This booklet discusses how social centers promote reform movements. It notes that social centers provide patriotic education of immigrants through public ceremonies held for their naturalization, civic and health education, the promotion of baby welfare, the elevation of political discussions, and the dignification of voting through the maintenance of balloting booths. The booklet concludes with a list of foundation pamphlets on the topic of the social center.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

This booklet comments on the increase in the number of vacation schools—that is, schools that reopen in June after the conclusion of the regular school year. It discusses how the schools are affecting elementary education and provides a list of cities offering vacation classes as well statistics regarding the number of buildings used, the number of sessions held, and the frequency of classes, among other topics.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

This booklet contains a bibliography on recreation in response to requests the foundation received for up-to-date information on the best texts on the subject. It lists important and readily available books, pamphlets, reports, and articles dealing with various subtopics, including, for example: games and entertainment; athletics; swimming pools and public baths; dancing and rhythmic games; and dramatics, pageants, and festivals.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet discusses the use of schools as community centers and the centers’ policies. Topics include the New York school center system of the time, the historical antecedents of community policy, and community use and its regulation. An appendix provides a directory of official and unofficial community centers.

CLARENCE A. PERRY worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

More than sixteen hundred people were arrested in Topeka in 1913. This booklet seeks to investigate how the city’s police department, courts, jails, and probation officers are treating the offenders. It discusses the police department, court penalties, city and county jails, probation and parole for adults, juvenile delinquency, and preventive work and the provides general conclusions.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides a directory of social agencies that existed in the United States in 1941.

BERTHA F. HULSEMAN was the librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides a summary of a film about a clerk in need of money after his child falls ill. The clerk borrows money from a loan company at ruinous rates and ends up having to mortgage his furniture. With an attorney’s help, he prevents his furniture from being seized, and thorough membership in a cooperative savings and loan association, he can put money away for the future. The booklet ends by explaining how the film may be obtained.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet reprints an address delivered before the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 15, 1916. It includes a list of publications on cooperative credit published by the Russell Sage Foundation. The author argues that it cooperative credit associations are best suited to advancing money to the workingman. He notes that in the United States this type of association is known as a credit union and is designed to encourage thrift, promote industry, and train its members in business methods and self-government.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet is the Yiddish translation of “The Cooperative People’s Bank.”

ALPHONSE DESJARDINS was president and manager of La Caisse Populaire de Levis and general director of L’Action Populaire Economique.

This booklet, published by the Division of Remedial Loans of the Russell Sage Foundation, provides the draft of a proposed law regulating pawnbrokers.