TREMENDOUS DEMAND FOR SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS

The demand for men to do some form of work in order to help the less fortunate in the community is ever-steady and perhaps ever-increasing, under the present conditions. This is especially true in large communities such as Boston and all its suburbs. Everybody seems to want and need help and everybody wants men of education and ideas.

Although 110 men from the University have been placed in the different settlement houses, boys, clubs, Y. M. C. A. s, and churches around Boston, and are either teaching, reading entertaining, playing basketball, or visiting poor families, there is still a large number of places to be filled and every day new calls for aid are received. There is work and there are places to work for all who can give two hours a week either in the afternoon or evening. At present the largest demand is for men to take over boys' basketball clubs, to assist along musical lines, and to visit poor families in the 14 districts under the care of the Associated Charities of Boston.

Arrange Weekly Entertainments

Every week or ten days an entertainment troupe is made up, chiefly from the men of unusual talent with whom the Social Service Committee is in touch, and is sent to some settlement house to entertain not only the boys and young men, but also their families.

During the week of November 8-13 the regular fall clothing collection will take place under the supervision of J. S. Clark '23, assisted by B. Wigglesworth '23. All that is obtained by this collection is distributed both to the charitable organization around Boston and Cambridge and to the more needy students of the University.

The Social Service Committee is now planning a new branch of activity. It will organize a bureau for keeping in touch directly with poverty-stricken families and to send aid to them from the University in substantial form at other times as well as at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

All information about any branch of social service can be obtained a Phillips Brooks House. All those who desire to work are asked to see the Social Service Secretary there.