Evening star., 1932-09-14
WELFARE LEADERS
TO MAP RELIEF
Conference Tomorrow Will
Be Charged by Presi-
dent Hoover.
Welfare leaders of the Nation. recog-

Welfare leaders of the Nation, recog-
nizing the need for concerted action
! to meet the relief and welfare needs
OF the country during the next II
months, will gather in the Capital to-
morrow to map plans.
The conference, called the Welfare
and Relief Mobilization of 1882, will re-
ceive its charge from President Hoover
and will be presided over by Newton D.
Baker. Mr. Baker will reply for the
conference to the Presidents charge.
The former War Secretary said
today
The conference in Washington to-
morrow will start the informative cam
paign which the 20 social service Or
have planned for the Fall and Winter
months.
1T is hoped that this conference will
stimulate communities in attacking
their welfare and relief problems and
so encourage them that the funds
needed to carry on necessary social
service projects will be raised.
Need Of Confidence.
If each community can solve its
own welfare and relief needs this
Winter, it will go long way toward
restoring national confidence and aid
ing business recovery"
The conference will open at 10 am,
at the White House, and after leaving
there will meet for luncheon and a
| two-hour session at the Mayflower
Hotel.
At the luncheon, from noon to 2 p m in
the ballroom of the Mayfiower the ses-
sion will be opened by J. Herbert Case
| chairman of the New York Federal
Reserve Bank and president of the
Association Of Community Chests and
Councils, which is sponsoring the con-
! ference, Atlee Pomerene, chairman OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
struction Finance Corporation in Dis
tributing the s30O,OOO,0OO Relief"
Walter S. Clifford, president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
and president of the Charity Organiza
ton Society of New York, will speak or
Plan for States and Communities ir
Cooperating
At the afternoon session, from tc
$50 O'Clock, in the presidential dining
room of the Mayfiower, F. r. Kellogg
first vice president of the Association
of Community Chests and Councils, will
preside and there will be a discussion
of the general subject of Strategy Of
Local Campaigns and National Rein
forcement for the Fall in View of Spe.
cial Problems in Money Raising" BY
the following speakers: c. NJ Bookman
past president of the National Confer.
ence on Social Work and executive Sec
retary of the Community Chest of Gin
cinnati; and Louis e. KRISTEN, president
of the Associated Jewish Philanthropie'
of Boston.
Gibson to Address Dinner.
Mr.. Baker will preside at the dinnel
to be held at the Mayflower at Z o'clock
when there will be speeches by Harve.
D. Gibson, chairman of the Emergenc.
Unemployment Relief Committee Of New
York City: Fred Hoke. director of tn,
Joseph Scott. president of the Conmu
nifty Chest of Los Angeles, on the gen
eral subject of preservation of Human
Values in the Present Crisis"
| National welfare agencies represente,
at the conference include:
| American Country Life Association
American Hospital Association, Ameri
can Public Welfare Association, Ameri
can Social Hygiene Association, Boys
Club Federation, Boy Scouts of Amer
lea, Bureau Of Jewish Social Research
Camp Fire Girls, Child Welfare Leagu
of America, Family Welfare Association
Federal Council of Churches of Chris
in America, Girl Scouts, Jewish Welfar
Board, National Association Travellers
Aid Societies.
Also, the Board Y. w. c. A., Nationa
Catholic Welfare Conference, Nationa
Child Labor Committee. National Com
mittee for Mental Hygiene, Nations
Conference of Catholic Charities, Ma
tional Council Y. M. c. A.. Natlona
Organization for Public Health Nursing
National Probation Association, Nations
Recreation Association, National So
ciety for the Prevention Of Blindnes:
] National tuberculosis Association. Sal
, vation Army Social Work Publicit
Council. Welfare Department OF tn
Association Of Junior Leagues G