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The article reports on certain research papers on social sciences that are published in various periodicals. Social scientist Jesse F. Steiner presents in the November-December "Journal of Applied Sociology" a further aspect of the community problems he has been recently attacking in these columns. His "Critique of the Community Movement" brings three indictments against the modern conception of social control and the host of welfare organizations it has brought into being. In the first place, situations are not adequately diagnosed: assuming after a glance at the more obvious symptoms that all needs are alike one hastily recommends a favorite plan or program as of universal application. Harry B. Ansted in the "Journal of Applied Sociology" describes "The Auto-Camp Community" of Los Angeles, California, type of a new social institution. Camps have grown up largely to meet housing needs, and the problems they raise are those of municipal or private management, sanitary location, proper charges, and restrictions on length of stay.