The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-12-28
SCIENTISTS ARE
WELCOMED BY
PREST. FAUNCE

Last evening al Sayles hall the members
OF the Political Science association and the
the Sociological society held q joint meet
ine and were welcomed 10 Providence and
Brown by Dr. W. H. F. Faunce I'm cor
dial address eulogistc OF the aims and
achievements OF their organizations and
others working along similar lines.
President Faunce was followed by the
beads OF the respective bodies. DR.. Albert
Shaw OF New York and PROT Lester r.
Ward Of Providence who delivered their
presidential addresses
Dr. Shaw discussed the scope OF the Po-
Htical Science association and some OF the
concrete problems coming within II. Prof
Wards subject was The Establishment
OF Sociology
President Faunce said I'm part
III after YOU have been for q hours
In Providence Plantations you arc not con
Nuced that YOU are welcome. nothing !
could say could convince you'll hope that
our actions speak louder than our words
Il think that here In individualistic
Rhode Island We may say with truth that
we are every year becoming more ready
- welcome tho ideas and ideals for which
your societies stand.
I'VE are coming. under the teaching OF
such organizations as arc represented here
tonight, 10 realize that the aim OF life OF
every man, whatever his place or station.
is social service N We can only bring the
sense OF this into the life OF every man we
shall be coming nearer 10 the real
ization OF the Kingdom Of truth and jus
tice on earth
Or. Albert Shaw. president 81 the Politl-
'al Science association. made his presiden-
ua! address after President Faunce's
speech and said
There Is no settled theory of police or
yanization and administration In the
'nted states. There are "A dozen conflict
ng systems and theories. A large part OF
he country lives under rural rather than
Irban conditions. and the absence of any !
organized rural police system is probably |
mere responsible than any one factor for |,
he prevalence i'm many states OF abhor- /
ont crimes on the one hand and lynch law |
VI the other. We have much 10 learn on !
his point from England and France.
Il believe this association can confer
great benefit In the country without de-
arting from its scientific character by
making a careful study and report of this
ubject of police powers
I'VE need in this country much larger
', alth production than we have yet at
aimed. The railroad must be built. the
ia ter power must be developed. the mine
,ust be exploited, OF the people will go
oor and hungry. Better. therefore, the
rec play OF economic forces, the rude
hook of the unrestricted law OF supply
nd demand than policy that may check
reduction unduy."
President Faunce then presented Prof.
ester r. Ward. president OF the Sociolog-
al society. with brief address apprecia-
We OF Prof. Wards educational and
,ientihc attainments In his address. as
cad OF the society, Prof. Ward said;
Sociology at the close of the nineteenth
entury was somewhat i'm the same posi-
on as astronomy In the seventeenth,
hysics at the beginning and chemistry
ear the close OF the eighteenth century.
THE principal steps In the establishment
sociology have been the discovery of
he true nature Of society as "A great or
unization consisting OF the sum total of
uinan institutions formed by the evolu-
onary processes OF differentiation and in
egration and bound together into an or
anic whole: the genesis and natural his
Dry OF all the more important human in
titutions; the discovery OF the leading
rinciples according TO which all social
perations take place. as distinguished
ON the laws of social evolution: fixing
he place Of sociology among the sciences
[ the summit OF great series capable OF
eing arranged in the ascending order OF
heir speciality and complexity, which is at
he same time the descending order of
heir generality and simplicity the estab-
shment. on the basis OF the classification
. the sciences. OF the science o subsistence
social mechanics furthGs oubdivided
ITO social states and social dynamics; the
iscovery OF the leading principles OF
ocial control the foundation OF an ap-
lied social science, as the chief object and
ractical purpose for which sociology ex-
IT'S"