employers of every kind, to workingmen, to municipal officers,
to teachers and ministers, to writers, students, and others.

Through its many foreign collaborators, the institute receives
reports, and is in close touch with social movements abroad.

The institute also arranges for addresses and lectures, with or
without lantern slides, on many important subjects, such as: The
Child Problem, History of Labor, Food, Tenements and Improved
Housing, Industrial Betterment, Substitutes for the Saloon, The
Newer Charity, Municipal Problems, Institutional Churches,
Public Baths and Wash Houses, The Better New York.

Its publications are: Social Service, an illustrated monthly
magazine; The Better New York, monographs, and leaflets.

It has a specialized and growing library, with many foreign
books and pamphlets, 3,000 lantern slides, and 4,000
photographs, showing social and industrial conditions throughout
the world.

_Results_.--Plans for new factories have been modified for
comfort and health. Result: Better workers and better work.

Facilities for warm lunches, baths, and recreation at noon have
been provided. Result: Hold of the saloon weakened.

Social secretaries have been appointed in factories and
department stores. Result: Employees and employers in harmony.

Ministers, lecturers, and writers have been aided in presenting
moral questions with force and persuasiveness. Result: Public
conscience aroused.

The attention of societies and clubs has been turned to vital
civic questions. Result: Energies given practical value.

Many private individuals have been encouraged to undertake local
efforts of great value from which they reluctantly shrank for
lack of knowledge and experience. Result: Individuals and
communities have been both beautified.

Theodore Roosevelt said: "This institute is fitted to render a
great and peculiar service, not merely to the country but to all
countries. The possibilities of usefulness for the institute are
well nigh boundless. It will hasten the progress of civilization
and the uplifting of humanity."

The exhibits of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum of the
World's Commerce and American Industries by means of 88
graphically illustrated charts also deserve mention. These
charts illustrate the progress and present conditions o