generally inactive, it seems that the first thing to do is to ask
some friends to establish a small relief fund, just as it is easier to
give a child a five-cent meal than to teach its mother how to prepare
its food. But the school-teacher will find that it takes very much less
energy to arouse the relief society than to maintain her own relief
work. In fact, in many cities nothing could do more to strengthen
hospitals and charitable societies than to put them in touch with the
needs of school children. For a principal to make known the fact that
school children are neglected will help the charitable society and
hospital to get the funds necessary to do their part better than they
are now doing it and better than the school could ever do it. Finally,
one reason for a breakdown of charitable societies is not their own
inadequacy, but rather the failure of the school and church to make
use of an agency better equipped than themselves to give material
relief. The teacher sees the child every day, while the relief society
will never see it and has no reason to see it until some one calls
attention to it. The very first step, and an indispensable one in
relief policy, is for teachers to be on the lookout for children not
adequately provided for, and then have the physical evidence discovered
at school followed to the home for the cause of the child's distress.

[Illustration: HOME-TO-HOME INSTRUCTION IN COOKING
Anaemic condition of child due to bad cooking, not to lack of
income]

_Cooeperation_ removes the cause of distress; _doing_ may aggravate it.
Teachers would do well to draw up for themselves a chart which will
show exactly what part of the community's work can be best done by
their school. On the following page is charted the social work now
being conducted at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. So far
as agencies exist to deal with any individual or family problem coming
into the social-work square, the hospital aims to utilize that agency.
Its own direct dealing with neurasthenics, with hygiene education, with
sexual deviates, is primarily for the purpose of giving adequate
treatment to the needy, and secondarily to demonstrate how adequate
treatment should be organized for the community. Please to note that
governmental agencies are not mentioned in Dr. Cabot's chart. This does
not mean that he would not emphasize the importance of those agencies,
but that up to the present time, for the part