COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON.

This article reports that Hastings-on-Hudson has organized a Community Service Council to deal with problems of human relations. About the turn of the century, there came to play upon the rural community of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York, an array of forces and processes, which, within a decade, changed it into a complex, industrial, residential suburb. Rapid transportation and other increasing forms of communication began to link Hastings with the developing metropolitan region. To the shore front came factories, followed by an influx of young Polish, Russian, and Hungarian laborers. To the sloping hillsides, formerly wealthy estates, came groups of city people. One would be justified in supposing that commuters and their families would constitute a harmonious group with tendencies for community solidarity. But this has not proved to be the case. The hill sections upon which suburban dwellers located are geographically separated from each other by ravines and gullies. Interconnecting roads have been impractical. As incoming groups differed in their ambitions and ideals, sectionalism has become rife.