Damascus. Here the lines are more loosely drawn than anywhere 

 else in the county. There are two economic standards, but practically 

 only one social standard. 



Colesville. Part of this district belongs properly with Sandy Spring 

 and will be discussed in that connection; for the remainder of the dis- 

 trict, there are two economic standards, but hardly more than one 

 social standard. 



Wheaton. In the towns there is very largely a suburban population 

 maintaining on the whole but one standard, socially and economically; 

 the only distinction here would be between this class and the laboring 

 element. In that part of the district which is farmed, there are two 

 distinct standards. 



Gaithersburg. Here there are three social standards, in general con- 

 forming to the three groups of farm-owners, tenants, and laborers. 

 These lines are not hard and fast, and are easily stepped over; one great 

 reason for this is that for 15 or 20 years most of the young people have 

 belonged to the so-called "middle" class. There are only two economic 

 standards, as there is practically no difference between owner and tenant 

 in this respect. 



Potomac and Darnestown. The conditions here are much the same 

 as in Damascus, two standard economically and one socially. 



Olney. Part of this district should be classed in the main with Lay- 

 tonsville; the remainder belongs to the Sandy Spring neighborhood and 

 will be described later. 



Bethesda. The situation here is peculiar owing to the extensive but 

 rather uneven suburban development, and is hardly of sufficient im- 

 portance for our present purpose to warrant discussion. 



Rockville. The town of Rockville has its own standards the basis 

 of which it is a little difficult to see. For the remainder of the district 

 there are apparently three economic and three social standards. 



Outside of Rockville, Laytonsville and Sandy Spring the county 

 appears to be, from the point of view of our present discussion, more or 

 less in a stage of transition. Now it is common experience that social 

 institutions prosper best in communities where the social organization is 

 compact and definite, whether composite or not. It was observed, for 

 example, in a survey of 53 communities in central Pennsylvania, that the 

 churches had their greatest difficulties in just such periods of transition, 

 and worked with greater ease and efficiency when the communities had 

 arrived "through industrial development at a clear recognition of the 

 composite nature of social life." Here the movement is in the opposite 

 direction, but the point holds that social institutions prosper best where 

 the organization is compact. In the discussion of recreation and social 

 life it will be discovered that the most highly developed communities in 



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