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Information about the Fifth Forest Biology Conference, which was hosted by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) in Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 11-13, 1970, is presented. Topics discussed include silviculture, the effect of phosphorous on the slash and loblolly pine in the South Carolina coastal plain and the evaluation of the wood, fiber and paper properties. Speakers of the event include Bruce Zobel, J. J. Wiley and W. T. Gladstone.

The article comments on the papers presented by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and Leonore Davidoff regarding the history of working-class women and the immigrant families in the U.S. The author states that the two essays have so much bearing on very important questions on the relationships between industrialization, the working-class family, women's and children's work and cultural values. The interpretation of Yans-McLaughlin of the experience of in-migration and work in Buffalo of southern Italians postulates a separation of cultural traditions from economic and social factors.

The article presents several abstracts of various studies related to black communities. The analysis is based on personal interviews dealing with the social problems perceived by black residents of Indianapolis, Indiana. In this survey, unexpected difficulties in retaining black interviewers necessitated using white interviewers to meet project deadlines. Anticipating that the data would reflect the operation of interviewer effect, subsequent analysis paid careful attention to the phenomenon. Ethical issues surrounding research with humans are of concern not only to researchers and professional associations but also to government agencies and the Congress. Another report describes the changing attitudes of executives toward the corporate advancement of women and nonwhites as well as their election to boards of directors, and examines the ways in which executives believe that women and minorities are now discriminated against in opportunities to grow into positions in top and middle management.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the editorial reply to the proposal made by Peggy Finch on the use of recycled paper published in the December 15, 1971 issue.

This article presents list of books received by the journal "Social Forces." some of the books are "Philosophy of Judaism," by Joshua Adler, "Adoptability: A Study of 100 Children in Foster Care," "A Study of Company-Sponsored Foundations," by Frank AM. Andrews, "White and Coloured," by Michael Banton, "China: Lore, Legend and Lyrics," by R. de Rohan Barondes, "Bunyoro: An African Kingdom," by John Beattie, "The End of Ideology," by Daniel Bell, "The People's Choice," by William Burlie Brown, "American Philanthrophy," by Robert H. Bremner, "Marriage for Moderns," by Henry A. Bowman, "The Sociology of Child Development," James H.S. Bossard and Eleanor Stoker Boll, "Handbook of Aging and the Individual," edited by James E. Birren, "Elements of Vital Statistics," by Bernard Benjamin, "Freight and the Metropolis," by Benjamin Chintz, " A Comparitive Study of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents," by Clara Chassel Cooper, "Existentialism and Indian Thought," by K. Guru, and "A Tale of Two Cities," by Charles Dickens.

Focuses on the supposed necessity of the issue of legal tender notes during the U.S. civil war of 1861-1865. Views of member of Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. Samuel Hooper on the issue of legal tender notes; Passage of the Legal Tender Act in the U.S. Congress in February 1862; Arguments in favor of Legal Tender Act over the plan offered by the minority of the U.S. Ways and Means ommittee.

The article throws light on the psychology of attitudes and gives insight into one aspect of newspaper behavior. An analysis of the rumors regarding communist leader Joseph Stalin's real or pretended illness in thirty newspapers in Paris, France revealed that the papers tended to publish rumors that arced with their political attitudes. Anti-communist papers published rumors stressing Stalin's illness and a crisis in Russia; communist papers ignored the subject or carried rumors denying the illness and crisis. Studies such as this might be used as a test for listing and grouping papers according to their political attitudes. Studies have been made repeatedly showing that the news content of newspapers is influenced by their editorial political attitudes. Less attention has been paid to the question of susceptibility to editorial manipulation. The collection of all rumor echoes in daily newspapers was undertaken during a period of four months. All news items, which had a particular character of vagueness, lack of authority regarding their source or outright improbability, were included regardless of whether or not rumor as a source was specifically mentioned.

This article suggests ways in which the content analyst may reduce the size and drudgery of the news-hole task. The main problem involved in calculating the proportions is that of obtaining an appropriate denominator term without spending exceedingly large amounts of time and money in hand-measuring nonadvertising space, or "news hole." The numerator term usually is no great problem, in as much as the space occupied by the relevant categories ordinarily is obtained during the coding process. It was necessary to express the amount of relevant content as a proportion of total news hole. In the organization International Press Institute study, the relevant content was measured in column-inch units, so the news-hole denominator had to be obtained in the same terms. It was discovered that the coders were taking almost as much time per newspaper issue to hand-measure the news hole as they were taking to perform the complete locating and coding job for the foreign news items. Since the denominator data had very limited usefulness compared with the rest of the findings, something had to be done to simplify the news-hole procedure.