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Focuses on land reforms in the U.S. Advantages of giving land to the few instead of the many; Efficiency of large farms; Suffering of the vitality of community life in rural America because of poorly distributed land; Details about a study which found that communities in small-farm areas have a more sizable middle class and stable income patterns; Causes of land concentration in the south and west; Need for land reform in the country.

Focuses on the need to create a national system of adult education in the U.S. Qualitative and quantitative problems which can be faced in creating the system; Efforts of organizations as the American Association for Adult Education and the Workers' Education Bureau to provide adult education programs in the country; Method of teaching which should be used for adult education; View that Americans would learn to study if they would read properly the great books; Development of a scheme of teaching by the San Francisco School of Social Studies, on the basis of this view; Selection of books which solve human problems; Provision of guidance in the study of the books selected; Method of guidance used by teachers to develop the power of reading in students; Suggestion that separate books should be related in some way that, when taken together, they give the elements of a coherent and unified study of community life as a whole.

Focuses on the conditions of social workers of Hull House, a social settlement house founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, by social worker Jane Addams. Decline in living conditions of the relief workers; Plight of a girl after she left her job with a real estate man; Struggle of an family including an elderly man who was on his death bed due to a tumor; Efforts of a family of five members to live in a basement of three rooms; Request of a woman for a midwife to relief workers despite of their provision for a doctor; Hotels allotted to single men for their abode; Description of the facilities and patterns of these hotels; Provision of shelter to homeless Negroes in Angelus Building of the South Wabash Avenue in Chicago; Details of the facilities available in the building; Bitterness in antagonism between property and poverty in New York; Community life of Chicago compared to that of New York.

Focuses on social life in Tepoztlan, a little town in Mexico. Details of the route by which the author reached Tepoztlan, during his visit tom Mexico; Reference to the god named Tepoztecati, who is worshipped by people of this town; Description of the natural beauty of the town; Information on the town's architectural wealth; Kind of houses built by the Indians; Features of the Mexican churches; Comparison of the community life in Mexico and the United States.

Focuses on a British document known as the Balfour Declaration. Endeavors to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people; Information that community life in the cities and colonies has acquired all the intensity associated with the Jewish temperament; Dependence of the larger part of the Jewish population on the financial support of the Diaspora; Information that Palestine not only carries a share of the Ottoman Empire's War indemnity, but helps support a frontier military force stationed in Trans-Jordan; View that the Zionists cannot resist attempting to better the condition of Arab labor.

Focuses on the value of farm land and the prices of farm products in the U.S. according to the Census Bureau. Assessment of agricultural techniques used in farming; Means of improving the operations of farms; Assessment of the formation of cooperative associations to help the organization of social and community life.

Describes the society life in the United States. Composition of the society group of any American community; Differences in the psychology of society groups; Elements of business in the American society; Roles played by the sexes in the society life; Economic standards in special modes of living; Distinctions between American castes.

Reports that the attempt of the Nazis to seize power in Austria has been checkmated temporarily for the united opposition of England, France and Italy, which is a potential threat to the Viennese socialism. Rivalry among these powerful countries to gain their control on Austria; Evolution of civilized community life in Austria following the World War I; Changes in regime of Danube River Valley of Austria; Recognition of the Austrian Heimwehr as the sole organized force which could be used by the Austrian government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to combat the Nazis in Austria; Differences in Rightist and Leftist parties of France for an agreement with Italy with respect to their control over Austria.

Explains that public schools in Gary, Indiana provide for every kind of child in the community and draw into themselves the main aspects of the community life. Children are at school because what can be done there is so interesting they cannot stay away; Tone is of a glorified democratic club where members avail themselves of privileges which they know are theirs; Children run and play in the halls while their parents study in the evening school; Democratic public sense is the motive of educator William Wirt's genius; Schools are managed like any other public service.

Presents information on a lodge night of Olympians in the Centre Hall. Report that lodge night for the Olympians plays no favorites as it belongs to both the cities and the towns; Information of the interior of the Centre Hall; Report that the Centre Hall is common ground, the trysting of many clans; Report that lodge rituals revolve around the telling of a twice-told tale; Report that in a lodge less picturesque than the Olympians they might bear humdrum titles; Information on the night rituals performed by the spiritual leader Jove; View that even in the villages, factory, radio, motor car and moving picture are pushing sections of the old communities apart, sandwiching new interests in between.

The article focuses on the reaction of the White residents of Wabash Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia on colored people moving to their locality. Wabash Avenue has become a no-man's land, with whites afraid to buy houses there because of the proximity to African Americans and African Americans afraid to buy their because it was still white territory. African American are now living on Wabash Avenue for several moths but there have been no incidents. The white folks on Wabash are quiet. The White families are going to move from the Wabash Avenue and it would be inhabited by colored people.

Relates the treatment of Samuel Earp, a blind person by his sister in-law. Insult for being dependent on other people; Personal injury suffered from the assault of the blackguards on strike; Opinion about the failure of businessmen to recognize their responsibility to the community; Preservation of law and order by the solid class of the community; Discussion about men's rights by allowing violence and disorder.

Focuses on the attempts of Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), to solve the problems facing the low and moderate income groups. Emphasis on local control; Reference to a drive in favor of furniture for low income people; Organization of committees to deal with the prime problems of the neighborhood; Increase in the number of ACORN groups; Establishment of regional offices; Fight against Arkansas Power & Light and White Bluff Power Plant in Arkansas to prevent the hazardous emission of sulphur; Increase in the political clout of ACORN; Change in role from enforcement of lawsuits to passing legislation to benefit its constituency.

Discusses the distress of Japanese Americans living in the U.S. during the Second World War. Focus on sabotage and unrest among the Japanese evacués at the Jerome Relocation Center in Denson, Arkansas, involving waste of food, slowdown strikes and expressions of hostility to the officials in charge; Information on a mimeographed newspaper published by Japanese Americans that seems to be a mirror of their community life; Rumors that the evacués were being granted privileges denied to the general public; Tragedies of Japanese Americans are chiefly spiritual, since the government seems to be providing for their physical needs.

Presents a letter to the editor about community life in small-farm areas.