The term supervisor means many things to many people. Three little girls were playing school with their dolls among the roots of a large hackberry tree. Shug, short for sugar, and her visiting friend, Mary L., pronounced as one word, were about six, and much concerned to find a place in the game for Shug's three-year-old sister. Mary L. suggested that Babe might be the teacher, but Shug, with the true discernment of an older sister, objected that Babe did not know enough to be teacher. But, said Shug, I'll tell you what she can do, and it'll be the very thing. She can be the supervisor. The names by which supervisors are known are almost as varied as the ideas as to their functions and abilities. The Third Yearbook of the Department of Supervisors and Directors of Instruction' includes the titles of assistant superintendent, rural supervisor, city principal, rural principal, general supervisor, art supervisor, music supervisor, physical training supervisor, health supervisor, handwriting supervisor, English supervisor, and a miscellaneous classification. To this list Cole2 adds county elementary supervisor, supervising teacher, helping teacher, district supervisor, primary supervisor, and field deputy superintendent. Other titles of school employees known to be working primarily as supervisors or directors of instruction are attendance officer, in certain counties of Alabama and Tennessee; supervising principal, used in connection with a few of the consolidated schools of South Carolina; director of rural life, used in Cook County, Illinois; and district supervisor, in Missouri, Oklahoma, and some other states. Craig,3 of Texas, in studying the sources from which rural teachers seek and receive aid, finds, in addition to the persons already mentioned, school board members, fellow teachers, agents, demonstrators, college instructors, landladies, members of state departments of education, health officers, college students, patrons, former teachers, Red Cross officials, lecturers, ministers, physicians, and a few who seem to fall into none of these classifications and are simply called friends. Lawyers, storekeepers, butchers, policemen, postal employees, and