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be a very serious one. But the negroes have been migratory; favorable 

 conditions have attracted to the neighborhood many brought up under 

 very different circumstances, and it is never easy to make a shifting 

 population respond to the stimulus of social standards. The problem of 

 the relation of the negro to the rural community is in many respects 

 more acute now than ever before; even though apparently nearer solu- 

 tion. Sandy Spring must remember that the status of the entire com- 

 munity may be expected to be influenced, intellectually and morally and 

 certainly economically, by the status of the negro within its bounds. It 

 must make more determmed efforts than ever to raise him to a higher 

 level of industry, morality and trained efficiency. 



There is also a present social problem, the problem, we may say, of a 

 social ministry. There is a class of whites living in this neighborhood 

 on a distinctly inferior level; a class almost without social life; a class 

 with lower standards and ideals. These are the marginal people of the 

 community, and they are the people whose welfare must ultimately 

 condition the welfare of the community as a whole. The service to the 

 marginal man is not charity; it is necessity. How this problem is to be 

 solved is for the community itself to determine. The Grange began as a 

 leveling and uniting force, reaching, to be sure, only a small portion of 



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