Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smaller preliminary meetings, one of the most active was that of the Federation of Settlements, before which Jane Addams, co-founder (1889) and head of Hull House (Chicago), arose to protest against loose public thinking. The American people "are in a panic," said she. They identify everything connected with "social work" with "Socialism," or more often with Bolshevism. She cited the case of a distinguished member of Congress who "had it on very good authority" that the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. constitution had been written by the late Dictator Lenin in Moscow...
President Gertrude Vaile of Denver opened the Conference proper with a vaulting keynote speech. Half a century ago, the emphasis of social work was upon alleviation and correction. "Today the goal is nothing short of an effort to see that every individual becomes the best he can be, and the community the finest and fullest expression of social life that...
...Richard C. Cabot, Harvard professor of social ethics, trimmed ship by telling the workers that they were a trifle "too breathless" in their good works. He urged less haste and more thoroughness, more study and fewer slogans?all very good humoredly...
...another session, Porter R. Lee, director of the New York School of Social Works, announced that the perfect social worker had not yet been born. When he or she did arrive, the characteristics would be these: tact, cooperation, reliability, fair-mindedness, agreeability, poise, magnetism and a large sense of humor...
...Jane Addams again took the rostrum, greying, spare and benign in her 66th year. Her penetrating low voice filled the hall with quiet reminiscence. She made no comment on a remark by President Vaile to the effect that the day of organization has succeeded the day of leadership in social work-the day of Jane Addams, Mary Richmond,* Owen R. Lovejoy**?but did say: "It is curious to notice the difference in world opinion 50 years ago and now. When I first went to Europe people everywhere were interested in the United States. They thought of America...