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Analyses U.S. President Harry S. Truman's suggestion for a bold new program for making benefits of U.S.' scientific advances and industrial programs by extending aid to underdeveloped areas of the world. Interdepartmental battles being waged in the executive departments as to where Point Four activities are to be located and who will be in overall charge; Proposal that the activities will have to be headed up by an entirely new federal agency; Information that the widespread desire of backward countries for mass production brings up the question of large plants versus small; Suggestion that commission should be send to the region under study.

The article reports on the challenges faced by the U.S. in creating an adequate armament for self-defense as it prepares to enter into war. There is an open question whether this country can produce enough airplanes, tanks, coast defense artillery and other equipment, and the men to use them, within the time at its disposal.

Focuses on the attitude of Americans regarding a possible war in Europe. Information about seven policies to prevent war in Europe; Sale of munitions and possibly the extension of loans; Comments on one-sided economic embargoes, applied only against aggressors or treaty violators; Reports on military help for Great Britain and her Allies; Contribution of the readers to the journal regarding the issue of war in Europe; Statement of several people regarding the war.

Comments on the participation of workers in the management and administration of production and in the development of a technique for industry in the U.S. Danger of the industrial situation that lies in the well-nigh universal conviction of impending change; Arguments for a new organization for industry; Implications on industrial relations.

Suggests points for consideration in designing a national power policy in the U.S. Formulation of fair rates based on cost; Assertion on emphasizing public welfare above all else; Application of electric energy to social purposes; Duty of the government to address flood control, reclamation, changes in land use and prevention of soil erosion; Importance of water and soil conservation in national survival; Significance of public control of transmission systems; Contention on providing service at the lowest reasonable cost to consumers; Presentation of principles for effective administration of electric power.

Comments on the attitude of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) chairman Arthur E. Morgan toward public power in the U.S. Career background of Morgan. Accounts on the series of articles written by Morgan devoted principally to the power aspects of the TVA project; Suggestion of Morgan that the power sold by the TVA to the private utilities be resold by them at rates agreed to by the government.

Presents information influence of effects of scientific developments in the field of war and human losses, on the Congressmen of the United States. Sense of validity found in congressmen towards the scientific approach to individual peacetime problems; Report on major bills both providing for a central science foundation having as its concern the development of the mathematical, physical, biological and medical sciences.

Cites the merits of river development and land use programs exemplified by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Regional and international commercial opportunities presented by such projects; Advantages of having abundant low-priced electricity coupled with enlightened land-use; Balancing of individual policy and managerial questions in the light of what is best for the watershed as a unit; Territorial units into which the United States may be divided for the Authority type of administration.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing topics and articles discussed in previous issues. Views of a reader on the United States' stand in the Second World War with reference to the American history; Comments on a previous article published in the October 6, 1941 issue on radio advertising; Reply to a comment on his article on radio advertising by Jesse Rainsford; View that the mental age of the average radio listener may be twelve, as often reported, but there are certain programs, such as "The World Today" and "Information Please," where it is much higher; Agreement of a reader on a previous article related to radio advertising; Question asked by a reader to the journal related to radio policy; View that Bruce Bliven's series of articles related to scientific knowledge on the work now being done by research scientists, "The Men Who Make the Future," has aroused widespread interest; Comments on the editorial "Educate the Army" published in the September 29 issue related to propaganda for the U.S. Army; Comment on the review of the book "My New Order" on Nazi dictator of Germany Adolf Hitler's speeches; Views of Malcolm Cowley on comments related to his review of the book "My New Order"; Information on the organization of a branch of the Union for Democrat Action in the Port Chester, New York, New York City, and Rye, New York; Clarification asked by a reader about Army purge in the United States as reported in the editorial "A Purge in the Army" published in the September 8, 1941 issue.

Focuses on the significance of electricity in the development of modern industry and application in industrial operations in the U.S. Phases through which the application of electricity in industrial operations is said to have passed and areas where it was applied; Benefits of electric control of machines used in an industry; Comparison of mechanical power with electric power; Reference to the book "Organized Labor Production," by Morris L. Cooke and Philip Murray.

Focuses on the retail electric rates in the U.S. Information that excessive price to domestic users for electric service is due to the high cost of distribution; Statement that the electrical industry do not know what it costs per kilowatt hour to distribute energy from a local switchboard or the step-down station at the end of a transmission line to houses, stores and streets; Claim of electric-service companies that they do not keep cost accounts on distribution by such methods as are employed in every phase of the steel, clothing, paper and other industries; Statement that in spite of the dramatic drop in electric costs during the last ten years, rates for the great majority of small consumers have remained practically stationary.

Focuses on the issues concerning standardization of electric rate schedules. Information that there are around 12,000 different kinds of monthly bills, a majority of which are not only unintelligible but fluctuate violently in price for the same amount of current served under like conditions; Proposal of a domestic rate schedule which would combine the three essential elements of reduction, uniformity and simplicity; Distrust among the public by the startling disparities and absurdities revealed by the recent preliminary report of the Rate Survey of the Federal Power Commission; Focus on the need for a standard domestic rate in the report of the Federal Power Commission; Belief that the public plant is the only method by which low rates and abundant use can be achieved.

Focuses on the principles of actions of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding social control of electric utilities. Resistance of the utilities to effective state regulation and by practical nullification of the Federal Water Power Act during the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover regime; Appeal on the method of the utilities in blocking regulation by state commissions to the federal courts; Observation of regulation by competition.

Focuses that public sector in terms of electric industry in the U.S. is reminiscent of hoary age of feudalism and is very anachronistic. Description of various federal power project with emphasis on Muscle Shoals as a symbol of new order because of the twelve years' struggle to determine whether this $150 million plant should continue under government operation or be leased to private parties; Amortization of public plants as a practice approved by the public; Account of the first annual convention of the newly organized Edison Electrical Institute; Reign of chronic bankruptcy and an intolerable load of unemployment with the deterioration of the public sector; Amortization of public plants as a practice approved by the public.

Comments on the Alger Hiss trial, in which Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was accused of infiltration in the U.S. government. Statement that Charles F. Darlington, an assistant chief of the trade-agreements section of the State Department, was the most conspicuous victim of the first procedure; Proof of Hisses residence essential for the second indictment; Opinion on the conventions that put any trial in a certain emotional frame even harder for the jury to eschew emotion, prejudice, bias, sympathy; Impact of the verdict of the trial on the life of Hiss and others charged in the trial.

Presents information on a bill introduced by Senator Andrew Murray calling for the creation of a Missouri Valley Authority (MVA); Division of the functions among the Commerce Committee, the Reclamation Committee and the Agriculture Committee; Disparagement of the legislation by the railroads because it provides for the development of water transportation, ignoring the fact that regionalism, with its promised industrial development, will add immeasurably to the freight to be transported by land; Difficulties of the Department of the Interior; Establishment of general policies by Congress in the original Tennessee Valley Authority Act and in subsequent amendments; View that the action on the MVA bill will decide whether the United States Government is going to go ahead with the development of decentralization techniques or is to face the increasing complexities of centralization.

Focuses on the production of war supplies by the U.S. industries. Risk of failure to produce the maximum possible of needed combat instruments; Use of excessive amounts of critical raw materials and skilled capacity into equipment that can be used only for the production of implements of war; Steps to increase the tempo and output of production for defense two steps are indicated; Suggestion that utilization of the medium-size and small plants in the U.S. would alleviate substantially the severe priorities unemployment problem that is developing.

The article presents the views of the author on reelecting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the presidential elections. The author explained how he has seen developments essential to American peace and progress carried out in the last seven years than in the nine preceding administrations under seven different presidents. He expects to vote for Roosevelt over presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, whom he described as someone who has talked liberalism but has done nothing to fulfill it.

Presents letters to the editor on presidential nominees in the U.S., published in this issue of the periodical. Information on the presidential candidacy of Senator John Kennedy; Nomination of Governor Adlai Stevenson for the President; Reference to the editorial "Those Who Prefer Adlai"; Remarks on a letter on Florida's gubernatorial election.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Criticism of the suggestion of marking down the claims of creditors to the level of present prices in order to control inflation; Argument on the erroneous conclusion of the review of the Brockwood Labor pamphlet; Reference to the fact that the philosophy of most of the Brookwood faculty has been that of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action; Correction to an editorial comment on the cost of electricity published in the February 1 issue; Establishment of a the Film Forum to present unusual, experimental and important films; Formation of an Alumni Section of the National Student League to aid unemployed college graduates; Arrangement for antiwar demonstrations by the American Committee for Struggle Against War all over the United States.