L EGAL aid furnishes to the individual a thing of value, namely legal service, which he is too poor to buy for himself, and by reason of which he is enabled to secure his valid rightsrights which otherwise, due to his poverty, he must lose. Modern social service provides for the individual a thing of value, namely, money or money's worth, coupled with personal service, by reason of which he is enabled to stave off hunger and want or to readjust himself to circumstances with which he finds himself at odds. All legal aid is social service in its broader sense; but not all social service is legal aid. The immediate aim of both is the readjustment of the individual to his environment that he may function the better as a free citizen. The ultimate goals are the same: the advancement of the public welfare. It is too narrow a view of legal aid to say that the society's attorney is confronted in each client with a case at law, in which the usual phenomena of evidence, negotiation, adjustment and trial are to be anticipated and nothing more. There is a peculiar circumstance attending this client and indeed all clients entering this door-he is not a self-propelling citizen in respect of the means with which by the accepted procedure of the times he is to secure his rights. He is in need. Usually it is not a need emphasized by an empty stomach as with so many clients of the relief agency. Nevertheless it is a need; and it is the whole public acting through its trustee, the legal aid society, that is helping him. When, therefore, the society's attorney admits his new client to interview he begins the unraveling of a tangled skein of social relationships, which cannot be divided into social problems on the one hand and legal rights on the other. Those rights are themselves a part of his social relationship. To take hold of the puzzle at any point is as precarious as to take a bear by the tail. In most legal aid cases adequate service cannot stop short of a thorough-going piece of social case work, in which the legal problem, however important, is but an incident. But this view of the client's needs does not assume that the