IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY 



have proved to our satisfaction that a large 

 amount of money is not needed in an under- 

 taking of this kind. Organized effort is the 

 important thing. Of course, some money will 

 be needed, but the sums coming in from dues 

 will generally be found sufficient to meet all 

 demands, unless improvements far more elabo- 

 rate than ours are undertaken. If more is 

 needed, it will be forthcoming, I am confident, 

 for everyone will feel a personal interest and 

 responsibility in the accomplishment of what 

 has been undertaken, and they will not be will- 

 ing to let failure result from lack of means to 

 carry it forward to satisfactory completion. 



In almost any village the young people 

 could be enlisted in the work, and they could 

 give entertainments for the benefit of the 

 society and thus realize a good sum, since 

 everybody would feel in duty bound to pat- 

 ronize them. 



We have not been ambitious to make costly 

 experiments. Instead, we have been satisfied 

 to make the most of possibilities in a practical 

 way. We have let competent men, having 

 good taste and good judgment, plan the public 

 work for us, and we have been sensible enough 

 not to interfere with them or hamper them 



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