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needs as well as chart the course for the future
development of the program. The utmost care should
be exercised to be certain that assistance is secured
from research departments to assure the correct
organization of the survey.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND COORDINATION OF A RECREATION PROGRAM:

Community organization in a recreation program is vitally
important and is the means whereby a community takes appropriate
recognition and study of a community problem and takes unified
action for the solution of the problem. The real essence of
community organization is that it is in the hands of people who
are truly ropresentative of the community itself. It is the
means of gotting people to work cooperatively with an executive
for the purpose of making the recreation program geared to what
the people want and need through their own representation.

Community organization and coordination can best be accomplished
by the functioning of a lay advisory or planning committee, composed
of truly representative citizens who are willing to devote some of
their time, without pay, to approach the problem presented by
leisure in a statesman-like as well as business-like manner, thus
becoming an action group.

SELECTION OF THE COMMITTEE:

The selection of such a comnittee may be the outgrowth of a
recognized need on the part of the community itself or the need
may be pointed out by forces outside the community. It may be a
natural group banded together or an appointed group chosen very
carefully. The Work Projects Administration takes it forgranted
that such planning committces are essential for the proper
functioning of the recreation program in every community. The
following principles should be followed in the sclection of con-
mittee members:

1. Members should be selected on the basis of their
contribution rather than by their name or standing
in the community.

2. To be composed of persons who are enthusiastic and
energetic.

3. To be composed of persons appointed on the basis of
their fitness, who are unbiased and unprejudiced, and
who have the attitude of doing the greatest good for
the greatest number of people in the community.

4. Composed of persons who have the respect and confidence
of the community.

5. The committee must be truly representative in that all
classes and types of people have a spokesman for their
particular desires and needs.