ment issues occasional literature. Supported by annual grants from the Church. Protestant Hospital Association. See American Protestant Hospital Association. Prudential Insurance Company of America (org. and inc. 1875), Newark, N. J. To write life insurance, industrial and ordinary. Participates in associated activities. Has been interested in the founding of public health-promoting institutions; gives furtherance to national and international health-conserving efforts, chiefly by making accessible the resources of its world-wide statistics on health and mortality, its library, and its mechanical aids to tabulation and analysis. Such services are available without charge to policy holders and the general public. Company has cooperated in local scientific investigations bearing upon national and international questions of health and welfare. It issues scientific publications covering such subjects as industrial hygiene, health insurance, various diseases, and rural health; statistics bearing on welfare questions; charts on mortality and morbidity; special statistical charts and pamphlets. All publications and charts are sent free, upon application to Statistician's Department. Prvá Katolická Slovenská Jednota. See First Catholic Slovak Union. Prvá Katolická Slovenská Ženská Jednota ve Spojených štátoch Severnej Ameriky. See First Catholic Slovak Ladies' Union of the U. S. A. Public Health Association. See American Public Health Association. Public Health Education Section. ury, U. S., Public Health Service. Public Health Nursing Organization. for Public Health Nursing. See Department of the Treas See National Organization Public Health Nursing Service, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross. Public Health Service, Bureau of. See Department of the Treasury, U. S. Public Information Service, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross. Public Officials of Charity and Correction Association. See American Association of Public Officials of Charity and Correction. Public Welfare League. See National Public Welfare League. Publication Society. See Immigrant Publication Society; Jewish Publication Society of America. Queens of Avalon. See International Order of the Knights of King Arthur. Quiet Half-Hour League. See Baptist Young Peoples' Union of America. Reclamation Service. See Department of the Interior, U. S. Recreation Association. See Playground and Recreation Association of America. Red Cross. See American National Red Cross. Red Mogen David. See American Red Mogen David. Red Shield of David. See American Red Mogen David. Red Triangle League (org. 1919), 347 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. To perpetuate among Young Men's Christian Association war workers the fellowship and spirit of unselfish service manifested during the War. Serves as an information bureau and clearing house for local groups in large cities throughout the country and State organizations in several States. Holds a triennial convention. Publishes Red Triangle League Bulletin, quarterly, free to members. Membership is open to men and women who served overseas under the Young Men's Christian Association (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook) or in home camps during the War, and who have received honorable discharge. Supported by membership dues, $1 a year. Reform Association. See National Reform Association. Reformed Church in America, Board of Domestic Missions (org. 1832), 25 East 22d St., New York, N. Y. Aids and builds churches and missions. Maintains missionaries to extend the Church in America. Assists Negro churches and schools; maintains the Southern Normal and Industrial Institute at Brewton, Ala., for colored youth. Releases articles in several religious periodicals. Publishes leaflets, and two periodicals: The Mission Field, monthly, 10 cents a copy, 65 cents a year; Christian Intelligencer, weekly, 5 cents a copy, $2 a year. Reformed Church in the U. S., Commission on Social Service and Rural Work (org. 1920), 15th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. To assist in making social applications of Christianity in all human relationships. Through leadership, program, and equipment seeks to aid local churches in rendering adequate Christian ministration to their communities. Promotes community service. Issues literature occa-1 sionally and distributes informational material. Promotes study courses; conducts conferences; cooperates in the training of religious leaders. Relief Fund of the American Nurses' Association. See American Nurses' Association, Nurses' Relief Fund. Religious Education Association (org. and inc. 1903), 1440 East 57th St., Chicago, Ill. To inspire the educational forces of our country with the religious ideal; to inspire the religious forces with the educational ideal; to keep before the public mind the need and value of religious education. Disseminates educational material through existing religious and educational agencies, conferences, exhibits, conventions, and publications. Acts as a clearing house of information giving free service to churches, church boards, schools, and all persons requiring its help. Maintains at central office a special library on moral and religious training; open to the public free of charge. Distributes educational pamphlets. Gives personal advice through correspondence to members and others seeking information. Maintains a free Personnel Service for the placing of professional workers. Holds an annual meeting, open to the public. Has prepared two traveling exhibits which may be rented at low cost to cover expense of shipping. Special committees and groups conduct investigations, studies, and experiments. For services of field workers apply to general secretary. Non-sectarian and international in membership and work. Publishes many pamphlets and Religious Education, bi-monthly magazine, free to members, $4 a year to non-members. Regular members pay annual dues of $4 and up; student members in residence at institutions of learning pay $2. Supported by voluntary contributions and membership dues. Remedial Loan Associations. See National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations. Removal Office. See Industrial Removal Office. Research Council. See National Research Council. + Research Fellowship Board. See National Research Council. all N. Y. To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world. Has so devoted its resources to programs of public health and medical education throughout the world that these have come to be regarded definitely as its fields. Accomplishes its work through (1) agencies which it creates to carry out specific programs, and (2) other existing organizations unaffiliated with the Foundation, to which it makes appropriations to enable them to carry out specific items of programs in public health and medical education. Agencies of the first class are (1) The International Health Board; (2) The China Medical Board; (3) The Division of Medical Education. International Health Board (org. 1913) conducts public health demonstrations and develops cooperative public health programs in different parts of the world. These programs, conducted always in cooperation with government authority, in 1920 were carried on principally in 12 southern States in this country in combating malaria and hookworm disease, and in 22 foreign countries, states, or islands in combating these diseases and yellow fever. Board has extended its activities to every section of the world where yellow fever is known to exist. Is giving assistance to the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia in the organization of its public health administration and laboratory service. For the purpose of training native personnel and promoting greater efficiency and higher standards in public health, Board provides foreign fellowships for the study of public health in the U. S. The Commission for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France is continuing in that country its work begun during the War. China Medical Board develops the Foundation's program of medical education in China. Has planned and is supporting in full a medical center at Peking, including a medical school, premedical school, hospital, and nurse-training school. Through this Board the Foundation gives aid to medical schools and hospitals already established in China, provides fellowships and scholarships to make possible advanced medical study in the U. S. for medical missionaries on furlough and for Chinese physicians and nurses. Division of Medical Education has conducted investigations of medical education in Canada and western and central Europe. Other Work of the Foundation includes maintenance of a School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; studies and demonstrations in mental hygiene and in hospital and dispensary service; support through the National Research Council (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook) of research in physics. and chemistry; contributions to medical centers in Canada, London, and Brussels, and emergency aid to medical institutions throughout Europe. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (org. and inc. 1901), 66th St. and Ave. A, New York, N. Y. To conduct, assist, and encourage investigations in the sciences and arts of hygiene, medicine and surgery, and allied subjects; in the nature and causes of disease; and methods of treatment and prevention. Makes knowledge relating to these subjects available for the protection of public health and the improved treatment of disease and injury. The Department of Laboratories conducts research work in subjects relating to general biology, pathology, bacteriology, and chemistry. The Hospital (est. 1910), with a capacity of 60 beds, admits patients suffering from certain diseases chosen for observation and study by the staff; also offers clinical facilities. The Department of Animal Pathology (org. 1915) located near Princeton, N. J., studies diseases of animals which are of great economic importance or which may throw light upon problems of human pathology. The Institute issues a semi-annual list of its publications; this is sent free on application. Reports of investigations made in its laboratories or with the cooperation or support of the Institute are published at irregular intervals under the title, "Studies from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research"; for sale at $2 a volume. Publishes Journal of Experimental Medicine, monthly, 75 cents a copy, $5 a year; Journal of Biological Chemistry, monthly, $3 a volume; Journal of General Physiology, bi-monthly, $1 a copy, $5 a year. Scientific papers, not published in periodicals, appear as "Monographs"; for sale at various prices. Supported by endowment. Roman Catholic Union of America. Union of America. See Polish Roman Catholic Rosenwald Fund. See Julius Rosenwald Fund. Russell Sage Foundation (org. and inc. 1907), 130 East 22d St., New York, N. Y. For the improvement of social and living conditions in the U. S. For this purpose, by its charter, it may "use any means which from time to time shall seem expedient to its members or trus + |