The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-13

Among the books recently added to
the shelves of the Morrisson-Reeves
library are some hundred or more of
special suggestiveness to the wide
awake citizen
Anyone Interested in baths and
bathing, especially in connection with
public Fairgrounds, will find much in
formation in w ?. Gerhard's "Modern
Baths and Bath Houses"
Constance Mackays "Patriotic
Plays and Pageants for Young People"
will appeal favorable to those interest
ed in the movement to have a histOri-
cal pageant in Richmond next sum-
mer.
The Child Welfare organizatin re-
Gently started can use BloOmfield's
"The Vocational Guidance of Youth"
The Child and the City" prepared by
the Chicago School of Civics and Phil
anthropy, Harris Juvenile Court
Laws in the United States; Summar-
lied" and John Spargo's The Bitter
Cry of the Children" not so recent but
still useful.
On city planning, a subject in
which the members of the Commercial
! Club will be interested, there are three
very excellent works: "Replanning
Small Cities" by John Nolen The
Improvement Of Towns and Cities"
by Robinson and Modern Civic Art"
by the same author.
Now that Dayton's new form Of gov
eminent will soon be installed many
will be interested in commission gov
eminent on which the library has two
good books: Commission Government
in American Cities" issued by the
& M rir Aro ~ CO
cial Science, than which there is no
better equipped organization in the
country, and "City Government by
Commission" by Clinton 1dgers
Woodruff, everywhere recognized as
an authority.
The gentlemen who listened to Mr.
| WolcOtts suggestive address on last
Monday night will find much to throw
| light on the problems there raised in
"Chapters on Municipal Administra-
! ton and Accounting" by Frederick A.
| Cleveland, who is associated with w
| II. Allen and Mr.. Bruere in the New
| York Bureau Of Municipal Research.
| Henry Georges great work Progress
and Poverty" is his classic exposition
of single tax and is always an illumi-
nation to the new reader on taxation.
The business man who has much to
! lose by fires should make sure to
| study Fire Prevention by E. F. Gro
| ker, who was for tWenty-seven years
| chief Of the New York city depart
ment.
Glow to Make School Gardens" by
! Herbert D. Hemenway is a little man
ual which grew out Of the authors ex-
perience in teaching children how to
! garden. Those who have visited the
| No+; -,
welfare gardens will be interested to
learn from this volume many of the
| methods are used.
At least four necessary works on
general municipal government and
good citizenship have been listed
which should receive a hearing from
every Richmond citizen: Democracy
and Social Ethics" by Jane Adams:
Efficiency in City Government" pub
| lished by the American Academy of
Political and Social Science; Coy
eminent of American Cities by Hor-
| ace Deming; and municipal Govern
ment" by Frank GoodnOw. In this last
| book one will find review of the en-
tire history Of the development of cit
les with the principles thereby ELECTED
applied to present conditions.
On health and public sanitation
about which there is now so much talk
there are number of books on every
phase of the question: The Public
Health Movement" by the American
Academy, medical Inspection of
Schools, by Luther Gulick and Leon
ard Ayres, "Conservation by Santa
tion," suggestive work by Ellen Rich
ards, G. A. Soper's Modern Methods
of Street Cleaning" George Whipple's
| n
vey Wileys well known Foods and
Their Adulteration," book that would
save every housewife money and wor-
ry, and many others.
Jacob Riis' sequel to How the Other
Half Lives entitled The Battle With
the Slums" has many suggestions to
offer to those interested in housing.
On the Initiative, Referendum and