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The article focuses on issues related to the publication of the journal "Southwestern Social Science Quarterly," for the period from June 1944-March 1945. The journal has published 22 papers, 30 reviews of books and a number of brief notes on books not given full length reviews. Seven papers dealt with current situations in the Southwestern area of the U.S. Sixteen articles were written by people whose professional relations were largely within the same region.

The article presents information on the content of the papers published in the 1943 issue of the "American Journal of Economics & Sociology." The authors represented in the volume turned out studies many of which added bricks or courses to the temple of learning, and some of which realized, however imperfectly. The journal's goal of co-operation among the various social sciences and related disciplines in the interest of a rational social and economic organization. The journal is more than a 576 pages of progress reports on scientific studies. These reports are made by men and women whose labors, out of personal interest and social responsibility, produced them in spite of the war's added teaching and administrative burdens or despite their contributions toward democratic victory in other roles. The news reports which give indications that some few of these studies already have had influence on informed opinion and public policy in the U.S. are an augury of the possibilities open to the scholar who grapples intelligently with the problems.