Evening star., 1940-03-28
Poor Homes Burden
All Society, Welfare
WorkersAre Told
Social Agencies Council
Units Hear Baltimore
Rubbi at MEETING

Society in general has to pay
for conditions such as exist in the
National Capitals $500 houses with
out light or water, Rabbi Morris
Lazeron of Baltimore declared yes
terday before a large audience
gathered at a luncheon meeting
under joint auspices of the Volun-
teer Bureau and the Board Mem
bers Council of the Washington
Council of Social Agencies in the
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and G
streets NV.
Declaring he was shocked" at
such situation in this city, Rabbi
Lazeron said that society pays for
unsatisfactory environment of chill
dren, diseases and other develop
ments due to poverty.
Illustrating how social welfare
work has developed through expe-
rience over many years, Rabbi Laze-
ron drew a verbal picture of three
phases of it.
First, he said, was the volunteer
work. Next came the professional
social worker with specific training
for specific service Now, in the
third period each group-the volun-
teers and the professionals-sees
the need of the other and the need
Of the two groups working together.
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Rabbi Lazeron emphasized the
Importance of volunteer workers
being selected from those qualified
for the particular kind of work
and who have the time. He then
emphasized the advantage of having
professional workers guide the VOL
unteers and show them how the
. work can best be done.
Volunteer services of the Junior
League, the District of Columbia
Service Guild and the District of
Columbia Chapter of the American
Red Cross were described at the
meeting by representative from
each.
Mrs. Robert M. Wilson of the
Junior League said 95 of its members
served on a total of 33 boards last
year and that it had 215 active men,
bers engaged in volunteer work.
The league, she explained, lays
stress on the proper education and
training of volunteers to engage in
social welfare work. This training is
obtained through study, attending
lectures and field trips, Mrs. Wilson
related. Finally, the prospective
volunteers are required to pass ex-
aminations. She told how the Pro-
fessional Advisory Committee aided
in finding "the right girl for the right
job"
81 Members in Guild.
Mrs Arthur T. Lyon told of the
Service Guild organized last June
to help other agencies. 1t now
has 81 members, composed of women
between the ages of 18 and 40. and
tries to answer any call received,
she said.
The guilds members 60 to the
various settlement houses and other
institutions to read to children, to
teach them dancing, manage their
libraries and do other work, she
related. The service has charge of
the dental clinic at the Christ Child
Society, some OF the guild members
give their time at the Convalescent
Home at Rockville. Other work is
done by members at the Mothers
Health Association. Members help
the District of Columbia Society for
the Prevention of Blindness in
clerical work and with its Christmas
toy shop. Other organizations for
which the guild members serve in
clude the League of the Hard of
Hearing, the Self-Help Exchange,
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews, the Home Workers
Exchange and the Council of Social
Agencies.
The wide and varied activities of
the District Red Cross Chapter were
described by Mrs. Raymond Mackay.
Mrs Harry S. Bernton, president
of the Washington Council of So
cial Agencies. who presided, said
the council, through its agencies,
has trained about 5000 volunteer
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