My knowledge of the Social Service Worker for the most part is limited to his or her duties associated with Naval institutions. For almost three years I have represented at National Headquarters of the American Red Cross the Surgeon General of the Navy, who is the Navy Department’s representative on the National Executive Committee. My official position has been one of liaison but, in the organization of the Rod Cross, I am the Director of the Bureau of Naval Affairs. In that position it has been my privilege to assist in the adoption of a Naval-Red Cross program for the carrying out of one of the purposes of the Red Cross Congressional Charter, which obligates the Red Cross to act, “in natters of voluntary relief, and in accord with the military and naval authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States of America and their Army and Navy.” In my investigations as to the sphere of the Social Service Worker, I have found two schools of thought or two groups interpreting the meaning of the Social Service Worker differently. One group limits the definition to that personnel which deals with purely personal and community problems of individuals, and also to those who are trained medical social service workers; while the second group, sees no limitation to the field of operation by a highly specialized worker in dealing with an individual’s welfare. The first group separates the recreational, amusement, entertainment and athletic directors from the strictly medical social service workers; while again the second group consider the amusement personnel as properly placed under the category of social service workers. We are not particularly interested here in this academic discussion but we should be mindful of it in giving consideration to the organization and administration of our hospitals. There is a limit to all things so the social service worker is limited in his or her field of activity. We seem to be living in an age of specialization. We need sanity in the practice of our professions irrespective of their nature; and what is just as essential, we need good practical common horse sense and not too much theory.