THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY
mate goal of every sincere social service worker. And we are moving rapidly indeed now toward this goal. Those who doubt it should learn of the Community Clearing House Plan devised by the New York Committee on Unadjusted Children in the Gramercy District of New York City; the National Social Unit organization recently put in operation in Cincinnati, or the social service plans in any of our larger cities.
The Problem of the City.—Heretofore those who have focused their attention on the problems of the city have had little in common with those who are specifically interested in the improvement of country life. They have studied the same basic problem, it is true, but from such vastly different angles that it has sometimes seemed that two unrelated problems have been presented. The Community Movement is the key to the whole problem—it represents a principle that is fundamental, and therefore it applies to the city as well as to the country. A Community may be organized with equal promise of success in city or village, or countryside.
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