Mr. SHREVE. Then you have a printing item, have you? Miss ABBOTT. Yes; the bureau has a printing fund of $39,500. Mr. GOMPERS. That comes under the department appropriation. It is an allotment from the department appropriation. Miss ABBOTT Yes; that is under the department. Mr. SHREVE. It is not carried in your appropriation? Miss ABBOTT. No. Mr. GOMPERS. That was put in by the department. NUMBER AND COST OF PUBLICATIONS ISSUED Mr. OLIVER. Has the demand for your bulletins increased, and if so, for what bulletins do you find the greatest demand? Miss ABBOTT. "Infant Care" remains the most popular one. We have had increased demands for various ones, but the steady demand is for the popular series. "Child Management" has been very popular; and we have had a great many demands for the new posture reports. But "Infant Care" remains the best seller. Mr. OLIVER. What sum were you able to expend during the present year for this publication, "Infant Care"? Miss ABBOTT. In 1926 we spent $16,363 on "Infant Care.". Mr. OLIVER. How many were you able to publish for that amount? Miss ABBOTT. Three hundred and sixty-five thousand. / Mr. OLIVER. What additional number would you be able to publish with an increase of, say, one-half? Miss ABBOTT. We have ordered up to date this year-1927175,000 copies for $8,085. Mr. OLIVER. If we should grant you an increase of $7,500, you would use it, would you, for the publication of those bulletins for which you have a large demand? Miss ABBOTT. Yes; we would he very glad to do so. We never are able to meet the demand. And, of course, the sales of those publications by the Government Printing Office keep up also. They sell approximately 200,000 copies of three or four of those publications. Mr. OLIVER. Of course we do not know what Congress will do, but if they should grant you an increase, I think it would be their desire that you devote it to the publication of bulletins for which there is a very large demand, and which you are unable to supply. Miss ABBOTT. Yes; we would be very glad to do that. RECEIPTS FROM SALE OF BULLETINS B Mr. ACKERMAN. Miss Abbott, what is the amount of money that is turned into miscellaneous receipts in the Treasury Department from the sale of these bulletins? Miss ABBOTT. That, of course, is done by the Superintendent of Documents, and we do not get the actual amount of money that comes in. We try to get from them the numbers that are sold. In 1926 they sold 70,000 copies of Infant Care, 75,000 of Child Care, 30,000 of Prenatal Care, and 10,000 of Child Management. Mr. ACKERMAN. What was the amount of money that they received from the sale of those bulletins? Miss ABBOTT. I do not know. Mr. ACKERMAN. Do they have a record of it? Miss ABBOTT. Yes; they would have. Mr. ACKERMAN. Segregated as to items? Miss ABBOTT. We have never been able to get such a record. I suppose they have it. We have quite a little trouble in getting the record of the actual number of sales. We like to have that information, because we are interested in this demand. Mr. ACKERMAN. Do you sell them yourselves? Miss ABBOTT. No, sir; we are not allowed to sell them. Mr. ACKERMAN. Are these inquiries that you get individual inquiries or are they from societies? Miss ABBOTT. The bulk of the purchases are from societies and agencies. A certain number of requests come through us every day. I suppose six or seven requests with money for publications come across my desk every day; but most of them go direct to the Government Printing Office. We encourage direct purchases. Mr. ACKERMAN. Those are wholesale requests; not from individuals? Miss ABBOTT. Wholesale; yes. But we do get some small individual ones, which we send over to the Superintendent of Documents. Mr. ACKERMAN. Do you get repeat orders from the same organization? Miss ABBOTT. Over and over again; yes, sir. Mr. ACKERMAN. And you have reason to believe that they are putting them out where they will do the most good? Miss ABBOTT. Yes, sir. We got out last year a report which shows the prices of these publications, with a view to encouraging their purchase. We have done all we could to encourage the purchase of these publications. BULLETINS ON INFANT CARE Mr. ACKERMAN. How many million-if it runs up into that figureof these bulletins regarding infant care have been published? Miss ABBOTT. It is several million. "Infant Care," I think the Superintendent of Documents says, is the best seller they have ever had. Mr. ACKERMAN. When was it first printed? Miss ABBOTT. The first printing was about 1914. Of course we have had revisions. The sales have increased very much in the last few years, because we have had to curtail free distribution. We give an agency a few, so that they realize their value, and then they can purchase. Mr. OLIVER. So the demand is based upon an intelligent study of the bulletin? Miss ABBOTT. Yes, sir. Mr. OLIVER. And which expresses, so far as I can learn, an appreciation on the part of the public of the value of the bulletin? Miss ABBOTT, Yes; I do not think there is any question about that. Mr. OLIVER. In other words, there are some bulletins that are comparatively new, and people will send for them in order to see what you have to say? Miss ABBOTT. Yes, sir. Mr. OLIVER. But here the public is well informed of the contents of this bulletin and their demand continues to increase because they place a high value on the bulletin? Miss ABBOTT. Yes, sir; that is absolutely true. PUBLICATIONS ISSUED 1925 AND 1926 Mr. GRIFFIN. Miss Abbott, in last year's hearings, on the bill for 1927, on pages 76, 77, and 78, you referred to the different publications of your bureau, and they seemed to be divided into two classes, reports, and bulletins. I think it would be well to supplement that and carry it down to date by a statement showing the publications that you are issuing from your bureau, with the number of copies issued in each instance. Miss ABBOTT. I will be very glad to do that. You mean the ones ones that have come out during the past fiscal year? Mr. GRIFFIN. No; those that have come out right up to date. Mr. GRIFFIN. For instance, "Illegitimacy as a Child-Welfare Problem"; that is one of your reports? Miss ABBOTT. Yes, sir; that is an old report. You want to know how many we have purchased of that this year? Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; how many were issued. I presume you purchase so many with the idea that they will be distributed? Miss ABBOTT. That they will be distributed; yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. Then, "The welfare of infants of illegitimate birth in Baltimore as affected by a Maryland law of 1916 governing the separation from their mothers of children under six months old." You mentioned then that 3,000 copies were purchased, and I think it might be well to have in the record the number that were distributed. Then you have "Laws relating to sex offenses against children," "Child dependency in the District of Columbia," etc. I think it would be well to summarize them in one table, so that Congress may be able to get a broad general view of the publications of your bureau. Miss ABBOTT. I shall be very glad to do that. Orders and distribution (to January 1, 1927) of United States Children's Bureau publications issued in the fiscal years 1925 and 1926 and in press at the close of 1926 No. 140, Child Dependency in the District of Columbia. 3,500 3, 204 No. 133, Administration of Child-Labor Laws, Part 5.. No. 144, The Welfare of Infants of Illegitimate Birth in Baltimore. Industrial: 1,000 2,000 2, 185 3,000 2,853 Child hygiene: No. 138, Nutrition Work for Preschool Children No. 142, Causal Factors in Infant Mortality. No. 143, Child Management 1 Folder No. 3, Why Drink Milk?. 20,000 51,000 1,963 71,000 Sunlight for Babies (leaflet).... Not including revised edition for which figures are given in 1926 list. Orders and distribution (to January 1, 1927) of United States Children's Bureau publications issued in the fiscal years 1925 and 1926 and in press at the close of 1926-Continued "No. 136, Foster-Home Care for Dependent Children, Revised. 1,000 500 1,411 4,000 3,163 No. 162, Public Aid to Mothers with Dependent Children (issued No. 161, Dependent and Delinquent Children in Georgia (issued Industrial: Folder No. 7, Community Care for Dependent, Delinquent, and No. 170, Handbook for the Use of Boards of Directors, Superintendents, No. 155, Child Labor in Representative Tobacco-Growing Areas. 5.024 No. 149, Vocational Guidance and Junior Placement.. No. 147, References on Child Labor and Minors in Industry, 1916-1924. 5,928 Child hygiene: No. 168, Work of Children on Illinois Farms. (In press). No. 143, Child Management, revised.. No. 158, Maternal Mortality. (Issued July, 1926). No. 164, Posture Clinics. No. 163, Milk, The Indispensable Food for Children. (Issued December, 1926). 3,000 500 3,000 Folder No. 4, What Builds Babies. No. 165, Posture Exercises. (Issued December, 1926). (Issued November, 1926). Posture Standards (six charts). Folder No. 8, Breast Feeding. (Issued September, 1926) 15,000 120,000 90, 629 10,000 25,000 25, 523 10,000 55,000 35,000 Control of Rickets.. 6,000 6,000 Psychoclinical Guidance in Child Adoption. (Separate from No. 136). 1,000 1,000 Health Supervision of Children Placed in Foster Homes. (Pt. II of Work of Child-Placing Agencies. See No. 171 in Social Service list.) Number of publications ordered and number distributed by the United States Children's Bureau, fiscal years 1925 and 1926 Mr. OLIVER. I assume that in ordering publications from year to year you are governed largely by the demands in determining the number? Miss ABBOTT. Yes. Mr. OLIVER. And any information supplied you by the Public Printer as to sales would be a factor which you would take into account in concluding what bulletins were in demand? Miss ABBOTT. Yes; of course, we publish regularly some of these popular bulletins that are for the individual parent; and then we publish the scientific bulletins, or the reports of investigations, which, after all, will go only to experts in the field. The unit cost of of those is higher, and the distribution is very much smaller, and we buy a relatively small edition of them. We buy a large edition of the popular bulletins. UNEXPENDED BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS Mr. OLIVER. May I ask what unused balance from any funds appropriated to your bureau will probably remain at the end of this fiscal year? Miss ABBOTT. There will not be any in the printing fund. We have to cut down all the time on that. Mr. OLIVER. Or any appropriation made for your work? Miss ABBOTT. We may have some, because we are very careful in our expenditures, but I do not expect to. MATERNITY AND INFANCY DIVISION Mr. OLIVER. I had in mind, in asking you this question, that we have made an appropriation annually under the maternity bill with the hope that all the States would avail themselves of the privilege accorded. Some of the States have not yet availed themselves of that, and there must be come amount that will be unexpended at the end of the year out of that fund. Miss ABBOTT. We estimate very carefully. We have in the past put in an estimate not for the full amount authorized by the act, but what we expected would be accepted by the States on the basis of action taken keeping the language general, so that if more of them did accept we could come back and ask for a supplemental appropriation so that they could get the amount that the act provided that should be available to them. The maternity and infancy act authorizes $1,240,000. This last year it looks as though we might run slightly over the $1,000,000 that we estimated for and that was appropriated, because the States are matching more. Instead of having anything to turn back, it may be the other way. Mr. OLIVER. Will you insert at this point a list of the States that have accepted it? Miss ABBOTT. Yes; I will be very glad to. STATES ACCEPTING THE MATERNITY AND INFANCY ACT Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, |