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The article focuses on the third annual meeting of the U.S.-based Rural Sociological Society that will be held from December 27-29, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. The topic of discussion on the first day of the session will be "The Concept, Social Process: Its Meaning and Usefulness in the Study of Rural Society." The topic for the second session of the meeting is on the social and community organization aspects of rural planning. Discussions will also be carried out on social interaction of school and community and significant church programs rural communities. Other details of the program have also been provided in the article. The headquarters of the Rural Sociological Society will be at the Chicago, Illinois-based Congress Hotel, where a registration and information desk will be maintained. Members are requested to register upon arrival. Reservations for the meeting should be made early. Standard room rates for the hotel is also mentioned.

Several recent studies have raised interesting questions about the relation of social class position to child-rearing practices. This study, carried out in Chicago, Illinois, in the early 1940s, found the middle class to be generally more severe in weaning and toilet training, and to restrict and put more demands upon the child. Later studies have found several differences, primarily in the direction of more permissiveness by middle class mothers than the Chicago study described. The larger study on stress caused by the arrival of a second child in the family of which this was a part required 50 of the mothers to be expecting a second child at the time of the first interview, and the remaining 24 control families to be matched on a group basis by occupation of father, neighborhood, age and sex of child. Thirty-six middle-class and 38 working-class mothers were interviewed in 1953 about their child-rearing practices. The available evidence is consistent with the notion that a change in child-rearing practices has taken place, and that this change is due to the different reference groups used by the two classes.

Focuses on the building trades conflict of 1900 in Chicago, Illinois. Struggle between contractors and employees of building trade industry; Restrictive rules of the contractors.

This article presents abstracts of research studies intended to be offered at the fourth session of the Scientific Proceedings of the Eleventh General Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) scheduled to be held in Chicago, Illinois on March 19, 1933 that was canceled due to complications caused by the emergency decision made by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to close all U.S. banks, including "Formation of Cavities in Molar Teeth in Rats," "Quantitative Method for Recognizing Bacillus Acidophilus in Saliva," and "Studies on Bacterial Plaques: Apparatus for Testing Porosity."

The article discusses the use of instructional television in the recruitment and training of teachers in the United States. Since 1960, televised teacher-training courses have enabled residents in Chicago, Illinois to make a start toward their goal of eventual teacher certification. Some students began their teacher preparation by watching TV College courses. The article briefly describes the televised teacher-training courses developed and presented jointly by the Chicago City Junior College's TV College and the Chicago Teachers College. The benefits of televised teacher-training courses are highlighted.

The article reports developments related in education in the U.S. The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) has already a membership total of the 1964 membership year. The CEC's board of governors approved the application of the American Association of Instructors of the Blind Inc. as a CEC affiliate. The 42nd Annual International Convention, held at the Morrison Hotel in Chicago, Illinois on March 31, 1964 to April 4, 1964, had registered more than three thousand convention attendees. The Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, otherwise known as the Public Law 88-164, was signed by the U.S. President John Kennedy on October 31, 1963.

The article presents an overview of the report "Sources of Information About the Handicapped: A Guide to Nontechnical Publications," published in 1953 from the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults in Chicago, Illinois.