Secy., Miss E. Jean Oram, 1831 East 93d St., Cleveland, Ohio. Supervises work of the Church's training schools at 1150 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.; 129 Haight St., San Francisco, Calif.; East 15th St. and Denver Ave., Kansas City, Mo.; 26 Nutt Ave., Uniontown, Pa.; Herkimer, N. Y.; 1155 West 9th St., Des Moines, Iowa; 576 George St., New Haven, Conn.

(13) Bureau for Utah, Chmn., Mrs. Silas Sprowls, Los Angeles, Calif. Maintains a Deaconess Home at 347 East 4th St., Salt Lake City, Utah; the Ogden Esther Home at 475 Twenty-Fifth St., Ogden, Utah; community work at Bingham Canyon, Utah.

(14) Bureaus for White Work maintain industrial homes, settlements, and schools for white people. These bureaus and their respective institutions may be addressed as follows: in Alabama and Georgia, Secy., Mrs. Chas. F. Thirkield, Franklin, Ohio; the Rebecca McCleeky Industrial Home and Ellen Augusta Nottingham Primary School, Boaz, Ala.; Deborah McCarty Settlement Home and School, Cedartown, Ga.: in Kentucky, Secy., Mrs. Madison Swadener, 3622 Hemlock Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.; Aiken Hall (boarding and day school) and Erie Home, Olive Hill, Ky.: in Mississippi, Secy., Mrs. Heber D. Ketcham, 429 West Charles St., Muncie, Ind.; Bennett Academy (school) and Bennett Academy Farm, Dickson Industrial Home for Girls, and the Irving and Florence Wood Home for Boys, Mathiston, Miss. in North Carolina and Tennessee, Secy., Mrs. A. B. Cline, 324 West Market St., Bluffton, Ind.; Ebenezer Mitchell Home, Musenheimer, N. C.; Elizabeth Ritter Home (for girls), Athens, Tenn.

(15) Deaconess Bureaus and their individual groups (New England, Eastern, Central, Western and Northern, Pacific Coast and Northwest) conduct educational and settlement work, give medical aid, maintain Homes, conduct work among the foreign born, serve as chilcaring and placing agencies, do home visiting among the sick and the poor, conduct travelers' aid activities, offer training for deaconesses, maintain day nurseries and social centers.

(16) Hospital Bureau, Secy., Mrs. D. B. Street, The Kenesaw, Washington, D. C. Supervises the 10 hospitals which belong to the Society. These are located in Washington, D. C.; Keokuk, Iowa; Springfield, Mo.; Carbondale, Ill.; Rapid City, S. Dak.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Nome, Alaska.

(17) District Associations and Auxiliaries, Young People's

Societies, Home Guards, and Mothers' Jewels also conduct work under the general supervision of the Woman's Home Missionary Society.

(18) Field Work, Secy., Miss Carrie Barge, Delaware, Ohio. Field secretaries are representatives who visit communities throughout the U. S., advising and assisting local branches in their work and giving public addresses. Summer Schools and girls' conferences are held throughout the country as a part of the Society's field work. Student Secretary and Assistant Student Secretary visit colleges to extend missionary interest among students and awaken a spirit of response in Life Service.

Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Commission on Temperance and Social Service, Chmn., Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Atlanta, Ga. To extend temperance and to develop social service work within the Church. Holds an annual meeting.

Methodist Federation for Social Service (org. 1907), 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Executive social service agency of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Maintains an information bureau for the compilation and distribution of pertinent literature. Suggests plans for the Annual Conference Social Service Commissions and directs their work. Seeks to extend social evangelism. Officers of the Federation give lectures on social service subjects. Federation publishes The Social Service Bulletin, monthly, 50 cents a year to members; books, pamphlets, leaflets, cards, reading lists, and news-letters. Address central office for names and prices of publications. Membership dues, $1 and up. Supported by dues and voluntary contributions.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Welfare Division (org. 1909), 1 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Seeks to educate policyholders and others in personal hygiene by the distribution of specially prepared booklets and pamphlets to teach them the fundamentals of health and the prevention of disease. Maintains visiting nurse service to care for policyholders when ill, and incidentally to teach sanitation and hygiene. Ordinary policyholders are entitled to periodic medical examinations by the Life Extension Institute (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook). Division has developed an Industrial Service Bureau to cooperate with employers of labor in securing better working and living conditions for their work people. The Immigrant Service Bureau furnishes necessary information to policyholders who desire to bring relatives to the U. S. from foreign countries. Division

cooperates with health and other officials of States and cities to secure adequate legislation and appropriations for the conduct of constructive and progressive health work. It has prepared exhibits, made sickness and sanitary surveys, carried on "clean up" and baby welfare campaigns, organized a "Health and Happiness League for Policyholders", and assisted health authorities in epidemic situations. There is in progress an investigation as to the cause and cure of influenza. Division has also aided the National Tuberculosis Association (for description of which see elsewhere in the Handbook) in conducting a Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration at Framingham, Mass. Offers assistance and cooperation to officials or agencies working for the health and welfare of the people of the U. S. and Canada. Military Relief, Red Cross. See American National Red Cross. Milk Producers' Association of America. See Certified Milk Producers' Association of America.

Milk Producers' Federation. See National Milk Producers' Federation.

Milk Standards Commission. See Commission on Milk Standards. Missionary Association. See American Missionary Association.

Missionary Education Movement of the U. S. and Canada (org. 1902, inc. 1907), 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. The cooperating agency of the home and foreign mission boards of the U. S. and Canada for publishing missionary education material and promoting missionary education in the churches. Its home mission books for adults and young people, and stories and programs of suggested service activities for children deal with a variety of community problems as related to the organized work of the mission boards. It conducts interdenominational conferences and institutes for the discussion of problems and for the training of teachers. For prices and lists of publications address central office. Supported by the cooperating mission boards.

Modern Health Crusade.

Motion Picture Bureau.

Motion Picture League.

See National Tuberculosis Association. See Community Motion Picture Bureau. See National Motion Picture League.

Motion Pictures Board of Review. See National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

Municipal League. See National Municipal League.

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

Národná Slovenská Jednota. See National Slovak Union.

Národní Svaz Českých Katolíku v Americe. See National Federation of Czech Catholics in America, Supreme Lodge.

Národný Slovensky Spolok v Spojených Státoch. See National Slovak Society in the U. S. A.

National Academy of Sciences.

See National Research Council.

National Alliance. See Czecho-Slovak National Alliance; Polish National Alliance.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (org. 1909, inc. 1911), 70 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. To abolish legal injustice to Negroes; to stamp out race discriminations and to better race relations; to prevent lynching, burning and torturing of Negroes; to assure to Negroes their rights as American citizens; to compel equal accommodations in railway travel. Seeks through apportionment of public education funds to this end to secure for colored children an opportunity for public school education equal to that given white boys and girls. Carries on educational and protective work through publicity campaigns and through activities of local chapters. Maintains an Anti-Lynching Fund for investigation and publication of facts concerning lynchings and race riots. Seeks to counteract false news reports. Through its Legal Committee gives free legal aid to Negroes. Publishes and distributes literature covering the Association's educational work, anti-lynching campaigns, and branch organization work. Lists and prices may be obtained on application. Holds an annual meeting, Proceedings of which are published. Special work is conducted by standing committees on Anti-Lynching and Branches, by the Legal Committee, Division of Publications and Research, and by Field Secretaries. Association issues The Crisis, monthly, 15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year, and The Branch Bulletin, monthly, 25 cents a year. Supported by contributions and by membership fees, $1 and up.

National Association of Civic Secretaries (org. 1911), Secy., Francis T. Hayes, City Club, Cleveland, Ohio. Serves as a clearing

house of information for professional secretaries of civic and related agencies. Service rendered only to members includes interchange of literature issued by each agency represented, and furnishing of up-todate information regarding speakers available for forum meetings and other technical secretarial matters. Publications are also issued only to members. Membership is limited to civic secretaries. Supported by membership dues, $3 a year.

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (org. 1908, inc. 1920), Pres., Mrs. Adah B. Thoms, Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, New York, N. Y. To standardize nursing among colored graduate nurses. Holds an annual convention. Maintains a central registry for Negro nurses. Urges young Negro women to become nurses, and secures financial assistance for graduate nurses. National organizer has established local branches in a number of cities; services of this officer are given free. Association publishes an Annual Report, free to members. Membership open to colored nurses graduated from registered schools. Supported by contributions and by membership dues, $3 a year.

National Association of Colored Women (org. 1896, inc. 1904), Pres., Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce Univ., Xenia, Ohio. Has affiliated State and city federations and local clubs of colored women in more than half the States of the Union. National organizer stimulates and assists in the formation of federations and clubs. Community requesting this service usually pays expenses. National Association holds biennial meetings, open to the public, at which are discussed civic and social questions and any matters relating to the welfare of the colored race. Proceedings are published; available on request until supply is exhausted. Work is carried on throughout the year by standing committees on Education, Suffrage, Civil Rights, Social Service, Music, and other topics. Committees make reports at biennial meetings. The more important of these reports are included in the Proceedings.

National Association for Constitutional Government (org. 1914), 716 Colorado Bldg., Washington, D. C. To propagate a wider and more accurate knowledge of the Constitution of the U. S. and of the distinctive features of constitutional government. Establishes State and other local chapters for extension of its work. Issues and distributes "Pocket Edition of the Constitution of the U. S.", with a descriptive introduction; for sale at nominal cost. Publishes The Con