Leadership Waits for One 175 



guage lacks a good word to imply them both. 

 Women may be leaders in the large social 

 work; and their influence should be para- 

 mount in redirecting the country home. 



The scale of effort in the open country is so 

 uniform that it ought to be easy to rise above 

 it. I do not see how it is possible for an 

 educated young man to avoid developing 

 leadership in the open country, if only he at- 

 tacks a plain, homely problem, is not above 

 it, and sticks to it. 



It does not follow that all leadership must 

 be reached for. It will come to a man. A 

 student recently asked my advice about his 

 buying a farm. Since a mere boy he had de- 

 sired to possess a certain farm in his neigh- 

 borhood. It is a good farm, paying its owner 

 a comfortable profit. The young man has no 

 money and is working for his education. But 

 now the owner of the farm is about to retire, 

 and he offers the farm to this young man at a 

 fair price. The young man can borrow the 

 money and mortgage the place. He calculates 

 that he can have it all paid for by the time he 



