ABSTRACT
A community of good breeding and of a variety of interests will find the spending of money to take a relatively smaller part in its satisfactions. Many communities could profit greatly by an increased degree of self-support. A productive undertaking for many a small community would be to discover what kind of craft services could be used in the community, and what young men and women are competent to learn those crafts; and then to help them to thorough training. A good community will develop a variety of economic interests, so that people of varying interests and capacities can find livelihoods there. One of the first principles of community economic design is good proportion—not too much of anything, and no lack of what is essential. The problem of finding the economic needs of the community and discovering or developing ways to meet them must be faced by each community in its own way.
