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Chubb, The Oranges, N. j., treasurer;
Percival Dodge, Detroit, secretary.
The organization also elected "a di-
rectors for a years term, including
C. Phelps Dodge of Washington.
The new president is commissioner
Of the Metropolitan District Commits
sion of Hartford. trustee of the Amer
lean School for the Deaf, a former
park commissioner and member of the
Housing Committee of Hartford
A dramatization Of social work was
presented in the Mayfiower ball room
following the breakfast meeting. So
cial workers, assisted by members of
the Washington Community Players
and friends Of distressed families who
received attention, gave a series of
six sketches based on actual cases they
have handled. The planners of this
program said it would demonstrate a
widespread misunderstanding about
social workers and their activities
They hope to duplicate it throughout
the country in the belief it will dissi-
pate that misunderstanding.
Part Of the program was broadcast.
A hearing board, headed by Baker and
including Mrs. Roosevelt, Gerard
Swope, chairman of the mobilization;
Harry L! Hopkins. Federal relief ad-
ministrator, and Miss Katherine
Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bu-
reau, s-Questioned the social work.
ers to bring out how they solved the
problems demonstrated by the dra-
matte sketches. Friends of the fami-
lies who were helped gave testimony
corroborating the social workers
statements.
Emergency Passing.
Lppmann, in vigorous exhortation
to private charity last night, told the
delegates State and local govern
ments and private welfare organiza-
tions must get ready at once to take
upon themselves once more the re-
sponsibility for the relief of human
needs
The emergency which compelled
the Federal Government to assume
this responsibility is passing and the
Federal Government, confidently be-
lieve, must and will from now on set
about putting the responsibility back
upon the States, upon the localities
and upon private agencies" he said.
Declaring I'VE have come to some
thing much more definite than a
breathing spell" Lippman said the
Federal relief arrangements of the past
two and a half years were abnormal
and temporary"
The central government In Wash
ington cannot and must not reach into
the cities and villages in order to man
age such intimate affairs" as care of
the young. the dependent, the dis
abled and the handicapped, Lippman
said.
Sees Waste in Method.
Lippman warned it would not be
"easy to persuade local taxpayers and
private contributors everywhere that
they must begin to forego the receipt
of easy money from Washington and
settle down to paying the bills directly
out Of their own pockets" He reiter-
ated his conviction, however, that the
Federal Government has to retire
from direct relief, system which he
said was "ip its very nature demoral-
izing. wasteful and repugnant to the
sentiments Of this country"
Hitting at the idea that the pay
ment of taxes meets the responsible
ties Of good citizenship" Edward D.
Duf1eld Of Newark, president Of the
Prudential Life Insurance Co., told
last nights meeting "the good neigh
Dor does not figure cut how little he
must pay but how much he can give. -
The conclusion that voluntary
philanthropy can be abandoned and
the work now done through this me-
dium imposed upon the Government"
Is erroneous, Dufheld stated.
ut will be sad day for America, .
he said, If it is ever considered that
the payment Of taxes Is a full dis
charge Of the obligations we owe our
neighbors. At time when our Gov
ernment is required by present eco
nomic conditions to make vast ex-
penditures, it is not wise to place ad-
ditional burdens on it and require 1t
to meet vast additional obligations. ~
The conference closed with lunch
con meeting today at which Mr. Baker
and Miss Dorothy C. Kahn, director
Of county relief, Philadelphia, and
president Of the American Associa-