programs. Studies housing from social and economic points of view. Undertakes administrative surveys of city, county, and State governments. Consultant service of staff is free to city officials of New York City and on a service-at-cost basis to all other public officials, private organizations, and to the general public. Students in Training School pay nominal tuition fees. Supported by contributions. New York Foundation (org. and inc. 1909), Secy., William F. Fuerst, 87 Nassau St., New York, N. Y. Maintains a fund, the income of which is distributed for altruistic purposes, charitable, benevolent, educational, and otherwise, within the U. S. Does not render aid to individuals. Aims principally to aid original efforts through existing organizations. New York League for the Hard of Hearing (org. 1910, inc. 1912), 126 East 59th St., New York, N. Y. To promote and extend work for the deafened. Conducts a free vocational and information bureau which gives advice and information on lip-reading, recreation for the hard of hearing, medical problems aural in character, and on similar subjects referred to it. Employment, Educational, Welfare, and Industrial Departments conduct special work for the deafened. If expenses are paid, League will send staff workers to other communities to organize and supervise new social service agencies for the deafened. Membership is open to interested persons, both deafened and hearing. Supported by contributions and by membership dues, $2 and up. North American Civic League for Immigrants (org. 1908), 173 State St., Boston, Mass. To protect immigrant and resident aliens and to interest and instruct them in American ideals and the requirements of American citizenship. Maintains in a number of industrial cities branch offices which conduct information bureaus with foreign-speaking agents in charge. Immigrants may apply to these branches for free information and advice. National League has also organized local leagues which conduct work in accordance with community needs. Through its branches and local Leagues, the organization holds conferences and organizes committees among foreigners for the extension of its educational work; institutes classes for immigrants, teaching them English and simple lessons in civics; holds neighborhood classes for women who are unable to attend classes held in public schools. After classes are well organized, local branches usually turn them over to local institutions and public school systems. Secretaries, speaking foreign languages, visit immigrant homes and give advice and aid. Field secretaries from national office organize work in cities throughout the country; their services may be secured by any community showing need for the League's work. The Industrial Committee, available for lecture service and educational work, may be called to any point in emergency upon payment of expenses. In cooperation with the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook), and other similar agencies, and through its branches and individual members, the League protects and assists immigrants at ports and railway stations. Publishes an Annual Report and a number of pamphlets, "Messages to Newcomers", written in several foreign languages. These pamphlets are descriptive of laws, traditions, history, and methods of naturalization, and are for sale at cost by the central office. Slides showing historical, industrial, educational, and natural features of the U. S. are for rent to private enterprises; they are loaned free to public institutions. Membership is open to interested persons. Supported by contributions and by membership fees, $5 a year. Order and Liberty Alliance, formed during the War to extend League's work among American soldiers and sailors, acts as a subsidiary body. Has published circulars and handbills for ex-service men among whom the Alliance conducts its present work (1921). Northern Baptist Convention (org. 1908, inc. 1910), 5109 Waterman Ave., St. Louis, Mo. To give expression to the opinions of its constituency upon moral, religious, and denominational matters, and to promote harmony and efficiency in efforts for the evangelism of the world. Holds an annual meeting, open to the public. Convention publishes a Handbook, $1 a copy, and an Annual Report, 50 cents a copy. These may be secured from the American Baptist Publication Society, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Convention works through five types of agencies: (1) Executive Committee, which is the Convention itself between its annual sessions and cares for all its interests; (2) Convention Committees, among which are the following: Committee on City Missions which studies questions related to cooperation between City Missions and State Conventions and cooperating organizations of the Convention, and general questions relating to city missionary work throughout the country; Committee on Baptist Brotherhood which furthers the organization of men in Baptist churches for study, fellowship, and service; Committee on Social Service which studies social conditions and needs, ascertains the activities of Baptist churches in the field of social service, organizes and enlists Baptists in practical lines of community service in city and country, cooperates with similar agencies of other religious bodies, and reports its findings and recommendations through the religious press; Committee on Evangelism which promotes organized and cooperative evangelism among the churches; Committee on the Coordination of Baptist Bodies Using Foreign Languages which conducts studies and issues reports; (3) Cooperating Organizations, which include the following: American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, Woman's American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, American Baptist Home Mission Society, Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, American Baptist Publication Society (for description of the last three of which see elsewhere in the Handbook); (4) Incorporated Boards which include: the Ministers' and Missionaries' Relief Board which administers its funds for the benefit of Baptist ministers and missionaries, their wives, widows, and dependent children, either directly or through related organizations, and which cooperates with such organizations in securing uniformity and methods for extension of aid; the Board of Education which promotes religious education in its various phases and holds conferences for cooperating organizations engaged in educational work; (5) Affiliated State Organizations of Baptists. *Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (org. 1917 by union of the Hague Synod, the Norwegian Synod, and the United Church; inc. 1917), 425 Fourth St., South, Minneapolis, Minn. Board of Charities maintains hospitals, training schools for nurses and deaconesses, homes for the aged, orphanages, child-placing agencies, city missions carrying on relief work, rescue homes for girls, homes for immigrants, and training schools for mission workers in various cities. Board of Home Missions conducts seamen's homes, distributes books, and carries on evangelistic work. Board of Education maintains colleges and academies in a number of cities. Nurses' Association. See American Nurses' Association. *Based on information obtained from reliable sources; official approval of digest not received before going to press. Nurses' Relief Fund. See American Nurses' Association. Nursing, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross. Nursing Association Headquarters. See National Nursing Association Headquarters. Nursing Education League. See National League of Nursing Education, Nutrition, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross. Office of Farm Management. U.S. See Department of Agriculture, Office of Indian Affairs. See Department of the Interior, U. S. Oral Advocates' Society. See Society of Progressive Oral Advo cates. Organization for Public Health Nursing. See National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Parks Association. See National Parks Association. Passport Control Division. See Department of State, U. S. See Department of the Interior, U. S. Patriotic League. See American Patriotic League. Patrons of Husbandry. See National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry. Peace Foundation. See World Peace Foundation. Peace Society. See American Peace Society. Pediatric Society. See American Pediatric Society. Peoples of America Society (in process of org.), 7 West 16th St., New York, N. Y. For common counsel and common action in the elimination of friction between native and foreign-born Americans and the promotion of mutual knowledge and good relations between them. Plans to establish an Information Service for the exchange of ideas and information. Will conduct immigration studies and carry on an educational campaign through exhibits, articles in newspapers and magazines, and by other methods. Will attempt to reassert the vital content behind the term, "Americanization", and to redefine the meaning and possibilities of the term, "Americanism". Membership open to all citizens, native and foreign-born. Primarily composed of social workers and students of immigration problems. People's University-The Temple (org. 1900, inc. 1918), Pres., A. L. Graicunas, M. D., 3310 South Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. Has organized a body of lecturers, composed of American citizens, who speak before foreign-born citizens or future citizens in their native language whenever practicable. Lecturers seek to extend information regarding civics, hygiene, sanitation, preventive medicine, and other topics of kindred nature. Local groups applying for services of lecturers furnish hall and pay expenses. Central office organizes branches or lodges which seek to educate their members in citizenship. Activities are conducted especially among Lithuanians but are not limited to them. Organization is supported by donations and by membership dues, $1 and up. Phelps Stokes Fund (org. 1910, inc. 1911), 100 William St., New York, N. Y. To originate, stimulate, and encourage activities for social betterment. Works especially to further the education of Negroes and Indians; also assists needy and deserving white students. In cooperation with the U. S. Bureau of Education (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook), the Fund has made a survey of and issued a report on Negro education in the U. S. to provide a source book on education and race relations and a "Who's Who" among Negro schools. (This report, which was published in two volumes, is now out of print.) This survey included a study of the financial support of Negro education and lists of persons and schools and methods concerned in Negro education; it also offered suggestions on educational adaptations, including industrial, rural, and general education. Fund cooperates with other national agencies and with the U. S. Bureau of Education in other educational surveys of the southern States. Maintains Negro probation officers in southern cities. Has assisted in the education of Negro ministers; has made appropriations to the work of the International Sunday School Association in behalf of Negroes. Offers fellowships for white students at the University of Georgia and the University of Virginia. Papers prepared by Fellows are published jointly by the Fund and the institutions they attend. Fund has assisted the University Commission on Southern Race Questions (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook); it also organized the Southern Publicity Committee which compiles and circulates information re |