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may fall upon the master or the lecturer of the Grange, 

 upon the pastor of the church, upon the superintendent 

 of schools or the principal of the consolidated school, 

 or upon the person who teaches agriculture in the 

 school. The community secretary becomes a sort of 

 community engineer. He studies the needs of the com- 

 munity and what other communities are doing. He 

 brings these needs to the attention of the council. He 

 endeavors to see that the different agencies are carry- 

 ing out their program, tries to discover whether the 

 program is working. He puts fuel under the boilers. 

 He would naturally represent the council at county and 

 state conferences. Here is literally a new profession 

 opening up in country communities. But let us not be 

 alarmed at the extent of his duties. There is not a 

 farming area in America which has not some one in it 

 who already does many of these things. We need to 

 systematize and organize more fully and to be more 

 definite in our purposes and plans. This community 

 secretary will be a tower of strength in accomplishing 

 results. 



Community "Pace Makers." We are indebted to 

 Minnesota for suggesting a unique phase of local com- 

 munity leadership. Not only do we want a community 

 secretary, but we want some one in the community, 

 chosen by the community, who is the recognized leader 

 in some one field and who will take the responsibility 

 for endeavoring to push that interest in the community. 

 One man may be a corn expert, another an apple ex- 

 pert, another a stock breeder, another especially in- 

 terested in schools and education. There will be, of 

 course, women pace makers for household manage- 

 ment, child training, home decoration and so on. 

 There should be as many pace makers as there are 



