28 COMMISSION ON COUNTRY LIFE 



it is vitally important to stand behind the rural 

 church and to help it to become a great power 

 in developing concrete country life ideals. It is 

 especially important that the country church 

 recognize that it has a social responsibility to 

 the entire community as well as a religious 

 responsibility to its own group of people. 



RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMISSION 



The Commission recommends all the correc- 

 tives that have been mentioned under the head 

 of " The Nature of the Remedies." It does not 

 wish to discriminate between important measures 

 of relief for existing conditions. It has purposely 

 avoided endorsing any particular bill now before 

 Congress, no matter what its value or object. 



There are, however, in the opinion of the 

 Commission, two or three great movements of 

 the utmost consequence that should be set under 

 way at the earliest possible time because they 

 are fundamental to the whole problem of ultimate 

 permanent reconstruction; these call for special 

 explanation. 



1. Taking stock of country life. There should 

 be organized, as explained in the main Report, 

 under government leadership, a comprehensive 

 plan for an exhaustive study or survey of all the 

 conditions that surround the business of farming 



