Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-01-14 | Page 12 | Women's Council Advocates State School of Social Work

Women's Council Advocates State School of Social Work Employment Increase Is Objective; W P A Continuance Recommended In an effort to increase employment of Utah people, a recommendation recom-mendation was made Thursday by the Women's Legislative Council Coun-cil of Utah urging Governor Henry H. Blood and the state legislators legis-lators to include in the budget an allotment of $10,000 annually for creation and maintenance of a professional school of social 1 work at the University of Utah. The council, meeting In the governor's gov-ernor's board room at the state cap- ' itol, waa attended by more than 75 women from all parts of the state. Mrs. R. F. Priest, first vies president, presi-dent, presided. Mrs. H. A. Dittmann proposed the social school motion, which was unanlmoualy adopted. Ths ' council, however, did not favor creation of a merit system for Utah social welfare fields until Utah students havs had sufficisnt opportunity oppor-tunity to qualify. The suggestion waa returned to a committee for further discussion. It will be debated de-bated at the council's nsxt meeting. Mrs. R. B. Psck reported that varied federal agencies have granted grant-ed about $10,000,000 for SftO government govern-ment projects In Utah since creation crea-tion of the works progress administration. admin-istration. Ths council. In a formal recommendation, recom-mendation, urged Governor Blood to continue W P A activities In ths stats to alleviate unemployment The Rev. Jacob Trapp, pastor of ths First Unitarian church, said that Utah "is ysara ahead of other states in operating welfare projects with government-provided funds." Mrs. James Murdock of Kaysvills waa elected second vice president and Mrs. Leslie J. Paul was named chairman of the educational committee. com-mittee. Mrs. Jesse F. Cannon, chairman of the rsvlsion committee, discussed proposed constitutional changes. No action was taken, but allowed to carry over until the next meeting.