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The Economic Bulletin Vol. I DECEMBER, 1908 No. 4

PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.'

The annual meeting of the Association will be held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 28 to 31, in conjunction with the meetings of the American Sociological Society, the American Statis- tical Association, and the American Association for Labor Legisla- tion.

The headquarters of the American Economic Association will be located at Haddon Hall, situated on the Board Walk and North Carolina Avenue.

The complete program has not yet been made out: announcement, however, may at this time be made of the following provisional program:

FIRST SESSION

Monday, December 28, 2.30 p.m.

1. President's address ....... S. N. PATTEN, University of Pennsylvania. To be followed by a discussion.

President Patten's address is printed in this number of the BuLLE- TIN in order to give the members of the Association time to study it prior to the discussion.

1Each number of the BULLETIN will contain a department of Personal and Miscellaneous Notes. These notes will cover recent appointments to academic, governmental and other scientific positions in the field of economics; announce- ments of scientific investigations being made, of meetings of learned societies; and notices of other events of interest to economists.

The success of this feature of the BULLETIN will depend largely upon the support given it by economic students throughout the country; and the editors earnestly solicit the cooperation of all members of the Association. Notes should be sent to the Managing Editor as early as possible, and wherever practicable should be written on the ordinary 3 x 5 index card. The next number of the BULLETIN will go to press about February 1.



280 THE ECONOMIC BULLETIN

2. Theory of Collective Bargaining.... J. B. CLARK, Columbia University. Discussion by

A. C. MILLER, University of California; G. E. BARNETT, Johns Hopkins University. T. S. ADAMS, University of Wisconsin. C. W. DOTEN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. R. F. HoxiE, University of Chicago.

SECOND SESSION

Monday, December 28, 8 p.m. Round Table:

Accounting ........ Chairman, W. M. COLE, Harvard University. 1. Accounting in its Relations to Economics.

M. H. ROBINSON, University of Illinois. 2. A Definition of Accounting .. . J. C. DUNCAN, University of Illinois. 3. The Present Position and Probable Development of Accountancy as

a Profession. J. E. Sterret, of the firm of Dickinson, Wilmot and Sterret.

THIRD SESSION

Tuesday, December 29, 10 a.m.

Joint Session with the American Association for Labor Legislation. 1. Address by H. W. FARNAM, President of the American Association for

Labor Legislation. 2. Employers' Liability.

Papers by M. 0. LORENZ, University of Wisconsin; Miss CRYSTAL

EASTMAN of the Pittsburgh Survey; C. P. NEILL, United States Bureau of Labor.

3. Canadian Industrial Disputes Act. Paper by ADAM SHORTT, Civil Service Commission of Ottawa. Discussion to be opened by 0. D. SKELTON, Queens University, and

V. S. CLARK, Bureau of Labor, Washington.

FOURTH SESSION

Tuesday, December 29, 2.30 p.m.

Joint Session with the American Sociological Society. Subject-Modern Industry and Family Life.

1. Influence of Income on Standards of Life. ROBERT C. CHAPIN, Beloit, Wisconsin.

2. Family in a Modern Mill Community... MIss MARGARET F. BYINGTON. 3. The Results of the Pittsburgh Survey .... . EDWARD T. DEVINE.

(Other speakers to be selected by the American Sociological Society.)



PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 281

FIFTH SESSION

Tuesday, December 29, 8 p.m. Round Tables-

1. Agriculture ...... Chairman, E. V. ROBINSON, University of Minnesota. Subject-Economic Geography.

2. Transportation .......... Chairman, F. H. DIXON, Dartmouth College Subject-The Future of Water Transportation in this Country.

Discussion be to opened by E. R. JOHNSON, University of Pennsylvania.

SIXTH SESSION

Wednesday, December 80, 10 a.m.

Subject-The Revision of the Tariff. Papers by H. C. EMERY, Yale University; N. I. STONE, Bureau of Statistics,

Washington; SIMON LIPMAN, University of Illinois. Discussion to be opened by E. R. JOHNSON.

SEVENTH SESSION

Wednesday, December 30, 2.30 p.m.

Subject-A Central Bank. Papers by F. M. WARBURG, New York, and 0. M. W. SPRAGUE, Harvard

University. Discussion to be opened by HORACE WHITE, New York, and JOSEPH

FRENCH JOHNSON, University of New York.

Wednesday Evening, 8 p.m.

BANQUET OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

JUDGE JAMES B. DILL, presiding. At Hotel Rudolf.

EIGHTH SESSION

Thursday, December 31, 10 a.m.

Subject-The Capitalization of Public Service Corporations. Paper by C. J. BULLOCK, Harvard University.

The Sociological Society will hold seven sessions, one of which will be a joint meeting with the Economic Association and another of which will be a joint meeting with the Statistical Association. All seven sessions will be devoted to a discussion of some aspect of the general topic, The Family in Modern Society. This general topic has been divided as follows:




1. Relation of the Family to Social Change. (President's address).

2. How do Home Conditions React upon the Family? 3. Are Modern Industry and City Life Unfavorable to the

Family? 4. How Does the Woman Movement React upon the Family? 5. Has the Freer Granting of Divorce Proved an Evil? 6. How Far Should the State go in Individualizing the

Members of the Family? 7. How Far Should Family Property be Conserved and

Encouraged? Detailed programs can be had by applying to the Secretary,

C. W. A. Veditz, George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

The provisional program of the American Statistical Associa- tion is as follows:

8 p. m. Monday, December 28: Joint meeting with the Ameri- can Sociological Society: Presidential Addresses. The address for this Association will be delivered by Vice-President S. N. D. North, on the Relation of Statistics to Sociology and Economics.

Tuesday p. m.: A meeting will be held for the election of offi- cers and to transact such other business as may come before the meeting. Two subjects will be discussed at this meeting, namely: The Teaching of Statistics, principal paper by Prof. William B. Bailey of Yale University, and The Classification of Occupations, principal paper by William C. Hunt of Washington, D. C.

An attempt is being made to arrange another joint session with the American Sociological Society at which Joseph A. Hill of the U. S. Bureau of the Census will read a paper on the Statistics of Marriage and Divorce.

The following provisional program is announced for the Ameri- can Association for Labor Legislation: Mrs. Florence Kelly, and Mr. Charles H. Verrill of the United States Department of Labor, will report on the Conference of the International Association for Labor Legislation held at Lucerne, Switzerland, September 26-29, 1908. The annual address will be given by the President of the Association, Prof. Henry W. Farnam: and Dr. Max 0. Lorenz will lead a discussion on Workmen's Compensation. The relation of the American Section to the International Association and the




formation of State Branches in the United States will be discussed. Prof. Irving Fisher will speak on methods of cooperation with other American Associations working in lines similar to those of the American Association for Labor Legislation. Hon. Charles P. Neill will outline the research work of the Association.

The annual meeting of the American Political Science Associa- tion will be held at Washington, D. C., and Richmond, Va., De- cember 28-31. At the first session, which will be held jointly with American Historical Association, Monday evening, Novem- ber 28, in Washington, Ambassador James Bryce, the President of the Association, will deliver the address. The general topics to be discusse(d at the various sessions of the Association are: Recent state constitutions, municipal government, the increase of federal power, American colonial problems, and the teaching of political science.

On November 7 the Fall meeting of the Executive Committee of the Economic Association was held at the City Club of New York. Those present were President Patten, ex-Presidents Clark, Hadley, Jenks, Seligman and Taussig, and Messrs. Daniels, Dewey, Dill, Dixon, Emery, Fetter, Glenn, Hollander and Kemmerer.

Prof. T. S. Adams of the University of Wisconsin, who is at present supervising an investigation into womnan and child labor for the Federal Bureau of Labor is to give courses at Stanford University during the second semester of the present academic year.

Prof. A. P. Andrew of Harvard University spent the summer in Europe with members of the congressional monetary commission, making inquiries as to the banking situation in England, France and Germany. He will be associated with the Commission during the present year, with headquarters in Washington.

C. C. Arbuthnot of Western Reserve University has been promoted from the position of associate professor to that of professor of economics.

G. B. L. Arner of Columbia University has been appointed instructor in history, politics and economics in Princeton University.




E. M. Banks has been appointed professor of economics in the University of Florida.

Abraham Berglund has been appointed instructor in economics and history in the State College of Washington.

N. A. Brisco (Ph.D., Columbia, 1908) has accepted an instruc- torship in economics in the College of the City of New York.

The Bulletin of the International Labor Office has recently ap- peared in an English edition. It contains the text of recent labor laws, notes on proposed legislation in the interest of labor, and other useful information.

A catalogue of the Chicago Municipal Library compiled under the direction of Frederick Rex, assistant city statistician, has recently been published by the Chicago Bureau of Statistics and the Municipal Library. It contains 149 pages and 15,000 entries.

The research department of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy is undertaking this year an investigation of the housing conditions in the City of Chicago. This work is being undertaken at the request of the city department of sanitary inspection, and is being supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. It is hoped that the data obtained may be used as a basis for recom- mendations and changes in the existing tenement house laws of the city.

The research department also carries over from last year the inquiry into the causes of juvenile delinquency, and best methods of probation and institutional care based upon records of the Juve- nile Court of Cook County. Other minor subjects of investigation will be taken up throughout the year.

Dr. Edith Abbott, formerly instructor in economics in Wellesley College, will have charge of the Housing Investigation; and Dr. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge of the University of Chicago, Mr. H. W. Thurston, chief probation officer, and Mr. Allen J. Burns of the School of Civics will continue the juvenile court inquiry.




Robert E. Chaddock has been appointed lecturer in political economy in Columbia University.

John Morris Clark (Ph.D. Columbia, 1908), son of Prof. John B. Clark, has accepted a position as instructor in political economy in Colorado College.

Walter E. Clark has been appointed professor of economics in the College of the City of New York.

Miss Lucile Eaves, formerly instructor in history at Stanford University, has been appointed associate professor of practical sociology in the University of Nebraska.

The Encyclopedia Fillipina, concerning the publication of which an announcement was made in the September number of the BUL- LETIN (p. 190), has suspended owing to the death of its editor, Felipi G. Calderon.

Edward H. Davis has been promoted from the position of instructor in history and economics at Purdue University to that of associate professor of economics. He also becomes registrar of the University.

Joseph C. Freehoff, formerly of New York University, was recently appointed statistician for the Public Service Commission of New York, first district.

Prof. F. J. Goodnow has resumed his academic duties at Colum- bia after a year's absence, which was spent largely in studying colonial problems in the Orient.

Prof. Bernard Harms of the University of Jena has been called to the chair in the University of Tiubingen made vacant by the death of Professor Sch6nberg, and Prof. Carl Fuchs of Vienna succeeds to the chair at Tiubingen made vacant by the resignation of Prof. J. Neumann.

The Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University opens with a registration of 58 students. Of these about 26 are taking full work as students in the first year, the remainder being enrolled as special students in the various courses.




Of the total number of students, regular and special, 46 are college graduates.

Burt Estes Howard has been appointed professor of political science in Stanford University.

Charles P. Huse, formerly of Harvard University, has been appointed instructor in economics at Dartmouth College. The June number of the BULLETIN was in error in stating that he had accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago.

The papers and proceedings of the Second International Tax Conference on State and Local Taxation, held at Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, are to be published soon.

Mr. J. A. Lapp, who has been for some time an assistant in political science in Cornell University, has resigned in order to accept the position of Legislative Librarian for the state of Indiana.

C. S. Loch has resigned his position as Tooke Professor of economic science and statistics at King's College, London. Mr. Loch has been one of the most active of British economists in recent years in the field of social philanthropy. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble- minded, and of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws. His successor at Kings College is Mr. E. J. Urwick, who has been the lecturer to the School of Sociology.

H. J. Mackinder has resigned his position as director of the Lon- don School of Economics and Political Science. His successor is W. Pember Reeves who has been High Commissioner for New Zealand since 1905. Mr. Reeves while Minister of Education, Labor and Justice in New Zealand, was largely responsible for the New Zealand compulsory conciliation and arbitration act.

S. J. McLean has resigned the position of associate professor of political economy in the University of Toronto to accept an appointment as member of the Canadian Board of Railway Com- missioners. All communications to him should be addressed to the offices of the Railway Commission, Ottawa, Canada.




The University of Minnesota is opening this year two evening business courses, one in elementary accounting, and one in corpor- ation accounts. The courses are open to regular students in the University and to persons not otherwise connected with the Uni- versity who are not less than twenty-one years of age and who are prepared to profit by the work.

The annual meeting of the National Municipal League was held at Pittsburgh, November 16 to 19, in conjunction with the Ameri- can Civic Association. There were two joint meetings; one devoted to the consideration of the work of boards of health and the general subject of municipal health, and the annual civic review of the Secretary, Clinton Rogers Woodruff; the other devoted to a review of the results of the Pittsburgh Survey which was undertaken a year ago by the National Publication Committee of Charities and the Commons. This Survey is a close ranged investigation of the living conditions in the great industrial district at the headwa- ters of the Ohio. The work has been made possible by appropria- tions from the Russell Sage Foundation. Among the writers of important papers presented at the meetings were Robert W. DeForest, Robert A. Woods, Paul U. Kellogg, Grosvenor Atter- bury, H. D. W. English, August Raymond Hatton, B. H. Meyers, Joseph B. Eastman, John A. Fairlie, and A. Laurence Lowell.

A feature of the meeting was the first civic exhibit constituting a program of visualization on various civic problems.

The proceedings of the conference will be reviewed at a later date in the BULLETIN.

The Northwestern University School of Commerce was formally opened October 19.

The National Societv for the Promotion of Industrial Educa- tion held its annual meeting at Atlanta, Georgia, November 19-21. Among the speakers were Andrew Carnegie and Carroll D. Wright.

The McGraw Publishing Company of New York has published in pamphlet form the essay which was awarded the William H. Baldwin prize offered in 1908 by the National Municipal League. The topic is The Street Railway System of Metropolitan Boston,




and the author is A. E. Pinanski, of Harvard. The pamphlet, which covers some 58 pages, is an interesting and valuable discussion of the street railway situation in Boston. The judges in 1908 were M. N. Baker, Editor of the Engineering News; Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Boston, and Robert Bruere, Secretary of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. Mr. Pinanski received honorable mention in 1907.

John B. Phillips, professor of economics in the University of Col- orado is spending the year in Europe. His department is being conducted during his absence by Clyde L. King of the University of Michigan.

B. M. Rastall, economic expert of the New York State Depart- ment of Labor, has been appointed assistant professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. The University is broadening its work to cover the field of training for the business professions. Dr. Rastall, who will have charge of this work, has had several years practical experience with railroad companies, one year in the insurance field, and a considerable period as manager for tele- graph companies.

On Wednesday, November 4, Professor W. Z. Ripley sailed for London, where he is to deliver the annual Huxley Memorial Lecture, before the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Bri- tain and Ireland. This lecture is in commemoration of Thomas Henry Huxley's work in the field of Ethnology, particularly in the preparation of his book on The Races of Europe. This is the first time that anyone but an Englishman has been called on to deliver the lecture.

Rufus D. Smith, some time assistant in economics in Cornell University, has been appointed instructor in economics and statistics in that institution.

The October meeting of the Societe d'Economie Politique of Paris was devoted largely to a review and discussion of the Free Trade Congress held in London, August 3-8, 1908. Brief addresses were made by Messrs. Raffalovich, Guyot, d'Aunet and G. H.




Jones. M. Guyot stated that the result of Congress, briefly ex- pressed, was that protection cannot be justified from the economic standpoint; it must be justified, if at all, from the political point of view. A. Piatt Andrew of Harvard, representing the Monetary Commission, occupied a seat at the speakers' table.

Charles E. Stangeland, assistant professor of economics in the State College of Washington, has been promoted to a full profes- sorship.

John K. Towles (Ph.D. Yale, 1908) is instructor in economics at the University of Illinois.

C. W. Wassam (Ph.D. Columbia, 1908) is assistant professor of economics in the University of Iowa.

J. M. Williams (Ph.D. Columbia, 1908) has been appointed assistant professor of economics and sociology in Hobart College.

L. D. H. Weld (Ph.D. Columbia, 1908) is instructor in economics in the University of Washington.



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