matics and the physical and biological sciences, and their application to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts. Surveys the larger possibilities of science to formulate comprehensive projects of research, and to develop effective means of utilizing the scientific and technical resources of the country for dealing with these projects. Promotes cooperation in research at home and abroad to secure concentration of effort, to minimize duplication of work, and to stimulate progress, at the same time encouraging individual initiative. Serves as a means of bringing American and foreign investigators into active cooperation with scientific and technical services of the U. S. War and Navy Departments and with the civil branches of the Government. In cooperation with Governmental and other agencies, the Council gathers and makes available scientific and technical information both at home and abroad. Technical work is carried on by its Divisions as follows: Divisions of General Relations: Foreign Relations, Federal Relations, States Relations, Educational Relations, Research Extension, Research Information Service; Divisions of Science and Technology: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Geology and Geography, Medical Sciences, Biology and Agriculture, Anthropology, and Psychology. Reports and other publications issued by Divisions may be had on application to the publication office of the Council; some are charged for, while others are sent free. National Research Fellowship Board offers fellowships in chemistry and physics to persons demonstrating a high order of ability in research, to enable them to conduct investigations at educational institutions giving adequate provision for research. Members are chosen by affiliated societies as their representatives to the Council. Supported by endowment and special gifts. National Safety Council (org. 1913), 168 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. To promote conservation of life and limb, the safety and health of industrial workers and the public generally. Offers service to members which assists them in preventing accidents and occupational diseases and in improving plant sanitation. Maintains an information bureau and reference library to give members information on matters pertaining to accident prevention and industrial hygiene. Council's staff of engineers answers inquiries of a technical nature. Central office circulates package libraries on safety and health subjects. Council holds the Annual Safety Congress, open to the public, for the discussion of problems of accident prevention, health of workers, and allied subjects, and for the examination of safety exhibits. Proceedings of each Congress are printed and distributed among members. Through its own publications and other channels, the Council gives publicity to all matters calculated to promote industrial and public safety. Cooperates with other agencies to conserve human life, health, and welfare. Aids members in obtaining speakers for plant meetings and lends motion-picture films and lantern slides on safety subjects. Seeks to extend safety education in grade schools and in technical schools and universities through cooperation with authorities and through distribution of literature. Council is a member of the American Engineering Standards Committee and assists in the formulation of safety codes to standardize requirements for safety in various industrial operations. The following sections of the Council conduct special activities within their fields: Engineering, Health Service, Marine and Navigation, Metals, Mining, Packers and Tanners, Paper and Pulp, Public Safety, Public Utilities, Rubber, Steam Railroad, Textile, Women in Industry, and Woodworking. Council issues weekly educational posters for use on bulletin boards in industrial establishments to stimulate interest among workmen in accident prevention and health conservation, and to teach them to acquire the habit of doing their work in the safe way. Sets of three or more different posters are sent to member companies each week, the number of sets being determined by the number of employees in each plant. Publishes monthly Safe Practices Pamphlets, which contain practical information regarding the best known methods of dealing with industrial hazards and which are prepared primarily for the use of production managers, superintendents, safety engineers, and foremen. Also publishes a weekly magazine, the National Safety News. Active membership includes all individuals or concerns employing people. Dues are in accordance with the number of employees. Active membership is also open to chambers of commerce, manufacturers' associations, industrial commissions, State labor departments, industrial and public schools, and insurance companies. Individual active membership is open to professional men, safety engineers, and other interested persons. Council is supported by membership dues. National Scientific and Technical Societies. See National Research Council. National Security League (org. 1914, inc. 1915), 17 East 49th St., New York, N. Y. To promote patriotism and good citizenship, and to باد combat socialism, bolshevism, and all forms of radicalism. Conducts nation-wide educational propaganda for Americanism, aimed at the better instruction of all citizens, native and foreign-born, in American ideals and the American form of government. Holds public meetings and conducts street-corner gatherings. Circulates patriotic literature particularly to school children and prospective applicants for citizenship. Supported by contributions and membership dues. National Short Ballot Organization (org. 1909), 8 West 9th St., New York, N. Y. To explain and secure adoption of the Short Ballot principle and to simplify politics by eliminating petty elective offices in State and county governments. Works for the securing and adoption of the City Manager Plan in municipalities. Conducts research studies and extends information through publicity and lobbying. Field Secretary helps cities to adopt City Manager Plan. Organization issues pamphlets on Short Ballot, City Manager Plan, and County Government Reform; these may be secured from central office. Supported by contributions and by membership fees, $5 a year. National Slovak Society in the U. S. A. (Národný Slovenský Spolok v Spojených štátoch) (org. 1890), Secy., Joseph Durís, Box C 593, Pittsburgh, Pa. Slovak mutual benefit fraternal insurance and social welfare organization of men and women. Operates in the U. S. and Canada. National supreme office organizes and supervises lodges in local communities and pays expenses of field worker. Union pays death benefits of $250 to $2,000 paid by assessments on total membership. Local lodges pay sick benefits of $5 a week for the first 13 weeks while the patient is under doctor's care, and $2.50 a week for the succeeding 13 weeks. Sick benefits are paid from members' dues and special funds raised by the lodges. Lodges carry on and contribute to community betterment, welfare, and educational work not only for the benefit of their members but for others as well. Society holds a quadrennial meeting, open to the public, at which questions of interest to the Slovaks in America are discussed. The National News (Národné Noviny) (P. O. Box 120, Pittsburgh, Pa.), weekly, published in Slovak, 90 cents a year to members, $2.50 a year to nonmembers, is the official organ and is owned by the Society. Local lodge dues are 50 cents a month. National Slovak Union (Národná Slovenská Jednota) (org. 1909, inc. 1910), Pres., Josef A. Zeliesko, 107 Chartiers Ave., McKee's Rocks, Pa. A mutual benefit organization of men and women, operating only in the U. S. Supreme office supervises branches in local communities. The branches pay sick benefits to members while they are under doctor's care; they also pay death benefits. Sick and death benefits are raised from assessments made on all members. Union has organized a division for the younger generation. American Slavonic Gazette (Amerikánsko Slovenské Noviny) (Editor, Ján Kadlecík, 220 Third Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.), published weekly in the Slovak language, $2.50 a year, is an official organ of the Union., National Social Workers' Exchange (org. 1917, in process of inc.), 130 East 22d St., New York, N. Y. An organization of professional social workers, devoted to raising social work standards and requirements. Placement Bureau attempts to secure positions for social workers and supplies workers to 200 social agencies affiliated with the Exchange as institutional members. This service is offered free of charge to qualified social workers. Institutions employing less than five workers must pay $10, those employing less than 25 workers pay $25, while agencies with more than 25 workers must pay $50 and upwards to secure this placement service. Vocational Information Department gives information and advice regarding opportunities in social work, through interviews, correspondence, and pamphlets. Recruiting Department is being organized to coordinate the college recruiting of various national agencies and to present to students the possibilities in the whole field of social work. Research Service is studying the professional needs and characteristics of different social work fields. Extension and Membership Department promotes organization and membership among qualified workers. Exchange publishes The Compass, a monthly news bulletin containing information of professional interest to social workers; sent free to all members. Membership open to professional social workers at $3 a year and up, depending on what the individual feels he can afford. Supported by contributions and membership dues. National Society of Children of the American Revolution (org. and inc. 1895), Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C. Patriotic and memorial society. Through correspondence and the supplying of information material, national office organizes and supervises local branches operating in cities, towns, villages, or rural communities. State Directors appointed by the National Board of Management pro mote the forming of new branches; they visit local groups on request. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (org. 1890, inc. 1896), Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C. To perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American Independence. Acquires and protects historical spots and erects fitting memorials. Encourages research and publishes results of historical study in relation to the Revolution. Preserves documents and relics and records of individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots. Promotes celebrations of patriotic anniversaries. Assists in the extension of public education, through its Americanization and Patriotic Education Committee. Seeks to maintain and extend institutions of American freedom and to foster patriotism and love of country. Organizes and supervises chapters in every State in the Union and in the Orient. Committees, through which the special work of the organization is carried on, submit reports to the Continental Congress, held each year in April. These reports are published in the Proceedings, $1.50 a copy. Makes an annual report to |