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THE SURVEY
Volume XXX, Number 1, Apr 5, 1913
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THE COMMON WELFARE
FINGER PRINTS
EDITORIAL GRIST
COMPENSATION FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
THE SOCIAL AIM IN GOVERNMENT
THE SAND BED
A JUDGE LINDSEY OF THE "IDLE FORTIES"
NEIGHBORLINESS AND A COUNTRY COMMUNITY
A NEW MINISTER TO MINDS DISEASED
CIVIL WAR IN THE WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINES
SOCIAL FORCES
STRANGE INCENSE
THE COMMON WELFARE
RESPONSE TO FLOOD CALLS
For the first time in the history of our great disasters, the country'smachinery for relief has been found ready to move with that precisionand efficiency which only careful previous organization could makepossible. In the flood and tornado stricken regions of the Mississippivalley the Red Cross has given splendid evidence of the effectiveness ofits scheme of organization and of its methods as worked out on the basisof experience at San Francisco, and as tested by the Minnesota andMichigan forest fires, the Cherry mine disaster, and the MississippiFloods of last year.
Utilizing the largest and ablest charity organization societies whichserve as "institutional members," a force of executives and trainedworkers was instantly deployed. With foreknowledge of just what to doand how to do it, and without friction, these men and women havereinforced the spontaneous response to emergency of citizens andofficials in the stricken communities.
Omaha's tornado had scarcely died down when Eugene T. Lies of theChicago United Charities was on his way to the city. Ernest P. Bicknell,director of the National Red Cross, had reached Chicago, en route toOmaha, when news of the Ohio floods turned him back. The same newssummoned Edward T. Devine from New York. It was Mr. Devine who organizedthe Red Cross relief work at San Francisco, following the earthquake andfire of 1908. Mr. Bicknell established headquarters at Columbus, itselfbadly in the grip of the waters. At Dayton Mr. Devine, C. M. Hubbard ofthe St. Louis Provident Association and T. J. Edmonds of the CincinnatiAssociated Charities concentrated their services.
When Cincinnati and its vicinity needed help, Mr. Edmonds returned tohis home city. The Omaha situation by this time could spare Mr. Lies forDayton. To Piqua, Sidney and other Ohio and Indiana flood points wentJames F. Jackson of the Cleveland Associated Charities and other workersfrom various organizations. The news from the Ohio and other floodsalmost swamped that of an isolated disaster in Alabama where a tornadodevastated the town of Lower Peachtree. To handle the relief at thispoint the Red Cross dispatched William M. McGrath of the BirminghamAssociated Charities, who had seen service a year ago in the Mississippifloods.
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