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like to find out whether your l)iireau is undertaking to cover that 

 suhject, or that })ureau is' undertaking to do it, or whether the two 

 bureaus are undertaking to cover the same subject. 



Doctor Langwohtiiy. No, sir: we have never done that. 



Mr. Buchanan. Well, it has been done in other instances, and I 

 was wondering whether there was any duplication of that work in 



your bill. 



Doctor Langworthy. It would not be done in the office of home 

 economics because all of those problems are involved and are con- 

 nected with the study and practice of medicine; and we would not 

 undertake work in such a field. So far as I am concerned, that work 

 would not be considered in connection with the office of home eco- 

 nomics. The work in connection with the feeding of the expectant 

 mother, and the feeding of the young child, and the feeding of the 

 mother and her child after the child has been born, has so far received 

 attention in the Children's Bureau — all that it has received in the 

 Government so far as I know, unless the Public Health Service may 

 have done something. 



That reminds me: There has been a publication, that I recall, 

 Mrs. Max West is author of a bulletin on feeding young children. 

 In it she made some statements yviih regard to general nutrition, 

 and she sent the manuscript down to us to see if she had stated them 

 well. As a special subject of research I am sure that I am safe in 

 saying that there has not been any such duplication as 3'ou fear. 



Air. Buchanan. My object was to ascertain whether or not in the 

 event that would be gone into, if you have the facts alread3% whether 

 they would get the facts from you, and use the information you 

 have already collected. 



Doctor Langworthy. Yes, sir; the Red Cross is an organization, 

 an independent organization which has always worked with us in the 

 way you suggest. 



Mr. Buchanan. The Red Cross is not trying to build up an organ- 

 zation, especially, like some of these Government bureaus are. I 

 think without any question, some of them are, and I would say that 

 all of them are. 



Doctor Langworthy. I can only speak, of course, for myself. As 

 1 say, if you left it to me to decide, I should not want to take any 

 of their functions, in any way, and if I had a piece of information 

 and they asked for it, I would give it to them. Would not that be 

 about what you would naturally expects 



Mr. Buchanan. That would be wnat I would expect. 



Doctor Langworthy. Yes; that would be just the way I would 

 feel about it. 



Mr. BircHANAN. I guess it is our duty to see that there is no 

 duplication. 



Doctor Langworthy. We have always thoufrht that the relation, 

 the friendly relntioii between individuals and between bureaus in 

 u department, and between dillerent departments, was one of the 

 very satisfuctory lhin;.s about carrying on the work. 



h\»r instance, tiie study of tiie usi> of home e(|uijunent and textiles, 

 which is carri(>(l on to som<' e.xtent by the BurcNiu of Stauihirds, but 

 for entirely dillerent purposes — they liave instituted it from a manu- 

 factinin<^ and trmle slaiidpoiiit has yieldiMl material which could be 

 inf('tj)i('ted in household terms, and that we have tried to got and 



