned during the past
year through the following subcommit-
tees: A committee Of sponsors, lay peo-
pie interested in child welfare, OF which
Mrs. Huston Thompson Is chairman,
which organized the Child Care Con-
ference. with Miss A. Madorah Dona-
hue as chairman; committee on child
study and NATURALIZATION, presenting,
through the medium of case studies
prepared by DR.. Paul Ewerhardt, q
mental hygiene concept OF behavior;
committee on preventive work: COM
mittee on community planning and
child welfare legislation.
The Recreation Committee, Linn G.
Drake, chairman, has directed its ef-
forts toward the study Of facilities.
Edgar Drumm has served aS chairman
Of the study group and subcommittee
under Miss Sibyi Bakers leadership has
made a spot map Of facilities. One Of
the projects has been the development
Of an Inter-racial Committee, Of which
Mai. Campbell @. johnson Of the
Twelfth street branch Y. M. G. A., Is
chairman. This group has succeeded In
locating camp for colored boys and
also Is sponsoring . garden club Tor
the colored boys.
The girls work group Of the Recrea-
ton Committee, headed by Miss Mabel
r. Cook, has met monthly during the
Exchange Cases Grow.
The Social Service Exchange Com
mittee, Of which Elwood Street Is chair.
man, reports that the Social Service
Exchange has grown beyond expecta-
tions as a result Of the large increase
Of cases in the various organizations
due to unemployment, illness and other
factors. Twenty-four new organiza-
tions have used the exchange and H.
600 cards have been added to the file.
An Advisory Committee on Statistics,
with Lewis Merriam as chairman, has
been organized. Miss Agnes Leisy has
charge Of the tabulation Of statistics
covering II fields This Is part of .
Nationwide plan taken over on July !,
1880, by the United States Children's
Bureau. Miss Leisy also Is working In