Excerpt from 4-H Club Work: Old and New Objectives Another trend in the work is worth mentioning in this connection. The 4-h clubs have always had a club organization. But, at first, this officering and management of the'club's affairs were apt to be regarded as only a mechanical necessity for the immediate purposes of the club. Organization itself was not subjected to the sociological test of good Olfganization. So it sometimes happened that a shiftless. Type of club behavior was the outcome. Now, however, itis being discerned that organisation is in itself a piece of social activity and group behavior which has a positive bearing upon the permanence of the agricultural.industry. Defective organization and thoughtless group conduct of 4-h clubs, it becomes evident, lead not only to ineffective club results, but what is still worse, to bad sociological habits and group behavior in the community. So it has come about that club organization has been raised to the rank of an objective among other objectives. But this trend must be interpreted like the economic trend, as more perfectly putting into effect the old original objectives, rather than a veering away from the original purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.