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Show PROVO WOMEN GO TO DENVER CONVENTION Welfare Workers to Attend National Social Conference This Week Mrs. Electa Dixon, president of the Vtixh stnlio Ik-lief .Society and Mrs. Emily Nielsen, community welfare wel-fare worker, left Monday for Salt Lake where they will join more than a score of Ulah men and women who will po to Denver, Colo., to attend the fifty-second annual meeting meet-ing of the National Conference ot Social Workers. It is exyected that between 3000 and 5000 social workers from all parts of the country will attend the meeting this year, which is said to be the largest of its kind ever held in this country. The convention will open next Wednesday and continue con-tinue daily for one week including j June 17. The conference is divided into the J following phases of social work: I Children, delinquents and correction; correc-tion; health; the family; industrial and economic problems ; neighborhood neighbor-hood and community life; mental hygiene; organization of social forces; public officials and administration admin-istration ; the immigrant and the professional standards and educn-! educn-! tion. ! This conference is regarded by social welfare workers everywhere as of great educational value to ; those engaged in this phase of community com-munity work. More than twenty will he in attendance from this state, it is said. |