The Washington herald., 1911-12-26

man; L. O. Howard, permanent secre-
tary, A. A A. S; Marcus Benjamin,
William J. Humphreys, Cornelius l..
Shear, Hugh NJ. Smith, and Charles ].
Bell, treasurer.
The local finance committee consists Of
Charles d. Walcott, chairman; Hugh M.
Smith, secretary: Gilbert H. Grosvenor,
Charles J. Bell, treasurer, eX officio.
Study of AnthrOpOIOEy.
The American Anthropological Associ-
alton, the American Folklore Society,
and the Washington Anthropological So
ciety will hold joint sessions in the Ma
tional Museum, beginning tomorrow
morning and closing Saturday.
The opening discussion will be intro
duCed by Studies among the plains In
dians," by Clark Wissler. who will be
followed by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, a curator
of the National Museum and a scientist
of recognized fame, with a paper on
the anthropology of the Pueblos, illus
trated by lantern slides. Prof. A. E.
jerks will discuss Some aspects of the
negro problem"
Tomorrow afternoon the topic will be
The unity or plurality and the probable
place or places or origin of the Ameri-
can natives" On Thursday the pro-
gramme will be devoted mainly to fork
lore in the morning, and to a discussion
of the effects of environment on culture
in the afternoon.
Friday will be devoted to a discussion
of archaeological matters and to a paper
by Prof. r. B. Dixon. on the independence
of the culture of the North American
Indian. H. 1. Smith. of Canada, will
read a paper on the conservation of
archaeological evidence. There will be nu-
merOus papers and a discussion on In
dian languages and music on Saturday.
viii Discuss Pensions.
The American Civic Alliance will to-
morrow take Up the question of civil
service pensioning and retirement from
the standpoint of the employees of the
government, AMI of actual experience.
On these various phases of the subject
F. II. GilIett, of Massachusetts, and Miles
y. Dawson, OF New York, will speak
Thursday night in the Chamber of Com
merce rooms. A paper will be read by
DR.. William H. Allen, director Of the
bureau of municial research of New
York, on The new era in public
service"
A discussion of baking reform prob
lens from the standpoint of government
finance, IF the International gold move
ment, and corporate financing will be
participated IN by George T.. ROBERTS,
Director of the Mint; United States Treas
urer MCClung, john Hays Hammond,
Prof T. n. Carver, of Harvard, and
Senator Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio.
Home and Economics.
More than 500 delegates are expected to
attend the fourth annual convention of
the American Home Economics Assocla-
ton. The sessions will be held at the
Henry D. Cooke School. Seventeenth
street and Columbia road.
The Hotel Gordon will be official head
quarters, and daily sessions at $50 a. M,
1880 and $50 p. m will be held at the
school building Thursday Friday, and
Saturday.
The American Home Economics Asso-
citation deals with the various economic
problems within the home. An entire ses-
sion, that of Friday morning. will be de-
voted to discussions of the general topic,
what is the educational aim, method, and
mestic art?''
opening paper will be on Applied science
its place in the curriculum of a college
of liberal arts for women" This paper is
'Biochemstry." being handled by Mary
Smith College, ard part 2, Chemistry
being presented by Miss Katharine Blunt,
PHI. D., assistant professor of chemistry
at Nassar. 'Metabolism experiments" is
the title Of a paper by Alice F. Blood,