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The article highlights that Adult Civic Education under the Bureau of Education in Washington D.C. has sought to stimulate the establishment of public forums and other agencies of adult civic education. In connection therewith the Committee on Policies of the American Political Science Association has made some recommendation to that Association including co-operation between political scientists and the Office of Education regarding the Federal experiment in conducting adult discussion groups, known as forums, in ten centers in the U.S. by helping John Studebaker, the U.S. Commissioner to locate able forum leaders, and by inspiring widespread interest in adult civic education. Association members can also contribute by offering statements of practical methods by which to operate government in such way as to preserve freedom of discussion of problems of vital interest to the people of the community. The forums, as set up by commissioner with complete local control of personnel and subjects for discussion, offer a promising organized attack upon the problem of creating an intelligent electorate. Another organization American Population Association held its annual meeting at Princeton University on October 30-31. President Louis I. Dublin had earlier in the year arranged for an extensive series of articles, mainly on the American population situation, printed copies of which were placed in the hands of those in attendance.