NEWS NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The article presents information on various developments related to rural sociology. On September 15th and 16th a meeting of the Rural Sociological Society was held at the Statler Hotel, St. Louis. The Farm Economic Association met at the same time and place. Section meetings were held on the following topics, Sociological Aspects of Rural Health, Extension Work in Rural Sociology, The Neighborhood as a Unit of Organization for the Promotion of State and Federal Programs, Rural Sociological Research in Wartime, and Rural Social Change in Wartime. In accordance with the results of the poll conducted last winter, the ballots collected in the fall of 1942 were opened and the officers elected at that time were installed. In another development,an institute on the post-war problems of youth migration was held in Washington, on May 26 and 27, at the National Education Association headquarters. More than fifty federal and local agencies were represented. While Karl Brandt, economist and professor of agricultural economics in the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, was elected president of the Western Farm Economics Association for the year 1943-4 at their annual meeting.