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This one-page sheet provides a list of societies that have agreed to serve as forwarding centers for correspondence related to families in need in places without any charity organizations.
This one-page sheet provides a list of societies that have agreed to serve as forwarding centers for correspondence related to families in need in places without any charity organizations.
This one-page sheet provides a list of societies that have agreed to serve as forwarding centers for correspondence related to families in need in places without any charity organizations.
This booklet, printed but not published by RSF, provides a list of charity organizations in the United States and Canada along with a selected list of foreign societies and US consuls.
This booklet, printed but not published by RSF, provides a list of charity organizations in the United States and Canada along with a selected list of foreign societies and US consuls.
This booklet, issued in several editions for the Committee on Transportation of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, provides rules for the granting of free transportation and charity rates.
This booklet presents the report of the Committee on Lock-ups, Municipal and County Jails, of the American Prison Association on United States prisoners boarded out by the federal government. It discusses the origins of the boarding-out system, congressional action, three U.S. penitentiaries, federal reformatories, U.S. prisoners boarded out, the difficulties of reforming the county jail system, jail from the prisoner’s point of view, and suggestions for grand jury surveys of conditions under which federal prisoners are kept in county jails.
HASTINGS L. HART was the chairman of the committee of the American Prison Association and consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet presents evidence indicating that social work salaries are too low for the development of social work as a profession. It includes diagrams presenting results of a study conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation that aimed to trace the course of salaries in social work over the period of rising prices and wages during and just after World War I and through the subsequent period until 1926.
RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet presents a critique of two approaches to community center administration. In the first approach, a community center is run exclusively by the government. In the second approach, a community center is run exclusively by a private association. The author concludes that before cities can determine the best administrative method, more reliable data must be gathered.
CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY was associate director of the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This article from The Psychological Clinic, reprinted in the same year as a booklet by the Russell Sage Foundation, discusses school overcrowding in the lower grades. It examines whether the schools are overcrowded with children who should have passed on to the upper grades and how much money is expended on these students each year.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet provides a summary of the architectural plans for the jail in Burlington County, New Jersey. It includes discussion of standards for a model jail as well as an analysis of the general evils of county jails and their remedies.
ROBERT MILLS was an architect who designed the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
GEORGE J. GIGER was director of inspections at the Department of Institutions and Agencies for the State of New Jersey.