RURAL FORCES 



A young college graduate who is now 

 managing eight hundred acres of land 

 recently wrote : "I firmly believe that one of 

 the best opportunities to be of help to a rural 

 community lies in the work that is to be 

 done for the improvement of social condi- 

 tions to help make what little leisure there 

 is clean and refreshing." Hence on return 

 from college this young man has found 

 time to play football and baseball with local 

 teams and to help whenever opportunity 

 offered at dances, musicales and similar en- 

 tertainments. Games and other forms of 

 recreation may be clean and wholesome, or 

 they may be quite the reverse. It would be 

 the duty of the community committee to see 

 that dances occurred under proper environ- 

 ment not next an open saloon and that 

 the young women were properly chap- 

 eroned. 



In many communities the boys and girls 

 are almost wholly dependent upon the 

 neighboring towns for their amusement. 

 This condition may or may not be desirable. 

 If the town and country are virtually one 



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