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Highlights incidents of violent crime committed by ordinary citizens in the U.S. Examination on the state of mind of violent criminals; Number of people killed by Charles Whitman; Explanation that incidents of violent crime tend to establish the image of the U.S. as of violent and socially discordant country; Role of culture in the incidents of violent crime.

Cultural innovation in the U.S. is becoming more and more the captive of youth who are profoundly alienated from the adult society. Most of what is happening that is new, in any sector or field of the society is very largely the creation either of the discontented young or of those who address themselves primarily to the young. About 50% of the U.S. population is now under 25 year old. The young seem to feel the potential power of their numbers as never before. There have been many factors other than the force of the market in intensifying this age consciousness.

This article presents information on the extreme change that has taken place in the last ten decades in the mindset of people as far as their views on social responsibility is concerned. It is opined that students these days are turning their backs on pain and repression. Today's generation is more concerned with attaining the short term goals of their lives. The author opines that in moral and political terms, this generation, facing death on the one hand and superfluous wealth on the other, wants simple purity above anything else.

The article reports on the impact of the land shortages in the U.S. in 1972 on businesspeople and urbanists. It states that the condition has caused new pressures to real estate developers due to the opposition of environmentalists on their land use plans. It mentions that the dispute is already common all over the country because the misuse of the resources has already affected environmental quality.

The article presents information on various developments taking place across the world. Southern region of the U.S. is divided in three unequal social parts. First are the partisans of the past, massive, angry, fear-ridden and stupid. Second are the silent onlookers, numerous, unhappy, irresolute and uncommitted, captives of manifold misgivings and apprehensions Third social group consists of the brave Afro-Americans and white, standing alone, conscious of their isolation but not of their power.

The article focuses on the participation of diplomat Adlai E. Stevenson in the presidential elections in the U.S. Several democratic parties have differences with him on several important issues. Their chief difference with Governor Stevenson is on his handling of the issue of communism. He seems to be exaggerating both the danger of communism in America and the measures required to deal with it. Communism is an anachronism in the U.S. It offers no threat to a highly industrialized, highly productive economy so long as that economy functions effectively to provide a decent standard of living, and so long as individual liberty continues to flourish under democratic safeguards.

This article presents information on the educational policies of the U.S. It has been increasingly opined that the current educational policies in the U.S. needs a facelift. However, it is not quite easy to determine the direction of the change which would leave a positive impact on the society as schooling is widely believed to influence the beliefs and conduct of more or less plastic members of a society. Therefore, changes in educational programs are to be handled responsibly as it will determine the direction of social progress. It is suggested that introduction of contemporary social issues in educational curricula will help to prepare students to cope with various social conflicts prevailing in the society these days.

Examines the impact of progressivism in the politics of Great Britain and the U.S. Setback received by Liberals and Labor in Britain and the Democrats and Progressives in the U.S. in recent elections; Argument that unless progressives in both countries understand the reason for their voting inferiority and search for the processes and motives whereby public opinion is formed, they will remain at a disadvantage; Failure of the British Labor party and of the U.S. Progressives to allow questions of political and economic power to become the subject of partisan controversy; Role of the growth of Labor party in Britain and farmer-labor party in the U.S., in changing the form of political conflicts to the struggle of economic groups.

Focuses on the conference on the Christian Way of Life held at Lake Mohonk in New York. Possible disruption of cooperative civilization through the morbid condition of racial, international and class conflicts; Stimulation of professing Christians to the need of associating the salvation of the individual soul with measures of social amelioration; Application of Christian principles to industrial controversies; Failure of the Christian churches to derive from their gospel of peace and understanding a method of appeasing.

Focuses on the socio-political and economic conditions across the world. Discussion of the intervention of the United States in Mexico; Views that the U.S. activity in Mexico guided by economic interests; Change in Government in Great Britain as Ramsay MacDonald takes over with a minority behind him; Doubts over whether Richard Poincare, Prime Minister of France would be able to finish his term; Views of politicization of relief work going on in Germany after its debacle in the first World War; Views that the devaluation of franc, the currency of France caused by political manipulation;Propaganda in the United States that the tax revision plan proposed by the U.S. Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon is gaining strength; Truth that opposition to the proposal gaining momentum; Statement of the formation of class conflict as a result of the plan.

Presents the diary of events as a miner and his family face the ordeal of sustenance as unemployment grips the United States and the courage of the family to face all odds. Suspension of the miner on account injury; Optimism in the family that they will be able to make both ends meet; Refusal of the grocer to give them groceries, free of cost; Difficulties in finding a job; Failure of the attempts by his wife to find a job; Chore as a road work on a meager wage; Loss of dwelling as their rented accommodation is to be converted to a parlor since it is more profitable; Situation of hand to mouth; Robbery of money earned; Views that everything in the society is corporation, organization and demoralization; Lessening of individual responsibility leading to reduced individual morality; Society regarded as the natural enemy of an individual who is demoralized because of his inability to fulfil the needs of his family; Comments that their is something wrong with the society which instead of permitting strong men to contribute to the society drives him to prey upon it.

One of the chief industries in Kobe-shi, Japan is shipbuilding, the biggest shipyard being the Kawasaki, employing over 17,000 wage earners. With their long experience in associated action, the Kawasaki workers are among the most advanced in Japan in experience of an organized class struggle, understanding of the social position of the workers and capacity for and possession of labor idealism the conception of a truer freedom for the workers. In September 1919, it was the Kawasaki workers who introduced a new tactic of sabotage and eight-hour-day into labor's struggles in Japan. Both tactic and system are being put into effect in many industrial enterprises throughout Japan and is favorably affecting the living and working conditions of over half a million Japanese wage-earners.

While the current clash of values in the public arena is most acute over environmental issues, the same basic problem pervades all social conflict where one group perceives itself as disadvantaged because of another; it embroils businessmen, government officials, and aroused citizens in growing ferment over a wide range of disputes. These conflicts can only be resolved, maintains this author, when parochial views on all sides give way to a broader perception of the common interest. She presents the essential elements of a much needed infrastructure for mediating potentially volatile confrontations, predicated on transforming them into learning experiences for all citizens, and suggests how we can go about reorienting our systems for the expression of social choice on a more sensitive human scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The job of operating a family-owned company is often grievously complicated by friction arising from rivalries involving a father and his son, brothers, or other family members who hold positions in the business, or at least derive income from it. Unless the principals face up to their feelings of hostility, the author says, the business will suffer and may even die. He offers some advice on how relatives can learn to live with their peculiar situation. But he concludes that the only real solution is to move toward professional management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the prime sicknesses of America's central cities is lack of jobs. But most of the unemployed are unemployable. And they will remain unemployable, the Mayor of St. Louis insists, "until industry brings to bear its creative leadership and resource potentials" on the problem. He cites two examples of what is being accomplished in this city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the psychological dimensions which assume prominence in the inner conflicts of the subordinate, relates these inner conflicts to their origins in individual development, and suggests guidelines that superiors and subordinates can use in resolving subordinacy conflicts. Authority and subordinate relationships do not negate the importance for individuals to assume responsibility for their own behavior. The attitude of self-management contradicts the tendency to put the blame to others for the personal predicaments of immediate experience. Superior and subordinate alike can experience considerable help in viewing the conflicts of subordinacy as conditions of development.

The article focuses on the conflict between the black and white people of Rhodesia. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson went to Rhodesia in October 1965 to try to prevent the white-supremacist regime of Prime Minister Ian Smith from seeking independence from Great Britain. The Smith government believe that the first African government will drive them off of Rhodesia. The British says however that they will only grant independence if the blacks were also assured of seats in the government.

The article offers global news briefs. The Spanish government has relocated from Madrid to Valencia as conflicts in the former capital has led many to believe that the fall of the city was imminent. Total election returns further attested to the wide margin of victory by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential elections. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has honored the right of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board to conduct employee elections for collective bargaining.

The article focuses on the rise of realistic novel as well as the penetration of novelists in the U.S. The advances in realistic novel was established in the country after the Civil War. It has been stressed that realistic tradition has nominated the American fiction and that realism appears in the work of William Dean Howells and Henry James. Moreover, the breakthrough of the class struggles as the fundamental interpretation of American life presents an advance problem to the novelists.

Presents letters to the editor. Focus on the article by Carleton Beals, about captioned revolt in Panama, previously published in the journal "The Nation"; Views on the social and political needs in Panama.

The article analyzes the factors which lead to intergroup conflicts. Such conflicts are said to be rooted from personal, social, economic, religious and historical forces. These are certain factors which have an essential influence on the attitude of any group towards others. Social scientists studied these factors by examining the natural history of groups and group relations. A study was conducted on a chosen group of boys in a form of summer camp to analyze some attitudes that will contribute to inter conflict.

The article discusses the influence of philosopher and economist Karl Marx on the writing and philosophy of history. It examines both historical and metaphysical aspects of his ideas, focusing on his economic interpretations of history and on his doctrine of class struggle, particularly between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat classes. Other topics considered by the author include Marx's ideas about modes of production and the influence of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Marx.

In this article the author analyses the validity of the ban imposed on the journal The Nation in city high schools, by the Board of Superintendents of New York City. Until June, 1948, The Nation was for a number of years on the list of publications which could be purchased for circulation in the libraries of the public high schools of New York City. policies of the Roman Catholic church. It is taken for granted that when the Catholic hierarchy or any other organization takes a stand on public issues, its policies and points of view are open to legitimate criticism.

Recent religious and political developments in the Soviet Union make possible closer estimation of the losses incurred by the Catholic church in Eastern Europe as a direct result of the war and the victory of Soviet Union. The changed boundaries of the new Polish Republic have added to the Catholic losses. These losses cut deep into the vital interests, both religious and political, of the Vatican in the score of European states. Relations between the government and the Vatican were so strained that at one time the Apostolic Nuncio left Prague.

The article focuses on the social and political conditions in Germany after the death of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. His followers have got the privileged of a ruling cast in Bavaria, Germany and the anti-nazis are living in fear. So tightly have the Nazis retained their grip that Wilhelm Hogner, Minister President of Bavaria, has publicly warned of immediate chaos and civil war should American forces be withdrawn, and others believe the Nazis would be back in power within a matter of weeks without even having to stage a civil war.

This article focuses on several socio-political issues. As India took about 45,000,000 ounces of the total product of silver in 1892 of 152,000,000, while the U.S. took 54,000,000 ounces, the notification that she might at any moment leave silver to its fate would, have led to some provision for the emergency by the U.S. Congress after the Monetary Conference in Brussels had adjourned. The Pope's letter to the Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. on the public-school question, made public in June, 1892, is an important document, but it is doubtful if it will prove to be the olive branch which he seems to think it.

The article comments on the possibility of creating a class society in the United States. The labor movement has not been given credit for promoting productivity gains, but has been blamed for inflation. Wages and salaries are increasing faster than productivity, which could lead to government action to stop further inflation. Management's attitude for voluntarily limiting salary increases--on a level equal to that proposed for workers' wages--shows a double standard in executives' willingness to sacrifice for the common good. Business has a role in maintaining a moral, social climate that supports democracy, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition, as well as preventing class alignment, factionalism or divisiveness that could lead to the acceptance of socialist doctrines.

The article presents a real story which uses fictional names to discuss a procedure for "coercing" agreement in group decision making. The issue arose on how to conduct effective management meetings with the rules of parliamentary procedure. This system of motions and voting can be used when there was an impasse due to tension over disagreements. The immediate value of this method is that everyone has an opportunity to contribute questions or ideas. The procedure did not create a formula for solving a specific problem, but did make the management factions aware that they needed to cooperate in order to define and solve the company's problem. Topics include six suggestions or caveats for "coercing" a group to agreement and books about meetings, leadership, and communication.

The article focuses on dispelling the myths and bringing forward the truths about Soviet Russia. The myths come from several areas of Russia which are in direct opposition of the current regime and from persons of nobility and wealth who have immigrated to other nation's large cities because of a refusal to work among more common people. The author looks at how the trade policy between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. has decreased substantially because of these myths which point to the Soviet government falling apart. Furthermore, he compares the current economic situation of the U.S. with that of the U.S.S.R. and speculates on future trade agreements between the two nations.

The article discusses the economic practices of Italy's fascist government from 1926-1930. The Fascist Party seized control of Italy's government in response to the country's growing class struggles post World War I. The system set up in 1926 was composed of 13 syndicates, six for employers, six for laborers, and one for intellectuals and professionals. The Party set out to stabilize the government's economy through increases in production, the balancing of trades and payments, and through fostering industries associated with national defense.

The article examines the social, economic and political conditions of Israel 25 years after its proclamation as a state on May 14, 1948. It states that the country's gross national product (GNP) has been increasing by 9% a year and its exports have grown 48 times than they were in 1949. It also notes that the population of the country has reached a total of 2,600,000 of 14,000,000 Jews in the world since the Jewish people, who were wandering in the diaspora, started to return to Israel. However, it argues that the country has also experienced some unresolved social and political tensions, as well as domestic problems such as increased crimes and poverty.

The article focuses on events involving the conflict between Ireland and Great Britain, Protestant and Catholic. In an attempt to alleviate the bloodshed in Ulster, Ireland, British Prime Minister Edward Heath in March 1972 put the troubled province under direct rule of London, England. Heath also suspended the Protestant-dominated government at Stormont for at least a year. However, now that the province is ruled under London, the Irish Republican Army may carry its wrath to England.

In this article, the author discusses the social conditions of people in the U.S. and social conflicts among them. He criticizes the use of Middle America to denote the home of the silent majority of Americans, and states that the country is divided into closed-minded people on one side and the open-minded one on the other. It describes how the country sets up a parallel between conservatives and radicals. He presents his views on crises in El Dorado and suggests the need for good leadership.

The article discusses the social chaos in New York City in 1968, which is caused by several factors such as increasing ethnic and racial polarization in the city. It states that strikes and the risk of strikes pitted employer against union and black against white. It says that the most serious problem is the breakdown in government service. New York City Mayor John Lindsay says that the question is whether they can continuously exist as a city.

Presents an account of the author's visit to Kentucky, to provide relief to the striking coal miners. Distribution of several tons of food to the miners; Conclusion that neither the miners nor those who attempt to help them have any legal rights in the Kentucky coal regions; Reasons for the continuation of class struggle in Kentucky; Factors responsible for the disorganization of the coal industry; Average weekly wages of a coal miner; Forms of deductions in the wages; Life and standard of living of coal operators; Lack of any central wares house where relief supplies can be stored and regularly distributed; Fear of the coal operators to announce that openly that no food can be given to the miners; Claim of the operators that they are doing their own relief work through the Red Cross; Propaganda by the operators that National Miners Union is connected with the Communist party; Announcement of the operators that miners, like communists do not have any constitutional rights; Arrest of the friends of the author, who were found talking with the miners.

Comments on American liberalism. View that liberalism is bound up with the doctrine of natural rights; Comment on the book "The Promise of American Life," by Herbert Croly; Opinion that Croly understood that a revolutionary crisis might eventually arise in the course of the struggle to bring, desirable changes, but, in the absence of such a crisis, he favored a progressive policy which would make use of existing institutions to approach the true national ideal; Comment on the class conflicts in various countries; View on capitalism that it has never yet collapsed anywhere in the way in which economist Karl Marx predicted; Agreement that a psychological change in the public attitude toward individualistic capitalism is taking place; View that the progressives ought not to be satisfied with the recommendation of specific programs or pieces of economic and social machinery, but should also strive to forge the human values which alone can give these devices validity.