2. To make agreement with each institution that any money not used for forwarding its work be returned to the Rehabilitation Committee.
3. To prefer the institutions that were most directly assisting in the work of the Rehabilitation Committee.
4. To favor those institutions which kept satisfactory accounts and kept them in such shape that they might be produced on demand.
The committee selected one year as the basis of time to be covered by grants, but stated as its opinion that most of the institutions would need assistance for a longer period of time. It expressed the hope that a further sum of money would later be set aside to be divided among them in the proportion of the first allotment. The recommendation was that payment be made immediately, except to the institutions that had received grants from the Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds, this latter class to be aided as soon as feasible.
The institutions aided, all of which had made application before October 10, are only a portion of those that in the judgment of the advisory committee needed assistance. The others, it was hoped, might later be given aid.
The cautious chairman of the Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, after getting advice from the outside, tested the recommendations by the following questions:
1. Does the list include all classes of charities that should be helped?
2. Does the list include all institutions and societies of each class that should be included?
3. Are the grants in proportion to the amount and value of the work done?
4. Are there institutions that should be omitted from this list