2:45-5:00 P.M. Section on Rural Sociology. In charge of John H. Kolb, University of Wisconsin.

"Significant Factors in Rural Population Affecting Our Civilization." "Farm Population." John M. Gillette, University of North Dakota. "Village Population." Luther Fry, Institute of Social and Religious Research, New York City.

"Rural Demography." Warren S. Thompson, Scripps Foundation, Miami University.

Discussion. W. L. Bailey, Northwestern University.

6:30 P.M. Annual Dinner of the American Sociological Society. In honor of Albion W. Small and Franklin H. Giddings. Speakers: George E. Vincent and James P. Lichtenberger.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31

9:00 A.M. Annual Business Meeting of the American Sociological Society. 10:00-12:00 A.M. Division on Biological Factors. In charge of Frank H. Hankins, Smith College.

"Race Crossing in the Light of Modern Genetics." L. C. Dunn, Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station.

Discussion. Frank H. Hankins.

"Human Hybrids as Illustrated by the Mulatto." E. B. Reuter, University of Iowa.

Discussion. Kimball Young, University of Oregon.

"An Anthropological View of Race Mixture." Ralph Linton, Field Museum, Chicago.

"On a Method for the Study of the Phenomenon of Nationalism." Max S. Handman, University of Texas.

Local Committee.-Scott E. W. Bedford, chairman, Edith Abbott, Thomas D. Eliot, Ellsworth Faris, Frederic Siedenburg, Arthur J. Todd.

Reduced rates.-Reduced railroad rates of one and one-half the regular adult tariff for the round trip have been granted. Full announcement of conditions under which the reduced rate may be secured by members of the Society and dependent members of their families will be made in the programs mailed to the members of the Society, November 20.

Headquarters.-The headquarters for the annual meeting will be the Auditorium Hotel, 430 S. Michigan Boulevard. The rates are as follows: rooms without bath for one occupant, $2.50 and $3.00, for two occupants, $4.00 and $5.00 per day; rooms with private bath, for one occupant, $4.00 and $6.00, for two occupants, $6.00 (double bed) and $8.00 (single beds) per day.

All meetings, except the business sessions, are open to the public, and unless otherwise indicated, are held on the ninth floor, the Auditorium Hotel.

NATIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29

10:00-12:00 A.M. Practical Programs of Community Organization.

"Why Chicago School Centers Fail and Succeed." Report on the Survey of Sixty Centers of the Chicago Joint Committee on School Affairs. E. L. Burchard, Educational Publicity Expert, Chicago.

Discussion. Mrs. Henry W. Cheney, Woodlawn Community Center, Chicago; Azile B. Reynolds, Armstrong School Center, Chicago; William L. Smyser, Norwood Park Center, Chicago.

"Whiting Memorial Community House." R. J. Smoyer, Community Service, Whiting, Ind.

"Democracy in the Settlements." William E. McLennan, Buffalo, N.Y. "Community Organization in Park Centers." V. K. Brown, South Park Commissioner, Chicago.

Discussion. John Richards.

6:00 P.M. Dinner Meeting, Hull House.

"A Report on Community Organization of the United States for Better Films." E. M. Barrows and Wilbur Barrett.

Report on a Study of Community Centers in Public Schools through the Board of Education. Mrs. Eleanor T. Glueck.

'Community Politics." Harriet Vittum, Northwestern University Settlement, Chicago.

Motion Picture Showing Community Organization Activities.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30

10:00-12:00 A.M. Studies in Community Organization.

"The Buffalo Study of Community Organization." Eugene T. Lies, Community Service, Inc.

"Human Resources for Community Welfare." Carl W. Strow, Knox College.

"The Chain Store as an Index to Community Organization." E. H. Shideler, Franklin College.

"Community Implications of Parent-Teachers Associations in the United States." Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, National Conference of Mothers and Parent Teachers Association.

'Community Aspects of Red Cross Work." J. B. Gwyn, Southwestern Division, American Red Cross.

12:30 P.M. Luncheon Conference. City Club, 315 Plymouth Court.

"Community Aspects of Settlement Work." Albert J. Kennedy, National Federation of Settlements.

"Community Organization through College Extension Departments." W. S. Bittner, Indiana University.

"Present Status of University Extension in America" Joseph W. Scroggs, University of Oklahoma.

"A Study of Rural Community Halls." Ralph A. Fenton, Cornell University.

3:00 P.M. Trip to Community Centers in Chicago.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31

2:00-4:00 P.M. The Theory of Community Organization.

"Methods of Determining the Comparative Efficiency of Racial Communities." Robert E. Park, University of Chicago.

"The Church and the Community." Von Ogden Vogt, Oak Park, Illinois.

"Comparative Studies of New York City Communities." LeRoy E. Bowman, Columbia University, and Mary Johnston, New York Community Committee.

"Chicago Community Studies." E. W. Burgess, University of Chicago. "Rehabilitation of the Local Community." Clarence A. Perry, Russell Sage Foundation.

Discussion. E. C. Lindeman.

4:00 P.M. Trip to Whiting Memorial Community House.

NEWS AND NOTES

Notes of interest to 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.

American Sociological Society. The request for reports on research work in progress by members of the Society has brought more than one hundred replies to the president and the chairman of the Committee on Research, Professor W. F. Ogburn, of Columbia University. As the Section on Research of the Annual Meeting of the Society will give time for only about ten reports on research work in progress, the committee finds itself somewhat embarrassed in making out a program. The committee will endeavor to select those lines of research for report which promise to be of most value for the development of sociology, and asks those members who have been kind enough to report on their research work to be indulgent in their judgment of the work of the committee.

Section on the Sociology of Religion.-President Charles A. Ellwood of the American Sociological Society announces the organization of a section of the Society on the sociology of religion. It will hold its first session Monday morning, December 29, in connection with the meetings of other sections of the American Sociological Society. The papers presented at this meeting will center upon the purpose, scope, and objectives of the new section. The members of the committee on the organization of this section are: Herbert N. Shenton, Columbia University, chairman; F. Ernest Johnson, Federal Council of Churches; Samuel Z. Batten.

American Association of Social Workers.-A meeting of the National Council of the American Association of Social Workers will be held in Chicago December 28, 1924, just before the meeting of the American Sociological Society and the other social science associations. The National Council is composed of over seventy members representing different fields of social work in all sections of the United States. The executive secretary of the Association is Philip Klein, 130 East Twentysecond Street, New York City.

Alpha Pi Zeta Advisory Meeting.-At the suggestion of President Charles A. Ellwood, of the American Sociological Society, and also president of the University of Missouri chapter of Alpha Pi Zeta, an informal

meeting of accredited representatives of chapters of the fraternity was held at the University of Chicago July 19, 1924, to consider the formation of a national organization of the chapters. Chapters were represented as follows: Northwestern University, S. G. Martin (president of his chapter) and C. L. Grose; University of Missouri, Robert J. Kerner; University of Minnesota, L. L. Bernard. Professors Faris and White, representing a committee on organization for the social sciences of the University of Chicago, and Professor Albion W. Small, of the American Journal of Sociology, participated informally. Professor Kerner was elected chairman of the meeting and Professor Bernard secretary. Letters were read from Professor David Y. Thomas, of the University of Arkansas, and Professor C. Perry Patterson, of the University of Texas, representing a group of five honor societies designed primarily for undergraduate students, proposing meetings in September when the Institute for Political Research should meet. General discussion then arose as to whether the Alpha Pi Zeta societies should seek affiliation with the southwestern societies and it was decided that this could not be determined until after the proposed September meetings. The question was also raised as to whether the purpose of the societies should be merely honorary as in the case of Phi Beta Kappa or whether the societies should also attempt to stimulate interest and research and encourage scholarship through discussion of common problems in the local societies. It was pointed out that the policies of societies had hitherto been in keeping with the latter plan. The following resolutions were formally adopted after discussion:

I. A national organization should be adopted.

2. Alpha Pi Zeta is a very fitting name for the organization.

3. This organization shall have the character of an honorary society.

4. It shall encourage investigation and scholarship in the field of the social sciences.

5. The local societies should exercise a large degree of autonomy as to methods of work and details of organization.

6. Until the question of uniform membership is decided by national action of the society, the matter of the determination of full, associate, honorary, and permanent membership shall be left to the chapters according to their separate problems and situations.

The action of this informal conference was intended merely as advisory to the official committee on national organization appointed at and following the December, 1923, meetings of the social science associations.

The American Country Life Association.-The Seventh National Country Life Conference will be held in Columbus, Ohio, November