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THE SURVEY
Volume XXX, Number 1, Apr 5, 1913
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[THE COMMON WELFARE]
[FINGER PRINTS]
[EDITORIAL GRIST]
[COMPENSATION FOR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES]
[THE SOCIAL AIM IN GOVERNMENT]
[THE SAND BED]
[A JUDGE LINDSEY OF THE "IDLE FORTIES"]
[NEIGHBORLINESS AND A COUNTRY COMMUNITY]
[A NEW MINISTER TO MINDS DISEASED]
[CIVIL WAR IN THE WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINES]
[SOCIAL FORCES]
[STRANGE INCENSE]
[THE COMMON WELFARE]
RESPONSE TO FLOOD CALLS
For the first time in the history of our great disasters, the country's machinery for relief has been found ready to move with that precision and efficiency which only careful previous organization could make possible. In the flood and tornado stricken regions of the Mississippi valley the Red Cross has given splendid evidence of the effectiveness of its scheme of organization and of its methods as worked out on the basis of experience at San Francisco, and as tested by the Minnesota and Michigan forest fires, the Cherry mine disaster, and the Mississippi Floods of last year.
Utilizing the largest and ablest charity organization societies which serve as "institutional members," a force of executives and trained workers was instantly deployed. With foreknowledge of just what to do and how to do it, and without friction, these men and women have reinforced the spontaneous response to emergency of citizens and officials in the stricken communities.
Omaha's tornado had scarcely died down when Eugene T. Lies of the Chicago United Charities was on his way to the city. Ernest P. Bicknell, director of the National Red Cross, had reached Chicago, en route to Omaha, when news of the Ohio floods turned him back. The same news summoned Edward T. Devine from New York. It was Mr. Devine who organized the Red Cross relief work at San Francisco, following the earthquake and fire of 1908. Mr. Bicknell established headquarters at Columbus, itself badly in the grip of the waters. At Dayton Mr. Devine, C. M. Hubbard of the St. Louis Provident Association and T. J. Edmonds of the Cincinnati Associated Charities concentrated their services.