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THE BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

1. Paid for pensions, $222,159,292.

2. Returned to the Treasury $947,170.97 of the amount appropriated for the payment of pensions.

3. Returned to the Treasury $118,419.86 of the sum appropriated for the maintenance and expense of the pension system, including salaries of special examiners.

4. Reduced the number of employees by 58.

5. Under the act of July 16, 1918, providing pensions to widows and minor children of officers and enlisted men who served in the War with Spain, Philippine insurrection, or in China, pensions have been granted to 992 widows, 72 minor children, and 1 helpless child. There are a number of claims still pending under this act.

6. Receipts for addresses, certified copies, etc. (act Aug. 24, 1912), $2,153.70. Refundments to pension apropriations, $6,890.05. Miscellaneous receipts, $3,041.15.

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Copies of printed office records certified to------
Recorded-Assignments----

Number of words furnished by making photostat copies of office
records

2, 163, 057

991, 976 6, 616

29, 973

9, 196, 900

Number of typewritten words furnished as copies of office records__ 18, 253, 700

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Number of interferences disposed of_____

1, 210

Number of letters constituting miscellaneous correspondence received, answered, and indexed___.

250, 262

Number of photostat copies of foreign patents furnished__
Number of photographic copies furnished__.

107, 496

56, 307

Number of photostat copies furnished other departments without charge.

Number of photostat copies made for use in the Patent Office_-_.

5,062

22, 389

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1. Promoted the education of foreign-born residents through classes in schools and industrial plants, urged State legislative action for the education of immigrants, conducted conferences on Americanization, prepared articles on Americanization for papers having a circulation of 5,000,000 and assisted in organizing societies for the promotion of Americanization work.

2. Promoted the establishment of courses in community organization in colleges and universities, developed regular communication with 1,000 community organizations, and in cooperation with the Post Office Department arranged an experiment for cooperative buying and selling at schoolhouses as community centers.

3. Enrolled over 2,000,000 school children in 2,529 cities of the United States in school-directed home gardening. The total value of the product of the gardens approximated $48,000,000.

4. Assisted the Committee on Education and Special Training in the formation of plans for training mechanics and technicians for the Army in civilian institutions and in establishing a Students' Army Training Corps.

5. Made a survey of 15 major cities and 250 smaller cities to ascertain their needs for commercial education with special reference to foreign-trade training.

6. In the School Board Service Division registered 20,000 highgrade teachers and made 15,000 nominations for positions.

7. Cooperated with the overseas educational commission of the Y. M. C. A. in preparing a course in citizenship for soldiers overseas. 8. Provided for State and local information on negro education, cooperated with the Y. M. C. A. in work among negro soldiers in France and advised with the Committee on Education and Special Training on the training of negro soldiers.

9. With the cooperation of the Child Health Organization published and distributed a series of health education bulletins and secured their widespread use in many cities and States.

10. In educational extension work distributed Federal documents, war courses, and package libraries.

11. Collected 6,000,000 feet of motion-picture film and deposited 4,000,000 feet of it with the extension divisions of universities.

12. With the cooperation of the governor of Alaska helped to check the spread of influenza and to relieve the suffering among the natives. 13. Made and completed, at the request of State and local school authorities, six educational surveys.

14. Secured data for a thorough and complete report of rural school consolidation in the country at large and in certain typical counties.

15. Held four important national and sectional conferences on rural education.

16. Held four conferences on plans for the improvement of schools in villages and small towns.

17. Undertook to work out with the cooperation with the Erlanger Mill Corporation a model system of schools for a cotton-mill village. 18. Held a conference of superintendents of city schools for the purpose of working out an adaptation of the school program to fit the industrial needs of older pupils during the war.

19. Held five conferences in Washington and three in other cities of the United States on various phases of industrial education and home making.

20. Conducted an intensive campaign for the establishment of kindergartens in Texas.

21. Distributed a leaflet on the use of the kindergarten in furthering the work of Americanization.

22. Collected statistics for the biennial survey of education throughout the United States for the bieninal period 1916-1918. 23. Initiated and partly secured the adoption of a plan for securing from State departments of education educational statistics, collected by uniform methods throughout the United States.

24. Printed and circulated 1,505,448 copies of bulletins, reports, and other documents and 1,396,518 copies of circulars and duplicated letters.

25. Prepared and issued 93 educational bulletins and published the magazines "School Life," "Americanization," "National School Service," and "National Library Service."

26. Conducted an extensive correspondence on educational matters. In all 227,958 letters were received, an increase of 65,479 over 1918.

27. Prepared 100 new educational bibliographies and issued a series of six library leaflets.

28. Prepared and distributed information upon college opportunities for returning soldiers.

29. Prepared and distributed to State legislatures a manual of educational legislation.

30. Made a comprehensive study of free public libraries as they affect the rural population of the country.

31. Prepared and distributed a series of after-war reading courses for returned soldiers and for those in cantonments.

THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

1. Continued its war work on the country's metallic mineral resources, making a census and special studies of deposits of iron, manganese, tungsten, zirconium, molybdenum, and quicksilver, extending further its search for new deposits, and preparing a wall map showing the deposits of manganese ore in the United States.

2. Contributed reports on mercury, graphite, phosphate rock, manganese, antimony, tungsten, magnesite, emery, corundum, bauxite and aluminum, and platinum to a series of mimeographed pamphlets issued by the Interior Department, showing the commercial control of these commodities throughout the world.

3. Collected weekly statistics of the production of copper, lead, zinc, and aluminum, and furnished them to the Government purchasing agencies, and cooperated with the War Industries Board and the Shipping Board in preparing tables and diagrams showing the supplies of minerals available and the estimated requirements.

4. Cooperated with the Fuel Administration in collecting statistics of production and movement of coal and coke, and mapped and filed data for the use of the Fuel Administration and other branches of the Government.

5. Carried along still further its studies to discover how far water power might be used to replace coal in view of the stress and the difficulties in mining and marketing coal, and cooperated with the Fuel Administration in working out a comprehensive scheme of classification of coals and a zoning system applicable to the country's coal fields and coal industry, to insure economy and efficiency in mining and transportation.

6. Continued its work in oil and gas fields and its search, both at home and abroad, for potash and nitrates, minerals urgently needed in the prosecution of the war.

7. Made examinations and estimates of resources of natural gas and a special cooperative research for helium-rich gas for use in inflating war balloons.

8. Made further studies of porous rocks, to discover more buoyant. material for making concrete ships, and made search for material adapted to use as smudges.

9. Made examinations of deposits of high-grade clays in the eastern part of the United States to determine their availability for making paper or for making articles of porcelain or articles for use in electrical equipment.

10. Compiled information on road-building material for use in connection with a military map of the country.

11. Made about 1,500 laboratory analyses and assays, among them tests of rocks for platinum, a metal much needed for military use, and special determinations of the potash content of certain rocks.

12. Prepared military maps and descriptions of the country around several camps and training stations.

13. Prepared for the use of the Shipping Board 82 topographic maps and 69 accompanying tracings showing military information, and a large wall map of the world.

14. Prepared for the War Department and for boards and bureaus engaged in the conduct of the war information concerning water supplies from springs and wells in different parts of the country, as well as maps and descriptions of water supplies along the international border and the Atlantic coast.

15. Gave information and advice to the War and Navy Departments in regard to water supply at about 100 military and naval establishments in the United States, such as cantonments, forts, navy yards, aviation fields, powder factories, arsenals, and supply depots. 16. Made examinations of underground water for many camps, cantonments, and military and naval stations.

17. Prepared maps and data showing the location and extent of mineral deposits in foreign countries, their quality and their output by districts and regions, and the distribution of minerals in the world's commerce.

18. Prepared chapters on mineral commodities and on economic conditions in Japan and Sweden for incorporation in a report compiled by the Bureau of Research of the War Trade Board.

19. Prepared for the Capital Issues Committee geologic and statistical information to aid in directing capital into the fields where it would be of greatest use during the war.

20. Prepared, in cooperation with the Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, a voluminous index of the information in the possession of several Government organizations concerning mineral

resources.

21. Made a geologic reconnoissance of the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix of the Virgin Islands at the request of the Acting Secretary of the Navy and of the governor and naval commandant of the islands, with particular studies of the ground-water

resources.

22. Investigated ground-water resources of eastern Porto Rico in compliance with a request from the Navy Department and examined manganese deposits of the island.

23. Continued surveys in Alaska, examining especially deposits of chromite and tin, making investigations in the region now being developed by the Government railroad, and continuing measurements of stream flow.

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