i68 THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



Committees of the Council. There are four com- 

 mittees that seem to be necessary in order to cover the 

 main interests of a community, as follows : 



1. On production. 



2. On marketing and other businers interests. 



3. On conservation. 



4. On community life. 



But there may be as many sub-committees as there are 

 problems, covering such interests as good roads, farm- 

 ers' exchanges, recreation, education, community plan- 

 ning, health and sanitation, local government and so on. 

 The /Activities of the Council. The task of the 

 council is to confer, not to direct or manage. It should 

 consider such questions as these: 



1. A community study. 



2. A community program. 



3. The work of each agency in carrying out the 

 program. 



4. Community meetings and conferences relative 

 to the program and its progress. 



5. The need of new association. 



6. Bringing the community into touch with other 

 communities and with county, state and na- 

 tional activities. 



The Community Secretary. It is desirable to have 

 a community secretary. The ideal, possibly, would be 

 the employment of a person who could give full time 

 to the interests of the community. But this is hardly 

 possible in most rural communities, and there are, no 

 doubt, certain advantages in having not a professional 

 community manager but a voluntary worker who gives 

 freely of his time and energy and thought. This of- 

 ficial would probably be the secretary of the council, 

 chosen by it to serve as its executive agent. Choice 



