THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY
are many who believe with John Collier that "In Russia today these Community Centers, thousands of years old, are being welded into organization along modern lines, and that new Russian, Imperial Russia, the Russia which will fight great wars, and not only military wars, the Russia which will yet blossom as the most glorious of all the flowers of national life—the roots of that Russia will be living roots growing out of a folk life, a local community life comparable in fairly close detail to the town meetings and to the Community Centers in America today." And who doubts that out of the Community Centr movement as it is being presented to us today there will come a more unified America and a wider application of the democratic principle for which the most enlightened nations of the world have staked their all.
The Neighborhood the Unit.—America is the sum total of thousands upon thousands of neighborhoods, and therefore the neighborhood is the logical unit of the Community Center organization. The labors of the educator and
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