to the magazine numbers alone is $3. Sample copies are sent free upon request. Supported by subscriptions, and by subscribing memberships, $10 a year.

Svaz Československých Legionářů v Americe. See United CzechoSlovak Legion of America.

Taborites' Society. See Society of the Taborites.

Teachers in Colored Schools Association. See National Associa tion of Teachers in Colored Schools.

Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association. Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Technology, Division of. Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Temperance Association.

ciation.

See Carnegie

See Department of the Treasury, U. S.,

See Finnish Friends Temperance Asso

Temperance Brotherhood. See Finnish National Temperance Brotherhood.

Temperance Federation.

See Scientific Temperance Federation.

Temperance Society. See Church Temperance Society.

Temple Sisterhoods Federation. See National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.

Tevynes Myletoju Draugija. See Lithuanian Patriots.

Trade Union League of America. See National Women's Trade Union League of America.

Trained Personnel Service, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross.

Training School for Public Service Bureau. See New York Bureau of Municipal Research and Training School for Public Service.

Training School for Women and Girls. See National Baptist Convention.

Travelers Aid Society. See National Association of Travelers Aid Societies.

Treasurer, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross.

Treasury Department.

See Department of the Treasury, U. S.

Tuberculosis Association. See National Tuberculosis Association. Turnverein. See American Gymnastic Union.

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (est. 1880, inc. 1893), Tuskegee, Ala. A vocational school for Negroes, preparing supervisors of county industrial school work and teachers in academic, industrial, and agricultural subjects. Institute is officered and taught by colored men and women; its ownership and control is vested in a Board of Trustees composed of both white and colored persons. Supported by general donations, endowment funds, students' entrance fees, appropriations, grants from the General Education Board and the John F. Slater Fund (for description of these two agencies see elsewhere in the Handbook), and by appropriations from the State of Alabama.

Organization of School: The Institute admits Negro young men and women as day school or night school pupils in the following vocational groups: Mechanical Trades, Agriculture, Household Arts, Nurse Training, Bible Training, and Teacher Training. Day school pupils spend three days a week in academic studies and three days in the trades, academic days alternating with the trade days. Students who attend night school are employed each day in the various departments of the institution and attend classes five nights in each week. Elementary training is given in night school classes and the preparatory grades. Secondary subjects are taught three periods each per week in a course lasting four years in the Normal Department. The TeacherTraining Course includes psychology, history of education, methods, management, school administration, reviews and methods in elementary subjects, drawing, physical training, nature study, and 10 weeks of practice teaching at the Children's House, which is a seven-grade school maintained cooperatively by the Institute and the County Board of Education. The Children's House has facilities for manual training, household arts, and a school garden, all constituting a laboratory for observation and practice teaching.

Mechanical Trades Department offers instruction in blacksmithing, brickmasonary, carpentry, elementary engineering, applied electricity, shoemaking, machine-shop practice, plumbing, painting, printing, tailoring, tinsmithing, auto mechanics, and wheelwrighting.

Department of Girls' Industries offers instruction in plain sewing, dressmaking, ladies' tailoring, millinery, cooking, laundering, mattressmaking, basketry, and broom-making.

Agricultural Department offers a four-year course in agriculture for undergraduates and a two-year course for graduate students. The four-year course includes study of the following subjects: soils, drainage, insects, farm crops, garden crops, orchard crops, botany, animal husbandry, chemistry, and farm management. The Graduate Course includes advanced courses in these and other agricultural subjects. Students in the Agricultural Department pursue field practice work three days each week.

Bible Training School prepares ministers, Sunday school workers, and social workers. The courses of study include Bible, preaching, history, Christian service and Christian doctrine, with practical field work in the adjacent community.

Nurse Training is given in the Institute's hospital, known as The John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital. The department is inaugurating a postgraduate course in medicine and surgery; it has conducted an annual clinic for the past four years under the auspices and patronage of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society which meets at the Institute. Music: All pupils receive instruction in vocal music. Special courses are offered in pianoforte.

Department of Research and Records collects statistics and publishes data concerning the educational, religious, and economic progress of the Negro race, and keeps a systematic record of graduates and former students of the Institute. The results of research work are published annually in the "Negro Year Book" (75 cents a copy), issued from the Institute.

Extension Department promotes activities for the improvement of agriculture, business, education, health, home and religious life of the colored people of the U. S. These activities vary from those operating in the community and county adjacent to the Institute, to those of national significance. National activities include those of the National Negro Business League (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook), and the inauguration and promotion of the National Negro Health Week. The Institute conducts The Negro Farmers' and Workers' Conference, which is another phase of its extension work; this is held in January of each year at the Institute. A Farmers' Institute and Short Course in Agriculture is given in connection with this conference. The Department also conducts work in rural school supervision, holds teachers' institutes, organizes boys' clubs and home-makers' clubs, and cooperates with the Julius Rosenwald Fund (for description

of which see elsewhere in the Handbook). Through the Agricultural and Extension Departments, the Institute cooperates with the agricultural extension work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Union of Czech Women, Supreme Lodge (Jednota Českých Dam) (org. 1870, inc. 1891), Secy., Mrs. Marie Zemanová, 180 Forty-First St., Corona, N. Y. Czech mutual benefit and social welfare organization of women. Operates in the U. S. only. National office organizes and supervises lodges in local communities. When necessary, Supreme Lodge sends a worker at request of community to aid in establishing a local lodge; community pays expenses of such visits. Union pays death benefits of $800, raised by assessments upon total membership. Local lodges pay $2.50 to $4 a week sick benefit while patient is under doctor's care. Sick benefits are paid from members' dues and special funds raised by the local groups. Lodges carry on and contribute to community betterment, welfare and educational activities. Some lodges have libraries, open to the public, and provide lectures and other educational service. Union holds a sextennial meeting, open to the public, and lasting 10 days, at which questions of interest to the Czechs in America are discussed. The Woman's Journal (Ženské Listy) (2646 South Central Park Ave., Chicago, Ill.), semi-monthly, published in Czech, 10 cents a copy, $2.50 a year, free to lodges, is the official organ of this Union and of the Sisterly Benevolent Union (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook). Monthly dues in local lodges are 25 cents.

Unitarian Association. See American Unitarian Association.

Unitarian Laymen's League. See American Unitarian Associa

tion.

United Christian Missionary Society (org. 1849 as the American Christian Missionary Society; reorg. and inc. 1920), 1501 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo. A union of six organizations for the U. S. and Canada of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) combining all its national and international missionary and benevolent work. Holds an annual meeting. Acts as a clearing house for the dissemination of information regarding missionary activities, and as an advisory body for its organization members. Field workers organize and direct the work of State, provincial, and local auxiliary societies, having budgets depending on needs of the field. Society publishes The World Call,

monthly, $1.50 a year; Year Book, $1.50 a copy; Annual Report; books, leaflets, and pamphlets; catalogue of publications, free on request. Composed of members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), who are interested in the Society's work. Supported by contributions and membership gifts, $25 and up. The Society works through its various Departments.

Department of Foreign Missions maintains mission stations and missionaries in Africa, Canada, China, India, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Porto Rico, and South America. Makes surveys in foreign countries; establishes and conducts schools, hospitals, and orphanages abroad; promotes courses of training in colleges and universities in this country for service in the mission field; maintains the College of Missions, Indianapolis, Ind., for two years of postgraduate training for missionary candidates.

Department of Home Missions establishes churches and brings them to self-support. Maintains mission stations and community houses in districts having considerable foreign-born population in large cities. Conducts mission work among the Indians in the Northwest. Commission on Social Service cooperates with the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook) in carrying on investigations of industrial conditions. Furnishes lectures on community and social problems to local churches and conferences. Endeavors to stimulate a desire for community churches in rural districts. Unites with other agencies in making surveys of rural conditions in order to determine the need for churches. In answer to specific requests, the Department provides equipment and leadership for churches where there is opportunity for service to the whole community. Urges State Boards to send rural preachers to attend institutes and conferences and in some cases helps defray expenses.

Department of Benevolence maintains hospitals and Homes for the care of the aged, widows, orphans, and dependent children. Acts as a clearing house for member institutions. Children's Homes, with a total capacity of 500 (maintained at St. Louis, Mo.; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga.; Denver, Colo.; Dallas, Tex.; Omaha, Nebr.), care for orphan, deserted, or neglected children up to 12 years of age; board children who must earn their living, or whose father or mother, members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), are dead or have