Evening star., 1931-12-27
WORLDS TURMOIL
TO Be STUDIED BY
5000 SCIENTISTS
Library and Laboratory Phe-
nomena of Mans Problems
to Occupy Sessions.
NINE LEARNED GROUPS
TO MEET TOMORROW
Mysteries of Infinite Reaches of
Space Also to Be Discussed
in Capital.

The basic phenomena of world in
turmoil, as they appear from the de-
tached viewpoint of the library and
laboratory, will form the subjects of the
deliberations OF approximately 5000
social scientists who will start a four
day meeting in Washington tomorrow.
These nine learned societies will be-
gin their deliberations: American So
Geological Society. American Economic
Association, American Political Science
Association, American Statistical Asso-
citation, American Association Of Labor
Legislation, American Farm Economic
Association, American Association of
University Instructors in Accounting.
Association of Teachers of Law in Col
legiate Schools of Business and Ma
tional Association of Teachers of Mar
keting and Advertising
Ponder Infinite Space.
In far different atmosphere-Pon-
derlng the mysteries of the starry
heavens and infinite reaches of space
the American Astronomical Society will
start its annual meeting at the Carnegie
Institution of Washington tomorrow.
This society, Of which Prof. E. w. Brown
OF Yale University is president will hold
meetings Tor three days. with aStrono-
mers of the Carnegie Institution. the
Naval Observatory and the Naval Re-
search Laboratory on the program.
They will be entertained at the Naval
Observatory tomorrow evening,
The topics scheduled fer discussion
by the social sciences range from in
dustrlal relations in the current de-
preston through the changing prospects
in education, family life religion and
crime. The essential purpose of the
meeting is to get at fundamental causes
through the methods of controlled OBJ
servati2n and statistical analysis. di-
Vorced from the emotionaliSm of active
politics.
1000 in Single Group.
The largest of the groups is the
American Sociological Society, which
expects to have approximately 1000
members present The meeting will
bring together professors from most of
the colleges and universities in the
United States and directors of social
service Institutions. The sociologists
will meet in six divisions for the dis
cussion of subjects related to human
geology, or the relation CT man to his
environment; social psychology, socio-
logical theory, social processes, social
research and social biology and popula-
ton. There also will be section meet
ings on rural sociology, the sociology of
religion. social statistics, educational
sociology, social work, community chest
problems and the family
The president of this society is Prof
Emory S. Bogardus of the University
of Southern California. The local COM
mittee consists of Elwood Street, di-
rector of the Community Chest, and
Mrs. Street; Prof. D. W. Willard of
George Washington University Prof
William j. Kerby of Catholic Uni
versity, Earl S. Bellman and James
L. FieSer. All meetings are open to
the public. The annual dinner will
be held at the Raleigh at $50 pm.
Wednesday, with talks by Prof Will
liam F. Ogburn of the University of
Chicago, Howard w Odum of the Uni
Versitv Of North Carolina and Robert
S. Lind
Round Table Planned.
The American Economic Association.
of which DR.. Ernest l.. Bogart of the
University of Illinois is president. will
hold a three-day session with round
table conference on economic history,
economic theory quantitative eco
nomicS, institutional economics, mar
keting, insurance and advertising
Many aspects of the present depreS-
sion are on the program, with pre-
dictions of the permanent changes it
h likely to bring about in economic
relationships.
One session where lively debate is
likely to develop will be devoted to the
theory Of the 7ve-hour day and the
unemployment policy of Henry Ford |
Papers will be presented by ProfS. T. N |
Carver of Harvard University and S. |
NJ Levin of the College of the City |
of Detroit. while the discussion will be |
led by J. P. Frey of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, followed by a group |
OF university professors.
Felix Morley to Preside.
The part played by the increasing
mechanlZation of industry in bringing !
about unemployment will be the sub !
Ject of joint meeting with the Ameri- |
can Statistical Association while the !
significance of foreign investments and |
the national policy of the United States |
with special reference to the Caribbean !
countries is the topic of joint meet |
ing with the American Political Science |
Association. Felix Morley of the Brook |
1ngS Institute will preside at this seS- !
sion. DR.. W. M. M. Spawn, dean of !
the Graduate School of American Uni |
Versity, will be in charge of a meet |
ing on the changing character of the |
American transportation system.
There will be a joint meeting of the |
economic, statistical, science and So
Geological groups at the Washington
Hotel Tuesday evening, with talks by
the presidents of the three societies, |
Emory S. Bogardus of the University
of Southern California, William F. Og- !
burn of the University of Chicago and
Ernest Ernest L. Bogart of the University of
The program Of the American Politi-
cal Science Association will be devoted
largely to consideration of present polit-
ical trends in the light of historical
developments, while the statisticians
will present new ways of analyzing the
meaning of data gathered by the other
groups.