The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1919-10-15
SOCIAL SURVEY OF
BLOUNT COUNTY
October 9, 1919.

OCLODGL
To Blount County People
The Inter-Church World Movement
of North America is taking census
of church work and religious cOndl-
tions throughout the United States
and is now planning to do so, with
the help of the United States, and Is
now planning to do so, with the help
of the Maryville College Department
of Social Science, in our own Blount
County. | write this letter of intro
duction for any of the workers who
may be engaged in getting the sta
tistics that are sought. They repre-
sen no one church, but serve the en-
tire inter-denOminatiOnal effort that
is being made in behalf of an ad-
vance all along the line in Christian
work. | bespeak for all the survey
workers the cooperation of all peo-
pie of the various churches of all de-
nominations in Blount County. The
survey is intended to be very
thorough; so those who are called up
on to give information may have to
exercise a little patience in view OF
the long blanks that must be filled
out, but their service to the general
cause VIII be considerable.
Very cordially yours,
Samuel T. Wilson.
A social survey of Blount County
will be made in the near future by
students in the Department of So
cial Science. The survey will be dl-
rected by Professor A. F. Southwick k,
but will be under the auspices of the
Interchurch World Movement which
is making a social survey over the
entire United States, the director for
Tennessee being DR.. Thos. F. Dixon
of the University of Tennessee.
Part Of the work of the survey will
be to gather information on the
topography of the community, popu-
lation, economic conditions, extent
and kinds of improved roads, number
of farms worked by owner or tenant,
schools, denomination and strength
of churches, number and strength of
oranges and other farmers organiza-
tions, social feeling and all communl-
ty activities. The entire county will
be mapped to show the boundary line
of each trade center" community,
and of each parish within that COM
munity.
The purpose of the survey will be
to gather facts underlying social and
economic problems of the county,
with view of working out plans of
cooperation between the various
churches, schools, oranges, and other
community organizations toward a
solution of these problems.
This work is strongly endorsed by
the college authorities, pastors of the
town churches, and leading business
men.
A county committee will be worked
out later through the churches,
oranges and other organizations.
The duties of this committee will be
to carry out program of community
betterment formulated as a result of
the social survey.
The students who will work on the
survey are, Messrs Morgan Cox,
Pascal Fields, Virgil McClung, Ralph
Armstrong. H. T. Mace, Frank Oates,
Eugene Stanbery, Donald Taylor,
John Moss, Karl Kirkpatrick, Roy
Griftitts, and the Misses Ethel Doctor,
Elizabeth Irwin, Mary Hayes, Gaynell
Grfftts, Mary Anderson, Beryl
Rowan and Mrs. Mo"gan Cox.
Endorsement of Survey
Following are extracts from other
letters of endorsement of the survey.
"The Survey seems to me to be
one of vital Importance to US all.
Before the royal law, Bear We one
another's burdens, can bel practiced,
it is necessary to know what these
burdens are. In other words, before
t,,%, r1I, Il mol a1o
render the best service, it is necessary
for that institution or individual to
know the conditions, industrial, eco
nomic, social and religious-under
which the people whom it would serve
live.
Maryville and all Blount County
are interested in this survey and
would bespeak for Professor South
wick and his assistants all of the en-
couragment and support which any
one of US feels he can give
Signed, VIM. E. Graham,
Pastor New Providence
Presbyterian Church.
at seems to me that it will be a
good thing for our county, religious
ly, morally and educatiOnally, to have
scientific sociological survey made. y
James Allen Smith,
Pastor, First Baptist Church,
Maryville.
eve believe that the facts which
the survey will bring together will
lead to much needed study Of rural
problems and encourage a closer CO.
operation between churches and
other community organizations in
solving the problems which from time
to time arise
J. A. Cox,
Cashier Bank of Maryville.
"a movement such as this survey
which aims to encourage a systematic
study of rural problems and coopera-
tion between the churches and other
organizations for the social better
ment of the community should be
supported by every citizen of the
county.
Jno. NJ. Clark,
Cashier Blount County Bank.
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