Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — LOCAL LEADERSHIP [ARTICLE]

LOCAL LEADERSHIP

Somebody Must Take the InitiativeAre You Willing to Serve? [National Crop Improvement Service.! Many- agricultural plans are like a sky rocket. They make a fuss going up and blow up a few stars and descend like the stick. The reason of this is because few men cab make a continued effort. They will get up a little scheme but at the first discouragement, their energy wanes and there is nothing, to show for their activity. Yet it cannot be said that this sort of energy is wasted. Like the overlapping waves of. a tide, public opinion is being formed. Things which were ignored when crop improvement began its propaganda, are now adopted as a matter of course. Local leadership is the weakest spot in this work. Somebody must take.the initiative but it is not necessary that one man should undertake the whole thing. In every community there are bankers, commercial clubs, farmers clubs, granges, institutes, millers, grain dealers and public leaders of various kinds who can unite their efforts on a few specific things and after successfully tackling one problem be strengthened to tackle cabers.