Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work: 1942 (Book).

The article provides information about the book "Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work, 1942." The fact that the United States is again engaged in war, for the first time since 1918, dominates the tone and outlook of the latest Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work, which held its sixty-ninth annual session in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 10-16, 1942. In his presidential address, entitled "Attacking on Social Work's Three Fronts," Shelby M. Harrison showed how social work was meeting the war challenge, first by providing skilled services in the immediate war program to the soldier and his family; second, by keeping up the home morale through the "day-by-day performance of social work's essential duties" serving the poor, the misguided, the sick, the imprisoned, the crippled, the jobless, the maladjusted, and the rest; and third, by planning for post-war reconstruction on a world-wide scale. Another speaker described the social work goal, as follows: "There may be few opportunities left for pioneering in the exploration of new territories or the exploitation of new resources, but breathtaking opportunities open up before us for pioneering in the development of relations between men and between nations."