Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...infrequently ask me about taking up social work as a calling. Nothing is plainer to men than that the demand for good workers exceeds the supply. Most of the calls are for workers in societies for organizing charity, child-saving agencies, social settlements. But there are some calls for probation officers, welfare managers, in large stores and factories, and workers in agencies which are chiefly concerned with civics or with applying the advances of medical science to relief and prevention of need. The positions are generally subordinate ones, but sometimes head workers are wanted...
...Social work is not, as yet, generally thought of as a profession or calling. But there is a growing brotherhood of men and women who stand for thoughtful, purposeful service in that particular field, with the qualities of head which make work scientific, with the qualities of hear which make an occupation a calling...
...entire misunderstanding of its scope and possibilities. It is not merely care of needy persons. It looks largely to remedy and prevention. It means the use of scientific methods by the forces of charity, neighborliness, civic responsibility. It involves statesmanship in aim and method. Such conceptions of social work should appeal to young men and women of ability...
...population, the executive heads were recently paid as follows: seven between $3000 and $5000; five $2400 or $2500; four $1500 or $1800; and one $1200. The payment of more adequate salaries in this field can come only by the gradual education of public opinion to the conviction that good social work, a part of the community's responsibility, can be had only from able service. Such education of public opinion, if done for little pay, is in part a missionary work...
...clock-Mr. Copeland will give a reading, after which tea and light refreshments will be served. Music will also be provided. Books from the Social Service library and magazines will be available for use during the afternoon. The 1910 committee, of which S. M. Lowrey is chairman, will be in charge...