THE COMMUNITY CENTER MOVEMENT
done with the individual, and that the process must be slow. In later chapters an outline is given of the wonderful coöperative work done through the boys' and girls' clubs, as initiated by Dr. Knapp, and conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture.
If the farmer has his problems from a purely business standpoint, there are other problems that touch his family at a vital place. The farm lacks social opportunities. Someone has said, "When a district ceases to be a mere collection of householders and rises to the dignity of a community with common interests and common aspirations, it becomes alive, and the monotony of country life becomes largely a thing of the past." Many a time a man has given up farming, not because he did now know how to till the soil and raise crops, but because his family demaded opportunities the country did not afford. The need of the community development having become apparent, farmers' clubs were among the first concrete results of this realization. The Farm Women's Clubs followed, and then the Community Club sprang
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