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especially, placing many county agents in the field, and they 

 have proved themselves helpful in furthering not only produc- 

 tion but community undertakings of different kinds. Many 

 states have county and city high schools which are giving in- 

 struction in agriculture and farm subjects, and the occasional 

 state agricultural high school is a still more intensified ap- 

 proach to the desired goal. Summer chautauquas with their 

 lectures and instruction on farm life and with their visiting 

 groups of farm boys and girls; farmers' institutes; farmers' 

 clubs, and associations of farmers' clubs; and kindred organi- 

 zations are helpfully contributing to the establishment of a con- 

 structive point of view concerning farm life and its problems. 

 However, the institution which is needed to reach the masses 

 of country children and to do most to create an abiding interest 

 in rural affairs is one which is located in the rural neighbor- 

 hood, which touches and ministers to the lives of the residents 

 daily, and which, filled with an agrarian content and spirit, exer- 

 cises an abiding, molding influence on the young in the direc- 

 tion of rural undertakings and improvement. The consoli- 

 dated rural school, with communityized building and equipment, 

 a corps of efficient teachers, a teacherage, experimental plot, 

 graded and ruralized curriculum, and having high school facili- 

 ties as an organic part of the socialized course of instruction, 

 possesses the greatest power of -appeal because it is articulated 

 with actual farm life and because it is within reach of all. 



THE SOURCES OF LEADERSHIP 1 



JOHN R. BOARDMAN 



THERE are four distinct sources which may be expected to 

 yield valuable material for the various leadership positions in 

 the social organization. The first and most obvious is the group 

 of persons who are already leaders. Attention is called to this 

 source because it demands careful examination. Are these 

 leaders being used in their proper places and if so is their lead- 



i Adapted from "Community Leadership," a course in social engineering 

 for village and country communities. Bureau for Leadership Training, 

 N. Y., 1914. 



