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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.

This article focuses on the annual meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Society which was held on April 3 and 4, 1942 in conjunction with that of the Southwestern Social Science Association in Dallas, Texas. Round table discussions following the presentation of a limited number of papers featured the meeting. This article also mentions papers presented by different scholars on various social topics in this meeting. Some of the papers presented were: "The Effects of Crises Upon the Emergence of New Patterns in Social Organization," by Robert L. Sutherland; "Research Methods in Historical Sociology," by William L. Kolb; "Needed Sociological Research in Farm Tenancy," by T.G. Standing; "Contemporary Reputations in Scholarship and Science," by Logan Wilson; "Practicability of a Community Bibliography," by Kurt Wolf and Walter T. Watson; "Socialization and the Youth Culture," by N.J. Demerath. The Society voted unanimously for affiliation with the American Sociological Society and elected its retiring president William H. Sewell to represent it on the National Executive Committee.

This article presents the report of the Committee for Liaison with National Council for the Social Studies. The purpose of the Committee of the American Sociological Society for Liaison with the National Council for the Social Studies is to improve the recognition of the interrelation- ships between the science of sociology and the social studies as taught in the schools. Pursuant to this accepted purpose, the following has been done since the 1952 meetings of the American Sociological Society. Meeting in Dallas, Texas, November 28, 1952 in connection with the meetings of the National Council for the Social Studies. Open meeting to be held at Berkeley, Au- gust 30, 1953. National Council meetings in Buffalo, New York, November 27, 1953. Arranged for a section meeting on Educational Sociology for the 1953 Berkeley meetings.