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THE INDEX, Saturday, January 14, 1928
C L U B S - - P H I L A N T H R O P I E S - C I V I C S
FEBRUARY eighth to the eleventh, inclusive,
is announced as the time for the
annual State Conference on Welfare Work,
to be held in Scranton. Dwight W. Weist,
director of the Scranton Community Chest,
is president of the conference and Scranton
is making a special effort to make the affair
a success, not having had the privilege of
entertaining the organization for about fourteen
years. Scranton itself is to have more
than five hundred registered delegates at the
conference. Among the big accomplishments
of the conference in past years was the establishment
of the Department of Welfare at
Harrisburg; another outstanding achievement
was that it brought about the establishment
of the Public Charities Association,
which now acts as a State Council of Social
Agencies, and has brought about the passing
of several welfare bills through the State
Legislature.
In order that civic interests may be of service
to the Conference Committee, G. d'A.
Belin, president of the Community Welfare
Federation of Scranton, and Ralph Ammerman,
president of the Council of Social Agencies,
have advised the committee that Martin
P. Kennedy, a member of the Board of the
Welfare Federation and chairman of the
Speakers' Bureau, has accepted the chairmanship
on the Committee on Arrangements,
Charles H. Alspech, secretary of the Welfare
Federation of Reading, has been appointed
chairman of the Institute Section of the Conference
and Harry M. Carey, director of the
Community Welfare Federation from Wilkes-
Barre, is in charge of the Round Table Conference
program. The programs follow:
1. Administration of Social Agencies.
Leader, Arthur Dunham, secretary Child
Welfare Division, Public Charities Association
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2. Behavior Problems of Children. Leader,
Dr. Jessie Taft, director of Child Study
Department, Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia.
3. Case Work in Rural Communities.
Leader, Miss L. Josephine Webster, executive
secretary Vermont Children's Aid Society,
Burlington.
4. Coordination of Social Work Activities.
Leader, John B. Dawson, executive secretary
Community Chest of New Haven.
5. Development of Personality as a Case
Work Process. Leader, Miss Betsey Libbey,
supervisor of districts, Family Society of
Philadelphia.
6. Nationality Factor in Case Work. Leader,
Mrs. Ruth Crawford Mitchell, chairman
Committee on Foreign Students, University
of Pittsburgh.
7. Placement and Supervision of Dependent
Children in Foster Homes. Leader, Miss
Sarah ,H. Spenser, supervisor Child Welfare
Department of Social Case Work, Pennsyl­
vania School of Social and Health Work,
Philadelphia.
8. Processes in Case Work. Miss Margaret
E. Rich, associate executive secretary,
American Association for Organizing Family
Social Work, New York City.
9. Publicity for Social Work. Mrs. Mary
E. Routzhan, Department of Surveys and Exhibits,
Russell Sage Foundation; secretary
and Bulletin editor, Committee on Publicity
Methods in Social Work, New York City.
10. Travelers and Non-Residents. Leader,
Miss Harriet E. Anderson, director of Field
Work, National Association of Travelers' Aid
Societies, New York City.
Round Tables are to be conducted on two
days during the conference, each session to
last one hour and a half. Mr. Carey selected
his subjects from a state poll. These, with
the leaders secured, are as follows:
1. Case Work Processes of Adjustment
and Supervision of the non-institutional type
of Mental Defectives in their own Communities.
Chairman, Dr. William C. Sandy, director
Bureau of Mental Health, Pennsylvania
Department of Welfare, Harrisburg; leaders,
Mrs. Helen Glenn Tyson, Mrs. Esther Martin
Sorg, Miss Nell Scott and Miss Florentine
Hackbush.
2. The Board, the Executive and Volunteers.
Leader, Karl de Schweinitz, general
secretary, Family Society of Philadelphia.
3. Child Welfare Legislation in Pennsylvania.
Leader, Arthur Dunham, secretary
Child Welfare Division, Public Charities Association
of Pennsylvania.
4. The Church and Social Work. Leader,
the Rev. Julius C. H. Sauber, Department of
Social Service, Diocese of Pittsburgh.
5. How Municipalities of Pennsylvania
Can Improve Local Housing Conditions.
Leader, Bernard J. Newman, managing director
Philadelphia Housing Association.
6. Legal Aspects of Social Work. Leader,
John S. Bradway, National Association of
Legal Aid Organizations, Philadelphia.
7. Leisure Time and Neighborhood Work.
Leader to be announced.
8. Pennsylvania's Correctional System in
the Legislature. Chairman, Hon. Paul N.
Schaeffer, President Judge, Berks County
Courts; leaders, Leon Stern and Dr. L. N.
Robinson.
Our State Correctional Institutions. Chairman,
Miss Florence L. Sanville; leaders, Dr.
B. L. Scott and Dr. Mary Wolfe.
9. Public Health and Social Work. Leader
to be announced.
10. Public Relief. Leader, Edwin D. Solenberger,
General Secretary Children's Aid
Society of Pennsylvania.
11. Value and Use of Statistics in Measuring
Social Work. Leader, Dr. I. M. Rubinow,
executive secretary Jewish Welfare Society,
Philadelphia.
12. Work Among the Blind. Leader, Dr.
B. Franklin Royer, medical director, National
Society for Prevention of Blindness, New
York City, and Mrs. Mary Dranga Campbell,
executive director Pennsylvania State Council
for the Blind, Harrisburg.
13. Street Trades in Your Town—Whose
Responsibility? Why? How? Leader, Miss
Charlotte E. Carr, director Bureau of Women
and Children, Department of Labor and Industry,
Harrisburg.
There will be two big general evening sessions.
Dr. George E. Vincent, president of
the Rockefeller Foundation, will address the
conference on "Public Health and Social
Work," while a speaker the next evening will
talk on "The Relation of Social Work to the
Commonwealth."
Mrs. Cornelia Stratton Parker, internationally
known writer and economist, will be in
Pittsburgh to speak at Carnegie Music Hall
the evening of January seventeenth at half
past eight o'clock, in the second of the lecture
series being held by the Department of Education
of Central Branch Y. W. C. A. Mrs.
Parker will speak on "The Institution of
Modern Marriage and its Relationship to Society,"
a subject which she is admirably
fitted to discuss. Mrs. Parker was the wife
of the late Carleton Parker, famous economist
and sociologist, and since his death has
carried on his work along these lines. Mrs.
Parker has spent more than five years traveling
and studying in Europe. As European
correspondent for outstanding American
periodicals, she has written keen and penetrating
articles on the League of Nations,
labor conditions, movements of concern to
women, and other subjects of vital interest.
The Pittsburgh Drama League will attend
a theatre party in the Arts Theatre of Carnegie
Institute of Technology Wednesday
evening January eighteenth. There will be a
special performance of "The Tidings Brought
to Mary," one of the great dramas of modern
France, written by Paul Claudel, French ambassador
in Washington. Tickets are beingdistributed
by Mrs. Joseph Kunkel, of North
Craig Street.
Mrs. A. J. Hopkins (Margaret Sutton Briscoe),
authoress and lecturer, will be honor
guest and speaker at the luncheon to be given
by the Womans City Club in the crystal
room of the William Penn at half past twelve
o'clock today. "Dromidia" will be the subject
of Mrs. Hopkins' talk.
At the tea to be given in the club rooms
tomorrow afternoon, from five to seven
o'clock, Elford Caughey, harpist, formerly a
member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
and now with the Little Symphony Orchestra,
will play. Mrs. Winifred Perry, contralto