Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
FARLEY TO OPEN
HERE TOMORROW
ONHUMANNEEDS
President Will Launch Con.
ference, With Response
by SWope.
500 NATIONAL LEADERS
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Analysis of Government Activity
and Dissipation of Misunder-
standing Aim.

Campaign plans for the annual
fight Of private charity againSt hu-
man misery and social maladjustment
will be laid here tomorrow and Tues
day at the 1885 Mobilization for HUI
man Needs Conference.
President Roosevelt will open the
conference on the south grounds OF
the White House at 10 am. tomorrow
Gerard Swope, mobilization chairma n,
will make the formal response.
Mrs. Roosevelt, as chairman of the
National Women's Committee. is TAX
ing leading role and will conduct q
meeting Of her committee in the east
room of the White House following
the ceremonies on the lawn. At the
same time the National Citizens Com
mittee, under the leadership Of Mr.
Swope, will begin drafting its program
for the guidance Of private charities
this Winter at a. meeting in the May
flower Hotels Chinese room.
Some 500 business and civic leaders,
social workers and laymen are ex-
pected to register for the conference
Thirty-flve privately supported ma
tional welfare organizations are spon-
soring the 1885 mobilization, with
Community Chests and Councils, Inc
serving as the administrative agency.
Two Major Purposes.
Allen T. Burns, executive vice
president of Community Chests and
Councils. Inc, said yesterday two
major purposes of the conference will
be careful analysis Of what the Fed
eral Government is doing and plans
to do to help those wholly or partially
unable to help themselves and ac-
quainting delegates with the wide
spread misunderstanding" of social
workers and what they are trying to
| do for unfortunates and to adopt
methods to dissipate this misunder-
standing.
The conference will devote special
attention to the new social security
act, its aim and responsibilities and
the measure of cooperation which ii
will require from private charities.
Actual stories of men, women and
children who have been obliged to ask
for help during depression years will
be presented Tuesday at $50 am in
the Mayf1ower ball room. A hearing
| board. headed by Newton D. Baker,
chairman of the Mobilization for
Human Needs for the three years
prior to Mr.. Swope's election last
June, will croSs-question social work
ers who will demonstrate their con-
| facts with families, the families to be
represented by members of the Wash
lngton Community Players. Actual
friends of the families who were given
assistance will be present to testify.
Board Of Examining.
The examining board will include
Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr.. Swope, Harry L.
Hopkins. Federal Relief Administrator;
Miss Katherine Lenroot, head of the
Children's Bureau; Mrs. Mary K.
Simkhovich, Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
Mrs. Sidney c. Borg, DR.. George E.
Vincent, John Stewart Bryan, Miss
Dorothy c. Kahn, Stillman F. West
brook. Canon Arson Phelps Stokes
and Joseph P. Tumulty.
In charge of one of the round table
discussions on probation will be
Charles L. Chute, executive director
of the National Probation Association,
who will lead talks on minimum
standards in probation work and the
results obtained to date.
There will be a luncheon at 1890
pm. tomorrow, with Mrs. Roosevelt
as the principal speaker. Mr.. West
brook, acting president of Community
Chests and Councils, Inc. will be
chairman. Mrs. Roosevelt's subject
is Meeting Human Needs Unmet by
Government"
At pm. the Women's Committee
will reassemble to hear addresses by
Mrs. w. P. Hobby and Mrs. Borg Of
New York City. They will speak on
"Women's Work in Interpreting We'll
fare Services" Thereafter, there will
be discussion, led by Mrs. Frederic
M. Paist, on Practical Ways of Speak
ing Up for Human Needs" Groups
from several communities will make
reports.
A meeting on campaign plans for
1885 will be led by Charles P. Taft
ID. Speakers at a symposium at this
meeting will be Carter Taylor, Harris
burg, Pa, Welfare Federation; DON
aldson Brown, vice president and
chairman, General Motors Corp. FL
nance Committee; Dudley Blossom,
general chairman, Cleveland, Ohio,
Community Fund; Joseph H. Ashton,
Ashton Insurance Agency, Kansas
City, Mo-; Lynn Mowat, campaign
director, Los Angeles Welfare Fedora
ton; H. E. Atwood, vice president
First National Bank g. Trust Co.,
Minneapolis.
Lippmann to Speak.
The principal speakers at ban
ouet to be held tomorrow night at the
Mayfower will be Walter Lippmann,
editorial commentator, and Edward D.
Dufdeld, president Of the Prudential
Life Insurance Co. Mr.. Lppmann
will speak on the new social security
program and Mr. Dufield on the ex-
tent to which taxes take care Of the
relief burden,
A breakfast will be held Tuesday
morning at o'clock. John Stew
art Bryan. president of william and
Mary College, and Mr.. Burns are
to be the principal speakers. The
meeting has been dedicated to the
memory of the late Frederic r. KEEL
logg. a past president of the Com
munity Chest organization.
The dramatization-o f-social-work
program is scheduled for Tuesday
forenoon and afternoon.
The conference will close with q
luncheon at the Mayfiower at 1880
pm. on Tuesday. Mr.. Baker and
Miss Kahn, president Of the Amert-
can Association Of Social Workers,
viii speak.