CHAPTER XXIII 
THE LOCAL CLUB ORGANIZATION 
Why Boys and Girls Should Take Up Club Work. 
“As a national organization, Field Crop, Livestock and 
Home Demonstration Club work has grown to such pro¬ 
portions that it now embraces a membership of more 
than 600,000 boys and girls of the rural districts. These 
questions are often asked: “Why do boys and girls join 
these organizations?” and “What do such organizations 
mean to the boys and girls?” These questions are 
answered as follows: 
1. Club work is a means of acquiring more education. 
2. Club work is a means of earning dollars and cents. 
3. Club work increases one’s independence by increas¬ 
ing one’s wealth. 
4. Club work breaks down lonesomeness and isolation 
by providing forms of organized associations. 
5. Club work provides an avenue for the development 
of leadership. 
6. Club work stimulates pride in the local community, 
and makes life in the community more attractive. 
7. Club work provides for play and recreation; isolated 
or individual play is not natural. 
8. Club work develops the agricultural and livestock 
assets of the community. 
9. Club work opens up visions of other things, other 
places, other institutions, other people. 
10. Club work is doing its part right now in providing 
more and better food and feed at a lower cost. 
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