Making good communities better

This Handbook Has Been Written for You

If you are an officer or a leader of a club, society, as sociation, or any other formal group.
If you are aiding in any community-wide effort to reduce juvenile delinquency, promote a public health program, campaign for poultry improvement-and a score of other possible projects or activities.
If your job is the strengthening or administration of some institution such as the church, the school, government, or a business enterprise on a local, state, or national level. If you are a student of society and wish to learn more about the whys and wherefores of community life.

Each person using this handbook will have different questions in mind and will have had varied experiences in community activities. For that reason, the book contains a wide range of subject matter unified by a point of view which takes into account the recognized, established principles of sound community organization.

The basic principles discussed in this handbook ap ply to all communities, whether they are small hamlets or metropolitan centers. Techniques, however, will vary with the size of the locality. The general tone of the handbook will impress you as being matter-of-fact. It has no axes to grind, no great inspiration to instill. The literature on the com munity is full of tracts, of documents with deep spiri tual insight, and of article after article urging people to