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Title: The Survey April-September 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
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rcises the power of a finaland authoritative court of appeal. Other forms of association also are illus-trated by examples; they are usually basedon some common interest, such as the Chi-nese-American Citizens Alliance, which iscomposed entirely of voters and meets everySunday to discuss political questions; a so-ciety of young men devoted to literature andgradually accumulating a library; a societyof Christians devoted to Bible study; a FreeMasons lodge; a Young China society, rep-resenting the nationalist party, and a Chinesecorps of boy scouts. The next section of the book is devoted tostray comment upon China and the Chinese,their psychology and home environment, theirrelations with other peoples, and many otherbits of information which help to an under-standing of the life and outlook of the Chineseamong us. This is followed by pictures fromthe celestial empire. Altogether, a most val-uable source for the student of this so littleunderstood group of fellow-citizens. B. L. CMKfitt
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JUVENILE CRIME AND COM-MUNITY MORALEBACK of the Chicago stockyardsjuvenile delinquency showed a con-siderable increase during the first sixmonths of the war. The police reported50 per cent more arrests of young of-fenders during that period, and the ju-venile court and the Juvenile ProtectiveAssociation also reported increases incrimes by young people. The settlements of the city were un-willing to have another summer vacationgo by, offering leisure for mischief, with-out trying to counteract the influencesthat are thus finding proverbial employ-ment for idle hands. Accordingly aconference of agencies interested in boyswas called at the University of ChicagoSettlement to plan for a cooperative pro-gram that would provide new andvaried activities for young people. Outof this conference grew a Summer Com-munity Recreation Committee, composedof twenty-five agencies, social, civic, re-ligious, educational and business. Previ-ously the packing firms had organized aCommunity Clearing House,

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