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in 1913. It was then that the Belgiun Commission for the Improvement of Rural Life was created, with M. M. F. Grattiau as President.
In other countries similar preoccupations have given rise to analogous organisations, which are now federated in an International Commission.
II. — The Program of the Improvement of Rural Life.
The general lines of this program have been laid down in article 2 of the Statutes of the International Commission of Rural Life.
The text of this article was drawn up in a meeting at which M. le Marquis de Vogue presided at Bruxelles in 1925: it reads as follows.
The Commission, in recognition of the fact that agricultural progress depends on the threefold, technical, economic and social factors, tends particularly towards the promotion of the improvement of conditions in rural life.
It devotes itself to the rendering more attractive of country life by all available means calculated to keep the rural populations, and more especially the young people, on the land.
The following means are notably employed for this purpose:
1. The popularisation of perfected procedures and new methods of work, and the application of machine power.
2. The improvement of the agricultural environments, in view of a better adaptation to their end.
3. The development of the roads, public services, frequently insufficient or non existent in villages.
4. The development of professional instruction.
5. The forming of Social Clubs and Societies.
6. The promotion, decoration and furnishing of the human habitation.
7. The laying out of flower beds and ornamental horticulture in the immediate neighbourhood of the habitations.
8. The forming of Entertainment and Sport Clubs and Societies, in order to bring within reach of the rural population some of the comforts which they envy the city dwellers and inhabitants of industrial centres.
9. The promotion of the federation of committees, societies and groups existing in other countries, with similar aims, in order to compare notes on what has been achieved and to pool the mutual profit of acquired experience.
10. The annual or periodic convocation ot the federated associations, in Congresses or Lecture Days, as was done for the first time at Bruxelles in 1925, in order to achieve an exchange of views on the best way of realising the proposed goal.
These suggestions constitute some guidance for the possibilities of development of the educational film for rural populations. They may, as we shall see further on, be amplified, with special emphasis on woman's role in agriculture.
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