CRUSADE FOR THE COUNTRY SCHOOL 



will speed from postoffice to destination 

 with railway promptness. 



The improvements named will tempt all 

 who can do so to build and live in the coun- 

 try even when part of their work must be 

 in town. A reflux of population from city 

 to country will certainly occur when roads, 

 with mail, telegraph and telephone facili- 

 ties, are greatly bettered, and schools, con- 

 certs and churches as fine in the country as 

 in town. 



"Our civic centers are expanding with 

 amazing rapidity," says Seaman A. Knapp, 

 "not because men love brick walls and elec- 

 tric elevators, but because they there find 

 greater earning capacity and certain con- 

 veniences and comforts which have become 

 a- necessity. Make it possible to have all 

 these amid the quiet and beauties of nature, 

 with rapid transit to business centers, and 

 vast numbers that have sought an urban 

 home will turn to the country for a home, at 

 less cost, with purer air and water, greater 

 convenience and beauty, cheaper food and 



more contentment." 



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