WAR RELIEF WORK

The Annals

VOLUME LXXIX

SEPTEMBER, 1918

EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING

ASSISTANT EDITOR: E. M. PATTERSON

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: JOSEPH H. WILLITTS

EDITOR BOOK DEPT.: C. H. CRENNAN

EDITORIAL COUNCIL: THOMAS CONWAY, JR., A. R. HATTON, AMOS S. HERSHLEY,
E. M. HOPKINS, S. S. HUEBNER, CARL KELSEY, J. P. LICHTENBERGER,
ROSWELL C. MCCREA, L. S. ROWE, HENRY SUZZALO,

PHILADELPHIA

Copyright, 1918, by

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

All rights reserved

EUROPEAN AGENTS

ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 2 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S. W.
FRANCE: L. Larose, Rue Soufflot, 22, Paris.

GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W.

ITALY: Giornale Degli Economisti, via Monte Savello, Palazzo Orsini, Rome.
SPAIN: E. Dossat, 9 Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid.

PART I

CONTENTS

FOREWORD.........

J. P. Lichtenberger, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

PART II-WAR relief work IN EUROPE AND CANADA

WAR RELIEF WORK IN EUROPE..

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Edward T. Devine, American Red Cross, Paris.

EXPANDING DEMANDS FOR WAR RELIEF IN EUROPE.....

Paul U. Kellogg, Editor of The Survey.

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BELGIUM AND THE RED CROSS-A PARTNERSHIP.

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Ernest P. Bicknell, Lieutenant-Colonel, American Red Cross, Com-

missioner to Belgium.

CANADA'S WAR RELIEF WORK.

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Sir Hebert Ames, Ottawa, Canada.

PART III-THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF WAR RISK

INSURANCE

THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF WAR RISK INSURANCE......

Thomas B. Love, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF WAR RISK INSURANCE.

Samuel McCune Lindsay, Professor of Social Legislation, Columbia

University.

EIGHT MONTHS OF WAR RISK INSURANCE WORK......

Lieut.-Col. S. H. Wolfe, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A.

PART IV-CIVILIAN RELIEF WORK OF THE NATIONAL

RED CROSS

TRAINING FOR THE HOME SERVICE OF THE RED CROSS.....

Porter Lee, Director, New York School of Philanthropy.

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SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF

CIVILIAN RELIEF..........

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Margaret F. Byington, Assistant to Director General, Department

of Civilian Relief, American Red Cross,