Evening star., 1933-05-07
WELFARE GROUPS
UNITE FOR SESSION
Maryland State Conference
and Washington Council
Meet Next Week.

The Joint Conference Of the Mary
land State Conference Of Social We'll
fare and the Washington Council of
Social Agencies. will be held next Fri
day and Saturday in the United States
Chamber Of Commerce Building.
A clear understanding of 1.-The respec-
tive duties of Government and private
philanthropy is Of particular and timely
importance to civic leaders in the Dis
trict Of Columbia" DR.. Frederic w.
Perkins, president Of the Council of So
cial Agencies, said in connection with
the conference. THE continuing rise
in relief needs makes it essential that
adequate governmental funds be made
available for meeting them Otherwise
the entire year-round social welfare
work Of Washington is in danger
of being starved through financial NAL
nutrition. We welcome, therefore, the
opportunity for gaining better knowl-
edge of basic principles afforded by
this social-welfare forum"
Social workers from Virginia, West
Virginia and Delaware have been in
vited to attend the conference. Regis
tration books will open next Friday
morning at $50 o'clock in rooms G and
H at the Chamber of Commerce. New
bold Noyes will preside at the first ses-
sion. Friday morning from 1890 to
1890 o'clock.
DR.. Lubin to Speak.
"Our Responsibility in the New Eco
nomic Order" will be discussed by Dr.
Isador Lubin Of Brookings Institution.
Prof. William M Leiserson Of Antioch
College will speak on Social Changes
and Shifting Responsibilities"
At the luncheon meeting there will
be a round-table conference on State
Residence Laws" with Miss Marie G.
Judge, Baltimore Travellers Aid So
ciety, presiding. This meeting will be
under auspices Of the Transient Com
mlttee OF the Baltimore Council Of So
cial Agencies.
At 2:30 o'clock there will be a session
devoted to Control Financing and
Service of a Community Social Work
Program" William Moses, president of
: the Baltimore Community Fund, will
preside. William Hodson. New York
Welfare Council. will speak on "Gov-
ernment Responsibility and Rev. John
OGrady, National Conference of
Catholic Charities. will have as his
topic. Responsibilities and Opportuni-
ties for Private Initiative"
The annual dinner OF the Maryland
State Conference of Social Welfare
Workers will be held at $50 o'clock
in the evening at the Powhatan Hotel.
This will be followed by an o'clock
session of the joint conference, the
topic being, Facing Responsibilities. 4"
Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, member of
the board of the Washington Council
of Social Agencies, will preside DR..
John A. Ryan, director of the National
Catholic Welfare Council, will speak on
"A New Social Economic Order" Lin
ton S. Swift, Family Welfare Associa-
ton Of America, will speak on, How
Shall We Meet the Human Problems
OF the Future?"
Program for Saturday.
Saturdays program is as follows:
$50 am to 1890 p.m.-Two round
tables Ways and Means Of Meeting
Community Problems"
Room Miss Lavinia Engle, di-
rector, Maryland League of Women
Voters, member Maryland House Of
Delegates, presiding. Speakers, Roy
Association, on Education for Leisure; !;
Michael M. Davis, Julius Rosenwald
Fund. on THE Community Health Pro-
gram; Miss Mary Lucas, Family We'll
fare Association of America, on THE
Family Agency in the Present Emer-
gency"
Assembly Hall-Robert E. Bondy, di-
rector of Disaster Relief, American Red
Cross, presiding. Speakers, Miss Bertha
Mccall, National Travellers Aid Society,
on Treatment of the Transient Com
munity Responsibility" Walter Petit,
New York School of Social Work, on
What About the Jobless"; Austin Mac
Cormick, United States Department of
Justice. on The Community and the
Prison"
100 p.m.-Luncheon, Y. w. c. A.. w.
Frank Persons, American Public We'll
fare Officials Association, presiding.
Speakers, Paul T. Beisser, president,
Maryland State Conference of Social
Welfare, presidential Address; C. C..
Carstens, executive director, Child We'll
fare League of America, on 'The Social
Workers Task Today"