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nel through which they can render more effectively such a service.
The Board of Directors or Community Council should consist of the heads of departments, so that the entire work of the association may be frequently reviewed, and so that overlapping and duplication of effort may be avoided. The directors should meet frequently and the meetings should be open to the public. The Community Center stands for visible government and daylight diplomacy.
The Trouble Committee.—It is not so difficult to organize a Community Center as it is to keep it organized. The function of this committee is not to make trouble, but to remove it. Its task is to discover the causes of trouble of various kinds in the community—to learn the causes of dissatisfaction, to state the problems which ought to be solved, to exhibit the thing that needs to be done. The work of the Trouble Committee is problem making.
For example, why are country-bred boys leaving the farm in such large numbers; is farming a profitable industry; to what extent
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