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amusement club, base ball club. Omit no group of people that 

 have a name and regular meetings more or less frequent. Do 

 not fail to get the list of resident members. Value here will 

 depend upon accuracy. A courteous request to the secretary 

 of each organization will undoubtedly be responded to with all 

 the facts desired. 



Make Community Maps. The information obtained by the 

 home census, while valuable in itself, can be made far more 

 useful by a system of communitj^ maps. Draw a map of your 

 community on white card board or cloth-backed paper about 

 forty inches by thirty-six. Put in all the roads and the village 

 center limits. Locate every farm home on this map by a round 

 black dot a quarter of an inch in diameter. Make a separate 

 map of the village, locating all homes by the black dot. 



Total Socialization Map. Make a list of all organizations in 

 the community as found by the organization census. Give a dif- 

 ferent color to each organization. Then make little round seals 

 one quarter of an inch in diameter out of colored papers of these 

 same colors. Take one farm home census sheet at a time, and 

 see what organizations are represented in this home. Stick 

 one seal to the edge of the black dot locating the home, to rep- 

 resent connection with an organization which has one or more 

 members in this home only one seal, however many the mem- 

 bers. Then to the outer edge of this seal stick one more seal 

 representing the next organization found in the home, and so 

 on, until you have a line of seals of different colors on the map, 

 which shows at a glance exactly what organizations have mem- 

 bership in this home. Treat each farm home in the same way, 

 and the result will be a community map showing the total so- 

 cial connections of all the farm homes. Proceed in the same 

 way with the village map, and the two maps side by side will 

 show the total social relations of all homes in the community. 



A Tenant and Owner Map. On another map containing all 

 the farm homes, you can attach seals of one color for tenants 

 and seals of another color for owners occupying the farm. This 

 will show at a glance the situation of the tenant problem. 



School Maps. An interesting map can be made showing all 

 the homes having some children of graded school age not in 

 school along with those homes where such children are all in 



