Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-28 | Page 7 | Denver Chest Officer Tells Welfare Aim

V DENVER CHEST OFFICER B T TELLS S ELFARE E AIM Visitor Urges Delegates to toShun toShun toShun Shun Injustices in Providing Providing Pro Pro- viding Relief Social welfare ellare publicity as a means mean of making clear the alms aims and needs o of relief work was stressed by Miss Olga Edith Gunkle assistant secretary and publicity director of ot the Denver Community Chest before Utah social workers at the University of ot Utah Monday Miss Gunkle delivered the principal principal principal pal address at the morning session o of the Second Institute of or Social Work I Delegates were warned by Miss tiM Gunkle to avoid old Injustices in distributing distributing distributing dis dis- dis- dis relief clUn citing an instance In California when a beggar received last year ear All classes of ot people people people peo peo- should be able to recognize the superfine sort of ot lying which whitewashes whitewashes whitewashes white white- washes poor social work she de declared de- de dared STRESSES CHARACTER After her morning address Miss Gunkle gave a luncheon talk on Social Social Social So cial Workers and Their Colleagues declaring that social work is ts a task of being neighborly The importance of or character building agencies as well as feeding agencies was as stressed Addressing the delegates in the af afternoon afternoon af- af session Newell W. W Edson ed educational educational educational ed- ed associate American Association Asso Asso- o elation 0 o Social Hygiene of or New York City declared that marriage education tion must begin In early years cars carsIl If Il we arc to educate for marriage with any degree of accuracy we must start when attitudes and emotional responses arc are shaping and when the street type of ot sex education is too frequently allowed to have unobstructed unobstructed sway Mr Ed Edson on said RAPS PURITANISM 1 Perhaps no life situations arc are more puzzling than those Involving relationships relationships relationships rela rela- between the sexes For not only Is our knowledge e scant in this field but our philosophies arc are upset by the wealth of untested data and theories which have recently crowded on us Nor have we lost much of oC our puritanical traditions which still make It Jt difficult to to te consider situations situations situa situa- frankly and without emotional bias Mr Edson concluded ded Hugo B. B Anderson executive c secretary see sec ret ret-ary of It the Salt Lake Community Chest spoke at the afternoon session on ott The Law Jh in n Rel Relation t to Social Work Miss Elizabeth McMechen l executive secretary o of the Family Service Service Ser Ser- vice society spoke on Applications ns to Social Practice answering several several several sev sev- eral of or Mr Andersons Anderson's questions The institute will continue in Kingsbury hall haIl at 8 p. p m. m Monday with an address b by Miss Gunkle Meetings will viii end Wednesday and will be followed by the Utah Conference Conference Conference Con Con- ference of Social Work which will hold sessions until Frida Friday