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Show Leisure-Time Programs In Your Community Community activities have a good many things to recommend them: They make for a better understanding understand-ing among neighbors and consequently conse-quently greater tolerance; they serve to bring the younger crowd together in a common effort with the older people, thus promoting a mutual respect and confidence; they frequently uncover unsuspected lo- j cal talent; they help to tone down those who have a tendency to "run things" and to develop the hidden gifts of those who are too self-centered; self-centered; they tend to keep people particularly the restless younger ones out of mischief; they are, in short, a strong unifying and socializing social-izing force. A good time for the inauguration of a community leisure-time project is in the autumn or early winter when outside work in gardens and fields is at a minimum, and when, I on the other hand, some of the sports and amusements which occupy occu-py people during the summer months are not available. WHAT TO DO FIRST Let those who have the germ of the plan in mind call a general meeting, urging everyone to come, so that,' from the beginning, the project may be a genuine community commu-nity project. It should never be thought that the activity is to be merely a temporary one, but on the contrary it should be planned for permanency. At the first meeting it will be necessary, after the purpose pur-pose of the meeting has been discussed, dis-cussed, to elect officers, since a permanent per-manent organization must be conducted con-ducted in a business-like manner. Mevertheless, the organization should be kept as simple as possible, the officers consisting, probably, of a permanent chairman ("permanent" that is, for a year), a secretary and a treasurer. Some funds will be required, re-quired, which should be raised by local entertainments or in some other oth-er simple manner. From the beginning be-ginning the organization should be strictly self-supporting, and if funds are slender they must be eked out by individual and group effort. At the first meeting a committee of persons who are not afraid of work should be appointed (or elected elect-ed as the community may choose) to make a survey which will show, among other things, what are the major interests of the community and what agencies already exist which can be counted upon to help. It is of the utmost importance thai the program finally outlined shall consist of activities which will appeal strongly to every major group in the community: that is, to men and to women, to boys and girls, to young people as a class, to older people as a class, to the young-marrieds, to those interested in sports, in music, in drama, in serious study, in politics poli-tics or in purely social affairs. It requires great tolerance, tact, and genuine human kindness to keep a large number of people working work-ing together in harmony, hence the executives and the committee members mem-bers should be chosen from among the best-liked and the most impartial impar-tial men and women available. NOT A SPORADIC ATTEMPT Unless plans are made from the beginning for a long-time project, ii is probable that the initial enthusiasm will evaporate and the project will never get beyond the incipient stage. Therefore, the very first plans sub mitled to the community must include in-clude a group of seasonal projects, closely overlapping: Such, for example, ex-ample, as a series of plays or concerts con-certs in which the local talent figures, fig-ures, to be given to raise necessary funds; fcfflowing these may come suggestions for garden groups perhaps per-haps neighborhood gardens if the community is suburban; for 4-H clubs and Boy Scout and Girl Scout organizations; for community sports such as bowling, tennis, badminton volley ball preferably types oi sports which will involve largt groups of people; for county fairs; for anything, in fact, in which the entire community will have an interest. in-terest. More ambitious projects, such as beautifying the local highways, high-ways, building a v community center, cen-ter, or a community church; or plans looking toward the establishment establish-ment of a branch of the State or County library which may draw upon the larger center for books any or all of these worthy projects should come later, as an outgrowth of the original plans. For inspiring information in this field, send five cents to Superintendent of Documents, Docu-ments, Washington. U. C. asking for Chil dren's Bureau Publication No. 241. THE HYMENOPTEKA Ants, bees and wasps belong to this order. They are industrious workers and many of them are famed, as artisans. They are extremely ex-tremely valuable in the economy ol nature since it is by their aid that melons, cherries, apples, squashes, cucumbers, and many other fruits and vegetables are fertilized. The Hymenoptcra are frequently divided divid-ed into two groups the stinging group and the borers, they are the most specialized sroup of insectF and invertebrates. |