Social service--of which one may, and generally does, hear a great deal in the women's clubs--is vaguely supposed to be something which has to do with great cities and factory towns, not with the small community.

Yet one reason that social problems are so acute in great groups of men and women is that they are so poorly met in small and scattered groups.

There is the same need of industrial training, of efficient schools, of books, of neighborliness, of innocent amusements, of finding opportunities for the exceptional child, of looking after the adenoids and teeth, of segregating the tubercular, of doing all the scores of social services in the small town as in the great.

Work is really more hopeful there because there is some possibility of knowing approximately _all_ the cases, which is never possible in the city.

And yet how far from general it is to find anything like organized efforts at real social service in the small community.