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broad campaign of publicity, that must be under- 

 taken until all the people are informed on the 

 whole subject of rural life, and until there is an 

 awakened appreciation of the necessity of giving 

 this phase of our national development as much 

 attention as has been given to other phases or 

 interests; a quickened sense of responsibility in 

 all country people, to the community and to the 

 state in the conserving of soil fertility, and in the 

 necessity for diversifying farming in order to 

 conserve this fertility and to develop a better 

 rural society, and also in the better safeguarding 

 of the strength and happiness of the farm women ; 

 a more widespread conviction of the necessity 

 for organization, not only for economic but for 

 social purposes, this organization to be more or 

 less cooperative, so that all the people may share 

 equally in the benefits and have voice in the 

 essential affairs of the community; a realization 

 on the part of the farmer that he has a distinct 

 natural responsibility toward the laborer in 

 providing him with good living facilities and in 

 helping him in every way to be a man among 

 men; and a realization on the part of all the 

 people of the obligation to protect and develop 

 the natural scenery and attractiveness of the 

 open country. 



Certain remedies lie with voluntary organiza- 

 tions and institutions. All organized forces both 



