THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK A COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD'S FOR THE YEAR 1913 EDITOR FRANK MOORE COLBY, M.A. ASSOCIATE EDITORS ALLEN LEON CHURCHILL HORATIO S. KRANS, PH.D. NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1914 PREFACE THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK for 1913 is the seventh in the new series, which began with the 1907 volume. Like its predecessors it is designed as an encyclopædia of the year and includes many classes of information not to be found in other annual volumes of its kind. Its large size and the exclusion of matters not belonging to the year or not derived from the latest available information make this possible. For example, among departments not found or less fully represented in other such works are Biography, Agriculture, Political History at home and abroad, Societies, and Religious Bodies. While American subjects are here more fully treated than in British annuals, the international scope of the work involves more attention to foreign affairs than is given in similar American publications. Among the important features of the year 1913, discussed in this volume, the following may be mentioned: In foreign affairs, the developments in the Balkans, the Mexican difficulty, republican progress in China, the Ulster situation, and the progress of the Home Rule Bill; in the United States, such legislative measures as the Tariff Bill, Income Tax Law, and the Currency Law; in industrial matters, the history of Trades Unions, the I. W. W., Socialism, Strikes and Lockouts, Railroads, Workmen's Compensation, Workmen's and Mothers' Pensions, Welfare Work, etc. Owing to the increased interest in the industrial and political life of the South and Central American countries, the Year Book gives special attention to topics within this field. It has also discussed at length the woman's movement both in its general aspect under Feminism and in a specific aspect under Woman's Suffrage, while recording the yearly incidents of the movement in the paragraphs entitled HISTORY under the various countries and under the separate States of the United States. Other matters of current interest which have received special attention are Safety at Sea, Railway Accidents, Aeronautics, Commission Government, Banks and Banking, Agricultural Credit, the New York Aqueduct, International and Industrial Arbitration, Insurance, and Electrical and Engineering topics. FRANK MOORE COLBY. |