RURAL FORCES 



a committee for which the following name 

 is proposed : The Community Committee of 

 Rural Forces. Emphasis should be placed 

 upon the word "community." Like all 

 moral movements, progress must come from 

 within, and not from without. The move- 

 ment must be adapted to its environment. 

 Like the plants that grow there, it must be 

 indigenous to the soil. 



This committee should be composed of 

 representatives of the churches, the schools, 

 farmers' clubs, granges, fair associations, 

 farmers' institutes ; and other organizations 

 which are striving to increase the educa- 

 tional advantages, the social opportunities 

 and the moral aspirations of the people. 



Oftentimes the object of these rural forces 

 is confused with efforts to increase the finan- 

 cial prosperity of the farmer. It goes with- 

 out saying that the maintenance of the 

 fertility of the soil is essential to the food 

 supply of the nation. The problems of the 

 economic production of plants and animals 

 are of great importance to the prosperity of 

 the farmer. The idea, however, that the 



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