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entertained towards his friend in the country is rapidly dying out. 

 Every citizen in the country realizes that it is to his own interest 

 to co-operate to the fullest with his fellow citizens "in town." There 

 is no line whatever between town and country. And why should 

 there be? 



The results have been marvelous and the business man and the 

 farmer both cheerfully enthuse on the significance of "The Trenton 

 Idea" at work in the social sphere of everyday life. Here is the 

 nucleus of the actual solution of the back-to-the-farm movement and 

 a firm initial step in the right direction toward the only reform 

 which can reduce the high cost of Hving. It is the biggest idea of 

 the century. 



"The Trenton Idea" ignores all factions. It aims to socially unite 

 and cement together in pleasant social bonds every unit of the com- 

 munity by welding together in one family the entire citizenship of the 

 greater city. Thus are the conquests of the "Trenton Idea" made pos- 

 sible and practical. These former prejudices, born of the old imagin- 

 ary corporate line inside and outside the limits, are rapidly passing 

 away. The theory that you can do business with each other in a 

 more satisfactory way where there is a pleasant social side of life 

 affects the better side of man's nature and makes every citizen 

 realize in his heart the truth of the old saying, "One touch of nature 

 makes the whole world kin." 



Who can fathom the depths of future development of "The 

 Trenton Idea?" 



The Trenton Commercial Club is different from the old- 

 fashioned aggregation. It has received into its young veins the 

 healthy blood of the farm and smacks of the soil, the rich, black 

 soil of Missouri. It deals in men, products and distribution. 



"The Trenton Idea" is as contagious as laughter. The glad 

 time is coming when every progressive community will beam with 

 the smile of prosperity caught from "The Trenton Idea," until the 

 new confederation of country towns bound together by the mutual 

 interests of the country and the city. Here is plowed up for the 

 first time a rich new field of consolidation and co-operation. Here 

 behold the rushing together at last of the two great streams of 

 life, commerce and agriculture, the two most permanent factors in 

 civilization. 



In a nutshell, therefore, "The Trenton Idea" means that in 

 Grundy county, Missouri, at least, agriculture and commerce are 

 married. "The Trenton Idea is not lazy, it works." 



