This booklet examines transportation as a form of charitable aid, its effects on recipients, and better ways of helping.

In this letter, Alexander Johnson reminds the director of a charity organization of the difference between managing a business and managing a charity.

ALEXANDER JOHNSON was general secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Correction.  

In this booklet, Mary E. Richmond discusses the arguments for and against mothers’ pensions. She maintains that policies legislating that mothers stay home with their children may defend motherhood at the expense of mothers.

MARY E. RICHMOND was the director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.  

This booklet contains extracts from an address delivered at the Annual Meetings of the Associated Charities of Columbus, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

GEORGE HODGES was dean of the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In this pamphlet, Joseph Lee explains why playgrounds are necessary, how they should be constructed, and how to get people in the community interested in creating them.

JOSPEH LEE was known as the “Father of the Playground Movement.” He is the author of “The Home Playground,” published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

In this pamphlet, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress of the Playground Association of America, Joseph Lee discusses the ideal home playground.

JOSPEH LEE is considered the “Father of the Playground Movement.” He is the author of “Play and Playgrounds,” available on the Russell Sage Foundation site.

This booklet contains six papers from the National Conference of Social Work, which took place in Washington, DC, in May 1923. Four papers describe developments in particular sections of the United States. Two papers offer a national perspective. Together, the papers bear testimony to the similarity of children’s needs everywhere.