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Show PURDY DEFINES AIMS OF SOCIAL WORKERS Says Object Is to Abolish Involuntary Poverty and Tells What Is Necessary. KANSAS CITY, May 22. "The ultimate purpose of the social worker must be the abolition of involuntary poverty." Lavvson Purdy of New York, president of the National Na-tional Municipal league, told the National Conference of Social Work at its final session here today. "To that end, one thing- is inevitably necessary," he said. "You must heal to the roots of poverty, as well as at its outward out-ward expression." "The aims of social effort are synonymous synony-mous with the aims of government," Wilbur Wil-bur C- Purdy of Cincinnati, executor of the national social unit organization, told the conference. Charles H. Johnson, secretary of the New York state board of charities, and Miss Edith M. Purbush of New York, statistician of the national committee for mental hygiene, also spoke. |