Ill 



THE GENERAL CORRECTIVE FORCES 

 THAT SHOULD BE SET IN MOTION 



The ultimate need of the open country is the 

 development of community effort and of social 

 resources. Here and there the Commission has 

 found a rural neighborhood in which the farmers 

 and their wives come together frequently and 

 effectively for social intercourse, but these in- 

 stances seem to be infrequent exceptions. There 

 is a general lack of wholesome societies that are 

 organized on a social basis. In the region in 

 which the Grange is strong, this need is best 

 supplied. 



There is need of the greatest diversity in coun- 

 try life affairs, but there is equal need of a social 

 cohesion operating among all these affairs and 

 tying them all together. This life must be de- 

 veloped, as we have said, directly from native 

 or resident forces. It is neither necessary nor 



