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 . ially there is httle or no opportunity of passing from one class toanother. Here, and generally throughout the coimty, there are classesamong the negroes, also, usually on the basis of prosperity and , Barnesville and Poolesville. In these three districts, gen-erally speaking, two standards are maintained; there is but little distinc-tion between the farm owner and the renter; the lines are not closelydrawn. Throughout the u
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 . ially there is httle or no opportunity of passing from one class toanother. Here, and generally throughout the coimty, there are classesamong the negroes, also, usually on the basis of prosperity and , Barnesville and Poolesville. In these three districts, gen-erally speaking, two standards are maintained; there is but little distinc-tion between the farm owner and the renter; the lines are not closelydrawn. Throughout the upper end of the county a more democraticspirit prevails. In the Poolesville District there is one instance of agroup, not different from those around them, either socially or economi-cally, but nevertheless very homogeneous. This group, now the thirdgeneration from the original settlers, are all of one stock; but they haveat the present time reached a condition which probably means theultimate breaking up of the community, as the young men are movingout, partly owing to the fact that the farms have been divided as muchas is considered COLORED LODGE HALL38 Damascus. Here the lines are more loosely drawn than anywhereelse in the county. There are two economic standards, but practicallyonly one social standard. Colesville. Part of this district belongs properly with Sandy Springand will be discussed in that connection; for the remainder of the dis-trict, there are two economic standards, but hardly more than onesocial standard. Wheaton. In the towns there is very largely a suburban populationmaintaining on the whole but one standai-d, socially and economically;the only distinction here would be between this class and the laboringelement. In that part of the district which is farmed, there are twodistinct standards. Gaithershurg. Here there are three social standards, in general con-forming to the three groups of farm-owners, tenants, and lines are not h
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