RURAL FORCES 



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"I propose a substitute," said the listener. 

 "There is much more pleasure and recrea- 

 tion to be obtained from photographing ani- 

 mals than from killing them. What is 

 needed in every rural community is a 

 camera club." 



When a boy wishes to go hunting, he 

 merely has to buckle on his ammunition 

 pouch, shoulder his gun and he is ready. A 

 camera club, however, requires a social 

 organization and a social center. The com- 

 munity committee would thus be required 

 to decide whether the facilities for develop- 

 ing and printing pictures may best be 

 located at the church, the schoolhouse, the 

 grange hall or elsewhere. 



A little reflection will show how many 

 possibilities such a club might have on its 

 social, moral and educational side. The 

 suggestion has been made here, however, 

 only as an illustration of the problems which 

 arise when a rural community is organized 

 for social welfare. The organization of a 

 book club, or a magazine club in a rural 

 community presents precisely the same 

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