The Committee is composed of: John. R. Mott, Chairman; Ernest D. Burton, Secretary; Raymond B. Fosdick, Treasurer; James L. Barton and W. H. P. Faunce. Galen M. Fisher is Associate Executive Secretary. The offices are at 111 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
In the field of town and country the Committee sought first of all to conserve some of the results of the surveys made by the Interchurch World Movement. In order to verify some of these surveys, it carried on field studies, described later, along regional lines worked out by Dr. Warren H. Wilson[1] and adopted by the Interchurch World Movement. These regions are:
I. Colonial States: All of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
II. The South: All the States south of Mason and Dixon’s line and the Ohio River east of the Mississippi, including Louisiana.
III. The Southern Highlands Section: This section comprises about 250 counties in “The back yards of eight Southern States.”
IV. The Middle West: The States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and northern Missouri.
V. Northwest: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and eastern Montana.
VI. Prairie: Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.
VII. Southwest: Southern Missouri, Arkansas and Texas.
VIII. Range or Mountain: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and western Montana.