Banks, postal savings, 275; services to
community, 316-318; laws govern-
ing, 318-319; Federal Reserve, 318-
319; state, 319; national, 319
Bell, Alexander Graham, inventor of
the telephone, 278

Bentham, Jeremy, and prison reform,
124
Berlin, 36

Billboards, 245

Bills, in state legislature, 374–376; in
Congress, 381-382

Blind, ancient cruelty toward, 67;
schools for, 67; rooms, 142

Board of Equalization, State, 360
Borrowing power of cities, 233, 350,
357-358

Boston, organized play originated in,
48; mentioned, 54, 82, 108; adopted
gas street lighting, 173; narrow
streets, 216; Vincent Cotillo Park,
222; building regulations, 225;
parks, 229; city planning board,
232; Back Bay section, 237; first
art commission, 243; first municipal
library, 336

Boy scouts, 96

British National Insurance Act of
1911, 303

British Unemployment Act of 1920,
304
Brooklyn, 256
Brush, C. F., 173
Brussels, 220

Budget, of New York City, 350; pro-

cedure, 354-356, 358; federal, 363
Buffalo, 111, 155; obtained electricity
from Niagara Falls, 177; heat gen-
erated by incinerator used to oper-
ate pumping station, 205
Buildings, fire resisting construction,
83, 90, 91; prison, 119, 123; matter
for community concern, 136; dan-
gerous to health and safety, 138-
141; reforms, 144-147; regulations
in New York City, 147-148; dis-

tricting, 217-219; restricting height
of, 223-225; and civic beauty, 240-
241; factory, 295–296.
See City
planning

Cabinet, President's, 404
Cable. See Telegraph

California, 35, 40, 179, 265, 269; mini-
mum wage law in, 298–299; attempt
to regulate immigration, 312; ini-
tiative, 376

Canal Zone, 281

Capitol, national, 220, 241

Carelessness, cause of fires, 83, 97
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching, 341

Caucus, 429

Census, 285, 403

Central station heating, 179-181
Charity, need of public, 62

Charity Organization Society, 72, 73
Charleston, West Virginia, burning of
state capitol, 90
Charter, city, 376

Chicago, 36; neighborhood parks, 49,

51; mentioned, 82, 91, 108, 114, 155,
163, 175, 179, 207, 229; Michigan
Avenue widened, 226-227; city plan
commission, 232; billboard ordi-
nance, 245; smoke inspection, 248;
Field Museum of Natural History,
337

Child labor, 21; evils of, 292–293; laws

restricting, 293–294; origin of, in
factories, 294–296

Children's Bureau, 21, 315
Children's courts, 140
China, 281, 312

Chlorine, in water purification, 162–
163

Church, care of poor, sick and or-
phaned, 63

Cincinnati, housing conditions, 141,

142; Better Housing League, 146;
mentioned, 356

Circuit courts, 416

Cities, health regulations in, 5-22;
food problems of, 28, 30, 32-42;
recreation provided by, 47-54; so-
cial service in, 63-72; fire protec-
tion, 83-93; police protection, 102-
111; building problems of, 136–
148; water supply, 156-166; light-
ing, 170-179; heating, 179–181;
wastes disposal, 189-210; street

planning, 216, 220-223; civic centres
in, 225-227; transportation in, 229–
230, 251-270; beauty of, 235-249;
street trades in, 293; finance, 347–
359; government. See City govern-

ment

Citizenship, duties and obligations of,
23, 43, 58-59, 73, 96-97, 115, 132,
148, 166-167, 184, 209-210, 233,
248-249, 270, 288-289, 328-329,
341-342, 363-364, 382, 405-406,
422; definition of, 427-428
City clubs, 286–287

City government, controlled by state,
370, 376; home rule, 377; mayor-
council type, 378, 386-392; com-
mission, 379-380, 393-397; city
manager, 397-399

City planning, necessity of, 216; dis-
tricting, 217; re-planning of old sec-
tions, 219-220; street plan, 220–222;
restricting building heights, 223-
224; civic centres, 225-226; recrea-
tion space, 227–228; transportation,
229-230. See Buildings

City planning boards, 208, 231, 232
Civic beauty, must be planned, 236–

237; railroad approach, 238; street
plan, 239; trees, 239-240; archi-
tecture, 240-241; parks, 241; art
commissions, 243-244. See Bill-
boards, Museums, Noise, Smoke
Civil service and postmasterships,
276; workmen's compensation law
in, 305; mentioned, 390-391; and
the President, 404

Civil War, 18; memorial works of art
following, 243; and education, 331;
decided question of secession, 382
Cleanliness, 9, 10

Clerk, county, 400

Cleveland, Ohio, 40, 155, 219; civic
centre in, 226; city hall, 377

Coal, in manufacturing gas, 172; in
manufacturing electricity, 177, 179;
economy in use of, 179; and central
heating, 179-181

Cold storage. See Food
Collective bargaining, 305
Colorado, 37, 113; state capitol, 372
Columbus, Ohio, 40

Commerce, Department of, 37; Bu-
reau of Animal Industry, 42;
Bureau of Standards, 42; men-

tioned, 144; regulation of, state,
265, inter-state, 265-267, 321
Commerce, Secretary of, 404
Commission form of city government,
379-380, 393-399

Committees, state legislative, 373-

374; congressional, 381-382
Communication, importance, 273-
274; development, 274; modern
methods, 275-288

Community centres, 287-288
Comptroller, 358, 359

Conflagrations, 82; and snow removal,

192

Congestion breeds criminals, 120; ex-
plained, 138; and juvenile delin-
quency, 140; danger to life, 141
Congress, and roads, 255; and inter-
state commerce, 265; and unem-
ployment, 302; encouraged immi-
gration, 311; limited immigration,
312; naturalization, 314; organiza-
tion and procedure, 381; mentioned,
409

Connecticut, 113, 294

Constitution of the United States,

and free press, 284; eighteenth
amendment, 320-321; education
not mentioned in, 340; federal
revenue bills, 363; framing, 371;
supreme law, 408; preamble quoted,
427; bill of rights, 433-436
Constitutional Convention of 1787,
371

Constitutions, state, main divisions,
371; define powers of legislatures,
373; supreme law of a state, 408
Consumers' League, 315
Container freight car, 262-263
Continuation schools, 333-334
Conventions, political, 428
Coroner, 400, 419
Corporations, 319-320

Correction, meaning, 118-119; former
methods, 119; present methods, 120,
126-129; local, state and federal
jurisdiction over, 128-131
County government, 400
Courts, and naturalization, 313; crim-
inal procedure, 409-414; civil pro-
cedure, 414-416; local and state,
416-417; county, 417; circuit, 417-
418; superior, 418; children's, 418-
419; coroner's, 419; probate, or-

phans' or surrogate's, 420; federal,
420-421
Credit, 316-319

Crime, prevention, 48-49, 101-115,
121; former severe penalties, 121-
122; conditions that promote, 125–
126

Criminals, methods of capturing, 104–
105; identification, 106-107; former
methods of treatment, 119, 120-
123; education of, 126-129
Criminology, 124-126
Cromwell, Oliver, 274

Customs duties, 321, 361-362, 380
Dallas, Texas, 144, 239
Dams, 157, 159

Dangerous machines, 298, 299
Dangerous occupations and trades,

Democracy, depends on intelligent
citizenship, 328-329; mentioned,
369, 427

Denver, free city scales, 37; men-
tioned, 40, 372

Des Moines, garbage collection and
disposal by householders, 206-207;
mentioned, 356; commission gov-
ernment plan of, 394-397
Detectives, 104-105
Detroit, 145, 155; street lighting in,

174; electric advertising signs, 245
Diet, importance of, 27, 28
Disease, danger to community, 10;
spread of, 12; prevention, 12-15;
water supply and, 155, 161, 163;
sewage and, 194, 197
District Attorney, 400
Districting, 217-219

District of Columbia, 177, 299

Drake, discoverer of petroleum in
Pennsylvania, 172

Duluth, boulevard skirting Lake Su-
perior, 237

Dust, carrying device on machines,
301; collecting room, 310
Edison, Thomas A., 173
Education, of mental defectives, 66;
of the blind, 67; of the deaf, 68; of
criminals, 125-129; necessity of,
325-329; development, 329-331;
modern methods, 331-342. See
Schools

Eight-hour day, 297

Election procedure, 431-432
Electors, Presidential, 402, 430
Electricity, cause of fires, 83; for
street lighting, 170-176; manufac-
ture of, 177-179

Elevated street railroads, 256
Elmira Reformatory, 126-128
Eminent Domain, 416, 435
England, 101; correction, 120, 121;

jails, 122; workmen's insurance,
303-304; and the tariff, 321
Estimate and Apportionment, Board
of, New York City, 231; organiza-
tion, 355

Excess condemnation, 233
Factories, conditions in, 7, 8; growth,

294-295; laws regulating conditions
of labor in, 296; welfare work in,
306-309

Farmers' market in city, 35
Federal Aid Road Act, 255

Federal plan of city government, 392–

88; fireboats, 89; training of fire-
men, 89-90; in forests, 94-96; water
supply for, 165–166

Fire Underwriters, Board of, 93
Flies, menace to health, 12
Florida, 35

Food, pure, 7; importance of proper

diet, 27-29; cost, 29-37; cold stor-
age, 37-40; community regulation,
40-42

Forest fires, 93-94; national forest
service, 94, 96

France, workmen's insurance in, 303
Franchise, perpetual, 258; mentioned,
353; Des Moines plan, 395
Frankfort, Germany, 36
Franklin, Benjamin, promoted first
hospital in United States, 64; as
Postmaster-General, 274

Freight car, new type, 261, 262
French Revolution, 283

Galveston, Texas, commission gov-
ernment plan of, 380

Garbage, 9, 10; dangerous organic
matter in, 190; collection, 201; dis-
posal, 202–204, 205; profits in, 206
Gary, Indiana, 114

Gas, for street lighting, 172, 173, 183
Gasoline, cause of fire, 83, 96-97
General Education Board, 341
Georgia, 373

Germany, workmen's insurance in,

303

Glacier National Park, 55
Gleises, Louis, 156

Glen Mills Reform School, 120
Goshen, Indiana, 144

Government, taxation inherent right,
349-350; representative, 363; legis-
lative branch of, 369–382; executive
branch of, 385–406; judicial branch
of, 408-422; defined, 425; functions
of, 425-426; kinds, 426–427; citizen
participation in, 428-433; protects
citizens, 433-436. See City govern-
ment

Government ownership, of water sup-
ply 164, 165; of lighting and heating
plants, 182, 183; of transit lines,
258-260; in Porto Rico, Philippines
and Canal Zone, 281
Government regulation, 258.
Inter-State Commerce Commission,
Public service commissions

See

Governor, powers, 374-375, 401–402
Grand Canyon, 55, 56

Grand Central Terminal, New York
City, 238, 264

Grand Rapids, Michigan, 144
Greece, aqueducts of, 156
Habeas Corpus, 410-411
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 112
Haüy, Valentine, 67

Health, problem of community, 4; cost
of illness, 4; methods of safeguard-
ing, 4-16; history of community
regulation of, 16-18; administra-
tion, 18-21; personal responsibility
for, 23; and food, 27-30; and recrea-
tion, 45-47; and housing, 136; and
water supply, 154, 163; and wastes
disposal, 190, 192, 194, 196–197;
and city planning, 216, 223; and
industry, 292–304

Heating, central station, 179–181;
from wastes, 205
Hepburn Act, 266
Home rule, city, 377
Hospitals, 14-15, 17–20, 64

House of Representatives, national,
revenue bills in, 363; organization,
381; procedure, 381-382
Housing reforms, 144-148
Hoyt, Judge, 419

Hydro-electric plants, 177-179
Idaho, 413

Ill health, economic loss through, 4
Illinois, 340
Illiteracy, 342

Immigration, historical outline, 311;
change in character of, 311; control
of, 312-313; Bureau of, 315

Impeachment, 405

Incineration, 203-204
Income tax, 380

Indeterminate sentence, 127
Indiana, 340

Indianapolis, 164
Indictment, 411

Industrial compensation boards, 304
Industrial democracy, 310
Industrial Revolution, 295-296
Industry, and health, 7, 291; problems
of modern, 292-312; regulation of,
312-316

Initiative, 376, 379, 395
Insane, treatment of in former times,

65; modern methods of handling, 66

Insurance, fire, 79-80; social, 302-
305

Interest, payment of, 316, 317
Interior, Department of, 340
International Harvester Company,
profit sharing by, 309-310
Inter-state commerce, 265-267
Inter-State Commerce Commission,

144, 265-267, 281, 321
Intra-state commerce, 265
Iowa, 265

Jablochkov, Paul, inventor of electric
arc light, 173

Jersey City, New Jersey, 262
Judges, duties, qualifications and
terms of office, 421; how chosen,
421-422

Jury, grand, 411; petit, 412
Justice of the Peace, 416

Juvenile court. See Children's courts
Juvenile delinquency, 140

Kansas City, Kansas, 356
Kentucky, 177

Keokuk, Iowa, 178

Labor, Department of, 21, 144, 312,
315; Secretary of, 312

Labor Statistics, Bureau of, 315
Labor unions, 287, 305-306

Lamps, arc and incandescent, 173-
175, 176

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 113, 177
Land grants for education, 340, 341
Lawrence, Massachusetts, experiments
in sewage filtration, 199, 200
Laws, compulsory education, 329; why
necessary, 369; state, 370-375; city,
376-380; federal, 380-382; inter-
pretation of, 409; criminal, 413-414;
civil, 416

Lay, Charles Downing, quoted, 229
Legislature, state, 372-376; city, 377-

380

L'Enfant, Major Pierre, 220
Libraries, public, 335-337
Licenses, required of stores selling
milk, 40; mentioned, 352, 353, 356,
357

Lighting, rates to private consumers,
184. See Electricity, Street il-
lumination

Lincoln, quoted, frontispiece
Linotype machine, 283
Liverpool, 220

Lockouts, 305, 306