[131] Lindsay, Samuel M., Unpublished Lectures on Social Legislation.
[132] Giddings, Franklin H., The Responsible State (N. Y., 1918), ch. iv, p. 81.
[133] Reference has already been made to the good work of the Government railroad officials in the quick restoration of service.
[134] Cooley, Charles H., Social Organization (N. Y., 1912), ch. xxxv, p. 403.
[135] This is not to be considered as without exception in catastrophies. A special Citizens' Committee led the operations at the Paterson fire and flood, but at the Chicago fire the City government took immediate and responsible action. This was also the case at Baltimore when the Mayor was the “key to the situation.” It should however be added that both at Halifax and Dartmouth the chairmen of the Citizens' Committees were ex-mayors.
[136] An Act to Incorporate the Halifax Relief Commission, Halifax, 1918.
[137] Parkinson, Thomas I., “Problems growing out of the Titanic Disaster,” Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, vol. vi, no. 1.
[138] Ross, Edward A., Foundations of Sociology (N. Y., 1905), ch. viii, p. 254.
[139] Deacon, J. Byron, Disasters (N. Y., 1918), p. 43.
[140] Ross, [op. cit.], p. 253.