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Excerpt from The Field Day and Play Picnic for Country Children
From such conditions, the country boy who goes to the city is not likely to be as efficient as formerly, and this is a cause for genuine national alarm.
Dr. Strong, writing on this subject, says: We must expect the steady deterioration of our rural population unless effective preventive measures are devised. And if no new preventive measures are devised, I see no reason why isolation, irreligion, ignorance, vice, and degradation should not increase in the country until we have a rural American peasantry, illiterate and immoral, possessing the rights of citizenship, but utterly incapable of per forming or comprehending its duties.
In this situation it is important that everythingbe done to infuse new life and new enthusiasm into the country districts. Home, church, and school should unite intelligently to produce conditions which will make for contentment. Social forces in the country are centrifugal and expulsive; their direction is from the center outward and away; they must be made centripetal and attractive. The domi nating question should not be: How can I get away? But How can I make conditions such that I shall be glad to stay?
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