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The article discusses the papers that were published in the "American Journal of Mental Deficiency" related to social problems dealing with the mentally deficient. The papers contain articles that reviewed the following: practical state program for the care of the mentally deficient, program of control of the mentally deficient, mental hygiene, family care for mental patients, and study of group of subnormal girls successfully adjusted in industry and the community.

The article shares the author's thoughts on the review of the papers presented to the Association of Mental Deficiency in the U.S. in the past ten years. He relates that it has seemed best to present abstracts of the papers without adding special comments. He expresses his gratitude to the librarian, Hazel Catlin, for helping him prepare the abstracts.

This article attempts to measure the scientific productivity in terms of number of papers published in journals by authors in the field of information science, compared to the publication pattern for science in general. Information science has been defined by the American Society for Information Science as the science that investigates the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means of processing information, for optimum accessibility and usability. According to this definition, information science emerges as an umbrella-like discipline. If the basic professional society in this discipline is considered to be the American Society for Information Science, then its prime indexing journal may be considered to be "Information Science Abstracts," and its prime review vehicle may be the "Annual Review of Information Science and Technology."

Manuscript data and criteria for the October 1971 issue of the "Decision Sciences" are presented. Members of the editorial board are listed together with their affiliations. A table of content is also given. The editorial policy and objectives of "Decision Sciences," the official journal of the American Institute for Decision Sciences (AIDS), are discussed. AIDS is an organization committed to promoting the development and application of quantitative methodology to functional and behavioral problems or administration by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas, experience and information among those who teach in collegiate schools of business and among those who have a special interest in the development and use of quantitative methodologies. The message of the last article of Albert J. Simone as periodical editor is discussed. Simone formally turn over the editorship responsibility to Professor William S. Peters.

In an attempt to discover the effect of newspapers' editorial policies on their coverage of political news, the contents of the Baltimore, Maryland press relating to the presidential campaign were analyzed for the week preceding election day. All four of the papers the morning and evening Sun papers, Hearst's News-Post, and the Negro Afro-American shared the sentiments of the press as a whole that Governor Thomas E. Dewey should and would be elected. But editors of the four, when interviewed, also maintained that newspapers should give equal space to both sides of public issues, when news values permit. The results are interesting in this light, because the two Sun papers actually gave U.S. President Harry S. Truman's campaign equal or greater space than that of the Republicans. From this fact two inferences are suggested, first, that these papers lived up to their standards of impartial political reporting, and, second, that from an objective point of view the Democrats must have provided more news material during the closing days of the campaign.

The article presents information on the Royal Society Catalogue as an index to Nineteenth Century American Science. The Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers is investigated in terms of its coverage of American science journals and American scientists. The Royal Society Catalogue serves today as an indispensable aid for the historian of nineteenth century science. The Royal Society Catalogue lists in the front of volume 1 all the journals indexed; additions and corrections appear in subsequent volumes. Included in that list are the places of publication; it was an easy task, therefore, to determine which were American journals. The number of journals in each decade approximates the general publication pattern demonstrated by the tabulation of American entries in Bolton's Catalogue (referred to earlier), which showed an acceleration in the number of new scientific periodicals.

The term "relevant" within the context of a small-groups course in sociology seemed to mean participating in ongoing groups and observing and gathering data on small groups. Teaching by having students engage in research has also been advocated by articles in "The American Sociologist." The research approach is especially applicable for courses in small groups. But there are too many difficulties in having students carry out research to make research the central feature of a course. In most cases students would not be sufficiently knowledgeable to design and conduct meaningful small-group experiments. This causes problems too difficult for an untrained instructor to handle. The second reason was that while attracted to the learn-by-doing element in such a course, it was equally important to devote class time to covering theoretical concepts, research techniques, and general substantive material. According to the author, the ideal course would expose students to diverse theoretical approaches to small groups while meeting their demand for relevance in the form of group participation and involvement in research.

The morning session of the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, held on December 27, 1928, at the Hotel Stevens, Chicago, Illinois, was called to order by its President. The president stated that he would not attempt a technical address in view of the excellent quality of the technical papers which had been read and were to be read at the sessions of the meeting. "The Accounting Review" was considered by the president to be a publication of which the Association should be proud. The president requested all possible support from members of the Association in support of "The Accounting Review" by way of preparing material for publication and securing additional subscribers. The president felt that certain accounting books which had been published during the past few years had shown a tendency on the part of the authors either to have hurried their work or have been somewhat careless in their statements, so that they had not achieved what might be called scientific accuracy.

The article provides information on the bibliographies of documentation. The publications of the American Council of Learned Societies during the last two years have been prepared on an IBM typewriter and lithoprinted with a minimum of expense. The principal purpose of the operation has been to secure dependable figures on costs. "Article Bibliography," is a 3-volume, 4500 page bibliography, listing or summarizing more than 20,000 scientific papers and reports pertaining to the Arctic, and also official documents, books of exploration, and general magazine articles. "Machine Translation," discusses the present state of research on machine translation in the U.S. The present outlook is that fully automatic translation seems out of the question in the near future; it would require storage capacities of trillions of bits of information or the invention of programming techniques that could greatly increase the machine's efficiency by learning, or some combination of these two factors

The article provides announcements related to operations research in the U.S. The tenth national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America is scheduled on November 15-16, 1956 at the Hotel Mark Hopkins in San Francisco, California. The Johns Hopkins University will award the third annual Lanchester Prize of $1000 for the best operations-research paper published in 1956. Documation Inc. announces plans for the publication of "Management's Documation Preview." Mark S. Blumberg has joined the staff of Stanford Research Institute as an associate operations analyst in its Economics division.

This article presents information on the research papers presented at the annual meeting of National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) in New York City. Most of the research papers were published in the journal "Science Education." One of the research papers related to elementary science was published in the October 1949 issue of the journal. Another paper was pubished in the February 1950 issue of the journal. Next meeting of NARST will take place from February 26-28 in 1950.

This article examines the success of The Sociological Quarterly in becoming more than a regional journal in the U.S. from 1960 to 1970. The journal Midwest Sociologist was an official semiannual publication of the Midwest Sociological Society. In the late 1950s, the need for revamping the form and content of the journal in order to accommodate a flow of papers became increasingly important. Accordingly, in 1960 the Midwest Sociologist became The Sociological Quarterly. The name chosen for the renovated journal was important for two reasons. First, the transition from a semiannual to a quarterly provided a publication outlet for qualified manuscripts that had been delayed or rejected due to space limitations. Second, the adoption of the title The Sociological Quarterly signified an attempt to avoid the regional connotations of the term Midwest and to initiate a journal of general interest and utility to sociologists of varying professional persuasions from all sections of the country. During the decade, the journal has been consistently publishing manuscripts from all parts of the country and can no longer be considered merely a regional journal of limited geographical scope. Data regarding the geographical sources of published papers indicate a steady tendency toward extraregionalism.

The article discusses a bibliography for a seminar on evolution. Colleges and universities in the U.S. teach evolution as a seminar course. Since the field is broad, journals and other papers have appeared with discussions and other necessary data useful to students and instructors alike. Leading evolutionary biologists in America have been welcomed to participate with the recent papers. The contributors include Dean Amadon of he American Musesum of Natural History, George W. Beadle of the California, Alan A. Boyden of Rutgers University, Bayard H. Brattstrom of Adelphi College and others.

It is widely assumed that the sociology of religion is methodologically underdeveloped in relation to the rest of sociology. This paper reports on research undertaken to account for this underdevelopment. The theoretical model used to interpret this relationship is borrowed from the works of Ben-David, and Parsons and Platt. It is a role differentiation model. Essentially, it is contended that the specialty did not fully develop in the United States because a very large proportion of those working in the area have been torn between their scientific and religious commitments. Data are based on a content analysis of articles dealing with religion in nine journals of sociology from 1895 to 1970 and show a general decline in the participation of religionists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents some shorter communications, news and technical notes related to the field of documentation in the U.S. The American Documentation Institute, one of the pioneers in the application of microfilm to the needs of research, has deposited negatives of the following journals in the Photoduplication Service of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. University Microfilms Inc. has announced that Congressional hearings and reports will be photographed during 1952, as the first in a series of the U.S. public documents projected by this producer. Some 200 English literary periodicals of the 17th, I8th, and 19th centuries are being produced by University Microfilms at a subscription cost of $500. for approximately 100,000 pages annually until the series is completed.

This paper considers the attitude of Roman Catholics in the United States of America towards family size and suggests that large family ideals are still being put forward by the Church in publications and periodicals. The second part of the paper considers the attitudes of American Roman Catholics towards family size and shows that though there are indications that Roman Catholics regard slightly larger families as ideal than do members of other religions, the difference is not now very great. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduces the articles published in the June 1941 issue of the periodical "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." Topics of the articles; Authors who contributed to the issue; Periodical's coverage of the events of the First World War.

The article presents the proceedings of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society Council Meeting, Held on Thursday, April 27, 1971, held at the Cleveland-Sheraton Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. Resolutions concerning deceased members of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society should be published as obituaries in the Sociological Focus. Physician Olmstead reported for the publications committee. He indicated that the publications committee was currently seeking a new editor for Sociological Focus. He also reported on the number of papers submitted in the undergraduate and graduate paper competition. At the undergraduate level the committee has selected two CO. President Useem then introduced the topic of convention development It was moved that the principle of establishing an office of executive secretary, and/or business manager (which would be ad hoc for now) be approved. Such an executive secretary and/or business manager will work on the managerial issues of the society. The resolution was passed. The executive committee will designate an acting executive secretary.

The article presents minutes of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society's (OVSS) Annual Business Meeting to be held on May 1, 1970 in Akron, Ohio. The meeting was called to order by president Dwight G. Dean. The minutes of the last annual business meeting were unanimously approved as circulated. Researcher Don Olmsted reported for the Publications Committee. He reported on the functions of the Publications Committee: acting as an editorial board for the OVSS journal, "Sociological Focus," and conducting the OVSS student paper competition. Names of the winners of the student paper competition were withheld until the annual banquet. Sociologist Kenneth Eckhardt reported for the Membership Committee. He reported that the membership of the OVSS currently stands at 795. Frank Westie reported for the Development Committee. His report indicated that the Council had approved the appointment of student members to standing committees. In addition, he reported that the Development Committee would be circulating questionnaires to the membership of the OVSS concerning actions the Society should take concerning major issues in the larger society.

The article presents information on agricultural extension publicity in eleven northeastern Indiana counties. Indiana agricultural extension workers are awakening to an increasing need for study of rural people, so their efforts can be directed toward the realization of desired results with the least expenditure of time, energy and money. So many contemporary agencies are attempting to gain the attention of farm people that constant study of effective ways and means of reaching them is essential. Publicity in such forms as newspaper and farm magazine stories, radio broadcasts, circular letters and post cards, posters, and by word of mouth, is "stock in trade" for all livewire agricultural extension workers. Interviews were made in 294 farm homes, selected at random, at predetermined distances on routes passing through representative sections of the counties. All types of roads, and areas of various land and community characteristics, such as special religious groups or other unusual social characteristics were included on the routes traveled by the interviewers. Only homes in the open country were visited. All family heads and homemakers found at home were interviewed.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual business meeting of the Ohio valley sociological society. Don Olmstead reported for the Publications Committee. He reported on the search for a new editor, the maintenance of the publication, Sociological Focus at the University of Akron, and the exploration of future publication possibilities between the OVSS and other societies. Whereas the innovative and sematic scheme of the program produced interesting and provocative papers and discussions. Be it resolved that Chairman Marvin Olson and Program Committee members Elizabeth Mullins, and John Scanzoni be recognized for their efforts and that their universities be so informed. Whereas, the three year term of office for the following officers of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society has expired, be it resolved that the new officers and membership recognize the extraordinary efforts and contributions made by: Shailer Thomas, Secretary; Charles Westie, Treasurer; John Lindquist Editor of Sociological Focus.

The article presents news briefs related to industrial relations research as of October 1, 1962. Several major developments have taken place in the research and publication program of the University of California Institute of Industrial Relations, including the launch of the academic journal "Industrial Relations." The Management Sciences Research, an affiliate of the institute, has now become a Center for Research in Management Sciences. The field work for a comparative study of local politics and power structure in two New York towns has been completed by Robert Presthus and L. Vaughn Blankenship of the Cornell University Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. Several research projects are being undertaken by members of the faculty of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A series of economic indicators for New Jersey is being developed by the Bureau of Economic Research at Rutgers.

The article presents information on various issues that were raised while presenting a report based on the activities of various publication works on Accounting. The Committee on Publications had a very specific program handed to it for the year, that is to get together, if possible, a volume of papers somewhat similar to the annual proceeding and issue it before the next annual meeting. The Committee had accomplished that task, alter a fashion and it will not be necessary to make very much of a report because in a the publication speak for itself, though, perhaps, not very fluently. The Committee believes, as do a good many of the members of the Association, that an association of this kind could contribute some very valuable material if a proper medium was afforded. The Committee therefore recommends, first, that beginning with the coming big year the Association publish a quarterly magazine of eighty to one hundred pages per issue, the publication to be handled entirely and solely by the Association. This proposal rises at once the question of cost.

This article presents an annotated collection of bibliographical notes on and abstracts of books and articles pertaining to the various aspects of the organization of information, which is the eighth installment of the bibliography compiled cooperatively by the Committee on Organization of Information of the American Documentation Institute. The "American Printer," published in December 1951, reportedly, covers printer's buying guide and directory issue. Documentalists are advised to scrutinize this issue of American Printer. The "Inquiry Concerning the Professional Education of Librarians and Documentalists" is a final report to the Joint Committee on Professional Training of the International Federation of Library Associations and of the International Federation for Documentation on an inquiry conducted with UNESCO's support. It, reportedly, discusses the state of professional training for librarians and information officers and their status in many different countries and also the varying qualifications and means of selection for the profession and current curricula and textbooks.

Does administration, in its various fields of research and practise, draw upon a common, central body of theory? What are the commonalities, if any, that span the administration of business firms, voluntary organizations, governmental agencies, public school systems, universities and other organizations? These were the concerns of a faculty seminar held by the University of Washington, in June, 1965 at a resort location. Fifteen faculty members of the University participated, drawn from the fields of economics, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, law, business administration, public administration, educational administration and military administration. To provide points of departure for the discussion, participants were invited to submit working papers for circulation to the members of the seminar. These were intended to epitomize the contributor's approach to his field of administration, or in the case of the basic disciplines, the relevance of his discipline to administration. Discussions were informal. After two days of canvassing the basic disciplines and the attitudes of members identified with the administrative profession, the group applied itself to an estimate of points of substantial agreement.

The article presents information about discussion on topics related to policies on teaching economics and regulated industries. United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) wishes to ascertain the opinions of American economists regarding economic programs it had best undertake in the future. Accordingly, UNESCO and the American Economic Association (AEA) have scheduled a joint session at the Association meetings in Chicago between December 28, 1964 and December 30, 1964. Meanwhile members of the Association are invited to submit written proposals for consideration by UNESCO. Some of these will be discussed at the joint session, together with the role of UNESCO in the field of international economic inquiry. A panel discussion may be utilized. Arrangements have been made for an art exhibition in conjunction with this year's Annual Meeting of the AEA. The Division of Forest Economics and Policy of the Society of American Foresters is in process of compiling a worldwide directory of workers in the economics of forestry.

Reports on developments concerning speech communication in the United States. Western Speech Communication Association's 43rd Annual Convention on November 18 to 21, 1972 in Hawaii; Back issues of the periodical "Western Speech".

Focuses on the magazine published by Joseph Gales and William W. Seaton, the editors of the magazine 'National Intelligencer,' in 1860. Role played by Gales and Seaton in preserving the executive and legislative documents of the U.S.; Various facts related to the publication of the magazine; Terms for the publication of various journals.

The article presents information about political economist Henry George. He came of age on September 2, 1860. Being no longer a minor, he was able to get the wages of a journeyman printer and join the Typographical Union. For a fortnight or so he held the position of foreman on "The Home Journal" at $30 a week and was able to send money home to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Then came a long spell of intermittent work. He had no mind to change his frugal habits. He hated parties. He was poor at dancing, worse at small-talk, and took no stock in flirtation. Henry George had always given his sympathies to the Union cause and now he was anxious to join the colors. His restiveness over the war, remote as it was, was to grip him for some time. The significance of the conflict had seized him. The youth was now passing through another period of hard times. With one hundred dollars he had managed to save he had bought, in partnership with five other young printers, a small paper that they renamed "The Evening Journal."

This article reports that the Editorial Board of the journal "Education for Teaching" welcome the opportunity to explain the policy of the journal. Journals concerned with teacher-training, or sponsored by teacher-training institutions, have had a checkered career in the U.S. "The Journal of Experimental Pedagogy," for example, which was sponsored by the Training College Association, published many distinguished papers but eventually disappeared. When the system for training teachers was reorganized after the war the new Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education (ATCDE) published "The Bulletin of Education," a miscellany of articles on training, papers on other aspects of education, reviews, and Association news. It was decided that the ATCDE journal should concern itself primarily with the problems of teacher-training and that the title should consequently be changed to "Education for Teaching," which also reflects the general acceptance of the broader aim implied by the word education as opposed to training for teachers.

This article presents sociological concepts published in different periodicals. If the existing tendencies toward peace can be organized as fully as the tendencies toward future wars are organized, the hardest task of this generation will be accomplished, writes C. Delisle Burns in the September-October 1924 issue of the "American Review." He sees three spheres of work, governmental policy, education, and labor organization, open to efforts of those who are trying to abolish war. In thus educating the world for peace the available moral leadership of the U.S. will have to be called out. With Canada and the other white parts of the British Empire, a cooperative scheme can be worked out that shall operate under principles, says W.B. Smith in a thoughtful paper from the November issue of the "Educational Review." The presence of more than a million drug addicts in the country has shown that this evil cannot be stamped out by forbidding the importation of narcotics, but only by restricting the cultivation of plants from which they are made.

The article reports on the acquisition of the journal "The Plant World" by the Ecological Society of America in the U.S. It says that the acquired journal bears the title "Ecology". The acquisition made the journal as the organ of the Society and will publish papers both on plant and animal ecology. Furthermore, the Plant World journal has always published several ecological papers, and its successor, the Ecology journal may now be expected to become one of the main outlets for American ecological work.

It will be recalled that the second year of publication of the journal "Sociometry" by the American Sociological Society showed a slight decline in subscriptions and in the numbers of articles submitted for appraisal. This year the circulation loss of the second year has just about been recovered. As of June 1, 1958 there were 1,266 subscriptions as against 1,151 for the previous year. Most of this gain is in library subscriptions. The number of articles submitted as of June 30, 1958 totals 101 as against 89 at this time in 1957. Of the 101 articles submitted, 22 have been published or scheduled for publication; four are in process of revision for resubmission; 23 are under review and 52 have been rejected. Because of the difficulties the Waverly Press was having in meeting publication schedules, it was decided this year to contract with the Boyd Press for publication of the journal. Readers have no doubt been aware that recent issues have appeared on or ahead of schedule. A number of additional encouraging signs merit reporting. There is now a modest backlog of articles that are ready for publication. This enables the staff to plan an issue ahead in scheduling. It is hoped that when the new editor takes over he will have at least one issue all ready to go, and thus have time to become oriented before going immediately to press.

Information about papers discussed at symposiums put on for the U.S. Regional Finance Associations is presented. Mentioned are meetings held for the Appalachian Finance Association, the Midwest Finance Association, the Southern Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association. Listed are the officers in attendance at the meetings, and the descriptions and authors of the papers read at the symposiums.

The present editor of the journal "American Sociological Review," assumed his duties, officially, in January 1958. This first report, however, must record important preliminaries, including the encouraging and helpful advice of the former editors, Frank H. Hankins and Maurice R. Davie. While in Los Angeles, California last June, he studied a model of editorial skill and objectivity, the work of Leonard Broom, retiring editor, Gretchan Broom, exemplar of efficiency, and their colleagues, whose delightful hospitality matched their informed discussions of editorial procedures and problems. The transcontinental shift of the "American Sociological Review" during the fall of 1957 established the Brooms as masters of logistics and the current staff as their grateful beneficiaries. The latter neophytes are also indebted to Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., chairman of the Publications Committee, Matilda White Riley, Executive Officer, and the Associate Editors, whose wise and generous counsel is always at hand; and to Henry Quellmalz of the Boyd Printing Co., who expertly converts the proposals of a new editorial staff into the reality of a publication. Such proposals include, alteration of the cover design, beginning with the February 1958 issue but continuing on an experimental basis; substitution of the division, research reports and notes, for the former notes on research and teaching; and introduction of the division.

The United States (U.S.) geoscience literature is employed as a vehicle to study the phenomenon of obsolescence. Problems investigated include the classical and ephemeral aspects of subject literatures, diversity among narrowly defined literatures within broadly defined subject literatures, and the effect of literature growth on obsolescence. Comparisons are made: 1. among time-frequency bibliographs based on citation counts from each of twelve major journals published in 1969; 2. between bibliographs of three major journals for the years 1969 and 1949; and 3. between uncorrected and corrected obsolescence curves. Each journal yields citation patterns comprised of both an ephemeral and a classical literature component. Within this framework apparent obsolescence varies across a broad spectrum, from physics/chemistry-oriented geoscience subdisciplines with relatively short "half-lives," to those biology-oriented with relatively long "half-lives," Obsolescence rates of traditional geoscience fields seem to vary little between 1949 and 1969 in contrast to thor of fast-changing fields such as solid earth geophysics. The relationship between obsolescence curves uncorrected and corrected for growth suggests the operation of factors that control research fronts. The effect of literature size on obsolescence, though minor for the recent literature, is more pronounced for the classical literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article compares the contributions of various business schools in the United States to leading scholarly journals of business based on the averages of institutional rankings across the principal functional areas from the periods 1961 to 1965 and 1966-1971. In order to have an overview of the total scholarly contributions of the top business schools, the simple averages of their rank orders in the fields of accounting, finance, marketing, management science and operations research, and personnel management and administrative science were computed. The various schools were then listed in ascending order based on their average ranking over the five fields.

The article announces that "The Journal of Social Sciences" will discontinue publishing the Supplement Series of the Lewin Memorial Award Addresses. In the past, presidential address has been distributed to Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) members through a direct mailing of stencilled or multilithed copy. However, these copies tend to get lost in the mess of papers and reprints in personal files. Therefore, the journal will request of each president that his annual address be published in the journal. Events in the field of television in the United States are moving ahead rapidly due to the ferment created by government agencies through its regulatory groups and educational programs. The present collection by Lotte Bailyn will contribute to the discussion of social uses of television.

The article presents information about the paper "The Armed Forces Medical Library: Its Services to Medical Officers," that appeared in the September 1954 issue of the U. S. Armed Forces Medical Journal."

The article presents historical analysis of trade union press. Labor journalism has come a long way since the appearance of the Machinists and Blacksmiths International Journal in 1863. With more than 600 publications and an estimated readership exceeding 20,000,000, the union press wields a major influence on the American public. Today the union press is read by union members and the general public in steadily increasing numbers, and the frequency with which it is quoted by reporters for the daily newspapers, editorial writers, and others indicates that these publications have something of broad interest to tell the American public. Among the 600 publications there is a wide variety of organizational sponsors. Papers and/or magazines are published by the national federations such as the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O.) and the associated railroad brotherhoods; by national unions such as the Steelworkers, Automobile Workers, and Carpenters; by districts of various unions; and by state, county, or city A.F.L.-C.I.O. federations, as well as by local unions.

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The article presents the results of a survey made in February, 1967, of the journals currently received by the business libraries at 26 of the best known and most productive business schools in the United States. A simple questionnaire was sent to the librarian of each school's business library, and 24 usable responses were returned. If a school ever expects its master's or doctor's students to research professional standards in this country, copies of many of these state society journals must be made available. Moreover, leading accounting practitioners and educators are regularly invited by state societies to talk before annual conventions, chapter meetings, or special seminars, and their papers may be published only in the state society journal. With the recent interest in international accounting, libraries have begun to subscribe to non-U.S. journals. While one might conclude from this survey that libraries are doing quite well, it should be remembered that these libraries are located at 24 of the most prominent and productive schools.

Presents a paper that focuses on the spread of French ideas in middle-class America by Louis Antoine Godey's magazine 'Godey's Lady's book' during the decade 1830-1840. References to French life and manners in the magazine; Inferences drawn from the study of Godey's French material; Subjects of the verse published in Godey's magazine; Receptive attitude of America in regard to romantic France.

In the November issue of the American Journal of Sociology appears an article on "Social Science Abstracts," by Professor F. Stuart Chapin, describing factors which led up to the establishment of an international cooperative effort in which more than 1,700 scholars participate. It is noted that this journal publishes 15,000 abstracts each year, based upon the systematic examination of about 400,000 articles contained in 4,000 serials printed in 26 languages. The processes of selection, checking, assignment, follow up, recording, editing, proof reading, and correspondence as well as the business activities of financial management, bookkeeping and circulation, take the full time of twenty persons on the central editorial staff. The Social Science Research Council at its annual meeting in Hanover, New Hampshire, held during the first week of September, adopted the following declaration with respect to research in colleges. The Social Science Research Council is thoroughly In accord with the view that the primary functions of the American college relate to teaching rather than to research, but the Council is deeply concerned none the less with the policies under which American collegiate education Is being conducted.

This article presents several news and announcements made at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Sociological Association on January 10, 1965, in Washington. It reports that the Association's committee has announced to establish a new publication to be called "The American Sociologist." These actions were followed by consideration of the financial aspects of the problem by the Committee on "Budget and Investment" at its meeting in Chicago on October 19, 1965. It is reported that the American Sociologist will be a quarterly publication appearing in November, February, May and August. This will carry all official records and documents of the Association, such as the minutes of the Council, Executive Committee and business meetings, announcements of nominations and elections, reports of Committees and of official Association representatives to other organizations. It will also include the news and announcements about activities in university and college departments, fellowship openings, research grants, activities in the federal government of interest to sociologists, and similar materials.

This article presents the proposed "Washington Newsletter" by the Committee on policy Communications of the American Economic Association. Objective of the newsletter; Prototype of the newsletter; Date when the prototype was made; Contents of the sample newsletter.

This article presents a report from the managing editor of the journal "American Economic Review" for the year ending December 31, 1970 in the U.S. It summarizes the contents of the four regular issues of the journal during 1970, comparing it with the previous year as well as the number of manuscript submitted an published in 1951-1970. The distribution of submitted and published manuscripts by subject matter and the costs of printing the journal are shown. The editor also presented the actual and budgeted expenditures in 1965 to 1971.

This article presents a list of new periodicals related to economics published in the March 1960 issue of the journal "American Economic Review." The periodicals in the general economics section include "Theorie und empirische Forschung in der Sozialwissenschaft," by B. Fritsch, "Professor Shackle on Time in Economics," by B.S. Keirstead, "Les objectifs de la politique économique," by E.S. Kirschen and L. Morissens, "Professor Shackle on the Economic Significance of Time," by L. Lachmann, "The Present Position of Economics," by L. Robbins, "The Methodology of Positive Economics," by E. Rotwein, "The Politics of Political Economists," by G. Stigler and "Science and Welfare in Economic Policy," by F. Zeuthen. The periodicals in the price and allocation theory, income and employment theory, related empirical studies and history of economic thought sections include "Shackle's System and Theories of Business Cycles," by J. Aenman, "Utility, Risk, and Linearity," by G.C. Archibald and "Formal Criteria for Investment Decisions," by M.J. Bailey.

This article presents a list of periodicals on economics published in June 1, 1954 issue of the journal "American Economic Review." Some of them are "Capital Maintenance and the Concept of Income," by G.F. Break; "Some Comments on the Current State of Price Theory," by C.M.F. Bruce; "An Investigation into the Dynamics of Investment," by R.W. Clower; "The Theory of Effective Demand in the 1920's," by D.J. Coppock; "Price Policies and Theory," by E.R. Hawkins; "The Retarded Acceptance of the Marginal Utility Theory," by E. Kauder; "Concerning Utility," by C. Kennedy; "Replacement in the Theory of the Firm," by G.A.D. Preinreich; "The Production Function and the Theory of Capital," by J. Robinson; "Prices of Factors and Goods in General Equilibrium," by P.A. Samuelson; "Static Equilibrium Theories of Saving," by B.R. Shenoy; "A note on Depreciation, Replacement, and Growth," by E. Schiff; "A Note on the Price Level and Interest Rate in a Growth Model," by R. Solow; "Some Questions About Growth Economics," by L.B. Yeager; "The Role of the State in Underdeveloped Areas," by C. Gamba.