WAR RELIEF WORK. Upon the outbreak of the World War in 1914 relief problems far surpassed the capabilities of pri vate charity, involving broad questions of governmental finance, control of production, purchase and transport of huge quantities of supplies from one part of the world to another, intervention of diplomatic agencies, control of shipping and railways, and finally, after the war, general economic rehabilitation and broadly con ceived treatment of fundamental social ills. For the first time in
history, virtual world control of production and distribution of food was attained (see RED CROSS).