A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

From the foreword: “Every other winter the legislatures of about forty states meet in deliberative session. They consider approximately 1,000 bills on educational questions and enact about 200 of them into law. This pamphlet has been compiled with the object of making available to legislators, school workers, and others having at heart the interests of public education, salient facts concerning school conditions in all the states. The figures have been derived from official sources and every care exercised to insure their accuracy. Every endeavor has been made to avoid complexities and technicalities. The object of the work is to render available to each state the experience of all.

Presented at the Fifty-Second Congress of the American Prison Association in Detroit, October, 1922, this pamphlet presents a selection of noteworthy plans and illustrations, with special reference to unusual or improved features. The plans selected include state prisons in New York and Alabama and tentative plans for a state prison and a state reformatory, plans for single buildings at two reformatories for women, plans for cottages at two reformatories for boys, and tentative plans for a metropolitan jail designed by the writer with special reference to the needs of Chicago.

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

Including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. Compiled under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis by Philip P. Jacobs.

From the Introduction: “The development of the anti-tuberculosis activity in the United States during the last ten years has been so rapid and the extension of its field so varied that the need of a comprehensive survey of the work is obvious. A similar situation was met in 1904 by the appearance of the ‘Directory of Institutions Dealing with Tuberculosis’ compiled by Miss Lilian Brandt and published by the New York Charity Organization Society in cooperation with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The present volume includes a revision of that directory as an important section of its contents.”

A report concerning what to do with the distress caused by unemployment and how the community is to bear the burden imposed upon it, aiming to serve community agencies that must deal with the phases of unemployment during times of industrial depression.

The purpose of this handbook is to suggest activities for after-school occasions and to indicate sources of information about them. The material is arranged in such a way as to serve readily community-center officials who view problems of organization objectively, who regard themselves as trustees of certain spaces and facilities in a school building which they are to utilize for the enhancement of the neighborhood’s common life.

Clarence Arthur Perry, Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation

A selection from the papers written by Mary E. Richmond, edited with biographical notes by Joanna C. Colcord, director of the Charity Organization Department, Russell Sage Foundation, and Ruth Z.S. Mann.

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

Prepared by the Committee on Independence Day Celebrations of the Art Department, New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Reprinted by the Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

From the Preface: “The importance of a ‘safe and sane’ Independence Day needs no argument. The aim of this booklet is to offer to those who are seeking material for such an occasion, gleanings from the experience of others who have achieved success in this direction, and to assist any who desire to arrange suitable pageantry in finding amid the treasures of New Jersey history scenes appropriate for representation.”

A report on the relations, organized under the Rockefeller Plan, between the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a company operating several coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad, and its employees, part of a series of inquiries into industrial relations.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

Mary van Kleeck, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

An extension of the 1916 “Industrial Disputes and the Canadian Act, Facts about Nine Years’ Experience with Compulsory Investigation in Canada” pamphlet, with a focus on whether the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act could be replicated in the United States.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation