them and of making use of what is old and renewing it. Likewise they undertake to answer, and to send out bulletins to, the listeners who inquire by letter or by telephone.

The Wednesday program car-ries talks on food and nutrition: it takes up the food values of the foods known in the state of Iowa, and how to present them on the table in an attractive form. The Experts speak of what nourishment the body needs in the stages of its life, and of what the expectant mother should take, and the weaned infant, the working young man, the middle-aged man, and the old man whose bones are all but wasted away — this together with advice and guidance on preserving foods, making use of what is left over, and ways of economizing in food expenses generally while obtaining com-plete nourishment.

Thursday brings talks on the care of the child, from the time he is an embryo until he grows up, matures, and becomes a working member of society. The housewives listen to the advice of doctors, of kindergarten and elementary school teachers, and

of experts in the affairs of the young at school, at home, and in society; and the field is left open for parents to consult those experts on their family affairs and on the problems that confront them in their daily lives.

These household management programs, which Martha Duncan supervises at the Iowa State station, do not neglect the raising of chickens and poultry, which counts for very much in the life of the American farm, for Iowa's income from chickens and eggs alone approaches two hundred million dollars in a single year. Therefore a large part of Friday's program is set aside for talks having to do with poultry in general, and with chickens in particular — talks that lead to the improvement of their breeds, the warding off of disease, increased production, and lightened expenses.

The benefits of these house-hold management programs have shown themselves in the renais-sance of the farmers of Iowa — that renaissance which has placed them in the first rank among the farmers of the American land — as they have shown themselves

in the encouragement received by Martha Duncan, who directs them: the letters that reach her from her listeners may amount to a thousand letters a day, and this apart from personal visits and telephone conversations.

Perhaps the listeners' opinion of these programs shows itself best in a letter that arrived a few days ago from a housewife living on a remote farm, more than a hundred miles from the nearest city. After thanking Martha Duncan, the housewife says: All week long, as I listen to these useful programs, I feel as if I were still pursuing my studies at the university; not one item of the delightful information that I apply in my daily life escapes me.

These are extracts from the interview with Mrs. Martha Duncan, who is in charge of the household management programs at the Iowa State College station, conducted by our colleague Said Jibrin; we set them down as an example of the extent of the ben-efit that can be reaped from close cooperation between housewives and a broadcasting station watch-ful over the good of its listeners.