250 CHAPTERS IN RURAL PROGRESS 



tural economics and rural sociology, and press 

 the value of co-operation in the work of social 

 progress in the country. There is need that 

 somewhere "tab" shall be kept on the whole 

 rural social movement. We need a directing 

 force to assure a comprehensive view and study 

 of the whole rural problem. It is important 

 that some investigations should be carried on 

 that are not likely to be taken up by some other 

 agency. It would be desirable to have a certain 

 amount of publication, and in various other 

 ways to carry on a campaign of education. 

 Above all, it would be desirable to initiate local, 

 state, and national conferences pervaded by the 

 spirit and purpose of securing the hearty co- 

 operation of all rural social forces, of all the 

 organizations that have any rural connection 

 whatever, and of all individuals who have the 

 slightest genuine interest in any phase of the 

 farm problem. 



Such a bureau should keep in constant touch 

 with, secure the confidence of, and supply 

 appropriate literature to, country teachers, 

 preachers, editors, doctors, and business men, 

 and, more than all, to intelligent and progressive 

 farmers. And let me add at this point, that it 

 must be fully understood that the work con- 



