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FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH N. C.
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Vol. XXX. No! 21.
SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1915,
51 a Year; 5c a Copy
ORGANIZING COUNTRY COMMUNITI
IN The Progressive Farmer just-a year ago this week we discussed
the problem of "The Rural Community;" and emphasized the truth
of Mr. George W. Russell's-statement that heretofore we have vir:
timllv had no rural 4 'communities". We have had oeoole livinsr here
anil lilcic iu luuuu uiauitw, wc uavc uau tuiictiiuus Ui liuiu UUU5C5,
but we have not had rural communities, the word "community" signi
fying a body of people with common aims, aspira tions, hopes, working
together for the improvement of one definite section. We.have village
communities, town communities, city communities, but broadly speak
ing, we have not had country communities " ,
And why not? That was the question we set out to ajiswer a year
MT LAST
his finger on the trouble with many a co neighborhood. It may
cumam any uuiuuei ui aspiring, arauijioui
progress and improvement, buf they lack
They start making sentiment for some refoVS it is hard to get the
senumeni orgamzeu. every larm nome lies iv v vrxoi twiiignt zone
of neutrality between one neighborhood and another. Does the farmer's
allegiance belong to his neighbors to the north of him or to the east,
south or west? Where should the people meet to consider any matter of
common interest in a church to the right, in a schbolhouse to theMef t,
or where? How far do the neighborhood lines extend in this direction or
that where begin and where end. '
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Courtesy ot Swift & Co.
a2:o. And the conclusion wrparW wac.tw wa hiivA 'nnt had muntrv I ' Everv town, county, state or nation has (IK its definite boundaries
tivT Unitles' not because country people are less earnest or ambitious and (2) its duly constituted governing authorities to whom any plan for
munity has neither. - And no great man in all
ncThoZ? People, but because the country has
ot naa the facilities which the town has had for
v fg uX exPressin2 the community spirit.
nitohrt' ?e country community tacks deft-
asrS; We have often wondered,
thero T trn how it would be in our cities if
jrethor ?r! 0 or- thre Wns;c6nverging
S dKn? tizen-kriew t
Second, the vm,r jJi-i.i- ti:'ilw.- f - ll?
or&nni-rs (,,w nvignuurnooa wens ;
in tWsil?, Ph ln o Thought for, the Week
fact bv?nne; striking expression to this
of slS.in a aty like Dublin with the lack -
DONT. FAIL TO READ- Pre
Are You Getting Fair 4 Prices for
Your Cotton Seed ? . . . . ;
Great Opportunities ih Cooperative
Livestock Breeding . .
Harvesting Oats-1 2 Suggestions . .
'Harvesting Wheat and Oats and
Putting the Stubble Lands to
Work Again . . . .
Help Your Neighbor . . .
How You Can Avoid the Plague of
: FTies This Summer . . ...
Legumes Should Return the Nitoo
gen Removed by Wheat and Oat,
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Ampf iran historv. exceot Thomas Jefferson has !
maintained that it should have either Then
even Jefferson's ambition was forgotten and
it is only in the last few years that earnest
men, notably in North Carolina and Alabama,
have again caught his vision, and begun to work
for the organization of rural communities. Just
in the last twelve- months some- interesting
experiments have been inaugurated in Ala
bama, which' we hope to report on later, while
Sampson County, N. C, in the organiza
tion of "Community leagues " has : partly
solved the problem of organization, with
Jefferson's idea of incorporation soon , to fol '
low.. '
- Read about the Sampson idea on page 13.
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