Show PUBLiC SALT LAKE UKE CITY C T. T 0 1 r I r 9 Sf 04 ir 1 J 4 cE 1 WOMEN EXCHANGE NOTES BEFORE CONFERENCE These women omen know the needs need of or social orIal work Miss Dorothea Spell mann Denver left Mrs Martha R. R Fra Fraser cr Salt Lake and Miss Lillian J. J Johnson Sociological Meet Speakers Arrive i Professor Says Work Important In Building Wor World d Peace p Social work has a great deal to todo todo todo do with building a permanent world peace because it lays the groundwork for a happy secure productive reductive people creating the kind of society in which persons get bet along So said Miss Dorothea Spell Spell- mann associate professor in group work vork school of social work University University Uni Uni- of Denver who arrived here Wednesday to speak at the annual Utah conference of social work opening Thursday night at the Newhouse hotel There is no one panacea for juvenile delinquency its man many different causes must e b-e met by many different community ap- ap roaches This opinion was expressed by y Miss Lillian J. J Johnson Seattle Wash executive secretary Ryther Ryther Ryther Ry- Ry ther child center who is here to address the conference She prefers prefers prefers pre pre- fers to call juvenile delinquents emotionally disturbed children Other Arrivals Another of the early arrivals i ito to o the sessions that will be held i Friday and Saturday is George H. H Mason San Francisco director claims service Pacific area American Amerlean Amer- Amer lean ican can Red Cross He also will speak Miss Jane Shover Chicago director director tor or field services National Society Society So So- clety for Crippled Children and Adults who w will ll arrive Thursday and Wave Va I. I Parry Denver bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau of public assistance regional office social security board also will vill be speakers The trained social worker is the he only answer to solving our social ocial problems asserted Miss who is teaching recreation recreation recreation and time leisure-time programs to those hose engaged in such work Demand Exceeds Supply Demand for social workers Is greater than the supply It Isa is isa isa a professional practice that is open pen to both men and women Actually the development of the use of trained staffs in recreation and time leisure-time activities is new and increasing in demand One of the great functions of this his particular program is the fact act it helps people to get along with each other the other the thing we are stressing to make live It t is good mental hygiene she said aid She added that the practice ce of social ocial work Is directed to help people eople help themselves economically economically cally ally socially and educationally She said delinquency is only one of the factors along with adequate lousing housing extension of employment possibilities and good city plan plan- ning Miss declared that Seattle exchanges es notes when they met Informally Informally I mally at Newhouse hotel prior to opening of the annual Utah social work conference Thursday social workers are human despite their job of trying to straighten out society Discusses Delinquency You cannot reduce juvenile jU delinquency delinquency delinquency de de- de- de all of a sudden asserted assert assert- ed Miss Johnson The basic job is to make youth want to live peacefully with a community Emotionally stable persons get along The history of any person involved in crime shows clear causation The weakness comes when you try to give one answer to the delinquency de de delinquency delinquency de- de problem she continued I A child chUd who continues continue repetition of antisocial acts is a It delinquent and the earmark is the person who has no capacity for guilt Miss Johnson is going to write a book on What Is Delinquency I am going to get away from the professional lingo and write it for forthe forthe forthe the person on the thc street The opening conference session will be at the Newhouse at 8 S p. p m. m Thursday Mrs Martha R. R Fraser I conference president will preside and speak |