putting the entire system into harmonious action if only there were sufficient connection between that body and the various local institutions, boards, and officials concerned with the relief of the poor. To be sure, there are several State institutions for the care of special classes of dependents and defectives which are being conducted with excellent results. But there are also many county homes and county, township, and city officials, each with an important part to play in the general scheme of poor relief; and each one is working for the most part without reference to what is being done by other workers in the same field and without expert supervision and advice. What is needed in Iowa is a correlation of all this effort and complete supervision by the State Board of Control or a similar body of experts. Centralization should take the place of diversity of authority; while expert direction of poor relief should be substituted for the haphazard efforts of officials wholly untrained in the methods of the scientific relief of poverty. All this could be brought about by a very few changes in the poor relief legislation of Iowa as it stands to-day. Abattoirs, 97 INDEX Academy of Science, Iowa, 59, 79, 335 Accountant, Public, 60 Accountants, licensing of, 76; commis- Accounting officer, 70 Accounts, uniform system of, 115, 182 Adjutant General, data relative to, 43, Administration, increase in difficulties of, offices, creation of, by Agriculture, child labor in, 563, 564, Agriculture, Department of, 28, 35, 53, Agriculture, Director of, 77 Akron (Ohio), 147 Alabama, proposed changes in legislature in, 364; custodial farm in, 521; child Alaska Territory, woman suffrage in, 290 Allan Commission Government Act, 141 America, direct legislation in, 219 American Woman Suffrage Association, organization of, 290 Amherst (Ohio), 147 Anamosa, 71, 465; reformatory at, 507, Anamosa Cooperage Company, convict Animal Health, Commission of, data rel- Animals, rights of, 296; cruelty to, 506; Anoka (Minnesota), 142 Applied History, x; volume one of, xii, Appointing power, 112, 113; power of Apprentices, system of, 610 Appropriations, securing of, 42; refer- Arbitration, 77: boards of, in labor dis- Archives, Public, 59, 75, 465 Arizona, unicameral plan advocated in, Asexualization, law providing for, 517; |