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enacted that will protect them. When a state 

 goes dry, it should be allowed to keep dry. 



There is most urgent need for a quickened 

 public sentiment on this whole question of 

 intoxication in rural communities in order to 

 relieve country life of one of its most threatening 

 handicaps. At the same time it is incumbent on 

 every person to exert his best effort to provide 

 the open country with such intellectual and 

 social interests as will lessen the appeal and 

 attractiveness of the saloon. 



(c) DEVOLOPING THE LOCAL ATTACHMENTS OF THE 

 FARM LABORER. 



The best labor, other things being equal, is 

 resident labor. Such reorganization of agricul- 

 ture must take place as will tend more and more 

 to employ the man the year round and to tie 

 him to the land. The employer bears a distinct 

 responsibility to the laborer, and also to society, 

 to house him well and to help him to contribute 

 his part to the community welfare. 



Eventually, some kind of school or training 

 facilities must be provided for the farm laborer, 

 to cause him to develop skill and to interest him 

 intellectually in his work. 



