Egner, film inspector and shipping and record clerk, is to remain in Washington in immediate charge of the activities under way and in contemplation.

CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE MATERIAL.

The motion pictures sent out are free and must be shown free. Other conditions are that they be kept as busy as their interest warrants, that they be kept in proper repair, and that a record of their use be kept in the files of the center and be sent regularly to the Washington office.

The pictures in the main are deposited indefinitely with the centers. In the case of some of them there may be a request for a return to the Washington office or for a transfer to some other State center, but the terms of any such request will take the point of view of the center having possession. No plan for a definite and vigorous use of the material will be upset.

SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE MATERIAL.

The material sent out can be regarded only as a basis of a service in visual instruction. It will not in and of itself constitute a service. But in this connection attention should be called to the value of the material. That dealing with the war will increase, not decrease, in interest as time passes. It has been the plan of the officers of the section to get even more of this war material out to the centers, enough to make a pictorial review of the war by topics. The hope now is that this plan may be realized. Toward the plan, the material already sent out is a beginning.

Centers are not at liberty to make any changes in the pictures belonging to the series "The Training of a Soldier." The war features and the war reviews may be changed, however, and it may be that some of the centers will wish to use this material for experimental work in the assembly of pictures of their own.

All in all, the material should have lasting and real value. It is in the hope that it will have this that it has been salvaged and distributed.

REQUEST FOR COOPERATION.

The various distributing centers will discover many interesting ways in which to use the materials. It is requested that they report such discoveries to the Washington office, which, serving as a clearing house, will undertake to send accounts of them to other centers. This is important. The cooperation of the centers in an effort to secure as complete usefulness of materials as possible is earnestly requested.

NEW MATERIALS.

The officers of the section and the Washington office are still at work to secure additional material for the various centers. In this work they have the hearty cooperation of the newly organized National University Extension Association (Inc.), which is maintaining an office in Washington.

Word as to new material and as to the conditions under which it may be obtained may be expected at any time from the officers of the section, from the Washington office, or from the secretary of the National University Extension Association (Inc.)

APPRECIATION.

The section has had the warmest support from the departments of the Government, from allied organizations, and from various commercial and industrial companies. It also wishes to extend thanks to the distributing centers from which it has also had hearty support.

The section itself will have reward for its effort if, as is more than likely, a Federal permanent service in visual instruction is finally established.

Community center service.-The Community Center, a local democratic organization for community advancement, is another means of education that has been developed through the extension division machinery of the States and through the State departments of education. It is the logical place for showing educational pictures to adult audiences. It brings people together for the common good. It strengthens the existing freedom and self-government of the citizens. Relations with 42 States were established by the division of educational extension for the promotion of the community centers, and arrangements were made to cooperate with the authorities in the remaining States. This section of the division was in contact with over 1,000 different local communities where community center organizations were being started, and more than 100 centers were projected in the spring of 1919. Members of the division were constantly in the field holding conferences in regard to this work. Outlines and plans for community organization, together with suggested programs for meetings, were distributed to the communities.

Public discussion and library service.-In practically all of the States the colleges and universities are carrying on an information and library service which reaches hundreds of thousands of people, giving them facts and sources of information. Nineteen extension divisions answered nearly 60,000 requests for information last year. This service disseminates information secured from authoritative sources on such public matters as municipal development, child welfare, public health, civics, and on miscellaneous subjects of interest to individuals, such as personal hygiene. This service is practical and specific. It meets a widespread demand for information-the same demand that floods Washington with requests for information on every conceivable subject. The State service needs a central agency which can supply materials and coordinate resources. The Federal division rendered such a service.

The package library.—All of the State universities and many other institutions carry on some kind of public discussion work. Large numbers of people are served, many of them members of high-school and college debating societies, city councils, women's clubs, civics clubs, and miscellaneous organizations. The extension divisions

prepare, with the assistance of university faculties, lists of important subjects, bibliographies, and study outlines, and lend them to inquirers. Accompanying this specially prepared material go package libraries, which consist of from 5 to 100 pieces of literature, generally gathered together from Federal, State, and local public agencies, as well as from private associations and from magazines and newspapers. The division of educational extension acted as a clearing house upon methods of improving the machinery for this State service and as an agency for distributing informational publications to each 153448°-203

State. It sent out in six months 14,700 pieces of material on current topics for inclusion in package libraries. This material was sent to the State divisions and has been lent by them many times to clubs and individuals. Thirty-eight different publications on the League of Nations, pro and con, or about 6,200 pieces, were sent out in two months' time. Fifty different publications, or about 1,500 pieces, on labor and reconstruction were sent in the same time, as were 30 different publications, or about 1,200 pieces, on the Government and the railroads.

These materials were made up by the State bureaus into package libraries, which give information on both sides of controversial questions. They usually contain lists of Government publications, programs, and statements by the interests especially affected, as well as pamphlets and magazine articles. The bibliographies give additional information of special value to extension divisions.

Use of Federal publications.-A particular effort was made to bring to the notice of the extension division agents the United States Government publications. Special investigations, reports of commissions, monographs issued by the Government bureaus, important statements of plans or reports on the operation of governmental agencies, speeches in Congress, hearings before committees are the very substance on which the policies of the National Government are based. All these and many others can be obtained free from governmental departments; others can be secured from the Superintendent of Documents. Most of them are practically unknown, however, even to intelligent people who take serious interest in public affairs. The library of the Superintendent of Documents contains over 200,000 separate publications. To make the people somewhat familiar with this material and to give them a first-hand acquaintance with the work done by the National Government was one of the primary aims of the division of educational extension.

Reference of inquiries.-In order to avoid futile reference from one Federal bureau to another, the division made arrangements with the inquiry office of the Department of Labor to refer inquiries on current public questions and other matters not easily answered in Washington to the university extension divisions in the States from which the inquiries come. This arrangement was designed to serve the additional purpose of acquainting the public with the informational resources of their State institutions.

The division established a working library of university extension publications of every kind. This library affords ready reference to any phase of the work offered in the United States and in England.

The division also issued, among others, the following mimeograph bulletins:

Adult Education: A brief statement of suggestive matter to be found in the report of the adult education committee to the English Minister of Reconstruction.

A Survey of the Public Discussion Work of the States, with explanations of successful devices.

An Exhibit of United States Publications.

Budgets for Public Discussion Bureaus.

Package Library and Club Service: A summary of work done by extension divisions and public library commissions.

National Library Service. A direct service for the 18,000 libraries in the United States was maintained in the division. The libraries need to know more about the printed informational material issued by the Government. National Library Service helped librarians not only to secure that material, but also to familiarize themselves and their patrons with it. One Government department alone distributed last year nearly one hundred million copies of publications on hundreds of subjects. Obviously, no librarian can keep up with this output; yet the public has a right to expect the librarian to hand out the right information at the right time. The librarians have requested and demanded for years such a clearing house as National Library Service rendered through its printed pamphlets. Bulletins were issued telling of the work done and the services offered to librarians by the following governmental departments: Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Treasury, and Interior. Each bulletin contains the story of the department, followed by news notes of the various activities. These notes contain material of current interest to librarians and are selected, prepared, and submitted by the information services of the different Government departments. Another feature of the bulletins is an up-to-date selected list of current available printed matter, posters, slides, and reels of films.

Training Americanization workers.-A tremendous amount of patriotic enthusiasm engendered by the war turned naturally last fall to the problem of making better citizens of our foreign-born people. Letters of inquiry sent out to the university presidents of the country last December by the division of educational extension, however, revealed the fact that only a very few institutions were awake to their opportunities and obligations in a movement obviously educational. All were anxious to do their part when their attention was called to the practical work that could be done. The most obvious duty was that of training special teachers for the foreign born.

The division immediately gathered together what information it could about the methods in use and sent it out in mimeographed bulletins to the universities and State education departments. It

also assembled a large collection of programs and pamphlets issued by State councils of defense, State Americanization bureaus, private agencies, and universities and colleges. In most cases pamphlets could be secured in sufficient quantity to distribute them to a mailing list of about 250 of the leading educators of the country.

Three hundred copies each of several valuable publications and English courses were secured from the Massachusetts extension department, which was a pioneer in this movement. The California State commission on immigration and housing also sent the division. 300 copies of its study of the methods of Americanization. The extension division of Iowa contributed several hundred copies of a suggestive pamphlet for work among young people in high school and college. Reed College, Oregon, gave 300 copies of an excellently illustrated statistical survey of American cities, showing illiteracy and foreign-born populations, along with other significant facts. These are but a few of the many organizations that have helped each other through the division of educational extension.

About 11,000 pieces of Americanization literature, almost entirely of concrete specific value in planning courses for teaching immigrants, were sent out to educators in six months. The division also answered daily specific requests for assistance in such matters as the conduct of surveys of civic instruction in State high schools, the finding of suitable university instructors to train teachers, and the finding of suitable courses in universities for individuals desiring to attend summer sessions.

In Massachusetts, Colorado, and Wisconsin the extension divisions. have charge of State programs of Americanization. In other States. the divisions are doing more and more of the work. Wherever educational institutions are doing Americanization work, they can profit by the clearing house service of some central agency.

At least 19 universities and colleges gave courses in Americanization work during the summer of 1919. The division of educational extension received ample testimony to the fact that it appreciably assisted in establishing this new type of instruction. The fact that in the first six months of its existence it had the opportunity to perform this very special kind of service for the Nation indicates something of the possibilities of a Federal division in future emergencies.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED.

University presidents and the members of the National University Extension Association were desirous of continuing the work started by the temporary Federal division. Accordingly the Secretary of the Interior included in his estimates for the department an item to provide funds with which the Bureau of Education could develop a permanent extension service. Congress, however, did not appro

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