Rose reports on hookworm disease in Northern Neck, Virginia.

Rose reports on county dispensaries in Marion county, Mississippi and Alabama.

Organized according to interview and visit, Willits goes to the Southern United States to survey various southern schools. He interviews members of the college faculty and determines which departments are the strongest. The schools surveyed include University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Duke University, North Carolina State College and North Carolina College for Negroes. Topics covered in this diary include rural poverty, black studies, populations, and World War II. Included in the diary are copies of "Subject Index to Joseph H. Willits ' Dixie Diary", "Racial Relationships in North Carolina", "Farm Labor Shortages and Maximum Production", "Agricultural Interests of Nonfarm Rural Leaders", "Twenty Years of Migration From Farms" and "Rural Industrialization Creates New Problems".

Organized according to interview and visit, DeVinney discusses projects and proposals with professionals in the field of social science. He is involved in the progress of the RF programs, development of new projects and financing current and future research. A visit to the University of Puerto Rico is also documented to investigate making Puerto Rico a center point of applied social science research in the Caribbean.