Excerpt from Address Delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel Homer Folks: The Human Costs of the War

These meetings are open to all who may be interested. I hope that through them we, of the Municipal Court, will be able to make our contribution to a better understanding of the prob lems of the public aspects of social service. These are, indeed, the times that try men's souls; and it is only by the constant effort to arrive at a better and a deeper understanding of our tasks that we can be helpful to each other.

Colonel Folks is our speaker today. He came to our city to preside at the National Tuberculosis Conference and we are especially privileged to have him address us. To our Municipal Court he stands as a symbol. He is a pioneer in probation work. I believe he outlined the organization of the first State Probation Commission, that of New York, of which he is now President. His interest, among his many interests, has always been in children. He is the author of a book which is a standard for workers with children The Care of Destitute, Neglected and Delinquent Children. I think that our staff, and all those interested in children, should read that book. Colonel Folks has had an experience in France which is bound - by the greatness of his duties in a great world crisis - to carry inspiration to all working in social service or to those interested in it. It was his duty to help relieve the distress of the suffering civilians in France. He was Director of the Department of Civil Affairs of the American Red Cross in France, Chief of the Red Cross Survey Mission in Italy, Greece, Serbia, Belgium and France. He is embodying his experience in a book, which Harper Brothers will publish and which will appear serially in Harper's Magazine. It is the highest privilege to have Colonel Folks address us upon Human Costs of the War, an address based upon that book.

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