COUNTRY COMMUNITY PROGRESS 



real function and become an unwholesome, If not a dan- 

 gerous, institution. 



This county is rich in historical lore that should be 

 perpetuated in the lives of our people. The drama and 

 the historical pageant, built on these historic events, 

 would do more for the social and educational uplift of 

 our towns than all the "movies" ever projected. An 

 historical room in each town for preserving, and for 

 exhibiting to the rising generation, samples of the 

 household arts and treasures of the past, together 

 with the crude and cumbersome farming tools with 

 which our fathers labored, would do much to develop 

 local pride and interest in local history. 



The circulating library, rightly directed from good 

 library centers, has possibilities for good in our rural 

 homes, not fully realized. One lack in many rural 

 homes is good literature for the children. Every 

 school-house might well be made a community center 

 for the distribution of wholesome books for young peo- 

 ple. If rightly chosen, these books could be utilized by 

 the teacher to arouse an interest in nature and in coun- 

 try life that the prevailing fiction often tends to deaden. 



The visiting nurse has come into a few of our rural 

 towns as a result of the generous interest in community 

 welfare manifested by those who have the means and 

 the inclination to help their fellow-citizens to help them- 

 selves. This spirit of prompting self-help, through 



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