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Title: The Survey October 1917-March 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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submitted to the legis-lature. Consequently there was con-troversy among the different groups, re-sulting in many changes in the code andpartial mutilation. A previous generalstudy would have enabled social work-ers to get together on a program. InMissouri social organizations did at-tempt a joint effort for cooperation. The social workers of Oklahoma feltthat any effort to codify its laws wouldbe futile unless such action were pre-ceded by a state-wide survey of condi-tions. The advantage of this methodis that after a broad view or picture isobtained it is possible to determinewhether the picture requires action, andif so, in what direction. The author-ity of an official commission may then besought to codify the laws and to bringthem up to standards recognized as fit-ting. It was on this basis that the com-mittee was asked to make a survey ofthe state for the University of Okla-homa, the investigation being conductedunder the direction of Edward N. CIop-per, of the committees staff.
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Although they were only gleaners, following after the regularsales force, the Boy Scouts of America secured subscriptions ofmore than $23,000,000 to the first liberty loan and of $102,000,000to the second. For the third loan campaign, beginning April 6,the boys arc ready to start a house-to-house canvass, fortified bytheir experience and by the handsome Leyendcckcr poster repro-duced above. Social workers and others who haveworked for the protection of childrenhave long appreciated that there shouldbe some coordination of the differentstandards, functions and activities, notonly in the interest of effective admin-istration by state and local authorities,but of the children themselves. For ex-ample, in the field of poor relief, theproblem of mothers pensions hinges di-rectly upon that of compulsory schoolattendance and the restriction of em-ployment of children. But in somestates, as in Oklahoma, the measure ofrelief afforded to mothers under the lawis entirely inadequate, granting the

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