ped the local clubs of farm women have shown a lively interest in
problems of health, home management, care of children, education,
recreation, and civics. They have found that the problems of the home
cannot be solved without an effort to create better community conditions
and "community housekeeping" has attracted an increasing interest. The
present aims of the women's work have been aptly phrased in the Home
Bureau Creed written by Dr. Ruby Green Smith, associate state leader of
home demonstration agents in New York:

The Home Bureau Creed

"To maintain the highest ideals of home life; to count
children the most important of crops; to so mother them that
their bodies may be sound, their minds clear, their spirits
happy, and their characters generous:

"To place service above comfort; to let loyalty to high
purposes silence discordant note; to let neighborliness
supplant hatreds; to be discouraged never:

"To lose self in generous enthusiasms; to extend to the less
fortunate a helping hand; to believe one's community may
become the best of communities; and to cooperate with others
for the common ends of a more abundant home and community
life:

"This is the offer of the Home Bureau to the homemaker of
to-day."

Nor should we fail to recognize the part which the boys' and girls' club
work has had in the extension movement. Space will not permit any
adequate account of its origin and growth, or of its methods and
influence. No movement has done more to redirect and give dynamic to the
rural school than has the club work; nor has any movement done more to
train leadership among the coming generation on the farms. Commencing
with corn clubs for the boys, canning clubs were soon organized for the
girls, and later pig clubs, potato clubs, calf clubs, sewing clubs,
cooking clubs, and clubs are now organized with various projects
covering almost all phases of agriculture and home economics. These
clubs may be called the Junior Farm Bureau, for in them farm children
are receiving a training which will mean much for the future
organization of country life. The public confidence in the work is shown
by the fact that in 1920, 500 banks in the northern and western states
loaned nearly $900,000 to club boys and girls for financing their
projects.[50] As a result of the school exhibits of the products of the
club work, many a community