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A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXX. No. 52.
SATURDAY, DECEMBEq o5, 1915.
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Community Organization the First Step K
"TjEACE on earth, good will to men," sang the Christmas angels
y looking down over Bethlehem more than nineteen hundred years
ago this season, and it has seemed to us that we could not better
use an issue at this Christmas-tide than by devoting it to spreading the
Christmas spirit of peace, good will, fellowship and cooperation. And if in
view of all the slaughter and butchery which crimson the earth at this holy
season, "the brotherhood of man" seems yet far, far away as a working
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whose progress i 'ted in this issue. The writer has recently
been in consultationx n a group of other men interested in organ
izing" Community Leagues" in this State representatives of the State
Farmers' Union and State Departments of Agriculture, Education,
and Health, etc., and we believe that organization forms have been
perfected that are well worth considering by everybody interested in
making his neighborhood a better place to live in. Look on page 15
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for the list 01 commiuees iccuumicuutu j
and the subjects each committee is expected to look after.
Nor should anybody think that having such a League of all the people .
of a community will hurt the local farmers' organization or farm,
women's organization. On the contrary, experience shows that just
as a' good, strong church helps make a strong Sunday school and a
p a stfoncr church, so a strong comv
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farmers' organization and vice versa. The
iPflst work confidently to pro
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mote the spirit of brotherhood and cooperation in yur'm
'And the very first thing needed, it seems to us, js to getaaW
, , t ni rpdin? this vear we have been
uun oi your people, in aiiuiu gcuu. - o . hppn
'struck with the fact that whenever conspicuous pwp toen
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p-ieportea in any line or numan auucuivu., ..
j result of some sort of organization, and almost every letter about j
neignDornood progress in mis wcca. a
Progressive Farmer noints to exactly the
j same moral. Let even a small group of
people get together, and it is impos
sible to say what great results will fol
low. They need not be extraordinary
People, nor even highly educated people.
The Great Master began the task of the
world's redemption with the organization
f only a dozen humble Jewish workers
and fishermen.
Put it down among your plans for the
turning year, therefore, mat you aie gw
ing to get some' such organisation of the
People of your neighborhoodsome such
neighborhood organization as those which
have hrrtnorViV nKi.t Vio marvelouslv in-
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spiring results in various neighborhoods
DON'T FAIL TO READ
Organizing the Rural Community
The "Dark Corner" of Durham.and Its
Wonderful Development . . . . . . .
The Wonderful Development of balem &
Community . . ' in
Planning Next Year's Work "
Good Advice from Virginia Farmer,' Umon 4
What Are You Doing? '
Sow Neighborliness Ennches L.fe
Organizing Commumty Leagues . . . l
957 Community. Improvement Leagues at
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people see how organization helps in one place
and resolve to get yet more benefits from it.
You know, Mr. Reader, how true is the
ancient proverb, "What's everybody's busi
ness is nobody's business." The only way
to get public affairs, community affairs, prop
erly looked after is to put specific tasks on
specific people. If you do not believe your
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on the contrary, to see it go forward astherl
.,w;o montinned in this week's paper,
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why not resolve now that you will set out to
interest other men and women who will help
you, and with them get your people together
for neighborhood organization and improve
ment during the coming year? t .
Community organization ts the first
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