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FIRST DO SOME SPADE WORK

following devices will help him determine how many persons are interested and what subjects they would like to talk about.

1.  An interest questionnaire:  A short questionnaire can be quickly prepared and mimeographed.  It should contain two types of questions.  The first will inquire whether the men are interested in an opportunity to discuss under informed leaders subjects having to do with war and postwar problems; whether they would prefer to hear an expert give a short talk on the problem, to be followed by questions; or whether they would prefer simply to hear special lecturers.  The second type of question will endeavor to discover interests in specific questions.  Three ways of getting this information are suggested.  One is to let the men make a free choice by writing the subjects they would choose on several blank lines following a statement like:  "On the lines below write the subjects which you would like to discuss."  A second way is to list a dozen or more subjects

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