10. The Community Service Agency, headed by Joseph Lee, with
Office at 315 Fourth Avenue, New York City, will help local
communities anywhere in organizing for better use of leisure
time.
11. The Consumer's League, Mrs. Florence Kelley, General
Secretary, with Office at 44 East Twenty-third Street, New
York City, promotes legislation for enlightened standards for
women and minors in industry and publishes important material
for students and workers.
12. The American Home Economics Association, which publishes the
_Journal of Home Economics_ at 1211 Cathedral Street,
Baltimore, Maryland, is an organization devoted to
standardizing the housemother's task and helping toward
efficient home-making.
13. The National Woman's Trade Union League, with Office at 311
South Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, publishes a
journal and other material of special interest to women
wage-earners.
14. The National Health Council, with Office at 370 Seventh
Avenue, New York City, and at 411 Eighteenth Street,
Washington, D.C., issues valuable publications.
15. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, with Office at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and the
National Urban League for Social Service among negroes aim at
helping in problems of race adjustment.
16. The General Federation of Women's Clubs, with headquarters in
Washington, D.C., at 1734 N. Street, N.W., has centres of
influence throughout the country and furnishes the personnel
of many leaders in local social enterprises.
17. The National Council of Women of the United States, member of
the International Council of Women of the World, has
headquarters at the home of its President, Mrs. Philip North
Moore, Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., and includes in its
membership all the leading bodies of organized women in the
country. At its Biennial gatherings reports of work are
presented from all these Associations and afterward published.
18. The National League of Women Voters, the child of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association, has its headquarters at
532 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., with Mrs. Maud
Wood Park as President, and energizes and directs a large
force of women in numerous local Leagues in non-partisan work
for better government.
19. The Woman's Party, with Headquarters also in the National
Capital, aims to secure a Federal Amendment which will wipe
out all sex-discriminations. It publishes much interesting
material.
20. Among the most valuable publications for constant reading for
those who would keep in touch with important social movements
in all fields is _The Survey_, published at 112 East
Nineteenth Street, New York City, Paul U. Kellogg, Editor.
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