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.
This booklet discusses the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907, which made it illegal to declare a strike or lockout in mines or other public utilities until a full investigation into the merits of the dispute was completed. Topics include procedure under the act, serious strikes in the West, the act as a failure in coal mining, railroads and other public utilities, violations of the act, penalties not enforced, and lessons for the United States. Appendixes provide statistical tables and a bibliography.
BEN M. SELEKMAN worked in the Department of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet provides material related to a dispute between operators and miners in the bituminous-coal industry. After an introduction by Mary van Kleeck, director of the Department of Industrial Studies at the Russell Sage Foundation, it provides documents including an agreement between the mine workers and the coal mine administrator, the federal mine safety code, executive orders, and legal decisions.
EDWARD A. WIECK was a research associate in the Department of Industrial Studies 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 the text of a presentation to the Committee on Families and Neighborhoods of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 13, 1911. It discusses the need for temporary loans by millions of people who have no banking facilities and who are exploited by loan sharks.
ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of 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.