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of high schools within easy reach of every farm home. All 

 this implies more financial support, better supervision, and 

 better instruction. Such vocational courses as agriculture, 

 household science, manual training, business, etc., will be 

 offered, together with such other branches of study as will 

 give a liberal education to the boys and girls of the country. 

 Furthermore, these schools will be in session at least eleven 

 months in the year, and will be for all the people of the 

 community, old and young alike. 



The roads. So important are the roads to the progress 

 of rural life that we may discuss them briefly along with 

 other country life institutions. No arguments are needed to 

 prove to the intelligent and unselfish mind that good country 

 roads are essential to the progress of all rural institutions. 

 The coming of the automobile has had much to do with the 

 improvement of our modern roads. It remains for the pres- 

 ent generation to begin the great work of building hard roads 

 in every township of our important agricultural regions. Why 

 should not every acre of land be taxed to support good hard 

 roads, even though future generations be bonded to meet the 

 indebtedness ? Both present and future generations will profit 

 by such public service as the building of hard roads. 



Another large task for the present generation in this mat- 

 ter of road building is to provide a double track for all our 

 railroads and traction lines. Such road building as here 

 suggested may seem too momentous a task to think of, but, 

 as compared with other large public services which our fore- 

 fathers have done, such as pioneering a new country and 

 establishing permanent institutions, the building of good roads 



