OF THE

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

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OF

SOCIAL WORK

Formerly, National Conference of Charities and Correction

AT THE

FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION

HELD IN

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

JUNE 22-29, 1922

PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS

23-25 E. NINTH STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO

PUBLISHED FOR THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL WORK

BY

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

COPYRIGHT 1922 BY

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL WORK

All Rights Reserved

Published November 1922

Composed and Printed By
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Chicago 11. Ter.

2-16-27
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Changing Fundamentals of Social Work (Presidential Address), Robert W. Kelso.

The Family as a Factor in Social Evolution, Arthur J. Todd

Neglected Fundamentals in Children's Work:

Fundamental Questions Now Before Us, Grace Abbott

The Superficial Character of Child Caring Work, J. Prentice Murphy

Underlying Concepts in the World Movement for Health:

Public Health, George E. Vincent

Mental Hygiene, William A. White

The Faith of the Social Worker (Conference Sermon), Rev. Frank Nelson, D.D.

The Lawbreaker and Needed Improvements in His Treatment:

Coddling the Prisoner, Hastings H. Hart.

The Cleveland Survey of Criminal Justice, Raymond Moley

The Future of a Community in an Industrial Civilization:

The Waste of Human Effort in Industry, Herbert C. Hoover

The Place of the Local Community in Organized Society, E. C. Lindeman

The Effect of Modern Industry on Community Life, Allen T. Burns.

Public Agencies as Public Carriers of Ideas, Ada E. Sheffield

Functions of Public and Private Agencies in the Social Work of the Future, C. M. Bookman

Racial Diversities and Social Progress, Julius Drachsler.

DIVISION I. CHILDREN

B. SECTION MEETINGS

The School's Responsibility for the Leisure Time of the Child:

In Relation to the Services of the School, Neva R. Deardorff

109

In Relation to Its Effect on the Conduct and Efficiency of the Child and His Family,

M. Edith Campbell.

114

Minimum Qualifications for a Good Training School for Delinquent Boys, Donald North

Minimum Qualifications of a Good Child Placing Agency, Sophie Van S. Theis.

Progress in Legal Protection for Children Born Out of Wedlock, Emma O. Lundberg.

Court Procedure in Securing Support for a Child of Illegitimate Birth, Elisabeth A. Lee.

The Spiritual Values of Childhood:

The Religious Life of the Child, Ella Lyman Cabot

The Relationship between the Functions of the Juvenile Court and Those of the General

Child-Caring Agencies, Ruth I. Workum

141

The Philadelphia Plan of a Central Bureau of Inquiry and Specialized Care, Helen I.

McCoy.

DIVISION II. DELINQUENTS AND CORRECTION

The Juvenile Court as a Constructive Social Agency, Emma O. Lundberg

Recreational Activities in Institutions, R. K. Atkinson

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The Administrative Problems of a Woman's Reformatory, Anna M. Petersen

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The Commonwealth Fund Program for the Prevention of Delinquency, Barry C. Smith.

The Needs and Future of the Probation Service, Charles L. Chute.

Heredity and Environment: The Bilder Clan, Leon Stern

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DIVISION III. HEALTH

Industrial Hygiene:

The Physician in Industry and His Relation to Health Agencies, C. E. Ford

Health and Medical Work in Department Stores, Arthur B. Emmons, ad

Health Experiments and Demonstrations:

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195

Social Hygiene and Venereal Disease Control:

Relations and Duties of Public Health Nurses and Social Workers in the Diagnosis,

Treatment, and Control of Syphilis, Edith Shatto King

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The Importance and Relation to Venereal Disease Control of Unofficial Agencies, C. C.

Pierce

222

DIVISION IV. THE FAMILY

The Significance of the Rise in Relief-Giving during the Past Five Years:

Its Relation to Increased Costs and the Adequacy of Relief Based on a Study of Relief-

Giving in Forty-Seven American Cities with a Population of 100,000 and Over, John

B. Dawson.

Its Relation to Standards of Case Work, Florence Nesbitt

The Relationship between Children and Family Case Working Agencies:

Relationships in Technique, Catherine Sanders

Minimum Standards of Training for Family Case Work:

Minimum Educational Requirements Which Should Be Demanded of Those Beginning

Family Case Work, Katherine Hardwick

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Review and Forecast, Owen R. Lovejoy

The Housing Situation, John Ihlder.

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Progress in Standards of Child Labor Legislation, Raymond G. Fuller

Relation of Recent Supreme Court Decisions to Labor Unions and Industrial Legislation,

John A. Ryan

What Irregular Employment Means to Household and Community, Helen Hutchinson.

Employees' Participation in Management:

294

Work Councils in the United States, H. H. Rutherford .

299

Trade Unions and Employees' Participation, William H. Johnston

302

Stabilizing Industry:

Is There Enough Work and Income to Go Around? George Soule

Can the Worker Be Guaranteed Continuous Employment? N. I. Stone

DIVISION VI. NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY LIFE

How Do Local Community Organizations Function? Their Weakness and Their Strength,

Roy Smith Wallace

Community Organizations:

The Church and Its Relationship to Community Social Life, Joel Hayden

The Rural Work of the Young Men's Christian Association, D. C. Drew.

Rural Communities:

The Relationship between Local Community Life and Political Organization, John

Merriman Gaus.

Community Solidarity: The Small Town, R. C. Edlund

How a Neighborhood Can Improve Its Motion Picture Exhibitions, O. G. Cocks

Discussion, H. Turner Jones

Labor Education in the Industrial Community, David Scott Hanchett

DIVISION VII. MENTAL HYGIENE

Team Work in Mental Hygiene:

A State Mental Hygiene Program Through the School Period, Homer Folks

Mental Hygiene Needs Arising Subsequent to School Life, C. Floyd Haviland.

The Function of the College in Promoting Mental Hygiene, Clarence M. Hincks

Mental Hygiene of Childhood:

The Contribution of the Physician to the Mental Hygiene of the Child, C. Macfie

Campbell

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The Social Worker's Opportunity, Jessie Taft.

371

Results and Future Opportunities in the Field of Clinics, Social Service, and Parole,

Douglas A. Thom.

The Community's Responsibility in Promoting the Mental Hygiene Movement, Arthur

H. Ruggles

Administration Problems of Community Funds-Collection, Distribution, Bookkeeping,

Otto W. Davis

Creation of New and Suppression of Unnecessary Activities, Charles C. Stillman

Direct Service Activities of a Federation, Sherman Conrad

Relation of National Agencies to the Local Community, Ralph J. Reed

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DIVISION IX. PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND ADMINISTRATION

Some Organization Problems of Public Welfare Departments, Gertrude Vaile

The Work of a Commissioner of Public Welfare, Mrs. Clarence A. Johnson.

Recent Legislation in Public Welfare Organizations-Their Trend and Meaning, J. E.

Hagerty.