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During the period June 1955 to May 1956, 779 pages of editorial matter were published. Of this total 460 pages were of articles, 207 pages were book reviews and book notes, 61 pages were official reports and news, and the remainder 51 pages were miscellaneous. In the indicated period 288 papers were received and 72 published. As was the case for the two years preceding, about one article was published for every four received. The average time between the receipt of an article and final action upon it was approximately seven weeks. Once again the constructively critical work led to the successful revision of a number of papers that might otherwise have proved unavailable for publication. The average interval between the acceptance of a paper and its publication was approximately five months, with a range of three to nine months. As mentioned above, official reports and news used 61 pages, or 8 per cent of the total editorial matter. The Editor renews his recommendation to the Society that these functions be discharged by the establishing of a new journal devoted to items of professional in distinction to scientific importance.

The Public Relations Committee came into being in 1938 as a service agency of the organization American Sociological Society. It was organized to interpret to the press the articles read before the thirty-third annual convention. Thirty-nine articles were received in advance, carefully read and analyzed from a press viewpoint as well as from the standpoint of the society's public relations problems, and converted into a form that would be readily assimilable by the press. The committee's activities have also embraced widespread advance publicity for the convention, including notes in the local newspapers of participants in the convention telling of their role, and above all the making of special arrangements with science editors for newspapers and newsgathering agencies through correspondence and personal contacts. As a result of its efforts, the committee believes that useful strides have been made towards establishing the society's annual convention as a source for scientific news. The volume of editorials, feature stories, news articles, and radio comments a year ago and the interest exhibited this year by newspaper people suggests that constructive interpretation can be done through the press in this highly controversial professional field.

Editorial. Comments on the efforts required to maintain the efficiency of operations and quality of articles of the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior" publication. Recognition of the contributions of the associate editors and the members of the Boyd Printing Company; Plan to continue the policy of viewing subject matters broadly; Aim to solicit papers dealing with social welfare and health; Focus on articles that emphasize matters on social policy; Acceptance of suggestions and criticisms from readers.

This paper reports on a critical survey of the major articles in the first twelve volumes of the Journal. A control paradigm is used as a conceptual organizing device for highly diverse approaches to social conflict originating in the social and behavioral sciences. Six phenomenological areas are examined: international war, international systems, international bargaining, national decision‐making, conflict within and between, and third parties. Alternating sections deal with six central and difficult concepts in the study of conflict: violence, power, utility, rationality, consensus, and guilt. A number of gaps are noted in the material: historical treatments of past wars, a sociology of war, and studies of international trade in relation to international conflict. “Psychological” and “rational” models of decision‐making have not yet been adequately reconciled. Consensus within social groupings, both as a condition and as a process, deserves more careful attention because it involves the “withinness” and betweenness” of conflict. Tentative suggestions are made about a number of other aspects of this complex field of study. Author's Abstract [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a report by the editor of the journal "Sociometry," on the management of the journal. During the period, June 1, 1961 to May 31, 1962, 120 manuscripts were submitted for the first time. Of these, 24 were accepted, 72 rejected, 10 returned with encouragement for revision, and 14 were in process of review on the concluding date. In addition, 10 papers submitted earlier were accepted for publication. The complete review process takes from 6 weeks to 2 months in all but a few cases. Publication of nearly all manuscripts is scheduled 6 to 9 months after acceptance.

The article comments on the ownership transfer of "The Journal of Teacher Education" from the National Education Association (NEA) to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in the U.S. The papers under the journal are those submitted to and accepted by NEA editorial staff under the capable direction of David D. Darland, served as editor of the journal since 1959. The AACTE agreed to honor existing subscriptions and continue the present members of the Editorial Advisory Board.

The article focuses on the current news of American sociological Society. During the coming days additional conferences will be held in the five fields of housing, the church, birth control, literature and lecturing and journalism. The purpose of these conferences is not only to arouse interest in eugenics among leaders in various fields of public activity but to clarify the outlook and program of the Eugenics Society itself. Plans are being formulated for the preparation of a textbook for college use covering the theory and problems of eugenics. Bengali Institute of Sociology: This Institute (Bangiya Samaj-Vijnan Parishat) was established in Calcutta April 4,1937. Its purpose is to carry on sociological study through the medium of the Bengali language; to appoint research fellows and assistants; to publish a journal of Sociology in Bengali and other related purposes.

The article discusses the editorial "The Present Status of Dental Journalism; the Role of Editorial and Advertising Policies in the Campaign for Reform of Proprietary Dental Advertising," by Bissell Palmer, published in the April 1931 issue of "Journal of the American Dental Association." The author discusses comments made by the editor of the publication on this article.

The article comments on the opinion of columnist Inez Robb regarding public education in relation to the Kansan Conference press coverage. Robb's remarks on the period of William Shakespeare as totalitarian was criticized. An excerpt of the published article of Robb was presented. A detailed account on the protest of Professor Roy Harvey Pearce against the column of Robb was cited through a letter which was presented in this article. Other pieces of writing related to the conference were mentioned.

This article presents an analysis of contributors and contributions to three British sociological journals together with some information on the membership of the British Sociological Association (B.S.A.) and of the Association's Committee. The three journals are The Sociological Review (Soc. Rev.), the British Journal of Sociology (B.J.S.), and Sociology, Official Journal of the British Sociological Association (sociology). of the editorial board. The Sociological Review had two issues per annum, the B.J.S. four, and Sociology three. The article has included in the analysis all issues of the B.J.S. and Sociology and all issues of the New Series of the Review, i.e. from 1953. The author is interested in these journals because he assumes that they reflect in a significant way the pattern of British sociological research. The journals, however, include diverse material, some of which is not directly or perhaps even indirectly a contribution to research. The author has includes only articles and research notes from the journals.

The article presents an editorial on dental journalism. Several editorials on the subject published in "Journal of the Allied Dental Societies" are reviewed. The author discusses a dinner with Rodriguez Ottolengui, editor of "Dental Items of Interest," in which Ottolengui defended the system of trade-house control in dental journalism.