fCOMFORT the afflicted and afflict the comfortable! This was the %_v charge recently given to the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service staff by a wise old friend. I suspect that similar motives on the part of your program committee partially explains why I am presenting this paper. I assure them if this was an objective, up to now the project has been highly successful. Unfortunately for you, however, the time has come when you too must be afflicted. The thesis, or more accurately the hypothesis, of this paper is that the Scope effort has been an effective device for stimulating worker selfanalysis and cooperation, but it is hardly the beginning of the very important task of setting the goals and the metes and bounds of Cooperative Extension Service work. Rather than being national blue prints, as some claim, the Scope Reports should be viewed as preliminary architectural sketches of the future edifice. To avoid waste of effort and frustration on the part of workers some basic decisions are needed. There are contradictory ideas about how much remodeling is needed on this structure, its final appearance, its future use, what new materials will be needed to complete the job, and where we will find them. Experienced as we are, we need to finish the working drawings before we tear out the old structure. I hope my reasons for these statements will become apparent as I give my views on the Scope effort, its need, value, and limitations.