New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-20
A SOCIAL CLEARING HOUSE.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL
ECONOMY HAS THIS AIM.

Through the cooperation of Miss Helen Miller
Gould, member of the auxiliary committee, a
meeting for the organization of the American Instl-
tute of Social Economy was held at her home
Lyndhurst, Irvington, yesterday. In addition to
Miss Gould, the members of the auxiliary commit
tee Miss Grace H. Dodge. Mrs, Darwin R.
James President NJ. Carey Thomas. OF Bryn
Mawr College; President Mary E. Wooley, or
Mount Holyoke College, and President Caroline
Hazard, of Wellesley College;..Mrs. Alice Freeman
Palmer. Mrs Mary Lowe Dickinson and Mrs. w
H Tolman. The organizing committee consists or
Abram S. Hewitt, Carroll d. Wright, Spencer
Trask, Warner Van Norden, Stanley Mccormick,
NJ. Z. ingalls,, Robert c. Ogden, Jacob A. Riis, r.
Fulton Cutting, E. R. L. Gould, Richard Watson
Glider, ". R. Corwine William B. Rowland Wash
ington Choate. Josiah Strong and W. H. Tolman-
After statement by DR.. Josiah Strong regarding
the scope and object of the institute organizing
committee was chosen to take under advisement
the plan and scope of the institute. its constitution
and finances.
The American Institute of Social Economy is the
outgrowth of the League for Social Service, organ
lied and Incorporated in this city in 1895 for the
object of social and Industrial betterment. The
purpose of the institute is the collection. the inter
probation and the dissemination of informa ton
concerning social civic and industrial betterment,
inasmuch the rapid progress in the various
branches of social economy during the last decade
now compels a social clearing house. Its depart
ments include bureaus of information investga-
tion Interpretation. publication and legislation,
lecture bureau. training school for social secre-
taries, library and archives, museum Of security
and departments of personal study and research
and of International relations.
Regarding the league, Abram 5. Hewitt stated in
a letter:
have no doubt whatever that the establishment
OF such an institution as nadoaI 1 b Her ~
efficient adjunct in the Improvement of the social
conditions of the coming age
Spencer Trask. after he had learned the scope
and purpose of the institute. sad
That plan commends itself my business judg-
mont. Much of the trouble In the past has been
than an active desire to crush the worker. A
being done for the benefit of the working classes
good
Jules siegfried, the president of the Musee Social
OF Paris. writes:
institute OF social economy in America; because oy
scattered and very difficult obtain. This should
be of great service American employers deslr-
that the number of your countrymen interested IN
these problems is numerous pers9n 9 sTlt T
because it will make very much easier any re
lea. Then li' If every country can have such mu
practical sociology viii have maue maj Aeu
progress
Ambassador Horace Porter writes from Paris;
am IN recent Of YOUR letter stating that the
League for Social Service is establishing an liSI-
tute Of social economy in New OK net a To the
country and the metropolis of the nation seems 10
proper and most natural place for us noh 9
The Musee social Paris. which has been zen IN IN
existence about ten years. has served q very uselul
purpose. and kindred institutions as Ia[ as $500 IN
learn, have been the cans OF dong BuGn EpG "a
other countries of Europe. In the lars S Sf
sal Exposincn of 1900 the League for Social
having acted as a special agent Tor the Uuu1eu
States in collecting and Interpreting the eHulniI
in social and Industrial betterment in the social
economy section, and having received a haIaso I
recognition for its admirable conduct OF that Worh'
an annlfca ton of the same zeal and administrative
ability ought to make a success of an institute of
social economy.
Among the distinguished foreigners who are ANIL
ated with the institute under title of collabo-
rating members are: Jules Stegfried Pro1essorr
Leyasseur Emile Cheysson and Raphael Levy, OF
Paris; John Burns w S. Game and Sl6ney Wen9:
OF London: William H. Lever. or BlrRenhead 40
George Cadbury of Birmingham Horace Plumkett
of Dublin: Count Tornelli Marquis di Cabot ana
|, IuZzatti of Rome; Max Richter. OF Rerln'
Wilhelm Exner of Vienna: Professor E w. Wax,
weller Brussels; l.. Varlez of Ghent; Ed" ara
penhagen: Professor T. c. Mandello of Buda-
pest and Dr. Kotaro Shmomura. of OSAKA JAPAN