ing a continuous body, which the other Committees of the Yearly Meeting enjoy, we request the Yearly Meeting to direct the General Nominating Committee to name twenty Friends, from the Meeting at large, divided into four groups, whose terms shall expire, respectively in one, two, three, and four years, to constitute a Committee on Central Bureau.

We again call the attention of the Yearly Meeting to the inadequate quarters which the office occupies, with the hope that suggestions may be made which can later be worked out in definite form for our consideration.

On behalf of the Committee,

BENJAMIN F. BATTIN, Clerk.

Our Friend, Septimus Marten, has expressed a desire to visit Women's Meeting; and with this, our Meeting unites and Women's Meeting concurring, he is at liberty to proceed therein, and it is suggested that Fourth-day morning, at the beginning of the session would be a proper time.

The annual report of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor was read and its work approved. This Committee was authorized to draw on our Treasurer in the sum of $600, being the amount requested by the report, to be used by it in carrying on the work in which it is engaged.

In view of the suggestion in the Letter to us from

the Yearly Meeting of Friends, holding its sessions at 4th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, this committee is encouraged to co-operate with other Friends as

way opens.

To Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1916:

The full Committe has met three times this year. The Executive Committee, once in two months, except during the summer. The Sub-committees always meet on the days of the General Committee Meeting, and some of them hold more frequent meetings.

Special effort has been made by the Sub-committees as directed, to expend a share of their effort on work for colored people. The attention given is very gratifying. Nevertheless, many members felt that a loss was sustained by not giving moral support to the cause of the Colored Race, even though specific work was done among them. A special Committee was appointed to thoroughly consider the matter and suggest lines of particular service. After thoughtful deliberation, this Committee reported in favor of maintaining a special Sub-committee as heretofore, with somewhat more definite service than formerly. This action will become effective in the organization for 1916-17.

Appropriations have been made as follows, to inbut in which our Friends are deeply interested: stitutions not under the direct care of the Committee.

The Thomas Garrett Settlement, Wilmington, Del. Spring Street Settlement, Philadelphia, Pa.

Home for Destitute Colored Children, Phila., Pa. Friends's Neighborhood Guild, Philadelphia, Pa. The Schofield School, South Carolina.

The Laing School, South Carolina.

The Sub-committees have contributed subject matter for publication in a general bulletin, which is now available. It is hoped Friends will consider its contents, and that wider interest in the social field may be awakened.

Information has been sought from the clerks of the various Quarterly Meeting Committees on Philanthropic Labor, and the following condensation of reports obtained: Caln, Fishing Creek and Southern, have no organized Committees, though individuals report encouraging work in some quarters. We believe these individual efforts would be strengthened by the appointment of Quarterly Meeting Committees.

As far as reported, 20 Conferences, under the care of Committees, have been held on the subject of Peace, 6 on Temperance, 7 on Equal Suffrage, 1 on Work for Colored People. Barrels of clothing and money have been sent to Colored Schools, and most Friends' Communities have assisted in some way in the relief of War Sufferers. Sewing classes for children, or sewing among women, to make garments for local or foreign use, are reported in a number of

places, Pasadena, California, being included. Burlington Quarter reports much attention to local Charities. In one case, in Concord Quarter, a Friends' Committee assisted in organizing a Charity Association; and one Committee assumes the responsibility for religious meetings held at the Delaware County Almshouse.

Literature is used in all Quarters, but the trend of social endeavor, is generally, to expend effort in more direct ways. In Philadelphia Quarter, the main work is Friends' Neighborhood Guild; though more organized department work is carried on here than formerly.

TEMPERANCE AND TOBACCO.

Temperance and Tobacco literature is constantly on hand for distribution, and may be procured at the Central Bureau. One thousand copies of the Liquor Laws of Pennsylvania were prepared and printed for distribution. One hundred linen posters and one thousand copies of proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, were procured and distributed.

The plan of placing an advertisement in the Swarthmore Phoenix, adopted last year, was continued the present year, the space being devoted principally against Tobacco. One-eighth of a page has been secured in the Scattered Seeds, to uphold our principles concerning both Temperance and Tobacco.

A letter was prepared and sent to all of our Monthly Meetings, calling the attention of Friends to the desirability of spreading our testimony against the use of intoxicants and tobacco in its various forms. Resolutions were adopted by the Committee and published in Friends Intelligencer, urging Friends, both at the Primary and General elections, to pay particular attention to the selection of members of the Legislature, who can be depended upon to vote for better Temperance Laws than we now have; and as such results are forcasted to a large degree by the Primary elections, it is very important to start at the beginning and see that such candidates are nominated, if possible, at the Primary election.

A letter of commendation was sent to Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh for his continued earnest efforts to procure a Local Option Law in the State.

We sent representatives to the National Anti-Saloon League Convention, held in Atlantic City, N. J., last Seventh month, and two members to the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League, held in Philadelphia, First month 18, 1916.

PURITY.

Under the auspices of the Yearly Meeting's Committee, and Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting's Committee, Dr. O. Edward Janney gave a course of five lectures on Sex Hygiene to the boys of the Graduating