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generally speaking, stopping at five or five 

 thirty in the evening, with Saturday afternoon 

 off and many holidays. While much of this 

 spare time is given up by many to gaiety and 

 wasteful folly, not a few take advantage of spare 

 time and opportunity to acquire knowledge. 

 The constant mingling of human beings in urban 

 centres, in whatever condition, has the further 

 effect of sharpening their wits and making the 

 individual dextrous in employing what know- 

 ledge he has. The farmer's conclusion is that he 

 himself would be well advised to concentrate 

 less on production, and to give more hours to 

 the study of how to live well. . 



The result of this conclusion has been nothing 

 short of marvellous. All up and down rural 

 Ontario today we find a rewakening interest in 

 recreation and social life. Hours and even days 

 are given over to discussions and meetings. 

 The effects of these are now seen both in 

 the home and in public matters. Already 

 they have made the U.F.O. a power in the 

 community and in the state. If anyone 

 who has had the privilege of attending many 

 annual meetings of the U.F.O. would have a 

 vivid picture of what has happened, let him con- 

 trast the nineteen hundred and twenty annual 

 convention with that of three years before. 

 Instead of the irresolute, groping crowd of the 



