In an address on “Social Values in a Changing World” before the annual meeting of the Los Angeles Federation of Welfare Organizations, Mrs. M. C. Sloss, well known San Francisco welfare worker and philanthropist, issued a warning against reducing budgets or “working within the budget” of philanthropic agencies.
She pointed out that the cutting of salaries of welfare workers and reducing the budget in other ways was extremely dangerous in that it led to a deplorable lowering of standards of living. She also criticized the former leadership, “when men who could make automobiles or accumulate wealth were considered great mental geniuses, and set up as leaders for the people”. This she said, was a betrayal of leadership rather than true leadership.
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