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The article focuses on the condition of farm labor in American agriculture. The Congressional decision to allow Public Law 78--the Mexican Bracero Program--to lapse resulted in a dramatic shift in public policy. The new policy course is to deny admission to foreign agricultural workers in areas where unemployed domestic workers are available, or under circumstances which would have an adverse effect upon domestic farm wage levels. Dire predictions were made early in 1965 that many crops would rot in the fields and that consumer prices would soar as a result of what the president of the nation's largest farm organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation, termed as a government-created labor shortage which has increased farm costs and made it impossible to harvest a normal crop." This paper contends such charges are not in accord with the fads. For years the real labor situation in American agriculture has been one in which human resources have been squandered. The foreign-labor importation program only served to aggravate an already serious national manpower problem.

This article presents information on convention program of the Southwestern Social Science Association and the American Business Writing Association joint conference, held in April 1955, in Dallas, Texas. Some of papers presented in the meetings on various topics like accounting, agricultural economics, business administration, sociology, government, geography are: "A Well-Informed and Better-Guided Student," by William P. Carr; "Recent Developments in Accounting Research," by Charles T. Zlatkovich; "Course Content and Conduct," by Emerson O. Henke; "The Southern Farmer and Foreign Trade," by M.D. Woodin; "The Southern Farmer and Current Agricultural Legislation and Regulation," by William A. Faught; "A Comparison of Riparian and Appropriated Water Rights," by Wells A. Hutchins; "A Comparison of Land-Value Theories and the Everyday Operation of the Land Market," by Robert L. Tontz; "Geography of the Rainforest of Western Pichincha and Esmeraldas, Ecuador," by Luis Freile; and others.