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.

This booklet provides a directory of social agencies that existed in the United States in 1931.

BERTHA F. HULSEMAN was the librarian 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.

This booklet discusses the Provident Loan Society of New York, which was created to make emergency loans in response to the financial panic of 1893–1894. It presents the society’s act of incorporation, its constitution, and a list of remedial loan societies operating in 1932.

ROLF NUGENT worked in the Department of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.