The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work. Certainly every educator involved in interior design should be a member and active in the work of one of these organizations.

Not only should every educator above the rank of instructor be expected to be a member of one of the professional organizations, but his first qualification for membership as an educator should be so sharply scrutinized that membership would be equivalent to certification to teach the subject.

Participation for the educator in this case, however, would have to be raised to full and complete membership. The largest of these organizations at present denies to the full time educator any vote on the conduct and standards of the group and, indeed, refuses him even the right to attach the customary initials after his name in the college catalog.

This anomalous status of the educator cannot fail to lower his standing in the eyes of the students. The professor in turn dares not tolerate the influence in his classes of an organization in the policies and standards of which he has no voice.

This seems somewhat shortsighted since if the absolute educational qualifications for membership which the organizations profess are ever enforced, the educator will have the molding of the entire profession in his hands.