A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . county, can the source andthe activities of that leadership be discerned. Economically it is theleadership of the farmer who has himself succeeded; morally and religi-ously it is the leadership of the older, tried members of the it is quite unostentatious and self-effacing. So far we have been looking at the favorable aspects of this commtmityand have been constrained to praise rather than to criticism. But inconclusion we may p
A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . county, can the source andthe activities of that leadership be discerned. Economically it is theleadership of the farmer who has himself succeeded; morally and religi-ously it is the leadership of the older, tried members of the it is quite unostentatious and self-effacing. So far we have been looking at the favorable aspects of this commtmityand have been constrained to praise rather than to criticism. But inconclusion we may point out that if this community is to reach its maxi-mum development and fill the place of its maximum usefulness, if indeedit is to maintain its present level, there are certain pertinent problemsfor which it must find a solution. There is its race problem, less acutehere than elsewhere, and also in process of solution, but important, never-theless. Had Sandy Spring had for its negro population only thedescendants of that group of negroes originally given their freedom, andtrained there under such admirable auspices, its problem would not now 64. SANDY SPRING HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS CLUB be a very serious one. But the negroes have been migratory; favorableconditions have attracted to the neighborhood many brought up undervery different circumstances, and it is never easy to make a shiftingpopulation respond to the stimulus of social standards. The problem ofthe relation of the negro to the rural community is in many respectsmore acute now than ever before; even though apparently nearer solu-tion. Sandy Spring must remember that the status of the entire com-munity may be expected to be influenced, intellectually and morally andcertainly economically, by the status of the negro within its boimds. Itmust make more determined efforts than ever to raise him to a higherlevel of industry, morality and trained efficiency. There is also a present social problem, th,e problem, we may say, of
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