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will be based on the community inventory, supple- 

 mented later by the fuller expert study. The program 

 lays down the practical steps necessary in order to 

 carry out the aims or policy of the community. It 

 will deal with the steps necessary to make what might 

 be called the ideal community, but it will be very prac- 

 tical and take up even minor matters of reform. The 

 program must grow out of a cooperative agreement 

 adopted by the committees of the council, by the coun- 

 cil itself, and finally accepted by the community at a 

 conference. 



The council will assign tasks to the different agencies. 

 Existing institutions must do the work if they can, but 

 new agencies must be developed if they are necessary. 

 If possible, needless agencies will be eliminated. 

 There will be also a checking-up of results through 

 frequent reports of the different agencies and from the 

 committees of the council. It is important to develop 

 and maintain study clubs or groups perhaps of only 

 three or four people, and it may be of 25 or 30, each 

 group to take up some local problem and study it in 

 the light of general principles and of outside move- 

 ments, and particularly its application to the commun- 

 ity. Here is the chance for the " pace makers " and 

 here is the chance, too, for the local school, as well as 

 for the extension service of the agricultural college. 

 The work of the farm bureaus and of the extension 

 service of the college, indeed the work of all educa- 

 tional agencies, should fit in with the program and need 

 of the particular community. All educational ma- 

 chinery should be geared to the policy and needs of 

 the community. 



The community program is designed as much to 

 arouse community will as for anything else. Hereto- 



