rebuilding of country life. Rural teachers, 

 librarians, clergymen, editors, physicians and 

 others may well unite with farmers in studying 

 and discussing the rural question in all its aspects. 

 We must in some way unite all institutions, all 

 organizations, all individuals, having any in- 

 terest in country life into one great campaign for 

 rural progress. 



THE CALL FOR LEADERSHIP. 



We must picture to ourselves a new rural 

 social structure, developed from the strong 

 resident forces of the open country; and then we 

 must set at work all the agencies that will tend 

 to bring this about. The entire people need to be 

 roused to this avenue of usefulness. Most of the 

 new leaders must be farmers who can find not 

 only a satisfying business career on the farm, but 

 who will throw themselves into the service of 

 upbuilding the community. A new race of 

 teachers is also to appear in the country. A new 

 rural clergy is to be trained. These leaders will 

 see the great underlying problem of country life, 

 and together they will work, each in his own field, 

 for the one goal of a new and permanent rural 

 civilization. Upon the development of this 

 distinctively rural civilization rests ultimately 

 our ability, by methods of farming requiring the 

 highest intelligence, to continue to feed and 



