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In early 1933 Jay Catherwood Hormel proudly described his rule over the George A. Hormel & Company packinghouse in Austin, Minnesota, as a "benevolent dictatorship." Laborers for the Hormel Company agreed that Hormel's rule was dictatorial, but they disagreed with his use of the adjective "benevolent." In fact, the term "sheer tyranny" was more often used by workers to describe Hormel's labor relations policy within the giant meat packing plant. But in the eyes of local businessmen Hormel's benevolent dictatorship was both economically wise and just. Meat packing was the industry of Austin. In 1933 Hormel employed 2700 of the town's 17,000 residents. Four years later Fortune magazine observed that should Austin ever lose the Hormel payroll "the town would wither away to a few roadside stands and retail stores for farmers." The thought of Hormel moving even a part of his family enterprise from Austin haunted local businessmen. As a result, the town's business establishment provided a worshipful captive audience for Jay Hormel's pronouncements on labor relations. George Hormel attributed his success to a passion for perfection which inclined him toward the use of instructional maxims for his employees whenever he observed them wasting time or materials. Labor relations difficulties were not among George Hormel's management problems. A principal reason for this was Hormel's friendship and openness with many workers, who in turn did not hesitate to discuss their grievances and difficulties personally with him. He shared the humble origins of many of his laborers.

The article reports on the contrasting aspects of recreation for the rich and poor. Factors that contribute to increased recreational participation includes more people, increased amounts of leisure, better education, greater mobility, more money to spend and more favorable attitudes toward leisure and recreation. Money spent on recreational activities includes boating, bowling, television and radio purchases and maintenance, cultural activities and travel. It is commented that leisure is contributing to a classless society in the U.S.

The plight of New York City's poor has been an ever-present problem. Their rapid increase accompanied New York's accelerated growth during the post-Revolutionary years. This condition, in turn, imposed new responsibilities for public welfare upon the municipal government. Public provisions for the relief of poverty in New York began with a provincial poor law of 1665-one year after the British assumed control of the colony. This measure and succeeding legislation of the colonial period, based upon the principles of the Elizabethan poor laws, made local communities responsible for their own poor and stipulated that taxation would be the source of relief funds. The economic and social dislocations produced by the American Revolution imposed obvious strains upon New York's local welfare system. Each year thousands of others came to depend on public outdoor relief and the city's charitable societies. As the number of publicly supported paupers rose, so did municipal expenditures for poor relief, which soon became the most costly item in the city's annual budget.

Emphasizes on the need for compensatory education and social justice for the surplus population of poor people in the United States. Reasons for failure of compensatory educational programs; Purpose of compensatory education; Ways to maximize human serviceability of a society; Role of educators and scholars in educational programs for the poor.

Emphasizes the need to promote the education of the mentally retarded in the United States. Acquisition of education services for retarded children through the collaboration between parents; Development of fundamental social activism within and around special education; Failure of the public culture to meet the criterion of success in the delivery of essential services to the poor.

Examines the role of field teacher as a social critic to elaborate assumptions and activities associated with Neighborhood Learning Centers (NLC) in the United States. Educational problems of lower-class people; Social functions of the school system; Problems faced by special educators; Benefits of the NLC to the culturally deprived people.

Reports on the Experiment in Higher Education, an experimental speech education program conducted by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville for several low-income, under-achieving youth from East Saint Louis, Illinois. Problems faced by the speech program; Ways in which orthodox speech teaching methods and programs were reoriented to meet the problems; Recommendations.

The article presents the results of a study on medical care costs of white and Negro households in the southern rural areas of the United States. It was found that many southern rural families do without any medical care. This is attributed to the indifference of doctors. Most doctors are urban-oriented, accept patients by appointment only, and tend to bypass distant rural home calls. Further compounding the issue are the meager incomes of southern ruralities, the distances they live from available medical help, and charges of town physicians for remote home calls. The data shows that Negroes, largely because of poverty, neglect their health more than whites. They tend to be oriented to traditional and personal values rather than to professional, scientific, and rationalistic values of organized medicine. Southern rural poor whites and poor Negroes have most economic problems in common, including those of medical care. In gross numbers, however, poor white families outnumber poor Negro families in a ratio of three to one, at least in the 27 counties surveyed.

The article presents the new frontiers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. According to the president, the government pledge its best efforts to help the poor people to help themselves for whatever period is required. If a free society cannot aid the poor people, it cannot also save the few who are rich. To those nations who want to be the country's adversary, the Americans offer not a pledge but a request that both sides would start anew the request for peace before the weapons of mass destruction are unleashed. Allow both sides to explore what are the problems that would unite the countries instead of belaboring those problems which divide the people. Let both sides seek to invoke the positive contributions of science instead of its terrors.

The article focuses on the energy crisis in the US. This problem is brought about by the federal legislation imposed on the use of sulfur-containing fuels in power plants to comply with anti-air pollution standards. The restrictions have resulted to lesser fuel for electric utilities so people will face the choice between the occurrence of more brownouts or the limitation of their use of electricity. This social policy creates chaos because middle class citizens have access to more energy while the low income segment is vastly underserved with electricity. To augment the problem, rationalization is preferred rather than power rationing.

The article discusses the impact of nuclear-powered, industrial complexes (Nuplexes) on the society in the U.S. Nuplexes is designated to a difficult-to-describe phenomenon that is expected to come into a physical existence and is considered as one consequence of the introduction of a great nuclear reactors for electrical power production. The author states that it can contribute positively to the people if it will become an institution with an image of its own for which it could gain popular support.

Focuses on the involvement of universities in the process of social change in the U.S. Debate among social scientists on the extent to which a university should respond to the demands of a society; Role of university professors as consultants and evaluators; Impact of behavioral scientists' investigations on the interest of federal government agencies.

Focuses on the functional analysis of social class differences in modes of speech. Collection of data from high and low socioeconomic strata in Detroit; Function of impulsive mode of speech; Differences in the social classes in the U.S.

Focuses on the 1972 presidential elections in the U.S. Significance of the campaign for rhetorical critics; Rhetorical vision defined by political parties in a political campaign; Political rhetorical vision of U.S. senator George McGovern.