This entire issue of the Bulletin is devoted to the theme of the role of the family in mental health. Perhaps the most outstanding contributor is the Governor of Minnesota, Luther W. Youngdahl, whose The Challenging New Frontier in Mental Health demonstrates how an enlightened governor and an aroused citizenry can change the antiquated state hospital system into a more modern working unit. William C. Menninger's How Community Forces Affect the Family describes how factors such as the form of government, the type of leadership, the prevailing legal customs, etc., influence the structure of the family. Karl Menninger's The Anatomy and Physiology of the Personality outlines some of the factors of formative importance in the interrelationship between the personality structure of the child and the cultural factors transmitted