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NORTH CAROLINA PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH BY THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN , GREENSBORO, N.C VOLUME 3. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1921 NUMBER 4. SEEING THE OTHER SIDE OF "MAIN STREET" THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN COUNTRY LIFE ASSOCIATION CONSIDERS TOWN AND COUNTRY RELATIONS CjjIELAGES, small towns and cities have a distinct vJ social relationship to country communities. The drama and the literature of the last decade would indicate that this relationship is in large measure unwholesome. At any rate, this literature has focused the attention of the American people on the problems of the village and (he small town; these units of social organization are being studied. The American situation at Alexandria. The piotaganists of the cooperative system asked -some pertinent questions. Some assumed the position that the farmer would never reach a satisfactory plane of social living until he could control the economic processes involved in the marketing of his products. Representatives from the Southern states insisted that many rural communities of the South were back- Country Life Association devotes itself to the human ward because the property-owning and the marketing aspects of agriculture. Its membership is composed functions (including credits) were so thoroughly vested largely of specialists in the fields of rural sociology, rural economics, and rural social, work. Each annual conference concentrates its attention on one specific problem affecting the rural population. This year the conference discussed the general theme: The Village or Town and the Outlying Country; What Should be Their Relationships? Unlike most conferences, this gathering dispensed with lengthy papers and spent most of its time discussing actual situations. Representative persons were THE TEST OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION "The measure of value of community work is not the degree of efficiency on the part of paid workers in doing things for the community but the extent to which volunteer leaders for community work have been developed and participation secured -which will ultimately enable the community itself to climb higher and higher levels of community achievment. A willingness to leave the final authority with the people themselves is essential in community building which aims at Democracy." in the hands of a few people in the towns and villages that the farmers lacked that degree of independence which alone can bring about a satisfactory standard of living. The majority opinion appeared to be that merchants of small towns and villages (especially those acting as distributors of farm products) would be obliged in the near future to adjust their business in harmony with the principles of cooperation. Examples were related by certain types of middlemen. The honest middleman who selected to discuss a certain relationship between a wishes to render a plain service to the community town and its surrounding rural territory. After, such a brief exposition of an actual condition, the members of the conference discussed the relationships portrayed from the viewpoint of broad social principles Does the Small Town Exploit the Country? Mr. George A. Petrie of Alexandria, Louisiana, a was commended; the speculating, exploiting middleman who thinks only in terms of his own profits was roundly scored. Social, Church and School Relations The above method of creating discussion was followed in connection with social, church and school middleman, discussed the commercial or trade relations relations. Samples of the stories told are given below between his town and the country people. He pre- in condensed form: sented a frank picture of a commercial organization within the city attempting to work out satisfactory trade relations with the farmers; his viewpoint was that of the honest middleman who "produces nothing but performs a useful service to the community". An animated discussion followed his description of the A Brief Outline of Social Relationships Between Town and Country People at Hattiesburg, Mississippi The Rotarians and Kiwanians invite, on special days, certain farmers to attend their luncheon. The o (Continued on next page)
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Title | North Carolina community progress, November 20, 1921 |
Date | 1921-11-20 |
Editor/creator | Lindeman, E.C. |
Subject headings |
North Carolina -- Periodicals Community development -- North Carolina -- Periodicals Education -- North Carolina -- Periodicals Social service -- North Carolina -- Periodicals Community development Education Social service North Carolina |
General topics |
Teachers UNCG |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The November 20, 1921, issue of North Carolina Community Progress, a publication of the North Carolina College for Women (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). |
Type | Text |
Original format | Newsletters |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : North Carolina College for Women |
Language | en |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Publication | North Carolina Community Progress |
Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Additional rights information | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
Object ID | 1921-11-20-nccp |
Date digitized | 2016 |
Digital master format | Image/tiff |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries |
OCLC number | 965151682 |
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Title | Page 001 |
Full text | NORTH CAROLINA PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH BY THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN , GREENSBORO, N.C VOLUME 3. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1921 NUMBER 4. SEEING THE OTHER SIDE OF "MAIN STREET" THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN COUNTRY LIFE ASSOCIATION CONSIDERS TOWN AND COUNTRY RELATIONS CjjIELAGES, small towns and cities have a distinct vJ social relationship to country communities. The drama and the literature of the last decade would indicate that this relationship is in large measure unwholesome. At any rate, this literature has focused the attention of the American people on the problems of the village and (he small town; these units of social organization are being studied. The American situation at Alexandria. The piotaganists of the cooperative system asked -some pertinent questions. Some assumed the position that the farmer would never reach a satisfactory plane of social living until he could control the economic processes involved in the marketing of his products. Representatives from the Southern states insisted that many rural communities of the South were back- Country Life Association devotes itself to the human ward because the property-owning and the marketing aspects of agriculture. Its membership is composed functions (including credits) were so thoroughly vested largely of specialists in the fields of rural sociology, rural economics, and rural social, work. Each annual conference concentrates its attention on one specific problem affecting the rural population. This year the conference discussed the general theme: The Village or Town and the Outlying Country; What Should be Their Relationships? Unlike most conferences, this gathering dispensed with lengthy papers and spent most of its time discussing actual situations. Representative persons were THE TEST OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION "The measure of value of community work is not the degree of efficiency on the part of paid workers in doing things for the community but the extent to which volunteer leaders for community work have been developed and participation secured -which will ultimately enable the community itself to climb higher and higher levels of community achievment. A willingness to leave the final authority with the people themselves is essential in community building which aims at Democracy." in the hands of a few people in the towns and villages that the farmers lacked that degree of independence which alone can bring about a satisfactory standard of living. The majority opinion appeared to be that merchants of small towns and villages (especially those acting as distributors of farm products) would be obliged in the near future to adjust their business in harmony with the principles of cooperation. Examples were related by certain types of middlemen. The honest middleman who selected to discuss a certain relationship between a wishes to render a plain service to the community town and its surrounding rural territory. After, such a brief exposition of an actual condition, the members of the conference discussed the relationships portrayed from the viewpoint of broad social principles Does the Small Town Exploit the Country? Mr. George A. Petrie of Alexandria, Louisiana, a was commended; the speculating, exploiting middleman who thinks only in terms of his own profits was roundly scored. Social, Church and School Relations The above method of creating discussion was followed in connection with social, church and school middleman, discussed the commercial or trade relations relations. Samples of the stories told are given below between his town and the country people. He pre- in condensed form: sented a frank picture of a commercial organization within the city attempting to work out satisfactory trade relations with the farmers; his viewpoint was that of the honest middleman who "produces nothing but performs a useful service to the community". An animated discussion followed his description of the A Brief Outline of Social Relationships Between Town and Country People at Hattiesburg, Mississippi The Rotarians and Kiwanians invite, on special days, certain farmers to attend their luncheon. The o (Continued on next page) |
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