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can better do, nor the church to do what the farm 

 bureau can better do each agency to its job. 



3. Institutional Efficiency. Each agency should 

 make itself as effective as possible in its own field. It 

 should have a part in the making of the policy and 

 should support it loyally. But it should make for itself 

 a definite policy and a clear-cut program of operations. 



4. Cooperation. There should be the heartiest pos- 

 sible cooperation among the various agencies, each mak- 

 ing, in common with the others, a definite effort to help 

 carry out the program. 



IV. General Needs. In general there are needed 

 also 



1. A Program Maker. This must necessarily be a 

 body representing fully the various agencies and in- 

 terests. No one agency, not even that of government, 

 can impose a policy on the others. 



2. Adjustments. We must recognize the many re- 

 lationships of any part of the rural problem and the 

 constant adjustment and readjustment that are thus 

 made necessary. 



3. Utilization of Laws of Progress. We should 

 utilize the two great laws of social progress: (A) the 

 law of resident forces under which we learn to depend, 

 " in the long run," upon local and individual groups 

 and agencies for the real work; and (B) the law of 

 external stimulus by which we keep prodding, as it 

 were, the local effort by information, interchange of 

 experience and even urgings and financial aid from 

 sources outside the local groups. 



4. Discussion. It is necessary to develop means for 

 constant discussion of the issues involved, of ends and 

 of means, of methods and the checking of results. 



5. Leadership. The discovery, training and utili- 



