THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY
to mobilize the sentiments of the people and to make available the material resources has directed special attention to the schoolhouse as an effective agency ready-made to its hand for this purpose. The National importance of this new discovery is evidenced by the fact that the Council of National Defense has planned a nation-wide movement to organize the school districts of the United States as a means of bringing to the people information in regard to the immediate needs of the nation and creating and unifying sentiment for the National defense. In order that this organization may be made most effective and be made permanent, the Council expressed a desire to coöperate with the Bureau of Education."
Basic Principles of Community Movement.—The Community Center Movement does not aim merely to increased efficiency measured by the standards of the factory and machine industry. "Human beings," said John Collier, President of the National Community Center Association, "are not to be dealt with as if they were passive material, like iron ore or cotton thread, which can be taken and put in a machine and
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