SEVENTEEN] CONCLUSION 
furrows, and you are sowing the seed which to- 
morrow will give your social harvest.” 
I said at the outset that this book was not for 
colonists, yet I cannot overlook the fact that the 
movement countryward is taking on some features 
that look toward getting out of the city in a lump. 
There are not a few persons who lack the initiative 
and can only move in platoons. The Salvation 
Army deals with this class of people, and does it 
successfully. ‘Their farm colonies, moving whole 
families together, are working well. ‘The National 
Government is discussing the question of assisting 
this movement by adequate appropriations. 
Mechanics of small means, and clerks with 
meager salaries, apprentices whose income only 
permits them to live in dreadful boarding-houses — 
these will do well to club together and buy coun- 
try places near trolley lines. This is sometimes 
feasible by giving to a married man the manage- 
ment of the house and the land. Here can be had 
wholesome food, fresh air, rational exercise, and 
delightful lodgment. I imagine that we shall see 
a great increase of this sort of .club life in the 
country. 
Codperation is not a new idea; for our fathers 
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