p5- /9/i LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 020 773 446 9 No. 119 SOURCES OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS FOR PUBLIC LECTURES IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION Published by the Division of Recreation Russell Sage Foundation I Madison Avenue, New York City Price, 5 cents S-I2-IS PREFATORY NOTE This pamphlet is a revision of a former one, entitled "Public Lectures in School Buildings" (No. 52). The original publica- tion was issued in August, 1910, and was composed of three parts: (i) a descriptive account of typical school lecture systems with suggestions as to their development, (2) an inventory of local lec- ture sources, and (3) a directory of those national organizations which use the lecture platform, together with lists of their re- spective topics. Parts i and 2 were subsequently incorporated in the volume "Wider Use of the School Plant" and thus became permanently accessible on library shelves. Part 3, however, being made up largely of names and addresses which were subject to frequent change, was omitted from the book, and when the supply of pamphlet No. 52 was exhausted this information became unavailable. This directory had proved so useful to the large number of local associations which organize public meetings and thus create public sentiment in favor of needed reforms that it was decided to revise it and bring it up to date. In its second edition, it is accompanied by the list of local lecture sources and an extract from the original Part i giving some general suggestions upon the organization of public forums in school buildings. In publishing this directory the Foundation assumes no re- sponsibility as to the merits of the organizations or their speakers. In its preparation we invited as large a list of associations devoted to social welfare as we could compile. All those which accepted our offer have been entered wjthout discrimination. . C. A. P. New York, May, igi2 v^''^c Sources of Speakers and Topics * There are many welfare organizations f which either employ, or include in their membership, persons who may be secured to give addresses upon public questions. In this way associations find an opportunity to publish the results of their investigations, awaken public ^sentiment and propagate the ideas for which they stand. Through correspondence with these organizations speakers of national reputation can frequently be obtained at the cost of their traveling expenses only. The National Child Labor Committee frequently utilizes the public school platform to present various phases of its work. It has a staff of lecturers who regularly respond to in- vitations, without charge to affiliated organizations and for a reasonable honorarium in the case of outside societies. The School of Philanthropy of New York has an extension service, and arranges with members of its staff for single lectures or courses of lectures upon social, philanthropic and charitable topics. One important course it gives is upon "The Care of Children." The usual charge for this service is $20 and traveling expenses for each lecture. The United States Department of Agriculture also furnishes speakers on certain occasions. Concerning this work the Secre- tary of Agriculture has written: "The Department maintains in its Office of Experiment Stations an Agricultural Education Service in which the time of several specialists is devoted to the study of educational problems, particularly those concerned with the introduction of instruction in nature study, school gardening, and elementary agriculture into the public schools, and this service, as well as some of the other Bureaus of the Department, frequently furnishes speakers at large educational gatherings where leading educators are assembled and there is likely to be opportunity to exert a wide influence on educational policy." In most states there are certain institutions and organizations * Excerpt from Chapter VII, "Wider Use of the School Plant." Clarence Arthur Perry. Charities Publication Committee, New York, t See list on pages 6-25. from which speakers may be secured. Such are the experimental stations attached to the agricultural colleges, the state depart- ment of public instruction, the home economics department of the state university and the similar departments of agricultural colleges, and the various state conferences of charity. The success of an application for a lecturer depends largely upon the importance of the occasion and the opportunity it offers for promoting the interests of his organization. To invest the occasion with the proper "importance" the enterprising director will enlist the assistance of the local organization that is identified with the same cause as the speaker. If he is baiting his hook for a celebrated champion of the playground movement, he will get the local playground association to extend the invitation and afterwards induce the members to act as patrons of the meeting. The association will then help with the audience. The people will hear a distinguished speaker, the playground movement will be advanced, and the school lecture work will score a success. In applying to outside organizations for speakers it is im- portant to give full information in regard to the size and character of the audience expected, hours and dates preferred, general topics and type of lecture (technical, popular, or illustrated) de- sired and the maximum expense which may be incurred. When the lecturers are not paid a fee the chief reliance will have to be placed usually upon those people who have interesting subjects to talk about even though they are not finished speakers. In every community there is a large class of such persons from whom addresses, at once profitable and enjoyable, can be obtained with- out charge. The local historical society often has some member who can talk entertainingly on the early history of the community. Almost every town has a natural history society among the members of which there is some geologist who can describe, and frequently illustrate with lantern slides, the formations of the earth's crust in that locality. Social settlement workers may be found who will give addresses upon pertinent local social prob- lems. Often the public librarian will be glad to avail himself of the schoolhouse platform to tell the community about the re- sources of his library. Many medical associations contain public- spirited members upon whom the community can draw for in- structive addresses on such topics as the ways in which the city's health can be conserved. A list of organizations, or classes of persons from whom lee- tures can be frequently obtained without cost, together with sug- gestions as to topics and titles, will be found on page 26 under the title "Local Sources." Whether the lecturers are employed or give their services, whether they come from a distance or are selected from the com- munity, a school lecture system will fail of its highest usefulness unless it satisfies real needs and is conducted in such a way as to secure the people's earnest co-operation. On this subject Dr. Leipziger says : "Participation by the people in the work of the public lec- tures is desired, for thought and reading must be encouraged. It is not only our duty to provide instruction in art, literature and science alone, but it is in a larger sense our province to train the people in the knowledge of the very problems which they as voters are called upon to decide. It is our test that eventually, through the medium of the public lectures, each schoolhouse and lecture hall shall become a genuine people's forum." REFERENCES Adams, Herbert B.: Educational Extension in the United States. Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Education, 1 899-1900, Vol. i, pages 330-334. Clark, E. P. : The Free Lecture Movement. iVa/TO«, 74 : 363. 1902. Iles, G.: How a Great Free Lecture System Works. World's Work, 5 : 3327. 1903. Leipziger, Henry M.: Free Lectures, Critic, 28:329. 1896. (History of the lecture movement.) Free Lectures to the People. Annual reports by the Supervisor of Lec- tures to the New York Board of Education. From 1889 to 19 11. See also Free Public Lectures, Report of the Committee on Evening Schools, School Document No. 13, 1903, Boston; Lecture Bureau, Boston Home and School Association, 405 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass., 1909; annual lec- ture service list of the Twentieth Century Club, Boston; bulletin of the Public Lecture Bureau, Baltimore, Md.; annual reports of Home and School League, Philadelphia, Pa., and the Announcements of the Social Center Work conducted by the Board of Education, Cleveland, O. NATIONAL SOURCES The organizations listed on the following pages either have lecturers on their staffs or are in touch with persons whose inter- est in their work impels them to give it the support of an occa- sional public address. The name appended in each case is that of the officer to whom correspondence should be directed. The subjects set forth under each entry have in many in- stances been selected from a much longer list, and are thus to be regarded as indicative of the character and extent of the matters treated, rather than comprehensive. Usually only the address of the headquarters has been given, but many of the societies have branches in various states and a membership distributed throughout the country. In considering the expense of travel, therefore, it is not safe to gauge it by the distance of the city named. Correspondence may reveal the existence of a speaker connected with the organization who lives quite close to the place where the address is desired. Besides the associations named here there are in many states various institutions and philanthropic and educational bodies (see reference to these on pages 3-4) with which speakers are connected whose services are frequently available. In allowing their names to be inserted in this directory the organizations wish it understood that they have placed them- selves under no obligations. They have merely let it be an- nounced that applications for lecture service may be made to them and they will co-operate whenever it is possible to do so. In applying, full information should be given, as already sug- gested, concerning the size and character of the audience ex- pected, hours and dates preferred, general topics and type of lecture (technical, popular, or illustrated) desired and the maxi- mum expense which may be incurred. Organizations Which Use the Lecture Platform and Their Topics American Academy of Political and Social Science. J. P. Lich- tenberger, Secretary, West Philadelphia Post Office, Phila- delphia, Pa. Questions of a political, social or economic nature American Association for Labor Legislation. John B, Andrews, Secretary, Metropolitan Tower, New York City. Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents Industrial Diseases Factory Inspection Unemployment The Seven Day Week American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mor- tality. Miss Gertrude B, Knipp, Secretary, 121 1 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md. Birth Registration Extent, Causes and Means of Reducing Infant Mortality Possibilities of Infant Welfare Work All- Year-' Round Campaigns for Reduction of Infant Mortality What Your City or Town Can Do to Reduce Its In- fantile Death Rate American Association of Workers for the Blind. Charles F. F. Campbell, Secretary, 962 Franklin Ave., Columbus, O. Athletics for the Blind Handicrafts for the Blind Sir Francis Campbell, "The Blind American Knight" All other phases of work for or by the blind American Civic Association. Richard B. Watrous, Secretary, 914 Union Trust Bldg., Washington, D. C. The Why and How of a Civic League The City Beautiful City and Town Planning The Board of Trade and Civic Improvement The House Fly versus City Beauty American Economic Association. T. N. Carver, Secretary, Cam- bridge, Mass. Subjects in the field of economics 7 8 American Federation for Sex Hygiene. Prince A. Morrow, M.D., President, 105 West 40th St., New York City. The Prevention of Vice and its Diseases through Pub- licity and Sex Hygiene American Federation of Arts, The. Leila Mechlin, Assistant Secretary, 1741 New York Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. American Painting American Sculpture Civic Art Whistler's Etchings Furniture American Federation of Labor, Industrial Education Committee. John Mitchell, Chairman, 3 Claremont Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. Industrial Education The Philosophy, Purposes and Ideals of the Trade Union Movement American Home Economics Association. Benj. R. Andrews, Secretary, Teachers College, New York City. Household Management Institution Management Household Economics Standards of Living Household Arts in the Public Schools American Humane Association, The. Dr. Wm. O. Stillman, President, Albany, N. Y. Humane Education Concerning Work of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Concerning Work of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Organizing New Humane Societies The Economic Value of Anti-cruelty Work American Humane Education Society, The. A. Judson Leach, State Organizer, 12 Pratt St., Reading, Mass. Education of the Heart History and Growth of the Humane Movement Object and Aims of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Object and Aims of the American Humane Education Society American Institute of Social Service. Josiah Strong, President, 80 Bible House, New York City. All subjects bearing on social interests, particularly as to Social Christianity The Social Work of Churches and Church Brotherhoods Social Centers A Course of Six Illustrated Lectures on Social Themes American Medical Association, Committee for Public Health Education Among Women. Gertrude Felker, M.D., Secre- tary, Dayton, Ohio. Food: Its Relation to Intellectual and Physical De- velopment Old Age and Its Postponement The Preservation of the Normal Child The Cause and Prevention of Colds, Bronchitis and Other Contagious Diseases Sex Hygiene American Peace Society. Benj. F. Trueblood, Secretary, 313 Colorado Bldg., Washington, D. C. The Principles and History of the Peace Movement The Successful Application of Arbitration in the Settle- ment of Controversies between Nations The Hague Conferences and Their Results A Permanent International Court of Justice The Interest of the Masses in the Abolition of War American School Peace League. Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, Secretary, 405 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass. The History of the Peace Movement The American School Peace League The Teaching of Patriotism Through History Forces Making for International Peace American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Dis- putes. Theodore Marburg, Secretary, 14 West Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, Md. Questions relating to the establishment of a permanent international court of justice American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The. Alfred Wagstaff, President, 50 Madison Ave., New York City. Animals — ^Their Care and Humane Treatment The Work of the Society American Sociological Society. Scott E. W. Bedford, Secretary, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. Any phase of sociology, theoretical or practical American Vigilance Association, The. Clifford G. Roe, Execu- tive Secretary, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City. The Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, National and International 10 The Advocacy of Wise Sex Instruction The Investigation of Conditions for Vice Commissions The Reduction of Social Vice to Its Lowest Terms Animal Rescue League, The. Mrs, Huntington Smith, Presi- dent, 51 Carver St., Boston, Mass. Thoughtful Consideration for the Lower Animals (Il- lustrated) Anti-Cigarette League of America. Mrs. Caroline F, Grow, Secretary, Room 11 19, Woman's Temple, Chicago, 111. The Cigarette and Its Poisons The White Slave Traffic The Boy Problem Big Brother Movement. Rufus D. S. Putney, General Secretary, Room 507, 200 Fifth Ave., New York City. The Big Brother Idea The Children's Court The Delinquent Child The Church and the Boy The Embryo Citizen Boston Home and School Association. Mrs. Fannie Fern An- drews, Secretary, 405 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass. The Relation of Parents to the School Parents and Vocational Suggestion Schools as Social Centers Bureau of Mtmicipal Research. William H. Allen, Director, 261 Broadway, New York City. Health, Wealth, and Civics Educating the Public Through Budget Exhibits Training Public Servants Efificient Commission Government Physical Examination of School Children Bureau of Municipal Research of Philadelphia. Jesse D. Burks,. Director, 714 Real Estate Trust Bldg., Broad and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. The City as an Agency of Social Uplift The Citizen's Responsibility for Inefficiency and Waste in City Government The Causes of Failure in Municipal Government Effective Methods of Municipal Reform Central Howard Association. F. Emory Lyon, Superintendent,. 415 Rand-McNally Bldg., Chicago, 111. The Hope of the Prisoner The Reformation of the Other Fellow The Real and the Ideal Prison System II Probation and the Public Crime and Criminals — Sin and Sinners Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Edward L. Burch- ard, Director of Social Publicity, 31 W. Lake St., Chicago, Social Movements Child Welfare Housing and Health Problems Public Charities Municipal Progress Child Conference for Research and Welfare. Henry S. Curtis Secretary, Olivet, Mich. ' Child Welfare and Child Welfare Movements The Playground Movement and Its Significance The Playground as a Social Factor in the Community The Message of the Play Movement to the Teacher The School as a Social Center Child Welfare League, The. Mrs. Walston Hill Brown, Presi- dent, 117 East 2ist St., New York City. Better Homes Better Schools Moral Education Eugenics Federal Child Labor Legislation Children's Aid Society. C. Loring Brace, Secretary, los East 22nd St., New York City. Socializing the Schools How the Schools Can Reach the Poor School Dental Clinics The Emigration of City-bred Children to the Country Summer Charity Work Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania. Edwin D. Solenberger, General Secretary, 419 South 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Care of Homeless and Neglected Children by the Board- ing-out Method The Coordination of Child-helping Agencies The Function of State and Municipal Governments in Child Care Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor. Margaret Schuyler Lawrance, Corresponding Secre- tary, 416 Lafayette St., New York City. Special features connected with labor and social ques- tions — Child Labor, Conciliation and Arbitration, Sweating and Tenement-house Problems, etc. 12 Cincinnati House of Refuge for Dependent and Delinquent Chil- dren. Edward N. Clopper, Superintendent, Cincinnati, O. The Prevention of Delinquency Placing Out versus The Institution Child Labor Vocational Guidance Industrial Education City Club of Chicago. George E. Hooker, Civic Secretary, 315 Plymouth Court, Chicago, 111. The City Planning Movement Theory and Tendencies of Urban Transportation Public Recreation The Garden Cities of Europe Neglected Neighbors in a Great City Civic League of St. Louis, The. Roger N. Baldwin, Secretary, 911 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo. The Physical Improvement of Cities Municipal Government Social Service and Recreation Health and Sanitation Civic Service House, The. Meyer Bloomfield, Supervisor, iio- 112 Salem St., Boston, Mass. Civic Education of the New American Problems of an Immigrant Neighborhood Specializing Settlement Work The Making of a City Columbia University, Teachers College, Schools of Industrial and Household Arts. Benjamin R. Andrews, Secretary, Columbia University, New York City. Household and Institution Management Household Arts Education Industrial Education Nurses' Education Collegiate- Vocational Education Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant, Delinquent and Dependent Children. Elmer L. Coffeen, Secretary, Ly- man School for Boys, Westboro, Mass. The Juvenile Court The Delinquent Girl The Probation Question The Delinquent Boy Daily Vacation Bible School Association, Inc., The. Robert G. Boville, National Director, 40 Bible House, New York City. Churches and Community Service Colleges and Community Service 13 What Church and College Combined Can Do for Chil- dren during Summer Days Ten Years' Experience in Summer Social Ministry to Children of the Streets (Any of these topics can be illustrated) Daughters of the American Revolution, Western Reserve Chapter. Mrs. Edward L. Harris, 6801 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, O. School Buildings as Social Centers Patriotic Education Opportunity for Closer Relations between Home and School Popular Programs for School Patrons Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, The. Charles S. Macfarland, Acting Executive Secretary, 215 Fourth Ave., New York City. Federating the Churches The Church and Modern Industry Rural Betterment A Plan of Interdenominational Social Work Spiritual Culture and Social Service Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Commission on the Church and Social Service. Charles S. Macfarland, Secretary, 215 Fourth Ave., New York City. The Church's Appeal in Behalf of Labor One-Day-in-Seven for Industrial Workers Investigation of the Steel Industry Suggestions for Labor Sunday The Betterment of Wages Federated Boys' Clubs, Inc. George N. Putnam, Secretary, 35 Congress St., Boston, Mass. History of the Boys' Club Movement (Illustrated) Theory and Method of Boys' Club Work The Practical Value of a Boys' Club in a Community The Boy Problem — Summer and Winter . The Call to Men General Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Philip N. Moore, President, 3125 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Civics Education Household Economics Public Health Industrial and Social Conditions 14 George Junior Republic Association, The. Calvin Derrick, General Superintendent, Freeville, N. Y. Junior Republic Idea and Its Application How New Republics are Founded The Principles upon which Republics are Run The Principles of Democracy as Applied and Worked Out in the Junior Republic at Freeville Home and School League. Mrs. Edith W. Pierce, Executive Secretary, 112 South 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa. A Talk on the Home and School Movement Home and School from Different Viewpoints and Their Relations Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society, The. Henry W. Thurston, Secretary and Superintendent, 601 Unity Bldg., Chicago, 111. The Juvenile Court Movement The Big Brother and Big Sister Movements Conservation of Our Human Resources Twentieth Century Chivalry The Care of Dependent Children in Family Homes Industrial Home for the Blind, The. Eben P. Morford, Super- intendent, 512-520 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. The Problems of the Blind The Life History of Ten-Fingers (Illustrated) International Children's School Farm League. Henry G. Par- sons, Secretary, 1133 Broadway, New York City. Children's School Gardens Special Gardens for Tuberculous Children Training Teachers for Children's Gardens The Children's Garden the Key to the Solution of Con- servation of National Resources Gardens for Crippled Children League of American Municipalities. John MacVicar, President, City Hall, Des Moines, la. Home Rule for Cities Commission Government for Municipalities Questions on Municipal Development Little Land League. Bolton Hall, Secretary, 29 Broadway, New York City. Intensive Cultivation < City Farming }, A Little Land and a Living " ft. Vacant Lot Gardens Land and Labor 15 Manhattan Single Taj Club. Joseph Dana Miller, General Secretary, 47 West 42nd St., New York City. The Single Tax— What It Is and What It Will Do The Fundamentals of Political Economy The Religion of Political Economy The Taxation of Land Values — The Natural Source of Government Expense and Public Improvements Land, Labor and Capital — Their Natural Relation to Each Other Maryland Peace Society, The. Edward C. Wilson, Secretary, 1925 Park Ave., Baltimore, Md. Subjects relating to better international relations and the cause of Peace Massachusetts Anti-Cigaret League. Mrs. Elizabeth R. White, Secretary, 204 Equitable Bldg., Boston, Mass. The Evil Effects of Juvenile Smoking Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, Comm.ittee on Sex Hygiene. Walter E. Kruesi, Secretary, 14 Front St., Schenectady, N. Y. Sex Hygiene Massachusetts Civic League. Edward T. Hartman, Secretary, 3 Joy St., Boston, Mass. The Housing Problem The Playground Problem A Social Program Civic Improvement Social Legislation Massachusetts General Hospital, Social Service Department. Ida M. Cannon, Head Worker, Massachusetts General Hos- pital, Boston, Mass. Hospital Social Service Medical Society of the County of New York, The, Public Health Education Committee. Mary Sutton Macy, M.D., Secre- tary, 1 01 West 8oth St., New York City. Hygiene of Food and Diet Water Borne, Fly Borne and Mosquito Borne Diseases and Their Prevention Sex Hygiene and Its Relation to Eugenics The Care of the Brain and Nervous System The Care of the Body and the Prevention of Disease Municipal Art Society of Baltimore, The. Josias Pennington, Secretary, Baltimore, Md. Topics relating to Art, City Improvement, and kindred subjects i6 Mtinicipal School League of Cleveland. Mrs. W. S. Sapp, Cor- responding Secretary, 10,608 Wilbur Ave., Cleveland, O. School Houses as Social Centers Open-Air Schools Continuation Schools The Opportunity of an American City National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mary Ware Dennett, Corresponding Secretary, 505 Fifth Ave., New York City. The Care of Children and the Ballot National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- culosis. Livingston Farrand, M.D., Executive Secretary, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. The Prevention of Tuberculosis National Association of Audubon Societies. T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary, 1974 Broadway, New York City. The Economic Value of Birds The Relation of Birds to Agriculture and Forestry The Protection of Birds Bird Studies with the Camera National Bird Reservations National Child Labor Committee. Owen R. Lovejoy, General Secretary, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. Child Labor and Compulsory Education Physical Effects of Child Labor Legislative Remedies for Child Labor Economic Fallacy of Child Labor Child Labor and Vocational Direction National Child Labor Committee, For the Southern States. A. J. McKelway, Secretary, Bond Bldg., Washington, D. C. Child Labor in the South Legislative Remedies for Child Labor National Christian League for Promotion of Purity. Mrs. Eliza- beth B. Grannis, President, 5 East 12th St., New York City. Physiological and Hygienic Facts in Child Culture Responsibility of Fatherhood Parentage only for the Suitable — Sterilization for the Defective Every Child Its Individual Disciplinarian Marriage and Divorce National Civil Service Reform League. Elliot H. Goodwin, Secretary, 79 Wall St., New York City. Civil Service Reform 17 National Conference of Charities and Correction, The. Alex- ander Johnson, General Secretary, Angola, Ind. Thirty Years of Organized Charity in the United States Evolution of Scientific Charity Negative Eugenics— a Better Citizenship by the Elimi- nation of Defectives Our City Housekeeping Almshouse Construction and Management National Conservation Congress. Thomas R. Shipp, Executive Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. The Conservation of Our Natural Resources: Forests, Waters, Lands, Minerals, Vital Resources National Consumers' League. Mrs. Florence Kelly, General Secretary, io6 East 19th St., New York City. Conservation of Young Wage Earners A Living Wage The Shopper's Conscience and Child Labor The Long Day of Working Women and Girls The Courts and the Sweating System National Education Association, Department of School Patrons. Mrs. O. Shepard Barnum, President, 1500 Figueroa St., Los Angeles, Cal. School Improvement Associations Marks of an Efficient School System How Can the Home and School Get into Closer Rela- tions Revenue for School Purposes Health Conditions of School Children National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations. Arthur H. Ham, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. Remedial Loan Associations National Housing Association. Lawrence Veiller, Secretary, 105 East 22nd Street, New York City. Housing Reform National League for the Protection of the Family, The. Rev. Samuel W. Dike, Corresponding Secretary, Auburndale, Mass. The Problem of the Home Marriage and Divorce The Evils that Assail the Home The Home and the Child Problem The Home and the Church National League of Women Workers. Mrs. Henry OUesheimer, President, Hotel Savoy, New York City. Recreation among Working Girls Leisure and the Use of It Democratic Ideals in Philanthropy How to Develop Self-help in Work among Girls National Municipal League. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Secre- tary, 703 North American Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Municipal and civic topics generally National Newsboys' Association. John E. Gunckel, President, Toledo, O. Twenty Years' Personal Experience with the Boy of the Street How to Handle a Bad Boy Newsboys, and What Can be Made of Them Only a Boy National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild. Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, Secretary, 70 Fifth Ave., New York City. Lantern Slide Talks on Children's Gardens and Im- provement of Waste Places The Distribution of Flowers and Nature Material among City Institutions and Tenement Districts National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. Charles A. Prosser, Secretary, 20 West 44th St., New York City. Legislation Studies and Investigations relating to Prac- tical Education Part-time or Continuation Schools Vocational and Pre-apprentice Training in the Public Schools School Instruction and Shopwork in the Production of a First-class Journeyman The Money Cost of Industrial Education National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Frances P. Parks, Secretary, The Willard, Rest Cottage, Evanston, 111. Scientific Temperance Instruction Anti-Narcotics Physical Education Purity School Savings Banks 19 National Women's Trade Union League of America. Miss S. M. Franklin, Secretary, Room 901, 127 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. The Social Cost of the Industrial Conditions for Women Workers The Value of Trade Union Organization among Women Full Citizenship for Women The Value of the Shorter Work Day A Minimum Wage New York Anti-Saloon League. Rev. James Albert Patterson, D.D., Superintendent, no East 125th St., New York City. An American Solution of an American Problem The Economics of Drunkard Making The Modern Oracle — Public Opinion Doubts and Doubters Ideals: Their Place and Power in Life New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, The. Frederick Trevor Hill, Secretary, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. Fresh Air and Relief Work Public Baths Home Treatment of Tuberculosis Open-Air Treatment for Crippled Children Causes and Prevention of Destitution among Families New York Association for Labor Legislation. Paul Kennaday, Secretary, 206 Metropolitan Tower, New York City. Industrial Diseases Industrial Injuries Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Injuries Labor Legislation New York Charity Organization Society. W. Frank Persons, Superintendent, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. Care of Needy Families in Their Own Homes Employment for Handicapped Persons The Organization of Charity The Care of Homeless Persons New York Charity Organization Society, Department for the Im- provement of Social Conditions. Lawrence Veiller, Secre- tary, 105 East 22nd St., NeAV York City. Prevention of Tuberculosis Tenement-House Reform Reform of the Criminal Courts y 20 New York Congestion Committee, The. Benj. C. Marsh, Execu- tive Secretary, Room 506, 320 Broadway, New York City. Causes of Congestion of Population (Illustrated) The Prevention of Congestion of Population City Planning in American and Foreign Cities (Illus- trated) Immigration and Congestion of Population The Distribution of Population New York County "Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs, Helen J. Andruss, President, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City. The Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics New York Federation of Churches, The. Rev. Walter Laidlaw, Executive Secretary, 200 Fifth Ave., New York City. Sixteen Years of Church Federation in the New World's Largest City The Causes and Cure of Congestion in New York Seven Summers of Church Vacation Work and Play Schools The Evolution of Religious Liberty in New York The Church and the City Community (All lectures can be illustrated) New York Peace Society, The. Wm. H. Short, Executive Secre- tary, 507 Fifth Ave., New York City. The Modern Peace Movement The Waste and Wickedness of War Education and International Prejudice The Mission of the United States in Promoting World Peace Legal Substitutes for War New York Probation Association. Maude E. Miner, Secretary, 38 West loth St., New York City. Protecting Our Girls The White Slave Traffic Probation Work for Girls Sex Hygiene The Social Evil New York School of Philanthropy. Samuel McCune Lindsay, Director, 105 East 22nd Street, New York City. Social Reform Child Labor Children's Problems Criminology and Penology Charity Organization 21 New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, The. Thomas D. Walsh, Superintendent, 297 Fourth Ave., New- York City. Our Scheme of Prevention Juvenile Probation or Parole DeHnquent Parents — Adult Responsibility The Rights of Children of the Stage Congestion and Delinquency North American Civic League for Immigrants. George W. Duncklee, Field Secretary, 173 State St., Boston, Mass. Immigration Primary Civics for Foreign-speaking People North Bennet Street Industrial School. Alvin E. Dodd, Direc- tor, 39 North Bennet St., Boston, Mass. Industrial Education Social Settlement Work Possible Modifications in the Elementary Public School Education The Working Girl's Relation to Industry Ohio Commission for the Blind. Charles F. F. Campbell, Execu- tive Secretary, 223 Fulton St., Columbus, O. Saving Sight and Saving Citizens (Illustrated by 100 lantern slides) Needlessly Blind for Life Helping the Blind to Help Themselves The Education of the Young Blind The State and Its Sightless Citizens Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Robert G. Paterson, Ph.D., Executive Secretary, 20 East Gay St., Columbus, O. General Aspects of Tuberculosis (Medical and Social) Open-Air Schools Nursing Work The Significance of Dr. Lightner Witmer's Clinical Psy- chology in Social Work Wage Legislation in the United States Pennsylvania Child Labor Association. Charles L. Chute, Executive Secretary, 1533 Real Estate Trust Bldg., Phila- delphia, Pa. Child Labor in Pennsylvania Industrial Education versus Child Labor Child Labor and Industrial Efficiency The History of Child Labor Reform The Future of the Child Labor Movement 22 Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, The. Roy Smith Wallace, Secretary, 415 South 15th St., Phila- delphia, Pa, The Welfare of Children under Modern Conditions The Charitable Care of Children People's Institute, The. Lester F. Scott, Secretary, 50 Madison Ave., New York City. All phases of the Motion Picture subject, including their educational use; the growth of the Forum move- ment, and the general subject of "Working With the People" People's University Extension Society of New York, The. J. Eugene Whitney, Secretary, 105 East 17th St., New York. Prevention of Children's Diseases Fresh Air, Cleanliness, and Exercise First Aid in Common Accidents Prevention of Tuberculosis and Other Contagious Dis- eases Food and Cooking for Health and Economy Philadelphia Training School for Social "Work, The. Wm. O. Easton, Director, 1421 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Questions affecting the welfare of the community or the individual Pittsburgh Playground Association, The. G. E. Johnson, Super- intendent, 709-713 Lyceum Bldg., Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Play Plays and Games for Little Children Gardens and Nature Interests of Children Social Problems and Social Institutions Playground and Recreation Association of America. H. S. Braucher, Secretary, i Madison Ave., New York City. Playgrounds Recreation Centers Rural Recreation Commercial Recreation Play in Institutions Prison Association of New York. O. F. Lewis, Corresponding Secretary, 135 East 15th St., New York City. Prison Problems of To-Day The Man that is Down and Out Prisoners and Their Prevention Up from Poverty (All lectures illustrated) 23 Religious Education Association, The. Henry F. Cope, General Secretary, 332 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. The Religious Aim in Education Moral Training in Schools Religious Education through the Colleges The Sunday School as an Educational Agency Russell Sage Foundation, Charity Organization Department. Miss Mary E. Richmond, Director, Room 613, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. The Organization of Charity Russell Sage Foundation, Department of Child-Helping. Hast- ings H. Hart, Director, Room 616, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. The Child-Helping Movement The Juvenile Court as a Social Agency The Placing-Out System of Caring for Neglected and Delinquent Children The Defective Child How to Organize an Institution Russell Sage Foundation, Division of Remedial Loans. Arthur H. Ham, Director, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. The Small Loan Evil The Remedial Loan Movement Organization of Remedial Loan Associations St. Louis School of Social Economy. Thomas J. Riley, Director, 1827 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo. Christian Citizenship and Modern Social Problems Industrial Accidents and Compensation for Them Eugenics Emancipation of Woman The Message of Environment Schenectady Department of Charities and Correction. Walter E. Kruesi, Commissioner, Schenectady, N. Y. Mothers' Milk — The Incomparable Infant Food Effects of Employment during Pregnancy Baby's "Summer Complaints" and their Remedy Care of Milk in the Home Charity from the Socialist Point of View School for Social Workers. Jeffrey R. Brackett, Director, Room 20-21, 9 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. (After August i, 1912, the permanent school address will be 18 Somerset St., Boston, Mass.) Subjects connected with social work 24 Seybert Institution. Wm. B. Buck, Superintendent, 1506 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. The Relation of Investigation to the Care of Children The Adjustment of Home-Finding and Institution Care The Adjustment of School Work in an Institution to the Needs of Backward and Untrained Children Social Service Committee of the Inter-Church Federation. Rufus M. Jones, Chairman, Haverford, Pa. Subjects relating to the Church and Social Work Society for Organizing Charity. Porter R. Lee, General Secre- tary, 419 South 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Checking Waste in Charity Sentiment and System in Charity The Relation of the Individual Citizen to Social Prob- lems The Church and Social Work Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, The. Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, President, The Ansonia, 73rd St. and Broad- way, New York City. A Safe and Sane Fourth Unnecessary Noises Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis. Prince A. Morrow, M.D., President, 66 West 40th St., New York City. The Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases through Publicity and Sex Instruction State Charities Aid Association. Homer Folks, Secretary, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. Care of Dependent Children Placing Homeless Children in Family Homes Care and Treatment of Inebriates Care of the Insane and Prevention of Insanity City and State Charitable Institutions Twentieth Century Club, The. Edward H. Chandler, Secretary, 3 Joy St., Boston, Mass. Civic, Educational and Social Topics Vocation Bureau, The. "The Director," Room 311-312, 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. The Life-Work of our Boys and Girls Mis-Employment The Vocation Bureau Movement The New Demands on School and Employment Washington Society of the Fine Arts, The. Leila Mechlin, Secre- tary, 1741 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. All subjects pertaining to Art, Civic Improvement, etc. 25 Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, President, Room 509, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City. Total Abstinence versus Moderation The Liquor Traffic an Economic Waste The Cigarette and the Boy Woman's Work in the Temperance Reform Alcohol and Science Woman's Municipal League, The. Mrs. A. S. Rose, Correspond- ing Secretary, 46 East 29th St., New York City. The Relation of Women to Municipal Housekeeping Women's Auxiliary to the Civil Service Reform Association of New York, The. Miss Jean Disbrow, Secretary, Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. Civil Service Reform Government and Civics Women's Society for the Prevention of Crime, Educational Committee. Mary Sutton Macy, M.D., Chairman, loi West 80th St., New York City. Child Study: Problems of the Boy and Girl Sex and Its Relation to Society The Responsibility of Parenthood to Childhood and Childhood to Parenthood The Relation of Girlhood and Boyhood to Womanhood and Manhood Social Usages, Customs and Environment; Their Effects on Public Health and How We may Control Them Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia. Walter M. Wood, General Secretary, 1421 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Health and Recreation Moral and Religious Education Wise Use of Off-Duty Hours Supplemental Education The Boy Problem Yoimg Women's Christian Associations of the United States, National Board of. Miss Mabel Cratty, General Secretary, 125 East 27th St., New York City. What the Y. W. C. A. can Contribute to the Physical Development of Girls How the Y. W. C. A. Prepares Girls to Earn their Living History and Present Scope of the Y. W. C. A. Relation of the Y. W. C. A. to Industry — Factories, Department Stores, Cotton Mill Villages The Conferences and Summer Camps of the Y. W. C. A. (Last two lectures have stereopticon illustrations) LOCAL SOURCES The following list sets forth the possible sources of lectures and lecturers which are to be found in the average American community. In the ranks of the professional men and among the officials of the societies and organizations named below should be many speakers whose services could be obtained whenever the public has need of them. Often speakers will gladly give their addresses free in behalf of public education. After each name follow one or more topics, most of which have actually been discussed upon lecture platforms in various places. NATIONAL OFFICIALS Member of Congress Prominent Men in the National Legislature Local Forecaster of "Weather Bureau Uncle Sam as a Weather Prophet The Story of the Air Effects of Weather on Mind and Body The Causes of Stormy Weather Recruiting Officer The Opportunity to Acquire a Trade in the Army The Educational Advantages of Army Life STATE OFFICIALS Justice of the Supreme Court Naturalization : Its Privileges and Obligations Habit Makes the Boy The Square Deal for the Child Senator How the Upper House Differs from the Lower House Federal, State, County and Municipal Government MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS Mayor The Making of a Citizen Why There are Politicians 26 27 Bacteriologist Germs and Sickness La Grippe, Pneumonia, and Diphtheria Recent Progress in Warfare against Microbes Lockjaw, Malarial Fever, and Hydrophobia Chief of Police Preventing Crime Cheaper than Catching Criminals Engineer The Smoke Question Fire Department Chief How the Fire Insurance Rate Was Lowered Health Department Head City Milk Why Have Typhoid Park Commission Head How to Use a Park How to Plant and Care for Shade Trees Water Department Head Value of Pure Water to a Community Our Water Supply SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Superintendent How the Board of Education Spends Your Money The Cash Value of a High School Training Teacher of Chemistry Explosives The Chemistry of Fuels Teacher of Music Life Forces in Music "Carmen," illustrated by Piano Selections and Talking Machine Teacher of Physics The Latest Developments in Electricity Teacher of Zoology Insects and the Nation's Property Our Small Neighbors Our Friends of the Sea 28 Principal of Grammar School How the Parent and Teacher Can Co-operate How Children May Learn to Use Money School Physician Care of the Skin : Bathing and Clothing Health More Important than Education Common Physical Defects and How to Cure Them Medical Inspection of School Children What to Do in Accidents and Emergencies Grade Teacher What the Teacher May Expect from the Parent To Every Girl Her Chance COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS Astronomy Some of the Recent Developments in Astronomy Eclipses of the Sun Is Mars Inhabited Economics Trade Unions and the Labor Problem Morals and Competition The Industrial Corporation English Literature The Great English Novelists The Spirit of Tennyson Pedagogy Does a Child Need Discipline or Sympathy Character in the School Room The Fine Art of Making a Child Bad Political Science The Problem of the Ballot The Building of a Citizen Sociology Facts About Lynching What is the Labor Problem How the Other Half Lives in England MISCELLANEOUS Board of Trade Secretary Some Things that Every Citizen Ought to Know" About Our City 29 Business Man of Prominence The Boy in Business and Some Things He Ought to Know Camera Club Picturesque Points in Our City Chamber of Commerce Secretary The Industries of Our City Charity Organization Society How We Should Treat Beggars Clergyman Give the Boy Another Chance What is a Man Worth How Boys Become Men Morals and Peace Respect for Authority in the Home and School The Mistakes of a Father I Knew Daughters of the American Revolution The Spirit of Our National Holidays Miles Standish (a Reading) The Flag Independence Day Possibilities Dental Society How to Care for the Teeth Editor of Newspaper Publicity and Public Affairs The Making, of a Newspaper Electric Light and Power Company Engineer Some Common Applications of Electricity to Every- Day Life Elocutionist Readings Florist of Prominence Practical Suggestions for Home Gardening Gardening as a Prevention and Cure for Disease Foreign Society President The European Home of My Race Why We Left the Old Country 30 Good Government Club Secretary City Goyernment by Commission The Duty of a Citizen to the City Why We are Proud of Our City Historical Society A Study in the Early History of Our Country Yesterdays in Our City Hospital Staff Milk and the Child First Aid to the Injured The Care and Feeding of Babies How to Save Summer Babies Labor Uniomst Morals and Unions Landscape Architect Gardening in Relation to Civic Beauty The Economic Significance of Gardening Lawyer Why the Lawyer Cannot Lie Librarian How the Library can Benefit the Child Manufacturer of Prominence The Habit of Being on Time Why We Have a Time Register in Our Office Morals and the Factory Medical Association The Fight Against Tuberculosis The Prevention of Communicable Diseases Natural History Society Our Native Song Birds Fangs, Fins, and Stings An Evening in Birdland Oculist The Care of the Eyes Physician of Distinction Some Causes of Nervous Disorders How Tuberculosis Patients may be Helped at Home Playgroimd Association A Safe and Sane Fourth of July The Relation of Play to Citizenship Children's Idle Hours Illustrated Playground Talk 31 Savings Bank Cashier The Habit of Saving Savings Banks; What They Do for the People and How They Do It Social Settlement Child Labor The Problem of the Girl The Neighborhood : the Beginning of Patriotism The Coming People: Immigrants, Past and Present The Need of Wholesome Pleasures for Children Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children When it is Proper to Remove the Child from Its Parents Standard Oil Employe The Origin and Development of the Petroleum Industry Y. M. C. A. Secretary Give the Boy Another Chance An All-' Round Man The Boy and His Vocation Y. W. C. A. Secretary Why Girls Should Have a Vocation Healthful, Practicable Vacations for Working Girls LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 020 773 446 Wider Use of the School Plant BY CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation " It is full of definite ideas as to programme and schedules of expense involved." — The Psychological Clinic. " An able delineation of one effective means of social advance." — Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science. Second Edition. Price, postpaid, $1.25 CHARITIES PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 105 East 2 2d Street - - . - New York City, N. Y. "Wider Use** Pamphlets by the Same Author (Published by Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation, 400 Metropolitan Tower, New York City.) 56. Vacation Schools. The summer use of the schoolhouse for teaching manual and domestic training. Brief bibliography. 32 pp. Illus- trated. Price, 5 cents. 85. Evening Recreation Centers. A description of various recreation centers in this country and a brief survey of the movement in England. Short bibliography. 32 pp. Price, 5 cents. 115. "Charlie's Reform." A leaflet describing a motion picture drama based upon the schoolhouse social center. Its plot, pictures of actual social centers, and method of getting the film are given. (No charge.) 120. Social Center Features in New Elementary School Architecture. An illustrated pamphlet which gives the plans of 16 socialized schoolhouses designed for wider use — the most advanced types of American schoolhouse construction. 48 pp. Price, 25 cents. 83. The Community-Used School. Use of the schoolhouse to promote public health, civic efficiency, and social solidarity in the community. 9 pp. Price, 5 cents. A general description of the Department's pamphlets and activities can be obtained upon request, also a List of Lantern Slides for Loaning, and a bulletin upon How Motion Picture Films May be Obtained.