This booklet outlines the social work of the state of Florida. Among the topics discussed are war activities, care of soldiers and their families, food conservation, education in patriotism, administration of boards and institutions, the public health service, the prison system, infant mortality, child labor, recreation, public education, and care of the poor.

HASTINGS H. HART was the director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE L. STONAKER was a staff member of the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association of New Jersey.

This booklet discusses social case workers and how they contribute to better industrial conditions. Topics include how information spreads, investigation of industrial facts, adequate plan of treatment, the personal equipment of the case worker, health and income, health and hours of labor, appreciation of the relation between labor conditions and social conditions, and making case data accessible to inquirers.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of surveys and exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides general principles for charity work. It discusses lack of male support, disability, children, volunteer visitors, churches, city aid, new applications, pensions, budgets, loans, pauperizing, and prevention.

FREDERIC ALMY was secretary of the Buffalo Charity Organization.  

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.