Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18
CONFERENCE IS SET
BY SOCIAL AGENCIES
Relief and ChiIdren's Work
Will Be Discussed Here
October 20 to 80.

A city-Wide conference on social work,
under the auspices Of the Washington
Council of Social Agencies, will be held
in the United States Chamber of Com
MERGE Building, october %, % and 80.
Problems pertaining to health, child
welfare, relief, unemployment and other
phases of welfare work are to be dis
cussed by nationally prominent speak
ers.
Speakers at the opening session,
Wednesday evening, October %, at 8
O'Clock, will be George Hastings. ad-
ministrative assistant to President
Hoover. whose subject will be The
Children's Charter" and Rev. G. II. LIE
Blond. director Of Catholic Charities
Cleveland, who will speak on "A Co
ordinated Program in the Field OF Child
Welfare"
DR.. Frederick w. Perkins, acting
president of the council, will be general
chairman of the conference and VIII
preside at the opening meeting IN the
absence of Miss Grace Abbott, prevent
ed from ate. ling by illness.
DR.. Fowler to Preside October 20.
DR.. William C. Fowler, District health
oficer, will preside at the morning SEES
sion. October 30, to be featured by a
round table discussion of the needs CT
the National Capital in the child well
fare field The discussion will be LED
by Miss Katharine Lenroot OF the
United States Children'S Bureau.
The session that afternoon will be
presided over by Paul Benjamin, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Social Hygiene
Society," and Miss Laura Merrill OF the
Philadelphia Family Welfare Society
will speak on The Newer Approach 70
Social Case Work
The unemployment situation IN
Washington is to be taken up at the
evening session of october %, the gen.
eral topic being How Can Washing
ton Solve Its Unemployment Rellet
Problem?"
Heath to Discuss Public Works.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Ferry K. Heath will discuss the prob
lem from the standpoint of public
works, while George Adams. secretary
of the Committee on Unemployment.
will take up the subject from the angle
faced by his committee. The indivld-
ual citizens slant on the unemploy-
ment situation will be discussed by
Edward A. Rule. chairman of the I'm
employment Committee of the Cosmo-
politan Club.
DR.. A. C. Christie, president of the
District of Columbia Medical Society,
will preside at the morning session on
October 80, at which What Has a
Community the Right to Expect From
It's Public Department in Child Health
and Projections" will be discussed by
Dr. ]. H. Mason Knox, director of the
Child Hygiene Bureau of Maryland.
The second speaker will be DR.. E. NJ.
Bluestone, director Of the Montefiore
Hospital New York City. who will talk
on Hospital Administration Problems
in Relation to the Community"
The final session will be a luncheon
meeting at the Willard at 1890 o'clock
october 80, with DR.. Frederick w. Per-
kins chairman of the conference. pre-
siding. at which Community Team
Work" will be explained by William
HodSon. director of the New York
Welfare Council.
The conference takes the place, in
a sense, of the National Conference
held at Minneapolis this year, from
which many local executives were
barred by lack of conference funds, the
Budget Committee failing to allow any
funds for this purpose, it is stated.