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looked into was the immigrant population in Philadelphia - their settlements, their welfare and how they made out. That was awfully interesting. I can't lay my hands on the report on that and I've tried, but when the organization broke up quite a few years later they made the Woman's City Club of Philadelphia the repository of all their records and then the Woman's City Club of Philadelphia went out of business. I must have that report somewhere in some box or some trunk that's packed in the basement of some place, but I can't find it. (It's probably in a box in the library of my flat at Madison Avenue, New York.)

The whole issue fascinated me, however. I became very interested in the variations in the racial background, racial cultures, national cultures and economic opportunities of these people. I became impressed, as everyone is when they study it for the first time, with the way the human race, in a humane society, has everybody helping each other. I was so impressed by the Greeks who had a very low level of economic security in the life of Philadelphia at that time and yet who helped each other. The Greek Benevolence Societies were incredible. They were very poor people, but they helped each other and had their pattern and seldom asked for relief from C.O.S.