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animated with an active, pulsating life. The 

 mere machinery of organization counts for very 

 little. Organization involves far more than 

 machinery, and particularly it involves spirit 

 and action. If anyone requires a mental picture 

 of what happens to a great organization once 

 interest abates, he has but to reflect on the 

 record of the Grange. At one time that great 

 association held rural Ontario in its hand. It 

 offered a task and carried a message for a multi- 

 tude of farmers. It touched intimately their 

 lives and interests. With advancing times those 

 interests became greatly changed, and the 

 Grange failing to keep abreast of those interests 

 soon lost its appeal. The spirit of the move- 

 ment waned, and as it waned, the organization 

 dwindled almost to the vanishing point. In this 

 picture of a once prosperous, farmers' association, 

 fallen into decline, the leaders of the U.F.O. 

 have a constant warning of what must inevitably 

 happen if their organization fails to keep abreast 

 of the times and do a work sufficiently vital to 

 enlist and retain the active interest of its mem- 

 bers. 



Yet no one would minimize the difficulty of 

 maintaining interest. The problems with which 

 the U.F.O. has grappled are enormously diffi- 

 cult of solution. It has proclaimed as its task 

 the correction of the injustices under which not 



