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Fect benefits. The county agents of county mprovement leagues can hold demonstraions at long distances from the city, showg improved methods of fertilizing, bee aising, fighting the boll-weevil, growing igs, or whatever the local problem may e. The forest supervisor can cover a sider area or visit the same territory more Frequently. The home economics teacher an visit the farmer's wife and demonstrate ne latest methods of household economy.

In addition to these practical classes in improved business methods which reach rger numbers because of the improved methods of travel, higher education is eing made more accessible.

The little red schoolhouses are being osed all over the Nation because of the ortage of teachers. But the crossroads hool was of more inspiration to the poet san the pupils. The present-day parents e solving the education question by send

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in their children to the town schools in te larger centers. In this way the country by and girl are able to get the same highaid instruction as their city cousins. They So come in contact with the affairs of e town and are able to enjoy its social adntages. Often families will combine transrtation facilities in sending the children school. One week the Joneses' car will used for the Robinson, Smith, Brown, d Jones youngsters. The next week ill be the Robinsons' turn, and so on. The country dweller is perhaps more ive to the benefits which the past twenty ars have brought in the matter of educaon than in any other field. A South akota farmer, commenting on this situaon, writes: "Car enables me to live arer better schools and still do fifty per nt more business." A Virginia woman rmer tells that the car enables her to live the country and yet allows the children go back and forth to school and college ery school day.

During the past ten years there has been resurgence of interest in the country urch. The white-spired meeting-houses ve been housing sparse congregations, r the tide of population has been toward e city. But the motor car is making ssible the union of parishes and is enling the rural minister to serve seval communities more effectively. Conseiently in some of the more progressive ctions, where the clergy are alive to the portunities of the day, rural church life being reawakened.

The widespread use of the automobile s not only brought the farmer closer to e city, it has also brought the city out to e farmer. Recreation is being organized rural neighborhood centers where the lvantages of the city, as represented by otion pictures, lectures, and other attracons, are provided. Community Service,

c., the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., and e Red Cross are among the major social gencies which are developing rural recreion centers. The Bureau of Community ervice, State of North Carolina, sends it delivery cars equipped with motioncture apparatus to a circuit of country ommunity centers.

Of course the millennium has not dawned. he farmer's life is not all milk and honey ven in this motorized twentieth century. is troubles may not be all gone, but his olation has departed. Modern transportaon has brought him elbow to elbow with 8 neighbor. It has made him a citizen of e world. It has made the life of the man ho tills the soil as full and as varied as at of the man who minds the till.

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s the writer understands the League issue as made between the Democratic id Republican nominees, Mr. Cox stands aarely for the Covenant as presented the Senate by the President without nullifying reservations;" while Mr. Harng stands for the principle of an assoation of nations to secure international Face (upon which principle the present eague is based), but is absolutely opposed Article X of the present Covenant, or y sort of compact morally or legally inding this country in advance to go to ar in a foreign quarrel.

In view of the fact that about one-fourth the present Democratic membership of e Senate refused to support the League ithout reservations rejected by the Presient, and in view of the fact that there is ot the remotest possibility that two-thirds. the next Senate will accept the present eague without reservations which Mr. Ox must reject if he is consistent, does it pot follow that his election means another ng-drawn-out deadlock unless he ends it accepting amendments or reservations stained by a majority of the Republican embership? If so, is it not a vain thing make an issue and devote time and ergy to a controversy over the lofty pirations and idealistic conceptions of a eague which confessedly can never comand the Constitutional majority necesry to ratify?

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Indianapolis, Indiana.

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