CHAPTER IX 



THE COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN 

 ASSOCIATION 



AMONG the movements of first importance looking 

 toward the uplift of young men is that named at the 

 head of this chapter. Parallel with the intensive 

 and systematic effort to build up the commercial 

 life of the city and allow the country district to 

 take care of itself, has been a like effort to provide for 

 the care and development of the city boy and the 

 uniform neglect of the needs and interests of the 

 country boy. Now, here at last is a movement 

 that is proving a real means of salvation of the rural 

 youth, mind, body, and soul. 



President Henry J. Waters, of the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College, struck the keynote of this 

 young country-life movement most effectively in a 

 recent address when he said: "We believe in the 

 existence of a social renaissance. One needs only 

 to read the daily and weekly papers printed in 

 hundreds of prosperous villages and cross roads 

 corners, the faithful chroniclers of the community's 

 activities, to find buoyant hope of the future of 

 farm life. 



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