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Title: Biennial report of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare to the General Assembly of North Carolina
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
Subjects: Public welfare
Publisher: Raleigh : The Board
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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f North Carolinas care of its unfortunate. Counties having as much as 32,000 population were required to setup regular welfare departments, while superintendents of schools werecharged with part-time welfare duties in the smaller counties. Thiswas the beginning from which grew the full-time departments in everycounty in the state following the passage of social security legislation. Mr. McAlister was interested in the passage of the child labor andthe juvenile court laws, the mothers aid and the parole legislation,and prison reforms that brought about a vast modernization of thestates methods of caring for its law offenders. In all his activities he brought civic clubs and community organi-zations into the fights for better social legislation, for the establish-ment of training schools and for the opening of institutions for thedefectives. He worked not alone, but as a foreman in marshalling pri-vate activities and public thought to accomplish the welfare planNorth Carolina has today.
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INTRODUCTION In the following pages there is a detailed accounting of the businessof the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare covering the bien-nial period July 1, 1938-June 30, 1940. It has been compiled for theinformation of the Governor, the legislature and for the tax sup-porters of the state generally. Appropriations were made to the stateboard to administer the public welfare program in the state and astrustees of the funds, the board, through its staff members, has setforth somewhat in detail the activities of the various divisions injustification of its biennial expenditures. Public service, it is recog-nized, is regarded as a public trust. In attempting to meet humanneeds those who are engaged in public welfare work have been entrust-ed with a grave responsibility. The dominant slogan of modern social work is service, but it mustbe a balanced service; that is, it must be service adapted to meet com-munity needs. Social work, it must be recognized, is only one of anumbe

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