Social Problems Pamphlets (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... standard of work than had obtained in this divisional office before. No attempt has been made as yet to make mandatory upon the entire territory the record system and the standards of work which go with it as they have been developed in New York; but the desirability of enforcing these standards generally throughout the Army's work in this territory is under consideration. On the other hand, the present relief program of the Army leaves much to be desired. As a whole it is sporadic, inadequate for its own purposes, and uncorrelated with similar efforts in the communities in which the Army operates. There is no question of the Army's spirit of cooperation. It is in the main honest, cordial, and consistently maintained. It has, how 28 SOCIAL SALVAGE ever, in general, been insufficiently supplemented by an active consideration of ways and means to promote a more effective relationship of its relief work to other relief work in American communities. It is only fair to state that there are for the Army extenuating circumstances in this matter. The Army in the not too remote past was a ridiculed and almost persecuted organization. It would be only human for an organization under these circumstances to be slow about relating itself to other agencies, or about intruding itself in a scheme of things administered largely by those who have been out of sympathy with its work. To the foregoing it should be added that the relief work of the Army is probably not less efficient than that of the majority of other American churches attempting general relief work, and of no small number of other public and private agencies for relief. In view of the Army's high ideals of service, however, its relief work should be better than it is, and we strongly urge that the adoption of ...