2. Particularly, establish a children's bureau for the better supervision and administration of child welfare laws 3. Select a trained investigator of social service problems to be known as the Commissioner of Public Welfare. (North Carolina) 4. Secure state agents, and other employees as needed; fix tenures, salaries, qualifications, duties, etc. 5. Cause to be printed rules and regulations for own procedure 6. Coöperate with other departments at necessary points. Employ an attorney for law enforcement, or call on the state or local prose cutors. SUPERVISION 1. In general, supervise and coördinate the whole system of welfare administration, public and private, within the state. STATISTICS 1. Collect, compile, analyse and publish, statistics relating to institutions and agencies; to dependent, delinquent, and defective classes, in and out of institutions; to insanity and crime, idiocy, feeble-mindedness, and other mental and physical defects for the purposes of recommending appropriate social legislation, giving needed publicity about them and providing means for their amelioration and the protection of society. OTHER INVESTIGATIONS 1. Consider and study the entire field of public welfare; advise executive officers of departments and institutions, and make recommendations to the general assembly 2. Study the problems of non-employment, poverty, vagrancy, housing conditions, crime, public amusements, care and treatment of prisoners, divorce and wife desertion, the social evil, and kindred subjects; their causes, treatment, prevention, and the prevention of hurtful social conditions generally 3. So far as possible, on the basis of such inves tigations, suggest and put into effect such remedial measures as may be of benefit to the Commonwealth in the prevention and ultimate eradication of anti-social acts and conditions 4. Gather, compile, and disseminate information embodying the best experience of penal, reformatory, and charitable institutions in this and other countries, and the best and most effective methods of caring for the insane and other defective classes 5. Provide for and encourage scientific investigations of the treatment of insanity, epilepsy, and mental disorders by the staffs of institutions, and provide for statistical returns from institutions. LEGISLATION AND REPORTS 1. Report to the governor at stated intervals, including all statistics of institutions, budget estimates, and reports of institutional officers. Include such other information as may be required, or pertinent to new legislation 2. Make recommendations to the governor and legislature regarding social legislation and the creation of new institutions. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 1. Administer any system of reparation provided for the relief of conditions caused by mine caves, floods, fire, or other casualty and consisting in a menace to public welfare and to society 2. Administer systems of legislation relating to all classes of wards, or types of institution and agency 3. Correlate state and county administration from the standpoint of uniformity, efficiency, related responsibilities, finances, etc. Allot state payments to the local governments for the support of wards chargeable to the state. PUBLICITY AND EDUCATION 1. Issue bulletins, and in other ways inform the public about social conditions, and the proper treatment and remedy for social ills 2. Attend, either through members or agents, social service and similar conventions to assist in promoting helpful publicity tending to improve social conditions in the state. CHAPTER VII ATTAINABLE STANDARDS FOR STATE ROM a careful study of the previous chapters FROM it is very clear that there is need for more uniform standards of organization and administration for state departments of public welfare in the United States. The purpose of such uniform standards will be to promote the effectiveness and comprehensiveness of public welfare services and economy of administration rather than to seek centralization and control. Uniform standards of the proper sort will, in the very nature of the case, permit of all needed and appropriate adaptation to local conditions. The purpose of this chapter is to emphasize the need for uniform standards; to discuss certain tendencies toward uniformity and to urge further study of the whole problem of organization and administration of public welfare in the United States. Among the general conclusions that seem warranted are the following: 1. There is everywhere agreement that the problems of public welfare demand increasingly such organization and administrative plans as "the claims of humanity and the public good may require." 2. The great majority of the states, in recogni |