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Show J Speaker Utah Welfare Plans Told Leadership Week Assembly PROVO Utah's social welfare program was outlined at the concluding general meeting of Brighara Young university's sixteenth six-teenth annual leadership week JYidsy. t v Speakers were J. w. Gillman. member of the state welfare board, who represented Governor Henry H. Blood, and Nels Anderson, national na-tional reemployment service, Wssh-tngton, Wssh-tngton, D. C. "Six and one-half per cent of the people of Utah are on relief In one form or another," Mr. Gillman said. "We feel that if the social security bill we are presenting to the stats legislature Is passed, we will be able to easily cars for all ths needy in the state." . The bill asks for 12.400,000 of ths stats sales tax and 15 per cent of the total costs from the county, he explained, which would be added to a like amount from the federal government to carry out this program. pro-gram. Thers was sn average Increase of fivs per cent a month in the amount of money required for the aged of the state, from March, 1936, to December of that year, with an Increase of from 91 to 350 In the number of blind people being cared for. "It would appear that the depend' ent children program has been the most stable and constant of the entire group with a net Increase in benefits -of-Ua per rent," Mr Gill-j man ajafH. I J. W. GILLMAN Be tells welfare plans Mrs. John E. Hayes, national P.-T. A. field secretary, from Idaho, gave an address on "Leadership" at a class session. "Success in any organization depends de-pends upon the leadership and cooperation co-operation of It's members," she said. "Leadership Is not necessarily a contribution from any one person, rather It is an outgrowth from ths group, an ability on the part of one person to find within ths group the talent needed to promote a project or movement.' In the morning a Bee Hive breakfast break-fast was served to stake and district dis-trict leaders at ths College Inn. Mrs. Bertha Tingey and Illeen Waspe, general Y. W. M. LA. board members, were toastmistress and, chairman in charge, respectively. Mrs. Elsie VanNoy, general secretary. secre-tary. Y. W. M. L A., directed the activities. A special feature of Friday's program pro-gram was ths regional meeting of the State Conference of Social Work. Problems of social work were discussed at 11:30 a. m. under the chairmanship of Mrs. Ada Gris-wold, Gris-wold, vice president of ths conference. |