Decca is not the only large commercial company to impart instruction. RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called ``Adventures in Music,'' which is an instructional record library for elementary schools. Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two. Teaching guides are included with each record.

In an effort to fortify himself against the unforeseen upsets sure to arise in the future, Herbert A. Leggett, banker editor of the Phoenix ``Arizona Progress,'' reflects upon a few of the depressing experiences of the feverish fifties.

One of the roughest was the TV quiz shows, which gave him inferiority complexes. Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2000000 profit on the stock market. Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb. Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.