country in history. Sober reflection convinces one that this was not an accident due to one man's personality; it grew out of the inevitable logic of a situation which found the United States an amalgam of all the peoples at war. Although the old stocks continued belligerent and apart in Europe, the warring nations instinctively turned for leadership to that western land where the same racial breeds met and mingled and dwelt in harmony with each other. Observers in Europe during the war testify to the willingness with which all classes of people in the various countries were ready to hearken to and follow the country whose liberal spirit they knew from the letters of their friends in America or from their own experiences there. In the great world-drama President Wilson played a predestined part; by reason of his position as spokesman of the American people he was the historic embodiment of the many national traditions inherent in a nation formed of many nations. This would seem to foreshadow the rôle which, for good or ill, the United States is fated to play in the future. Those who, in the discussions over the proposed League of Nations, are advocating the return of the United States to a position of isolation and irresponsibility have failed to grasp the significance of immigration in American history. NEWS AND NOTES Notes of interest to the readers of the Journal should be in the hands of the editor of "News and Notes" not later than the tenth of the month preceding publication. THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Sociological Society will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the Christmas holidays, according to the decision of the Executive Committee announced by President Edward Cary Hayes, of the University of Illinois. Meeting at the same time in Pittsburgh in acceptance of invitations from the University of Pittsburgh are the American Economic Association and the American Statistical Association. The headquarters for the meeting will be the Fort Pitt Hotel. Sessions will be held December 27, 28, and 29. L'INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DE SOCIOLOGIE Revue internationale de sociologie announces, for the year 1921, the selection of the following officers composing the Bureau of the International Institute of Sociology: president, T. G. Masaryk, president of the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; vice-presidents, Bernardino Machado, Raymond Poincaré, and Woodrow Wilson; general secretary, René Worms, editor of the Revue; treasurer, P. L. Manouvrier, professor of physiological anthropology in l'Ecole d'Anthropologie; critic, Charles Gide, honorary professor of comparative social economy in the faculty of law of l'Université de Paris. THE SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON The April number of the Sociological Review reports the return from India of Professor Patrick Geddes and announces a series of eight lectures on sociology to be given by him during June at Leplay House. The editors also state that in the next number of the Review an important series of papers will commence by Professor H. E. Barnes, of Clark University, on "Contributions of American Psychological Sociology to Modern Political Theory." NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL WORK The annual meeting of the assemblage of social workers affords an opportunity to gauge the present state and progress of social work in this country. The forty-eighth session held in Milwaukee, June 22-29. lived up to the best traditions of the organization in bringing together at one time and place contributions from all sources that have a bearing upon enlarging the outlook and increasing the efficiency of the social worker. Represented upon the program were not only social workers of various types and interests, but sociologists, psychologists, educators, criminologists, jurists, psychiatrists, physicians, governmental experts, and students of industrial relations. In his presidential address, "Does Social Work Promote Social Progress ?" Allen T. Burns, director of the Study of Methods of Americanization of the Carnegie Corporation, pointed out the value to social work of the findings of social science and of social research. Among the sociologists represented upon the program were Julius Drachsler, "The Cultural Contribution of the Immigrant and a Policy of Assimilation"; J. L. Gillin, "Prohibition-What Is Its Effect ?" E. C. Lindemann, "Organization of Rural Social Forces"; H. W. Odum, "Closer Federation of State Departments of Public Service with Educational Institutions and Private Agencies"; R. E. Park, "Immigrant Heritages and How to Deal with Them"; Virginia P. Robinson, "Analysis of Processes in Case Records of Family Agencies"; A. J. Todd, "Policy of Family Societies in Connection with Strikes." Meeting in connection with the National Conference was the Group on Research of the American Sociological Society. In three sessions the following papers and reports of investigation were presented and discussed: "Sociology and Social Research," by Robert E. Park, of the University of Chicago; "The Study of Methods of Americanization," by Allen T. Burns, New York City; "A Study of the Attitudes of Enlisted Men at Camp Grant," by Erle F. Young, University of Chicago; "The Cleveland Survey of the Administration of Justice," by C. E. Gehlke, Western Reserve University, and by Burdette G. Lewis, Trenton; "Chicago Commission Study of Race Relations," by Graham R. Taylor, Chicago, and by Charles S. Johnson, Chicago. A committee was selected, composed of E. W. Burgess, Allen T. Burns, Edward T. Devine, John L. Gillin, Hornell Hart, and Robert E. Park, to draw up a plan of organization. The Group on Research will hold its next meeting at Pittsburgh with the American Sociological Society. THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS The Journal has received an announcement of the International Sociological Congress to be held at Turin, Italy, October 9-16. The Congress has been organized by the Institute of Sociology of the University of Turin. Not only sociologists, but economists, jurists, political scientists and representatives of scientific institutes, civic and cultural associations, have been invited to participate. The subjects proposed for discussion include international, political, commercial, industrial, and labor problems, eugenics in relation to war, the organization of international culture, the rôle of women in the solution of economic and social problems. The honorary members of the Institute from the United States are Franklin H. Giddings, of Columbia University, and Albion W. Small, of the University of Chicago. Correspondence should be addressed to Professor Francesco Consentini, director of the Institute of Sociology, Via Santorre Santarosa, 21, Turin. THE NEW YORK NUTRITION COUNCIL The first annual meeting of the New York Nutrition Council was held in New York on Friday, May 20, at the Sage Foundation Assembly Hall. Mr. Bailey B. Burritt was elected chairman for the coming year, taking the place of Dr. Mary S. Rose. Mrs. Amy D. Storer, of the Atlantic Division of the American Red Cross, was elected secretary, succeeding Miss Emma A. Winslow, of the Charity Organization Society. Approximately one hundred different organizations are represented in the Council at the present time. Four committees presented reports— the Committees on Record Forms, Training Standards, Correlation of Nutrition Activities, and Nutrition Bibliography. The bibliography recommended by the Committee is soon to be printed for general distribution through the courtesy of the Health Service Department of the New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Copies of the suggested record form may be secured from the secretary of the Council, and also copies of the recommendations of the Committee on Training Standards and the Committee on the Correlation of Nutrition Activities. THE MULFORD BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATION Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, third vice-president and statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company, has accepted an invitation to join the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Basin, under the direction of Dr. H. H. Rusby, which will leave for the west coast of South America on the SS. "Santa Elisa," on June 1. The party will dis embark at Antofagasta, Chile, and proceed from there to La Paz, Bolivia, from whence it will continue its journey through a practically unknown region of that section of South America to the headwaters of the Madeira and Amazon rivers. The general purpose of the expedition is to seek new information concerning useful drugs and ingredients of value to medical and pharmaceutical science. Dr. Hoffman's work will concern the health, longevity, acclimatization, and sanitary progress of the regions visited, particularly as regards American residents temporarily or permanently settled under the conditions of tropical life. His investigations will amplify the research work of the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine and of the American Geographical Society, etc. Attention will be given to the effect of high altitudes on health and longevity, and in the Amazonian lowlands to the prevailing tropical diseases, especially the various types of malarial fever. The expedition will probably take two years or more, but Dr. Hoffman's work will practically terminate at Manoas, Brazil, and actually come to an end at Para, from whence he expects to return to this country some time in the fall. BOSTON UNIVERSITY In the College of Liberal Arts, there has just been formed an honorary society for students in the department of sociology, for the purpose of sociological discussion. At present the membership is restricted to students obtaining a mark of 85 in the courses. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS D. Appleton and Company announce the publication of Sociology and Ethics by Professor Edward Cary Hayes. The subtitle, "The Facts of Social Life as the Source of the Solutions for the Theoretical and Practical Problems of Ethics" indicates the standpoint from which the volume is written. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Professor E. L. Morgan, now national director of the rural service of the American Red Cross, has been elected to a chair in rural sociology in the University of Missouri, beginning September 1. Professor Morgan was formerly extension professor of rural organization at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It is planned to develop at the University of Missouri a training school of rural social service. Arrangements have been made, in co-operation with a private agency, for an extension worker to organize and develop rural field-work training for students taking work in the school of rural social service. |