in which men and women "trained in social science and technique are eligible for admission."

To qualify for Senior membership according to the proposals of the executive committee, one would have to be at least twenty-five years of age, a college graduate "or have demonstrated by his practical achievements an equivalent educational background," and have had four years' experience in social organizations of recognized standing. If he or she has had one or two years in a training school for social work, that would be equivalent to an equal amount of practical experiGraduate work in social science is also made equal to one year of practical experience.

ence.

Provision is made for two other classes of members where the standards are less strict than for Senior members. The Junior membership is intended for the young man or woman with a year or more of experience, who is just beginning social work. The Associate membership is intended for lay people who desire to co-operate in raising standards in social work.

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES

A National Council for the Social Studies completed its organization in Chicago on February 25. Its purpose is to lay the foundations for training democratic citizens; and its sponsors believe that such training can result only from a carefully developed and adequately supported system of teaching in the elementary and secondary schools. Its plan looks to promoting co-operation among those who are responsible for such training, including at least the university departments which contribute knowledge of facts and principles to civic education; and the leading groups of educational leaders, such as principals, superintendents, and professors of education, who develop the methods of handling these facts.

An advisory board was set up composed of representatives of (1) the five associations of scholars most nearly related to the purpose of the National Council-historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and geographers; (2) the national organizations of educational investigators and administrators-elementary and high-school principals teachers of education, normal-school principals, and superintendents; and (3) regionary associations of teachers of history and civics. The function of this advisory board is to bring into the National Council the points of view of the organizations represented by its members and to insure a development of the social studies which will be in harmony with the best educational thought as well as based on the best present practice.

The following officers were elected for the year 1922-23: L. C. Marshall, professor of economics in the University of Chicago, president; Henry Johnson, professor of history in Teachers College, vice-president; Edgar Dawson, professor of government in Hunter College, secretarytreasurer; E. U. Rugg, Lincoln School, New York, assistant secretary. An executive committee, charged with the general direction of the policies of the association will consist of the officers and the following elected members: C. A. Coulomb, district superintendent, Philadelphia; W. H. Hathaway, Riverside High School, Milwaukee; Bessie L. Pierce, Iowa University High School.

The first task the National Council is undertaking is the preparation of a Finding List of those experiments or undertakings in the teaching of the social studies which now give promise of being useful. This list will contain such exposition of the character and aims of these experiments as to make it possible for those working along parallel lines to discover each other and to co-operate more fully than would otherwise be probable. This expository material will have another purpose— that of indicating outstanding differences of opinion and program in order that these differences may be systematically stated for purposes of analysis and discussion.

To aid in the discovery and assessment of these experiments, the National Council has in preparation a list of Key Men and Women who will be appointed in the various states to represent the National Council in its efforts to collect useful information and then to give currency to it. While this organization seems to represent all the elements out of which the best development of the social studies must proceed, the most useful work will be done only with the co-operation of teachers and investigators in all parts of the country to the end that lost motion and useless repetition may be eliminated and that mutually strengthening experiments may be pressed forward.

Persons who are interested in the wholesome development of the social studies, whether teachers or others, and if teachers, whether teachers of the social subjects or of some other subject, are urged to communicate at the earliest convenient moment with the secretary of the National Council, Edgar Dawson, 671 Park Avenue, New York City. CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service there was held in Washington, March 14 and 15, a conference of deans of schools of public health and medical schools, presidents of universities with which these schools are connected, a selected number of professors of public health subjects and men actively engaged in public health

work, on "The Future of Public Health in the United States and the Education of Sanitarians."

Subjects considered include: the present status of the public health movement and present facilities for the education of health officers and other sanitarians; various newer aspects of public health and their importance in the training of sanitarians; the various kinds of sanitarians which will be needed for the future; the recruiting and training of more and better sanitarians; and the various problems connected with the training of sanitarians for the future and the further education of those who are now employed in public health work. Among those invited to take part in the conference were presidents James R. Angell, Livingston Farrand, Frank J. Goodnow, Ray Lyman Wilbur; deans Hugh Cabot, William Darrach, David L. Edsall; professors Allen W. Freeman, E. O. Jordan, Roger Perkins, Mazyck P. Ravenel, Milton J. Rosenau, George C. Whipple, Jesse F. Williams, C.-E. A. Winslow; doctors Lewellys F. Barker, Walter H. Brown, John A. Ferrell, Lee K. Frankel, Otto P. Geier, Frederick R. Green, Vernon Kellogg, John H. Stokes, Victor C. Vaughan, George E. Vincent, William A. White, Hubert Work, also doctors S. J. Crumbine, Hugh S. Cumming, Eugene R. Kelley, L. L. Lumsden, A. T. McCormack, A. M. Stimson, and Allan J. McLaughlin of the United States Public Health Service and the various State Boards of Health.

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

The department of social science, formerly a part of the department of political and social science, is in the midst of its first year of separate existence with 288 different persons enrolled in the department. A social-science discussion group, meeting bi-monthly, has been formed among the advanced students. Miss Mary Louise Rutter, A.B., University of Cincinnati, has been made departmental assistant in social science. The Civic and Vocational League of Cincinnati has recently published a monograph by Miss Rutter entitled The Water Works System of Cincinnati.

CLARK UNIVERSITY

During the present year Professor Frank H. Hankins has delivered lectures at Clark University, Cornell University, and Well's College on the present economic situation in Europe, based on his observations during his residence in Europe in 1920-21. Professor Hankins will offer in the Clark University summer school courses in introductory social science and in the teaching of the social sciences.

Professor Harry E. Barnes delivered the annual Stuckenberg Lecture on applied sociology at Gettysburg College on February 14, 1922. His

subject was "The Development of Modern Penology." The lecture will appear in an early number of the Political Science Quarterly.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

The School of Public Welfare has just issued, through the extension division of the university, the following bulletins: Attainable Standards in Municipal Programs, A Report of the First Regional Conference on Town and County Administration, Prepared by Howard W. Odum; The Rural Playground, Prepared by Harold D. Meyer; Social Service and Public Welfare, Prepared by J. F. Steiner and Howard W. Odum; The Parent-Teacher Association, A Manual for North Carolina, Prepared by Harold D. Meyer; the 1922–23 Bulletin of Announcements, together with statement of opportunities in research and study in the social sciences at the University of North Carolina.

The department of rural social science has just issued its latest North Carolina Yearbook which is a volume of some thirty or more papers on North Carolina, Industrial and Urban, carefully edited by Professor E. C. Branson. These papers are the result of the year's work of the North Carolina Club, now in its eighth year under the direction of Dr. Branson.

Work has begun on the new social-science building which will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1922. This building will be well equipped with seminar rooms, departmental libraries, statistical laboratory, offices, classrooms, and auditorium. On the first floor will be the departments of rural social science, sociology, and the School of Public Welfare.

The University announces for early publication The Journal of Social Forces, to be published quarterly and devoted to the promotion of social work and public welfare. In addition to contributed articles it will have regularly six departments of special contributions: "InterState Reports from the Fields of Public Welfare and Social Work," "Reports and Methods of Teaching the Social Sciences in the High Schools," "Inter-Racial Relations and Activities in the Southern States Local Committees," "National, State, and Local Country Life Programs," "Current Progress in Town and City Programs," "Reviews of Books and Literature." While it is primarily intended as a medium of exchange of practical knowledge for the southern states it is not limited to the South either in its scope or its editorial board.

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

In the fall of 1920 Ohio Wesleyan University established the department of sociology for the first time, separating the work from economics.

At that time Mr. Bruce L. Melvin was put in charge of the work. During the year of 1920-21 Mrs. Melvin aided in the department by teaching one course each semester. Also during the year 1920-21 Mr. Melvin finished his thesis and took his Ph.D. in the spring from the University of Missouri. In the fall of 1921 Mr. Frank W. Hoffer, B.D., M.A., of the University of Chicago, through the co-operation of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Methodist Board of Home Missions was added to the department, specializing in the field of the rural church, especially on the side of social development of the rural church. Also Miss Ruth Fenderich, A.B. of Oberlin, and M.A. of Columbia, was added to the department specializing in the field of the races, giving courses in the negro problem and immigration this year. During the present year the department has been co-operating with the Ohio Federation of Churches through their representative Dr. Brugh, who has been aiding in a house-to-house survey of Delaware County. Also the department has been co-operating with different communities in the development of community work throughout Delaware County, in the organization of community councils and social and recreational programs.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Five extension classes in sociology are being conducted this semester in southern California by the University at which somewhat over 200 public school teachers and principals are enrolled.

During the summer session of 1922 Professor Clarence M. Case, of the University of Iowa, will offer two courses: one in "Human Culture and Races," and the other in "Democracy and Social Progress."

Professor E. S. Bogardus read a paper upon the Relation of Public Health to Social Problems at the California State Conference of Social Agencies held in April at San Diego.

Mr. D. F. McLaughlin, Superintendent of County Charities, was the chief speaker at the recent meeting of the Southern California Sociological Society, the subject of his address being "Interesting Clients That I Have Known."

Alice M. Fesler, A.M., has been elected Instructor in Sociology and Supervisor of Social Case Work. The department of sociology now has the full-time service of five teachers, who, together with lecturers giving regular courses, are conducting thirty-one classes each semester.

MASTER'S THESES AND DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

Because of the limited space in this issue, the Annual List of Students' Dissertations in Sociology will appear in the July number of the Journal.