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Thirty-five elementary supervisors, superintendents, principals, and classroom teachers om all sections of Tennessee recently tout for Chicago to visit outstanding ementary schools in that area. uded in the party were faculty presentatives of the University of ennessee. the three State teachers colges, and George Peabody College for eachers. The trip was made on a artered bus. During the 14 hours travel through the coal fields of Kencky, the rolling prairies of Indiana d Illinois, and into the heart of hicago the members of the party had ecome warm, personal friends.

Local plans had been so carefully ade by E. T. McSwain of the College Education, Northwestern Univerty, and Iman Schatzmann, executive cretary of the Committee on Rural ducation, that every minute of time. as profitably spent.

The first day after reaching Chicago as spent in the schools of Glencoe, Wilmette, and Winnetka.

The second day was spent in the hools of Evanston which are used in onnection with the teacher-training rogram of Northwestern University nd in the Children's School of the ational College of Education.

Three small schools in Cook County Fere visited on the third day. The hedule for this day was arranged by upt. Noble J. Puffer, and the group as personally directed by Milton J. Bollman, assistant superintendent.

The final day was spent in Chicago nd included visits to the Francis W. Parker School, the University of Chiago Elementary Laboratory School, The Museum of Science and Industry, nd other places of interest.

Although every member of the group ook part in the school visitation proram, time was also found to visit radio tudios, art galleries, theaters, and some of the large department stores.

Members of the group were imressed by the program of each school isited and brought back many pracical ideas for improving the Tennessee

schools. Equally impressive was the cordial reception which was extended without exception by the children, teachers, and all others who had a part in making the visit such a valuable and delightful experience.

An annual visit to significant schools is an effective in-service training feature of the Tennessee program of elementary supervisors. The visit this year was the most extensive, enjoyable, and profitable of any yet made, according to R. Lee Thomas, supervisor of the division of elementary schools, Tennessee State Department of Education.

School Administrators

Convention

The American Association of School Administrators will meet for its seventy-second annual convention in San Francisco February 21-26. Education for a Free People is the theme of the six-day conference.

General sessions during the convention will be devoted to education and government, morale building, a good neighbor program, education and reconstruction following the war, and education for a free people. The school's responsibility for improving the health and physical fitness of the American people, the subject on which the current Yearbook is being published, will also be discussed at one of the general sessions.

People's Platform

The first general activity of the convention will be held on Saturday afternoon, February 21, when the People's Platform, roundtable of the Columbia Broadcasting System under the direction of Lyman Bryson, will broadcast discussion of a topic of vital importance from the Gold Ballroom of the Palace Hotel.

The Rev. Bruce Baxter, Bishop of the Methodist Church for the Portland area, and Superintendent of Schools Willis A. Sutton of Atlanta, Ga., will

be speakers at two parallel vesper services held on Sunday afternoon.

The topic Education and Government will be covered at the Monday morning general session by Edmund E. Day, president, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; George D. Strayer, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; and Alexander J. Stoddard, superintendent of schools, Philadelphia.

A general session on Morale Building will present as one of its leading speakers Sir Gerald Campbell, director general, British Information Services, New York.

America and the Far East is the subject for a general session on which ChihTsing Feng, consul-general of the Republic of China, will be one of the speakers, and Chinese children of the San Francisco public schools will take part.

Another speaker is Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Director, Selective Service System, Washington, D. C. He will be presented on a general session devoted to the topic America's Destiny.

33 Discussion Groups

Thirty-three discussion groups on the problems of school administrators will feature afternoon programs. Following the year-book theme, there will be a series of study groups on health and safety education. Other topics are character education, civic education for adults, parent education, school forums as a community project, and adjustment of rural schools to present needs. One study meeting will be devoted to the work of the Junior Red Cross.

The impact of the present on education will be studied in conferences on school problems in defense boom cities, pan-American relations, and an educational program for men returning from military service. Other topics for consideration include special educational opportunities for gifted children, integration of vocational education with general education, use of radio in education, planning curriculum for the thirteenth and fourteenth school years, development of critical thinking in secondary education, vocational training for girls, and guidance and occupational adjustment.

New Books and Pamphlets

Pan America

Washing

Pan America in Poster Stamps. ton, D. C., Pan American Union, 1941. 8-page album and 24 stamps. Single set, 15 cents. Twenty or more ordered at the same time and sent to the same address, 10 cents per set.

An eight-page album 9 by 10% inches containing a map and general description. The four-color poster stamps present views of the American republics and are to be pasted in the album next to the paragraph descriptive of each view. Prepared for students and teachers as supplementary material on the Americas.

Safety Education

Bicycle Safety. Chicago, Ill., National Safety Council, Inc. (20 N. Wacker Drive), 1941. 31 p. illus.

Final report of the committee on bicycle problems of the National Safety Council, a condensed review of the bicycle problem and recommended methods for the prevention of bicycle accidents. Includes a chapter on school activities.

Adventures of Annabelle, Escorted by Jerry Hardy. Washington, D. C., Highway Education Board (Pan American Building) 1941. 16 p. illus. Single copy, free. In quantity, 5 cents per copy.

Annabelle, an automobile, converses on safe driving after dark; useful for high-school driving or safety classes.

English Teaching

Evaluating Instruction in Secondary School English. A report of a division of the New York Regents' Inquiry into the Character and Cost of Public Education in New York State, by Dora V. Smith. Chicago, The National Council of Teachers of English, 1941. 273 p. (English monograph, no. 11.) $2.25.

A comprehensive survey of the teaching of English in secondary schools; although the investigation was confined to New York State, the findings have national implications.

Exceptional Children and Minority Groups

Education of Exceptional Children and Minority Groups. Washington, D. C., American Educational Research Association, a department of the National Education Association of the United States, 1941. pp. 247-362. (Review of Educational Research, vol. xi, no. 3.) Single copy, $1.

This issue of the Review of Educational Research was prepared by the committee on education of exceptional children and minority groups, Elise H. Martens, chairman. Part I is devoted to the study of exceptional children; part II, to the educational needs and progress of the Negroes, the Indians, and of bilingual children of foreign parentage or from foreign speaking homes.

International Relations

American Isolation Reconsidered, by the committee on materials for teachers in international relations, Phillips Bradley, chairman. Washington, D. C., American Council on Education, 1941. 208 p. 50 cents.

Traces the history of American neutrality from 1793 to 1941 and points out the issues involved in the decisions we have faced about peace and war in 1812, 1914, and 1941. Includes suggested activities for teachers and students, bibliography, and over 60 pages of original documents.

Progressive Education

New Methods vs. Old in American Education; an analysis and summary of recent comparative studies, by the informal committee appointed by the Progressive Education Association to report on evaluation of newer practices in education, G. Derwood Baker, chairman. New York, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1941. 56 p. 60 cents.

Bases its findings upon an impartial analysis of important comparative studies and states that the newer methods are not reducing the efficiency of children in the "three R's."

Recent Theses

A list of recently received doctors' and masters' theses in education, which may be borrowed from the Library of the Office of Education on interlibrary loan follows:

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AGNEW, PETER L. Determination of the content of a course in office practice. Doctor's, 1940. York University. 271 p. ms.

BAXTER, LINDLY C. Standards of teacher selection in New Jersey communities with fewer than 25 teachers. Master's, 1940. New York University. 40 p. ms.

BROCK, JOHN D. A study of psychological traits of physical education students and their relation to achievement. Doctor's, 1939. New York University. 95 p. ms.

CAVIN, GRACE. An analysis of intermediate grade reading tests. Master's, 1940. Boston University. 76 p. ms.

CROMWELL, ROBERT F. A suggested program of guidance. Doctor's, 1940. George Washington University. 241 p. ms.

FELDMAN, SADIE B. Construction and standardization of an aptitude test in art for junior high school. Master's, 1940. George Washington University. 42 p. ms.

FORBES, INA. Reading aids in third-grade basic readers. Master's, 1940. George Washington University. 59 p. ms.

fied high schools of North Dakota. Master's, 1939, University of North Dakota. 76 p. ms.

HAMILTON, ROBERT W. Status of the athletic coach in Kentucky high schools for the school years 1930-31 through 1940-41. Master's, 1941, University of Kentucky. 88 p.

HOWARD, JOSEPHINE T. Mechanical aptitudes of Indian boys of the Southwest. Master's, 1940. George Washington University. 66 p. ms. KINHART, HOWARD A. Effect of supervision on high school English. Doctor's, 1939. Johns Hop kins University. 102 p.

KRAMME, CLIDE I. Comparison of Anglo-culture with Spanish-culture elementary students in physical development as determined by height, weight, and vital capacity measurements. Master's, 1939. Texas College of Arts and Industries. 89 p. ms.

LEWIS, LOUISE B. Comparative study of Fascism and the Italian schools. Master's, 1940. New York University. 64 p. ms.

LIEBERMAN, LEO. Cooperative research in the de velopment of a guidance program. Doctor's, 1941 Harvard University. 350 p. ms.

LOOP, ANNE S. Nature of the relationship between education and careers of Negroes living in Manhattan, covering the years 1929-1937. Doctor's, 1940. New York University. 225 p. ms.

MCMAHON, PAUL J. The effect of Dashiell's Fun damentals of general psychology on the vocabulary growth of Fitchburg State Teachers College freshMaster's, 1939. Massachusetts State Teachers College, Fitchburg. 51 p. ms.

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MOFFIE, DANNIE J. A nonverbal approach to the Thurstone primary mental abilities. Doctor's, 1940, Pennsylvania State College. 50 p. ms.

MORGAN, RITA, Arbitration in the men's clothing industry in New York City: A case study of indus trial arbitration and conference method, with pare ticular reference to its educational implications. Doctor's, 1940. Teachers College, Columbia U versity. 158 p.

MULLANEY, ELLEN M. The relationship between silent reading ability and arithmetic ability in the seventh grade. Master's, 1940. University of Maine. 76 p. ms.

SEYMOUR, E. CARLETON. Characteristics of pupils who leave early: A comparative study of graduates with those who are eliminated before high school graduation. Doctor's, 1940. Harvard University. 367 p. ms.

SMITH, GERALDINE F. Development and evaluation of a quick perception method in beginning reading. Master's, 1941, Boston University. 89 p. ms. SULLIVAN, CATHERINE J. Construction of the administration and scoring and evaluation of results of a diagnostic test of individual difficulty in reading for grades 7, 8, and 9. Master's, 1940. Boston University. 116 p. ms.

TOWER, DOUGLAS B. Educational implications of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Master's, 1936 Niagara University. 33 p. ms.

WEPPNER, Sister MARY THEODORE, Standardiza tion of two equivalent forms of a vocabulary test used in the measurement of various age levels in the elementary grades 3 through 8. Doctor's, 1941 Catholic University of America. 59 p.

WHITE, FRANCES I. Differences in intelligence and their relation to position in family, Master's 1941. Boston University. 137 p. ms.

WIMSATT, LILLIAN E. History of public education in Bishop. Master's, 1939. Texas College of Arts and Industries. 206 p. ms.

In Public
Schools

by W. S. Deffenbaugh

ctivity Program Survey

"The activity program, conducted exerimentally in 70 New York City chools over the last 6 years, proved to e substantially as effective as more traitional methods of instruction in teachng the skills of reading, writing, and rithmetic in the elementary schools and > be superior to the older techniques in leveloping skills in critical reading, eleentary research techniques, and in the evelopment of civic attitudes and unerstanding of social relationships,' ccording to the findings of a survey eport recently released by the New Cork City Board of Education.

"This survey was commenced about year ago by a staff headed by Dr. . Cayce Morrison, Assistant Commisjoner for Research of the State departnent of education of New York, at the equest of the New York City Board f Education which desired an imparial appraisal of the relative effectiveess of the activity program in comarison with the nonactivity schools.

"The report of the survey recomnends the extension of the activity program throughout the school system as rapidly as is consistent with the spirit of the program itself.' Pointing out hat the very nature of the program forbids attempting to extend it through any form of compulsion,' the survey ommittee recommends that 'if the program is to be extended it should be on a voluntary basis with the full sanction of the official authorities of the school system, with adequate guidance, and under suitable control.""

Accounting Bulletin

The department of public instruction of South Dakota has issued a bulletin on Uniform Accounting for Extra-Curicular Activities. "In many schools," he bulletin states, "there has been no systematic record of activity accounts. These accounts should be as carefully and faithfully kept as are other records of funds raised for conventional school costs. At the present time there is no niformity in the records kept, and many are not adaptable to proper auditng procedures. The plan recommended

in this bulletin provides for a great amount of flexibility to accommodate the records of large and small schools."

The Outlook

The New York State Teachers Association in its Public Education Research Bulletin for October 15, 1941, presents data on population trends affecting public schools in 1930-40. The study concludes that "recent population trends make the future outlook for public education in New York State about as follows:

"Increased attendance in the primary grades beginning about 1942; increased demand for primary teachers; gradual stabilization and finally increased elementary school attendance and demand for elementary school teachers by 1950.

"Decreased attendance in the secondary schools and decreased demand for secondary school teachers at least until 1954, followed by a period of gradual growth, assuming no major changes in the present secondary school program or present employment trends.

"Continued decline in city school attendance and the number of city school teachers; rapid growth in suburban schools and increased demand for teachers in suburban communities.

"Rural schools continuing to educate many future residents of cities and metropolitan areas."

Workshops for Teachers

"Many teachers who want a short period of training for some special phase of their work," says the November issue of Better Teaching, a publication issued by the Cincinnati public schools, "are getting much help in certain aspects of art, physical education, music, and science as a result of their participation in workshops sponsored this year by the Cincinnati Council for Childhood Education. The project was set up in order to get information on the place of workshop activities in stimulating professional growth of teachers. The outcomes of the project will be evaluated by those who are participating.

"Each workshop group holds six meetings; each meeting is 212 hours in length and is held after school hours. Similar workshops in three aspects of science (light, heat, and insects) are being conducted as a part of the general supervisory program for upper elementary grades."

Implementation Program

"Two steps in the development of the Missouri secondary school curriculumthat of determining the philosophy and educational goals and that of production-have been attained," according to a recent issue of Missouri Schools, a publication issued by the superintendent of public instruction of that State. "The third is the implementation or the securing of the cooperation of schools in the adapting of the new curriculum to their local situations. The final steps will be those of evaluation and further revision.

"The general planning committee has now set up the mechanics for the implementation work. The curriculum is to be interpreted throughout the State by practically every institution. and agency interested in secondary education."

Science Survey

In Seattle, Wash., "a beginning toward revision of the science curriculum has been made with the planning of a survey on the elementary school level," according to a recent issue of the Seattle Educational Bulletin. A committee "will survey (1) the offerings in science in the Seattle schools at present, (2) materials and equipment now in use, and (3) the literature in science to see what foremost thinkers are proposing as an ideal science program, and trends and practices in other places. Similar surveys will be undertaken soon in the junior and senior high schools.”

Citizenship Education

"The Michigan Study of the Secondary School Curriculum in cooperation. with the Children's Fund of Michigan," says News of the Week, a publication of the department of public instruction of that State, "is planning a number of activities to the end of redoubling efforts in the improvement of education for citizenship in our American Democracy. A staff member of the study will devote his full time to assisting the cooperating schools and others in developing constructive programs of citizenship education. He will visit cooperating schools to work with individual teachers, groups, and the entire staff on problems and plans for the development of understanding of, loyalty to, and competence with the ideals and processes of democracy. Provision will be made for con

ferences and for teachers to observe examples of outstanding programs and particularly effective thinking."

Primary Unit

The Nebraska State Department of Education as reported in the Nebraska Journal of Education by Chloe C. Baldridge, State director of rural and elementary education, "is continuing to emphasize the primary progress unit plan. This plan is offered to help solve the problem of the beginner in the rural school and provides for the child to progress as he is able. It is the aim to adjust beginning school experiences so that the child may be successful in his work. A minimum of 3 years is devoted to the primary unit except in those schools where kindergarten work is offered. When kindergarten work is of fered, 4 years are required. For pupils who are bilingual or socially immature or retarded, 5 years are required quite often (including kindergarten)."

In Colleges

by Walton C. John

Cultural Education Important

Although many believe the best education results from a combination of technical and cultural training, American college students today are of the opinion that background of general information should not be forfeited for narrowed technical and professional instruction.

According to a report published at the University of Texas by the Student Opinion Surveys of America, 42 percent of the college students in America believe their classes should emphasize a broad background rather than one principally bound up in technical and professional lines.

Men students were 9 percent more favorable to the professional instruction program than were women students.

Results of the survey on the question, Do you believe college education should be mainly technical and professional training or should it emphasize a wide cultural background? were as follows: Technical and professional, 19 percent; cultural background, 42 percent; both, 39 percent.

Students Have Church Preferences

More than nine-tenths of all Ohio State University students indicated a specific church preference when they

registered for the fall quarter, according to a survey made by the University Religious Council.

Representing 33 faiths, 9,761 students at Ohio State named the church of their choice and an additional 228 said only that they were Protestants. The council checked a total of 10,919 registration cards.

Methodist students are most numerous, having twice as many as any other group. Numerically, the leading church groups are: Methodists, 2,695; Jewish, 1,307; Presbyterian, 1,237; Roman Catholic, 1,131; and Lutheran, 698.

Totals for other denominations were: Episcopalian, 430; Baptist, 420; Church of Christ (Disciple), 395; Congregational-Christian, 364; United Brethren, 220; Evangelical-Reformer, 209; Community, 161; Christian Science, 117; United Presbyterian, 81; Orthodox, 72; Evangelical, 71; Brethren, 35; FriendQuaker, 31; Church of God, 15; Unitarian, 15; Universalist, 14; Latter Day Saints, 12; Nazarene, 6; Christian Missionary Alliance, 5; Apostolic Gospel, 4; Seventh Day Adventist, 4; EthicalTheosophy, 3; Christian Union, 2; Jehovah's Witness, 2; Mennonite, 2; New Jerusalem, Salvation Army, and Unity, 1 each.

Lists of students, complete with addresses and church preferences, have been turned over to the pastors concerned, in order that they may invite the young people to their churches.

Graduates of the University
Have Good Incomes

The average yearly income of a graduate of the University of California is $4,544. This information results from a survey recently made by the California Alumni Association, according to Robert Sibley, managing director; the tabulation included every tenth name on the alumni list, recent and old graduates alike. Of the 2,400 questionnaires sent out, 1,046 replies were received.

Of the 953 who answered the income question, 608 or 63 percent, receive between $1,000 and $3,000 per year, 10 percent were between $4.000 and $5,000, nearly 9 percent were between $9,000 and $15,000, 2 percent were between $15,000 and $25,000, and 1.6 percent receive more than $25,000.

The survey shows that 51.9 percent own their own homes, 17.8 percent rent a home and 11.6 percent live with their families in homes. Only 14.2 percent live in apartments. The average value of the home of a California graduate is $9,404.

The alumni who answered indicate that 77.9 percent carry life insurance

policies with the average value of $12 521; the percentage carrying no lif insurance is 14.8.

Of the 867 who answered the question but 2.9 percent have been unemployed year since they were graduated, 71. percent have been employed since com pleting their university work, with th exception of a month or less.

Graduate Course on Design of Regional Areas

As the result of a successful 6-yea experiment in offering courses in city and regional planning as a field of un dergraduate study, the Graduate Schoo at Cornell University announces that graduate students may elect to major in this field leading to a degree of master of regional planning.

The work was inaugurated under the joint auspices of two colleges of the university, architecture and engineer ing, and the courses were made available to upper classmen in any one of the colleges at Cornell.

It is emphasized that our cities and the larger political subdivisions of our country are not going to be planned by individuals acting alone, persons who claim to be experts in the many complicated phases of a complex field of endeavor, but rather by groups of specialists, each one having a full knowl edge of one of the many minor fields, complex in themselves, which contribute to the larger one.

That planning for any part of the land, whether the area be small or large, whether it be for a village, a community for living within a city, an entire city, or the suburbs about a city, requires the collaborative effort of specialists is not generally recognized, yet the need for comprehensive planning to aid in curing the physical, economic, governmental, and other ills, from which practically all of our communities now suffer, is apparent.

Inasmuch as the planning experiment at Cornell, offered at the undergraduate level, was a success, measured in terms of the interest developed among students majoring in the several fields of study directly related to planning, it was considered appropriate to extend instruction in this department to the Graduate School while continuing the courses offered to undergraduates.

Students who enter the Graduate School at Cornell and who, during their undergraduate years, majored in any one of the fields of study related to largescale planning may elect to become candidates for the degree of master of regional planning. For those who have not had courses of study in planning as

ndergraduates, 2 years will be required o complete the work necessary for the egree.

Each student will be expected to najor in city and regional planning with pecial emphasis upon the particular reationship that the field of study, in which he majored during his underraduate years, has to planning.

Many related courses are open to the raduate student in addition to the speial required technical courses in planing for all students who are candiates for the master of regional planing degree.

In Libraries

by Ralph M. Dunbar

irst Volume Issued

The Special Libraries Association has st issued the first volume of Special brary Resources under the editorship Rose L. Vormelker of the Cleveland ublic Library. In this publication inrmation is given about 765 research llections in special, public, and unirsity libraries. Besides statistical ta regarding the books, pamphlets, riodicals, and other materials in each rary, a brief description is included out the special field or fields covered d also mention of any special services ailable. In some instances, the holds of research journals are listed. It indicated also whether the library ows interlibrary loans and has reprocing facilities.

DOLL

State Aid Progress

In its recent annual report, the American Library Association declares that State aid for libraries progressed more during the year than in any previous year. It points out that North Carolina made its first State appropriation for public libraries. Michigan restored its library budget after a lapse of 2 years, and Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Vermont report increased funds. State aid is now available in eight States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.

Library service on a regional basis has made similar gains. Widely varying types of regional libraries are in operation in New England, Virginia, the TVA area, and California. Favorable State legislation indicates that the regional plan may become increasingly popular in the future.

Mississippi Report

According to the report of the Mississippi Library Commission for the fiscal year 1940, the total circulation was 1,368,757 volumes, an average of one volume per capita for those within service area; the total number of volumes 417,217, or 0.4 volume per capita; the total support $85,677.77, or 10 cents per capita. Of this amount $52,293.41, or 61 percent was local tax; $15,060, or 17 percent from the general fund of the county; $18,324.03, or 21 percent from other sources.

In Other Government

Agencies

by Margaret F. Ryan

Civil Aeronautics Authority

Plans for increased cooperation among American Republics, which will bring young men from South America to be trained as pilots and aviation technicians in the United States, call for the training of 275 pilots, 18 aeronautical administrative engineers, 87 instructor mechanics, and 120 airplane service mechanics, according to Donald H. Connolly, CAA Administrator.

Pilot training will be under the auspices of the Army Air Corps and the CAA. The Army trainees will take the regular Air Corps training with the exception of military subjects, while the

CAA trainees will learn flying at approved schools. The CAA will also carry on the training of mechanics.

Defense Communications Board

Additional radio channels have been cleared for the Army's pilot training program by action of the Federal Communications Commission at the request of the Chief of the Signal Corps of the Army and the Defense Communications Board. Instruction of thousands of additional military aircraft pilots at new fields throughout the United States involves direct radio communication between instructors on the ground and students in the air.

Department of Justice

FBI civilian defense courses will be given to police chiefs, sheriffs, and superintendents of State police and State patrol organizations, and members of their executive and administrative staffs in 55 cities and territories where FBI headquarters offices are located.

These administrative courses will be followed by classes to be held in many sections of the country for the benefit of police officers who are actually going to perform the civilian defense duties assigned to them.

Department of Labor

Fifty-seven engineering colleges are offering courses for the training of industrial employees in accident prevention as part of the program inaugurated by the National Committee for the Conservation of Manpower in Defense Industries. A committee of 400 safety engineers loaned by industry, plus a paid field staff, will actively assist the local engineering colleges with the project.

Office of Coordinator of
Inter-American Affairs

With the establishment of a Division of Agriculture in the Coordinator's office, plans for an Inter-American Institute of Tropical Agriculture are taking shape. Representatives of the Department of Agriculture are now in Latin America helping to pick the site.

At the institute, which will be a combined school of agriculture and experiment station for students and technicians from the American republics, scientists will study and develop better methods to grow all kinds of tropical crops, including spices, oils, and rubber. The program is intended to help the farmers of this country and the countries of Latin America to dovetail their farming to their mutual profit and at