Rural Opportunities for Social Reconstruction
| A. Country Life Deficiencies | |
| I. | Social Diagnosis |
| Rural individualism. | |
| The weakness in rural institutions. | |
| The difficulty of organizing farmers. | |
| II. | Failures in Rural Cooperation |
| Lack of political effectiveness. | |
| Lack of cooperation in business. | |
| Lack of religious cooperation. | |
| III. | Rural Morals and the Recreation Problem |
| Lack of wholesome social life for young people. | |
| Lack of recreation and organized play. | |
| Morality and the play spirit. | |
| B. The New Cooperation in Country Communities | |
| I. | Social Cooperation |
| The problem of community socialization. | |
| Who shall take the initiative? | |
| A community plan for socialization. | |
| The gospel of organized play. | |
| The school a social center. | |
| The social influence of the Grange. | |
| II. | Business Cooperation |
| Modern rural cooperative movements. | |
| Cooperation among fruit growers. | |
| Some elements of success and failure. | |
| Our debt to immigrants. | |
| Cooperative success in Denmark. | |
[Cooperation of religious forces will be treated in Chap. VII.]