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The article presents an evaluation of newspapers in the United States after World War I and after World War II. The total circulation after World War I declined, and did not recover to the 1918 level until 1923. After World War II however, the circulation and number of newspapers in publication are on the increase. The author believes that not only is this significant, but the increase in news magazine and radio industries have also been impressive. He believes that, were there no shortage in paper during the years of the war, the circulation and number of newspapers being published would have probably been even higher.

This article presents various developments in the field of sociology. The next annual meeting of the American Public Health Association for selection of papers for the Medical Care Section program will be held during October 26-30, 1970, at Houston, Texas may submit their papers. The "Indian Journal of Sociology" is now being published twice a year by the Academic Journals of India, a nonprofit organization. Researcher Harold Capener and Jerry Stockdale are principal investigators for the "Paths Out of Poverty," a rural poverty project at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Two new research projects have been initiated in South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. The first of these is a project dealing with recreation for the state of South Dakota, and the second is a project dealing with low-income families of the poverty program with special emphasis on the surplus commodities aspect of the program. A team in the Department of Rural Sociology, South Dakota State University are developing a team teaching approach to the introductory sociology course of the department.

Harvard University Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin has been named to the advisory council of the Institute of European Studies, a non-profit organization conducting foreign study programs for American college students. Professor Sorokin joins a group of leading United States educators formed during the past year to advise the Institute on matters pertaining to courses, standards and the over-all objectives of its existing and projected overseas study programs. Professor Fred C. Frey will retire on June 30, 1962. The first head of the Department of Sociology, Professor Frey has had a long and distinguished career of serviced to the university and the profession. The University of New England, Australia, has announced that it is providing a course in sociology for the first time this year. The European Society for Rural Sociology announces the publication of its journal Sociologia Ruralis. Publication is twice a year and the annual subscription rate is $6.25. The Twentieth congress of the International Institute of Sociology will meet at Cordoba, Argentina, September 12-18, 1962. Academicians are invited to participate. The theme for this meeting is "Sociology of Societies in Industrial Development."

This article presents report of the editor of the journal "Social Problems." Editors of the journal have attempted to create a specialized journal of high scientific and literary quality in which the reader will encounter significant hypotheses and data concerning the pressing problems of contemporary time. The author states that the journal is interested both in analyses of social problems and in the application of social science theory and research to their solution. The ideal paper, in the journal's view, is one which combines problem-focus, forceful writing, theoretical sophistication, data obtained by valid research methods, and compelling logic. Above all, it should make some addition to existing knowledge. While some papers will be predominantly theoretical and others primarily empirical, the journal look for theory which can be empirically tested and data which have theoretical relevance. Editors of the journal are pleased to find that they are attracting manuscripts by authors in universities and research organizations from all regions of the United States and from a surprising number of foreign countries, including, both Israel and Egypt.

The article provides an overview of the topics discussed in the journal about families in the U.S. and discusses the developments related to the journal. The new volume of the journal is repetition free and covers a wide range of topics and problems. Some sections of the journal are eliminated including Articles in Brief, Letters to the Editor, Abstracts, and Book Reviews to accommodate a range of high quality papers devoted to families. Contributors are planning another special issue for 1965 on "ADOLESCENCE," wherein the materials will come from the Miami Beach meeting held on October 9 to 11, 1964. Also, all back issues of the "Marriage and Family Living" can be purchased in bound volumes.

The article presents an overview of several studies on economic history published in various U.S. journals. The article "Investment in Medieval Agriculture," by M.M. Postan, published in the December 1967 issue of the "Journal of Economic History," arguers that the main reason investment was so small, when thirteenth-century profits from manorial farming were so high, was because the bulk of profits was squandered. The article "Levers and Levelers: Surveying Irrigation Canals in Medieval Valencia," by T.F. Glick, published in the 1968 issue of the journal "Technology and Culture," examines the profession of livelladors in Valencia, Spain from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and details the tools and techniques used in their trade. The article "Town and Countryside in Fourteenth-Century Flanders," by D.M. Nicholas, published in the 1968 issue of the journal "Studies in Society and History,"concludes that the Flemish city state failed because of the almost exclusive preoccupation of the bourgeois with the town and their urban interests.

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.

This article presents information on the periodical "Sociology of Education." The journal published its first volume in the academic year 1963-64. Of the authors published in the journal, fourteen were sociologists, two were economists, two were political scientists, two were psychologists, one was an anthropologist, one was a historian and one was an educator. There were seventeen U.S. contributors and six manuscripts came from abroad. These figures indicate that progress has been made toward establishing a journal which is interdisciplinary and international, as intended. Much remains to be done, however, to expand the audience in the same directions. Consideration by the Publications Committee and the Council of whether some promotional efforts of a special type are not required to recruit a readership from outside the discipline of Sociology and outside the U.S. is appreciated. "Sociology of Education," does not carry a regular book review department. Four essay reviews, each focused on a group of related books, have been commissioned for next year.

This article focuses on the accuracy of impressions of survey interviewers. Many large U.S. universities publish a magazine, usually a monthly, which is intended as a "house organ" for the faculty and employees. In connection with a course in public opinion, the author recently supervised the conducting by students in the course of a survey of the opinions of the recipients of one such magazine, which will be called here the Bugle. The magazine is sent to all academic and nonacademic employees and has a circulation of about 6,000. The Bugle survey was summarized for the control group. They discussed the planning, the sampling, the questionnaire construction, the three methods of data collection, etc. About two hours were devoted to familiarize them with the survey, including examination of the blank questionnaires. Each person made 24 percentage estimates, the mean percentage error of estimate was smaller for the control class than for the interviewers, indicating rough equality of accuracy. The above suggests the possibility that the so-called "estimates" are merely wild guesses, bearing little relationship to the survey results.

This article presents news events related to the field of accounting as of January 1963. An International Conference on Accounting Education was sponsored by the Department of Accountancy and held on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois in October 1-3, 1962. Participants numbering 101 included 59 Amen- can educators, 16 other American and 26 foreign accountants. Thirteen countries were represented. The program consisted of morning sessions on the nature of accounting education, the university and accounting research, and on teaching methods; afternoon round tables were held to discuss the issues raised at the first two morning sessions. Beginning with its spring, 1962, issue, "Business Horizons," a publication of the School of Business of Indiana University, will run a regular feature entitled "Re- search Clearing House." It is hoped that all major business-related research currently in progress or recently completed will be covered in the new section. Persons doing such research are invited to report it to James M. Patterson, Editor, School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

The article presents an overview of several studies on economic history published in various U.S. journals in 1968. The conventional wisdom on the patterns of eighteenth-century seaborne trade has received a strong jolt from G.M. Walton's article "New Evidence on Colonial Commerce," published in the September 1968 issue of the "Journal of Economic History." 1968. If his data present an adequate description of all actual voyages, Walton's findings will require a major revision of the textbooks. In the country west of Philadelphia, the growth of wealth from commerce and land is shown by J.T. Lemon and G.B. Nash, in the article "The Distribution of Wealth in 18th Century America: A Century of Change in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1693-1802," published in the Autumn 1968 issue of the "Journal of Social History." D. Montgomery's article "The Working Classes of the Pre-industrial American City," published in the Winter 1968 issue of the journal "Labor History," touches on matters of interest to students of urbanization and industrialization.

Several studies of sociologists show that approximately one-third of sociologists who have received a Ph.D. never publish an article in a sociology journal. A sociologist who publishes an article once every three years is maintaining average productivity of his field. In the United States, only eight sociology departments have at least a productivity rate of one article per person every two years. Several factors affect sociologists' productivity. These include professional age, sex, prestige of university, size of department, financial support, administrative support, and teaching and administrative responsibilities.

The article announces certain policy changes that are constituted for the journal in the U.S. A new section of the journal entitled "Public Health Briefs" will reflect a moratorium for the receipt of new manuscripts and an innovative plan to deal with those on hand reports. The Executive Board of the American Public Health Association approved a policy on the photocopying of editorial reports published in the journal which grants photocopying privileges for noncommercial purposes of medical, scientific, or educational advancements. The section "Bookshelves" on selected topics will be published four times a year as well as each of the features of "Public Health and the Law and Public Health: Then and Now."

The article provides information on the climatic regions and crop distribution in the U.S. taken from published articles in various journals. The write up "Crop centers of the United States," by A. E. Waller from the "Journal American Society of Agronomy" talks about the origin, cultivation and the variability of maize, the prime cereal of the country. Meanwhile, the article "Forest Centers of Eastern America," by E. N. Transeau cites the distribution of wheat, cotton and wild or prairie grasses across the region. It states that climate and other topographic factors affect the vegetation of crops.

This article presents the annual report of the managing editor of the journal American Sociological Review. Because of the heavy drain on supplies of some of the back issues of Proceedings, as well as some numbers of the Review, the purchase of Proceedings has continued. They are in touch with a dealer who has consistently supplied them with most necessary items and recently offered the opportunity of pick-up a relatively large block of needed volumes. Because of the increase in the number of members and subscribers, it has been necessary to increase the printing order for the Review. Twenty-five hundred copies of each issue are now being printed. At the 1943 meeting the Executive Committee asked that an investigation be made of possibilities of changing the size and format of the Review in the interests of economy. The matter was checked with the publisher, who informs people that the large size page which had been suggested would mean printing in units of 16, rather than 32 pages.

This article presents information about the Annual Business Meeting of the U.S.-based Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, held at Chicago, Illinois, on October 23, 1971. The meeting was called to order by the Society's president. About 70 persons attended the meeting. Minutes of the 1970 meeting were accepted. The Society's executive secretary William D'Antonio presented his report for the year 1970-1971. Record-keeping, including membership lists, has been computerized. The publication of the Society's journal has moved to the University of Montana, which means lowered cost as well as faster service. Benton Johnson, the new journal editor, reported that he is receiving manuscripts at a rate of about 15 per month. The report of the committee on Relationships with other Societies was summarized by secretary Phillips E. Hammond in four statements reflecting both committee and council actions. Thomas Imse was announced as the Local Arrangements chairman for the 1972 Boston meeting, while Charles Y. Glock will serve in that capacity for the 1973 meetings in the Bay Area.