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EASTERN EDITION
A Farm and Home Weekly for
Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
"6, AT RALEIGH, N. C
Vol. XXXIIL No. 51.
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Every School District Needs a Community Club I
"nVERY farm neighborhood ought to have a farmers' club-some I Mn't vn R.or i. . u .. .
EVERY farm neighborhood ought to have a farmers' club-some
sort of local organization of farmers usually interested in some
form of business cooperation and which usually meets privately
but there should also be in every community a community league or
can't you, Kind Reader, get three or four others to join you in issuing
a call for a neighborhood meeting to organize such a club? Or get
tne scnool committee and one or two others to issue such a call?
You do not require any elaborate machinery or a big membership.
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community club with public meetings to which everybody is invited,
and which has no membership fees, or only nominal fees.
Take any community which is sleeping, stagnating, half dying, and
what is the real trouble? Nine times out
of ten it is lack of leadership. The
general run of the people are as capable
as the general run of people elsewhere.
Their hearts and minds average up about
as well as the hearts and minds of people
in more progressive neighborhoods. But
they lack leadership.
And why haven't they leadership?
Chiefly because they lack organization.
There are plenty of men who realize the
need for taking this or that forward step,
hut each man is waiting for somebody
else to move. It's a case of "what's
everybody's business is nobody's busi
ness." What we wish to urge, therefore, is
that the people in every school district in
the South during the coming year organ
ize some sort of community club. Why
Of course, if you can arrange for regular monthly or quarterly meet
ings, so much the better. But this is not absolutely essential. The
main thing is to have an organization with five or six live men and
women at the head a president, a vice-president,
a secretary -treasurer, and an executive
DON'T FAIL TO READ-
An Improved School Building for Improved
Neighborhoods
Four Hints for Country Schools in Decem
ber Dragging Roads and Other Road Improve
ment Plans .
Keeping More Country Wealth in the
Country .
Manufacturers Could Afford to Pay 45
Cents for Cotton
A Christmas Present for all our Readers .
Three Opportunities for North Carolina
Schools and North Carolina Club Boys
and Girls . . .
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SMS & fde.Ke8 Vallment and every other
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committee of three and let them call a
meeting of the people whenever there is
need of one to hear an address, debate, or
discussion; to have a play or musical feat
ure; or to start a community fair, or a corn
ciub. or a canning club or to get a library,
or a school farm, or a better schoolhouse,
etc., etc. The main thing is to have some
body who knows that it's his business that
his neighbors have made it his business to
'take the lead when there is an opportunity to
go forward. And by getting the general
body of citizens interested in organization,
the business organization of farmers will be
helped also.
Lets start now to have a Community
Club in every wide-awake school in the
South. It's a foundation stone of progress.
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