Evening star., 1927-12-14
LEARNED SOCIETIES
TO CONVENE HERE
Hoover and Ritchie to Speak
at Meeting of II Groups
December 27.

secretary Hoover, Gov. Ritchie,
OF Maryland. and others are scheduled
10 address delegates to the simultane.
Gus conventions OF IL organizations of
historians, economists, political scien.
tists, statisticians and other scholars,
In assemble here December 27 under
auspices of the American Council of
Learned Societies
More than 1000 delegates to the
various sessions are expected to come
mere, according To an announcement
Today by Waldo G.. Leland. secretary
or the council
The programs comprise nearly 800
PAPERS or discussions, ranging in sub
yect from History Of the Ancient
mediterranean Peoples" and Roman
imperialism" 10 THE Europen Debt
settlement" international Politics i'm
the Balkans" open and Secret Di-
ptomacy." Farm Relief. Price Move
ments Since the War; "Stabiliza.
ton Of Money" The Organization OF
Community Centers," Business Fore.
casting" and Statistics OF Crime"
Many Speakers Listed.
Among the speakers are: President
John c. Merriam. of the Carnegie In.
stitution of Washington, Bishop Sha-
nan, rector OF the Catholic Univ srsity
OF America: DIR. Henry Osborn Taylor
or New. York. author OF The Medi.
evaf Mind" and president of the
American Historical Association: Prof.
Thomas S. Adams of Yale University,
president of the American Economic
Association; Dean Edmund r. Day
of the University of Michigan, presi-
dent of the American Statistical AS
sociation; Robert 3 RAFT Historiog-
,rapher Royal of Scotland; Prof.
William r. Munro of Harvard Uni.
versiLy, authority on municipal gov
sernment and president OF the Ameri-
can Political Science Association.
Prof. William 7. Thomas of the New
School for Social Research. New York
City ard president of the Ameri-
dan Sociological Society; Prof. Josef
Schumpeter of the University of Bonn.
and former Minister of Finance of
Austria; William r, Green, Member
of Congress from Iowa and chairman
of the committee on ways and means;
l.. J. Dickinson Member of Congress
from Iowa: WoOdliff Thomas of the
Federal Reserve Board; Wilbur ].
Carr, Assistant Secretary of State; DIR.
Elwood Mead. United States gommis-
sicner OF reclamation: David Lawrence.
editor of the United States Daily: Sec
,
ment of Labor; Senator Wesley j..
Jones, chairman of the Senate COM
nserce committee: John F.. Edgerton,
president Of the National Association
of Manufacturers;
DIR. Putnam as Toastmaster.
At q dinner of historians and pc.
iitical scientists. at which DIR. Herbert
Putnam. librarian of Congress. will be
OF CT 1i-f rxf La,
include Secretary Hoover of the De-
partment of Commerce, the Hon.
Vincent Massey, The Canadian Minister
10 the United States, Owen ID. Young.
Gov. Ritckie, and Representative An
drew j. Montague of Virginia.
The oldest of the associations as
sembiing in Washington is the Ameri.
can Statistical Association, which con-
vanes for its eighty-ninth annual meet
ing. The American Historical Associa-
tion IS holding its forty-second annual
meeting the American Economic As
sociatien its: fortieth, the Political Sci
ence Association its twenty-tnird. and
the Americas sociological Society and
the American Association for Labor |
Legfslatien.each its twenty second.
Work Closely Related.
The younger associations are the
American Association Of Collegiate
Schools of Business, the National Com
munity Center Association, ths Ameri-
can Farm Econofaicv Association, the
Stable Money Association. the Ameri-
can Association of University In
structors in Accounting. the National
Association OF Teachers of Marketing
and Advertising, the National Society
for the Study of Educational Sociology,
the American Catholic Historical AS
sociation. the Mississippi Valley His
forical Association, the Agricultural
History. Society. and the Bibliographi-
cal Society of America.
The meeting of so many associa-
tions at the same time and in the same
city is significant of the close relations
between their different fields of inter
est" Secretary Leland said. The
time has long passed when historians.
economists. political scientists. and
sociologists carried on their investiga-
tons in isolated fashion, entirely in
dependent of each other.
"All unite now in a study of society.
of it's history. and of it's present com
+nosition and orga niZat ton; and workers
in each field are dependent upon what
Is done in all the other fields.
such meetings as these enable
scholars to make many important con-
facts and to compare the results of
their own Investigations with those ar.
rived at by others