Editor's Note.

Sociologist Charles Perry died earlier this year. Shortly before his death, the chief editor of the journal "Rural Sociology" sent him a letter telling him of the chief editor's decision to accept his manuscript for publication in "Rural Sociology." Although saddened very much by his death, the chief editor was glad to know that he knew his manuscript had been accepted by the journal. He will be eulogized by others, Perry was a first-rate scholar, a first-rate reviewer for the journal, and a first-rate human being. The chief editor will miss him personally and professionally rural sociology was better off because of him and will be poorer due to his absence. The manuscript that are being published in the September 1, 1986 issue of the journal was to have undergone some revision by him prior to publication. Since he could not do this, Forrest A. Deseran, deputy editor of the journal, and Mary C. Hester, the copy editor of the journal, undertook primary responsibility for making the needed changes. The manuscript itself, however, is still a product of Perry's, written, largely, in his own inimitable style.