A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34267 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: February 5 1924 Article Description: Welfare Page 8 Article Text: Washington Post February 5, 1924 Welfare Page 8 WELFARE PARLEY OF CITY'S AGENCIES URGED BY HUDSON Expert Would Have it Held in 3 Weeks Following Hearings on Bills. A conference of representatives of all public institutions and agencies engaged in social welfare work in the Capital to discuss ways and means to bring about a unification of their work has been recommended to the Commission on Public Welfare Legislation by William HODSON, expert consultant. Organizations which should be represented at the conference, Mr. HODSON said, include the Board of Charities, Board of Children's Guardians, National Training School for Boys and the National Training School for Girls, the Columbia Hospital for Women, Soldiers and Sailors Temporary Home, and, in general, "all public institutions conducted under separate boards of trustees or other separate management." Reorganization of the existing machinery charged with administering welfare laws of the District is one of the fundamental needs, Mr. HODSON said. No date for the proposed conference has been set, Mr. HODSON said, although he believed that it should be held about three weeks following hearings on mothers' pensions to be held Thursday afternoon and proposed hearings on the compulsory education bill planned to be held soon after the Thursday hearings. After the conference and before any decision is reached by the commission, Mr. HODSON said, public hearings also will be held on the unification of existing: machinery. "The organization of charities in the District is chaotic," Mr. HODSON said. "Although there has been in the past some efforts toward coordination the recommendations made years ago have not been carried into effect and the situation today is worse. The proposal under consideration by the commission is not new and not original with me but simply is a repetition of the recommendations of every responsible committee which has made a study of our machinery. The latest recommendation for unified control was contained in the report of the children's bureau made public recently." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DC-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com