NOTES AND NEWS ON COMMUNITY INTERESTS.

The article presents various news briefs related to community interests. According to a report the National Education Association at its annual meeting in Washington, July, 1914, abolished its Department of Wider Use of the School Plant. In place of it there was created in January, 1925, a Committee on Community Relations. The Chairman of the Committee is Dr. George E. Carrothers of the College of Education of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. The Secretary is Clarence A. Perry of the Recreation Department of the Russel Sage Foundation. The personnel of the Committee is made up of city and county superintendents, state supervisors, professors in teachers colleges and normal schools, directors of extension activities in city school systems and principals and teachers from the high and elementary school, a total of 30 members representing all sections of the U.S. According to another report, the Community Center recently established at El Paso, Texas, is making an experiment of ways in which to get attendance. They have listed some exceptionally fine entertainments and made them available for the members of the Center. The membership fee coven all the entertainments given during the year and amounts to a season ticket.