"And that reminds me," continued Crooks, "of what happened at the last County Council election. A local undertaker, who had always supported me before, stopped me in the street to say he was going to vote on the other side this time. "''Tain't as I don't believe in you, Mr. Crooks. I likes you as well as ever I did; but men in our calling must keep an eye on the party that best helps business, you know!' "I told him I did not understand. "'Why,' said the undertaker, 'I could make a decent living when the death rate was 20 per 1,000. I can even get along nicely when it's 18; but since you've bin on the move, Mr. Crooks, I can't make a living nohow, with a death rate no more'n 14.'" INDEX A Adult Sunday Schools, 213, 259 Afforestation for unemployed, 265 B Baby-farming in London, 94 Balfour, Mr. Arthur, 17, 238, 261 Baptist Union, Crooks addresses the, 257 Barnett, Canon, 222, 290 Beresford, Lord Charles, 186, 187 Bishop of London, The, 257 Blackwall Tunnel, Crooks and the, 101-04 Boarding-out children, 125 Borough Councillor, Crooks as a, 68, 154-74, 212 Brabazon Society and Poplar Workhouse, 291 Brotherhoods, Men's, 300 Burns, Mr. John, 68, 189, 195, 265, 266, 294 C Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., 195, 294 Canada and the unemployed, 231, 267 Central Unemployed Committee, 232, 235 Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph, 214, 217 Chandler, Bishop, 23, 76 Chaplin, Mr. Henry, 115, 144, 185 Chesterton, Mr. G. K., 148, 149 Children correspondents of Crooks, 171, 198 Children, Poor Law, 119, 125 Children, Starving School, 297 Christianity and the working classes, 259 Churches and Labour, 261 City Temple Speech, 300 "College" at the Dock Gates, Crooks's, 57, 212 Collins, Sir William, 97 Coronation festivities at Poplar, 169-171 Craftsmanship, Need of, 41 Crooks, Mrs., Will's mother; his tributes to, 3, 6, 18, 36 Crooks, Mrs., Will Crooks's second wife, 73, 167, 249