Power plants, Municipal Cleveland, O.-Ordinance to expend not to exceed $500,000 for the purpose of erecting and enlarging and extending the municipal electric light and power system of the division of light and heat, department of public utilities, and for the purchase of materials and the necessary lands thereof. (Ord. no. 45909 passed Ja 14 '18) City Rec 5:78 Ja 23 '18 Los Angeles, Cal.-Power plant built by the city at a cost of $120,000 and developing 4000 horsepower of hydro-electric energy, was dedicated on Dec. 23, 1917. The plant was built without any publicity in order to prevent interference from private interests. Los Angeles, Cal.-Receipts from the sale of municipal power now exceeds $80,000 per month. Effective Citizenship no 29 3p Ja 9 '18 Powers, James Mellen, comp. Michigan law of marriage and divorce, with forms of procedure conforming to the Michigan judicature act. $7.50 '17 Drake (Marriage Laws) Predatory animals. See Animals, Predatory • Massachusetts. Comm. to compile information and data for the constitutional convention. Proportional representation. (Bul. no. 27) 16p '17 Prenatal clinics Boston, Mass.-Successful pay prenatal clinic. W. L. Putnam. Modern Hospital 10:139-40 F '18 Plea for prenatal care: prenatal clinic Indiana university school of medicine, Indianapolis. charts Ind State Bd Health Monthly Bul 20:247-8 N '17 Presidential messages, 1917 Peruvian President's message to Congress. tables South American 5:12-13 O '17 Press. See Freedom of the press Preventable diseases. See Infectious diseases Prevocational education. See Vocational education Pre-war contracts. See Contracts, Pre-war American exchange nat. bank. Voluntary cooperation? 2p table N 15 '17 128 Broadway, N.Y. Australia-Steadying prices. (Editorial) NY Evening Post Ap 11 '18 p 10 Canada-Prices in Canada during 1917. tables Monthly R 6:606 Mr '18 ↑ Carnegie lib. of Pittsburgh. Market prices appearing currently in technical and trade journals. 6p 5c Ap 5 '18 Reprinted from the Monthly Bulletin of the library, February, 1918. Causal relation between price inflation and monetary inflation. Econ World n s 16:371 S 14 '18 Changes in retail prices in the United States. tables Monthly R 5:253-5 Ag '17 Co-ordination of price-fixing and taxation. Manufacturers Rec 72:58-9 N 29 '17 Effect of the market system upon prices. tables In E. G. Nourse. Chicago produce market, p 107-58 '18 Fixed costs and market price. Spurgeon Bell. QJ Econ 32:507-24 My '18 H. C. Hoover outlines policy and powers of food administration in connection with price fixing. Official Bul 2:10 Mr 5 '18 High prices help all. chart Oregon Voter 10: 307-11 S 8 '17 Hole in the war pocket. B. M. Anderson, jr. il Nation's Business 6:34-5+ Ag '18; Same. Econ World n s 16:220-2 Ag '17 '18 India-Prices and wages. tables Monthly R 5: 909-13 N '17 R: Inflation of prices, credits and currency. Monetary or credit inflation and the movement of prices. A. R. Marsh. Econ World n s 14:363-4 S 15 '17 National chamber on price fixing. Greater NY 6:18 N 12 '17 New Jersey-Retail prices of food supplies. tables In New Jersey. Dept. of labor. Bur. of industrial statistics. 39th annual report, 1916, p 152-60 '17 Open price exchange. In E. H: Gaunt. Co-operative competition, p 17-26 O '17 Price fixing. Paper 21:18-20 S 19 '17 [Price fixing on agricultural products]. G. N. Haugen and others. Cong Rec 56:9545-54 JI 6 '18 Price maintenance. H. R. Tosdal. Am Econ R 8:28-47, 283-305 Mr, Je '18 Price maintenance hearings before the federal trade commission. Pub Weekly 92:1476-8 N 3 '17 Price system and social policy. W. H. Hamik ton. J Pol Econ 26:31-68 Ja '18 Prices and distribution. W. W. Swanson. In United farmers of Alberta. Annual report and year book, 1917, p 239-53 '18 Prices and patriotism: review of an article in the New Republic by William Hard. table La Follette's M 9:11 Ag '17 Prices and the cost of living. tables Monthly R 5:901-13 N '17 Prices during the war and after. I. W. Rea. Better Business 1:15-19 F '18 Retail prices of food in the United States. tables Monthly R 6:865-79 Ap '18 Rise in prices: its causes and its effect in increasing the cost of the war. Econ World ns 15:441-3 Mr 30 '18 This discussion of the inter-relations between rising prices in general and the sharply increasing costs of the war is part of a report made by a select committee on national expenditures of the British House of commons. Should maximum prices be fixed? W. C. Clark. Queen's Univ Depts of History, Political and Economic Science Bul no 27 30p Ap '18 Silver production and price movements. A. S. Brown. tables Financial World 29:23; 30:8, 13 D 22 '17-Ja 5 '18 Simplified price level economics. R: H. Tingley. Am Ind 19:11 Ag '18 Some contributions of the war to our knowledge of money and prices (abstract). Irving Fisher. 2p '18 Irving Fisher, 460 Prospect st, New Haven, Conn. From the American Economic Supplement, March, 1918. Review Study of Mitchell's inquiries into prices. B. W. King. tables Q J Econ 31:656-73 Ag '17 United States. Bur. of for. and dom. com. Wholesale prices on leading articles in United States markets, January, 1916, to December, 1917. (Misc. ser. no. 64) 14p tables 5c '18 U.S. supt. of doc. • United States. Food administration. Dates and territorial bounds of orders fixing prices of foodstuffs. C. H. Smith. (Food control in Australia ser. no. 13c) 9p '17 (Typew. 45c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. United States. Food administration. Dates of federal government's assumption of authority to fix prices of things herein listed. C. H. Smith. (Food-control in Australia ser. no. 13b) 2p N 5 '17 (Typew. 10c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. * United States. Food administration. Notes on some cases of price-fixing. C. H. Smith. (Food control in Australia ser. no. 13e) 4p N 7 '17 (Typew. 20c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. * United States. Food administration. Sample schedule of control prices: New South Wales, July 1, 1917. C. H. Smith. (Foodcontrol in Australia ser. no. 13f) 3p N 10 '17 (Typew. 15c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. Prices -Continued United States. Food administration. What the federal prices adjustment board thought about price-fixing. C. H. Smith. (Food control in Australia ser. no. 13d) 1p N 7 '17 (Typew. 5c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. United States department of agriculture has established a Local market reporting service in various cities, in cooperation with local agencies, which makes public in nontechnical form information about current food supplies and prices for the benefit of producers, consumers and dealers. The service is of particular benefit to housewives. Cities where the service is already established are Providence, R.I., Boston and Springfield, Mass., Chicago, Cleveland, O., St Paul, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Denver. My 31 '18 Uruguay-Maximum prices. William Dawson. Commerce Repts no 113 p 594 My 14 '18 Uruguay-Maximum prices. William Dawson. tables Commerce Repts no 156 p 62-3 J1 5 '18 Value of a market news service to farmers and fruit growers. H. W. Selby. Mass Bd Agric Circ no 76 22p Ja '18 From the 65th annual report. War inflation and the world price level after the war: a forecast based on the world's increased money supply. O. P. Austin. table Econ World n s 14:293-5 S 1 '17 What will happen when the price break comes; Shall the advanced price be applied to stock on hand. Printers' Ink 101:17-20, 25, 79-80, 83 N 29 '17 Why prices are high. William Kent. Public 20:791-4 Ag 17 '17 World-wide advance in prices during the war. tables Econ World n s 15:766-7 Je 1 '18 See also Cost of living; Economics; Fire apparatus, Motor-Cost; Food, Cost of: Profiteering; Tariff; Wages; also subhead Prices under: Coal; Drugs; Fish; Fruit; Gold; Hardware; Hogs: Meat; Milk; Newspapers; Paper; Profiteering; Securities; Silver; Stock exchange; Sugar; Tobacco; Wheat After the war After the war prices on materials. R. E. McDonnell. Am Munic 35:43-4 Je '18 Paper presented before the Southwestern water works association. Can manufacturers be protected against loss Bibliography Market prices appearing currently in technical and trade journals. Carnegie Lib Pittsburgh Monthly Bul 23:63-6 F '18 Prices. In U.S. Supt. of doc. Labor, (Price list 33 5th ed.) p 21-2 Mr '18 United States. Lib. of Congress. Additional references on price agreements. 2p N 22 '17 (Typew. 10c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. Comparative information Changes in wholesale prices in the United Movement of prices in Great Britain and the Prices and cost of living. tables Monthly R 5:57-65 O '17 Prices and cost of living in the past four years shown in tables issued by Bureau of labor statistics. Official Bul 2:8 Ja 7 '18 Prices during 1917. tables Can Labour Gaz 18: 46-50 Ja '18 Prices in Canada: review of the department's annual report on prices, wholesale and retail, in Canada and in other countries for the calendar year 1916. tables charts Can Labour Gaz 17:726-59 S '17 Prices in other countries. tables In Canada. Dept. of labour. 7th annual report on wholesale prices, 1916, p 245-88 '17 Prices of commodities in all countries advanced on account of the war. tables Official Bul 2:3 S 12 '18 Prices, retail and wholesale, in Canada, February, 1918, and in other countries. tables Can Labour Gaz 18:211-23 Mr '18 Prices, retail and wholesale, in Canada, October, 1917, and in other countries. tables Can Labour Gaz 17:921-33 N '17 Retail prices, 1907 to December, 1916. tables US Bur Labor Statistics Bul no 228 (Retail prices and cost of living ser. no. 18) 427p N '17 Retail prices of food in September, 1917. table in War prices in Tokyo, New York, and London. G: H. Scidmore. tables Commerce Repts no 212 p 933 S 10 '18 Wholesale prices, 1890 to 1916. tables US Bur Labor Statistics Bul no 226 (Wholesale prices ser. no. 6) 285p D '17 Wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries, 1890 to March, 1918. tables Monthly R 6:1459-60 Je '18 Wholesale prices in the United States and foreign countries, 1890 to 1917. tables Monthly R 6:604-5 Mr '18 Regulation Administration's plans for an extension of price-fixing. A. R. Marsh. Econ World ns 15:507-8 Ap 13 '18 American exchange nat. bank. Government price regulation. 15p '17 128 Broadway, N.Y. Busted law of supply and demand. J. H. Collins. Printers' Ink 101:3-12 N 8 '17 Chamber of commerce of the U. S. Referendum no. 32: on the report of the special committee on control of prices during the war. 17p S 12 '17 Chamber of commerce of the United States has announced that a referendum vote of its Oganization thruout the country gives as strong indorsement of the government regulation of prices of all materials needed for the conduct of the war as well as all materials affecting the public interest. O 31 '17 Concatenation of problems produced by governmental price-fixing. A. R. Marsh. Econ World n s 14:399-400 S 22 '17 Control of prices during the war. Civics & Com n s no 87 p 15+ S '17 Creation of the price-fixing committee under the war industries board. Econ World ns 15:409 Mr 23 '18 Federal price control, arguments pro and con. Italy fixes prices for various articles. Q. F. Roberts. Commerce Repts no 300 p 1150-1 D 24 '17 National fuel administrator Garfield on the price-fixing policy of the government. Econ World n s 14:436-8 S 29 '17 Prices-Regulation-Continued Plan to limit retail prices in this country announced by the food administration. Official Bul 2:1,6 Je 8 '18 President asks plenary authority to fix prices. Parts of an article published in the Bankers Magazine, March, 1918. Progress of government price control. Train Prospect of success of government price-fixing in the United States. B. M. Anderson, jr. Econ World ns 15:11 Ja 5 '18 This brief article is a summary of a paper entitled Value and price theory in relation to price fixing and war finance, which was read at the 30th annual meeting of the American economic association, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29, 1917. Recent developments in connection with government price-fixing. A. R. Marsh. Econ World n s 14:255-6 Ag 25 '17 Rise in the cost of living and the regulation of prices. A. B. Clark. Credit Men's J 4: 69-80 D '17 W. C. Sentiment shown against federal price control. Greater N Y 6:1-3 O 22 '17 Should maximum prices be fixed? Clark. Queen's Q 25:432-61 Ap '18 Sinews of war: how to produce and conserve them. L. E. Pierson. Econ World n s 14: 760-4 D 1 '17 Report issued by the committee on banking facilities for foreign trade of the National foreign trade council. Some dangers of price control. H. G. Moulton. City Club Bul (Chicago) 10:217-24 S 10 '17 University of Wis. Agric. exp. sta. Price-fixing and the cost of farm products. H. C. Taylor. (Bul. 292) 16p My '18 Agric. exp. sta., Madison Bibliography United States. Lib. of Congress. List of references on government regulation of prices (supplementary to duplicated list, July 3, 1917). 6p (Mim.) Jl 15 '18 Copies will be sent to those who have not received them, on application to the division of bibliography, Library of Congress. Referendum Business bodies want more price control during war. Equity 20:61-2 Ja '18 Reports Canada. Dept. of labour. 7th annual report on wholesale prices, 1916. 295p tables '17 Standardization • Blackstone institute. Price standardization. George Sutherland. (Modern Am. law lecture) 39p '17 Chicago Relation of advertising to price standardization. Printers' Ink 101:25 8+ O 11 '17 Primaries Cleveland, O.-Politics: an appeal to practical citizenship. Civic Affairs no 14 p 1-4 Je '18 An intelligent public opinion and the primary election system are inseparable in solution of state government. 1 sheet Direct leg. organization, Huron, S.D. • Maine. Sec. of state. Pertinent pointers pertaining to the primaries. 8p '18 New York (state)-Primary and the woman. Philadelphia's scandal. C. R. Woodruff. Nat San Francisco, Cal.-Primaries abolished in San Francisco elections. Seattle Munic N 7:4 D 22 '17 • South Dakota-How the proposed primary election law operates. Direct leg. organization. 4p '18 Huron The amended Richards primary election law is up for a direct vote for the third time in South Dakota, at the November, 1918, election. South Dakota-Intelligent public opinion and the primary election system are inseparable. Direct leg. organization. 1p '18 Huron • South Dakota-Richards primary election system. R. O. Richards. 3d ed 21p '18 R. O. Richards, Huron, S.D. South Dakota-To the people of South Da- D. K. Anderson. Nat Munic R 6:726-7 N '17 Comparative Information New York (state). Lib. Leg. ref. dept. Table showing comparison of vote cast at primary in New York state for delegates to state convention in 1912 with votes cast at direct primary 1914-1916. 4p tables (Typew. 40c) $18 Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. Governors' messages, 1918 New York (state)-Gov. Whitman points out that of the twelve states having equal suffrage, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming permit the nomination of candidates for public office by petition only, while the states of Colorado, Illinois, and Utah permit the nomination of candidates for the primaries both by petition and by political conventions. In the state of Colorado, however, all of the candidates receiving as much as 10 per cent of the vote of a convention are placed upon the primary ticket. Laws Iowa. Sec. of state. Primary and general election law. 124p '18 Kansas. Sec. of state. Kansas general primary laws. 43p Mr '18 Maine. Sec. of state. Primary election law, together with the law regulating the nomination of candidates not included in the primary, also the caucus law and the law regulating the protection of political conventions, compiled from the recent revision of the statutes. 30p Ja 1 '18 State lib. Revision Illinois-Legislature of 1917 authorized a commission to revise the primary election laws and the election laws of the state and report the same to the next general assembly. Reports • Milwaukee, Wis. voters league. 8th biennial reports on common council, county board, and candidates before primary election, 1918. Voters' league. 35p 18 W: J. Bollenbeck, sec., 608 University bldg. New York (state). Special com. of Senate. Report on primary law submitted with bill to establish state wide judicial conventions. (Senate no. 34) 7p tables Mr '18 State lib., order sect. Includes cost of primary elections for the years 1914-17 by counties. New York (state)-Would resume state conventions: state Senate committee favors ending direct primaries for state offices. NY Times Mr 1 '18 Printing, Public Resolution directs public printer to discontinue all publications not essential to war activities. Official Bul 2:9 J1 8 '18 Comparative Information New York (state). Lib. Leg. ref. sect. Digest of legislative procedure relative to printing proceedings and debates. 1 sheet table 10c 16 (Typew. 10c) Obtained only thru P. A. I. S. Printing, Public-Continued Laws Kansas. State printer. Laws of Kansas relastate printing tive to state printer and commission and school book commission and school textbooks. variously paged '17 Reprint from General statutes, 1915. Legislation Wisconsin-Statutory provisions relating to legislative printing. In Wisconsin. Chief clerk of the Assembly. Assembly manual, Wisconsin legislature, 1917, p 205-20 '17 Printing industry Hygiene of the printing trades. Alice Hamilton and C: H. Verrill. il tables diag U S Bur Labor Statistics Bul no 209 118p Ap '17 Minneapolis, Minn. Bd. of educ. Dept. of vocational guidance. In cold type: what vocational education is needed for the printing trades? (Occupational ser. bul. no. 5) 285-319p table 15c '16 (Ed. exhausted) Reprint of chapter 10 from the Report of the Minneapolis survey for vocational education, bulletin no. 21, National society for the promotion of industrial education. New England-Printing press. Am. trust company. 4p table '17 Boston United typothetae of Am. Co-operative plan. 7p '17 B: P. Moulton, pres., Providence, R.I. Reprinted from the Linotype Bulletin for September, 1917. Priorities powerful Priorities: a definite pronouncement from the man in charge concerning the plans and aims of a government agency whose influence reaches every office and plant in the country. E. B. Parker. il Nation's Business 6:10-11+ F '18 See also Industrial priorities Prison association of New York Prison progress in 1916: 72d annual report. '17 135 E. 15th st, N.Y. (Prisons-Reports) Treatment of delinquents: 73d annual report, 1917. '18 O. F. Lewis, gen. sec., 135 E. 15th st (Prisons-Reports) Prison officers Prison officer. F: A. Dorner. In J. K. Jaffray, ed. Prison and the prisoner, p 115-23 '17 Prisoners Prisoner himself, by B. H. Glueck and T: W. Salmon; Control over the prisoner: pt. 1, federal, by G: G. Battle; pt. 2, State, by Prison E. S. Whitin. In J. K. Jaffray, ed. and the prisoner, p 21-45, 81-97 '17 Union man and the prisoner. Collis Lovely. In J. K. Jaffray, ed. Prison and the prisoner, p 163-75 17 See also Convict labor; Discharged pris New York (state)-Possible redistribution of the population of certain state correctional institutions. tables In Prison assn. of N.Y. Prison progress in 1916: 72d annual report, p 117-35 '17 Education Reports Massachusetts. Bd. of educ. and dir. of bur. of prisons. Report on investigation regarding establishing schools in county jails and houses of correction. (House no. 1255) 45p tables Weight 2 oz Enclose postage Ja '18 Doc. room, State house Employment * Philadelphia yearly meeting of Friends. Com. on philanthropic labor. Mobilizing the county jail: systems of employment for jail prisoners which make men and money. H. L. Baldensperger. tables Friends' Social Service Ser Bul no 22 32p N '17 Nat. com. on prisons and prison labor, Broadway and 116th st, N.Y. of Government of convicts. • Alabama. Bd. inspectors Rules and regulations for the government of the convicts of Alabama; adopted March 10, 1917, approved by the governor March 10, 1917. 39p '17 Dept. of archives and history a Self-government by the prisoner: pt. 1, Selfgovernment in state prison, by T: M. Ösborne; pt. 2, Self-government in a reforIn J. K. Jafmatory, by E. K. Hubbard. fray, ed. Prison and the prisoner, p 99-114 '17 Health Desirability of medical wardens for prisons. Nat. In of conference E. E. Southard. social work. Proceedings, 1917, p 589-94 '17 -Same. Reprinted. 8p 6c '17 Nat. conference social work. (Ed. exhausted) • League for the amnesty of political prisoners. Recognition and amnesty for political prisoners. 8p '18 M. E. Fitzgerald, sec., 32 Union sq., N.Y. The purpose of the league is to educate the public to the distinction between political and common crime; to work for the recognition in the United States of the status of political offenders; to form public opinion so that it can be made a matter for presentation at the General peace conference; to obtain the release of all political prisoners thru a general amnesty as soon as peace is declared. Prisoners of war Department of labor tells of treatment of interned Germans at Hot Springs, N.C. Official Bul 1:1-2 N 30 '17 Great Britain. Government com. on treatment by the enemy of British prisoners of war. Report on the transport of British prisoners of war to Germany, August-December, 1914. (Misc. no. 3, 1918, Parliament pa. by command, Cd. 8984) 53p ? price '18 King How war department keeps close account of the U.S. prisoners held by the Germans. Official Bul 2:1-2 My 18 '18 Hun war prisoners in America may be put to useful work. Manufacturers Rec 73:74 Je 6 '18 Internment of prisoners of war in Switzerland: the first American boys captured by the Germans. J. K. Jaffray. Gen Fed M 17: 39,48 My '18 Swiss accept proposal to intern U.S. prisoners invalided from Germany. Official Bul 2:1, 3 Je 25 '18 † Swiss internment of prisoners of war: an experiment in international humane legislation and administration; a report from the Swiss commission in the United States with preface by William Staempfeli, member of the commission and chairman of the committee on employment of interned prisoners in Switzerland; introduction by E. Stagg Whitin, chairman, executive council, and Samuel M. Lindsay, chairman, committee on humane education, National committee on prisons and prison labor. S: M. Lindsay, ed. (Bul. of social leg. on the Henry Bergh found. for the promotion of humane educ. no. 5) 54p $1 N 17 Columbia univ. press ers; Contains: Selection, supervision, and transportation of interned prisoners; Location and maintenance of interned prisonEducational facilities for interned prisoners; Civil rights of interned prisoners; Treatment in sanitary institutions; Recreation and occupations for interned prisoners; Organization and administration of internment service. See also Prison camps Associations On the League for the protection of American prisoners in Germany. J. A. Elston. Cong Rec 56:8808 Je 21 '18 Employment Rules and regulations Regulations for the employment of prisoners of war and of nonmilitary persons in U.S. internment camps. Official Bul 2:10 Ap 23 '18 Rules for transmission of mail to and from prisoners of war. Otto Praeger. Official Bul 2:7 F 27 '18 Payment Full pay and all service allowances for U.S. soldiers held as prisoners. Official Bul 2:3 JI 22 '18 Prisoners' families Support Laws Pennsylvania-Support of destitute families of prisoners. J Crim Law 8:771 Ja '18 Prisons F. E. Lyon. J Crim Alabama-Prison problem. Isadore Shapiro. This article from the New York Sun of Jan. 27, 1918, is a partial summary of an admirable history of the prison system of New Jersey, prepared for the New Jersey prison inquiry commission by Mr H. E. Barnes of the faculty of Columbia University. New York (state)-New state prisons. il In Prison assn. of N.Y. Prison progress in 1916: 72d annual report, p 25-33 '17 Prison and the prisoner: a symposium by G: G. Battle and others. J. K. Jaffray, ed. 216p table *$2.50 '17 Little Prison problem and what is being done to solve it at San Quentin. J. A. Johnston. 14p '17 James A. Johnston, warden, San Quentin prison. Cal. (Ed. exhausted) Address before the Stockton and San Joaquin County teachers' institute at Stockton, Cal., Nov. 27, 1916. Prison system. In Maurice Parmelee. Criminology, p 421-40 '18 |