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FOUNDED lSvAT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXX. No. 31.
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1915.
$1 a Year ; 5c. a Copy
SOMEBODY MUST LEAD-WHY NOT YOU?
IN LAST week's Progressive Farmer we emphasized the importance
of forming neighborhood marketing associations all over the South.
And undoubtedly, Kind Reader, you are willing to admit that such
an organization is sorely needed in your community. "Of course we
1 1 ought to have one, " you say. " We. could get more nearly accurate
j grading of our products and more nearly full 'market prices for them
I! after they are graded." '
We have noticed, for example, that in many a neighborhood in which
a locaj Union or other farmers club exists, the organization lacks the
cooperation of the very men who might do most to make it the power
it ought to be in developing and waking up the community the power
it ought to be in promoting better farming, better marketing, better
schools, a richer and more satisfying social and intellectual life, and
generally making the neighborhood a better place to live in. "I am
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Why then won't you have one ? 4 ' Because, " you say, there is no
one to take'the lead." And then we put the question up to you, why
shouldn't you you, yourself, Kind Reader why shouldn't you take
the lead ? Some one must do it; jwhy not you ?
. In the opinion perhaps of most men who are working for rural bet
terment today the sorest need is just here the need for leadership. Men
who ought to lead try to dodge their duty as did Moses when he protested
to Jehovah, saying, "But I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue,"
r as Jonah did when he tried to run away from his mission of warning
w corrupt Nineveh. Farmers say, "ButI am
not able to take the responsibility of making '
tmsplan-a success, -' forgetting that respon
sibility breeds ability : -It was responsibility
that made world-figuresbf.such merits Lin
coin and Jackson, and Forrest and Grant,
Piam men who until war's testing-time came
to them, had not, shown capacity for such,
mighty burdens as they were called upon to
ear Thousands and thousands of farmers
wdo might find their minds and souls grow
Uevelop and unfold under the resoonsi-
jny of leadership are shrinking from the
wy tasks that are needed to make full-grown
m:n bem- They are living narrow, selfish
xaZ . n they should be doing team-work
ith their fellows. '
DON'T FAIL TO READ
Augutt Suggestions for the Housewife .
Garden Suggestions for August .
Get Busy Now on Plans for Marketing
the Corn Crop . .
Help Organize an Agricultural Fair in
Your Community . . .
Hours of Labor on the Farm . . . .
Knoxville to Chicago and Back .
Livestock Suggestions for August . . . .
Our Monthly Economy Sermon . . .
Poultry Notes for August . . ...
The South's Huge Corn Crop .
Twelve Things to Do in August
too busy," these men say, or "the meetings are dull," or "So-and-so
are running it and I don't care to have .anything to do with it." They
forget that the man will die of selfish dry rot who is tooibusy to work
with his fellows. They forget that if the meetings are dull, all the more
urgent is their duty to help enliven them. They forget that if the
organization has poor leadership it is probably because better has not
been available.
We repeat it, Mr. Farmer, if anything is to be done to make your
neighborhood better and more prosperous there must be .team-work,
must be cooperation. And in getting such
cooperation somebody must take the lead;
why not you? You should not covet position
but you should yearn for an opportunity to
serve end especially for an opportunity
to find and encourage and stimulate and
develop and support others who will lead
or serve. Here is the 'true leader's greatest
power: fb develop leadership in others.
You need a marketing association in your
neighborhood; and more than that you need
a general farmers' club that will be ready to
protect the farmer's interests and promote
the community's welfare in every conceiva
ble way. Somebody must lead in promoting
and maintaining such an organization. Why
not you t
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