This booklet contains two articles reprinted from The Playground. The first discusses the obstacles to developing playgrounds in social centers—namely, the narrow views of taxpayers, the clash of selfish interests in playgrounds’ location and distribution, and the hostility of immediate neighbors on account of the noise and disturbance of so many children at play. The second discusses the importance of playgrounds in cities generally.

GEORGE M. FORBES was president of the Board of Education in Rochester, New York.

HIRAM H. EDGERTON was mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.

This booklet, reprinted from The Playground, includes two articles: one about how the commissioners of Rochester, New York, inaugurated playgrounds in both larger and smaller parks in the city, and one about the value of playgrounds in cities generally.

ALEXANDER B. LAMBERTON was president of the Board of Park Commissioners of Rochester, New York.

HIRAM H. EDGERTON was the mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.

The text of this booklet was originally published by the Massachusetts Civil League and the Playground Association of America. It discusses an upcoming vote at the next municipal election on the question of providing adequate playgrounds. It provides the text of the proposed act creating such playgrounds, discusses the reasons for having playgrounds, and provides quotations from playground advocates, including President Theodore Roosevelt, Hull House founder Jane Addams, and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.

JOSEPH LEE was a social worker and philanthropist.

This text was presented at the 51st Congress of the American Prison Association in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1921. It addresses the high proportion of African American criminal offenders in the United States, considers how such offenders should be treated, and offers suggestions for decreasing crime in this population.

G. CROFT WILLIAMS was the secretary of the State Board of Public Welfare, Columbia, South Carolina.

This article, from the Woman’s Medical Journal of January 2013, is a reprint of a 1912 report by the Russell Sage Foundation. It deals with infant mortality and the means of combating it by the instruction and care of expectant mothers. It provides a summary of characteristic features of certain cities personally investigated by the author.   

ELLEN C. BABBITT worked in the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This pamphlet is the second of a projected series of papers intended to offer those interested in planning relief abroad a digest of pertinent material prepared by organizations other than the Russell Sage Foundation. It covers needs to be met in the Near East; racial, religious, political, and other problems; forms of assistance; and achievements.

JAMES L. BARTON, an American Protestant missionary, established educational institutions in the Near East.

This pamphlet is the second of a projected series of papers intended to offer those interested in planning relief abroad a digest of pertinent material prepared by organizations other than the Russell Sage Foundation. It covers needs to be met in the Near East; racial, religious, political, and other problems; forms of assistance, and achievements.

JAMES L. BARTON, an American Protestant missionary, established educational institutions in the Near East.

This booklet provides guidance on setting up a program of work relief. Topics include underlying work relief, finances, advanced planning, personnel, the office system, registration of applicants, determination of need, choice of work projects, work assignments, transfer and dismissal, reassignments, wage rates and hours, method of payment, and protection against injury.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was the director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A form listing people and places—including churches, employers, medical agencies, and public officials—that social agencies might have visited with columns for noting the number of visits to each. An explanation following the list notes that agencies using the largest number of outside sources of information will be seen as having made the best investigation into the cases they are treating.

This illustrated booklet focuses on the causes of poverty and ways to alleviate it. It asks such questions as which is better: helping the poor in their poverty or helping the poor out of their poverty and is it money alone that the poor need?