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 RURAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY




 RURAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY




 ERNEST R. GROVES

 _Author of "Moral Sanitation," "Using the Resources of
 the Country Church," etc._




 ASSOCIATION PRESS
 NEW YORK: 124 EAST 28TH STREET
 1918




 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
 THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF
 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS




 TO

 GLADYS HOAGLAND

 WHOSE UNSELFISH AND INTELLIGENT CARE OF

 CATHERINE AND ERNESTINE

 HAS JUSTIFIED THE ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE

 OF THEIR MOTHER




PREFACE


This book is written for the men and women who love the country and are
interested in its social welfare. Fortunately there are many such, and
each year their number is increasing.

Rural life has as many sides as there are human interests. This book
looks out upon country-life conditions from a viewpoint comparatively
neglected. It attempts to approach rural social life from the
psychological angle. The purpose of the book forces it from the
well-beaten pathways, but this effort to give emphasis to the mental
side of rural problems is not an attempt to discount the other
significant aspects of the rural environment. The field of rural service
is large enough to contain all who desire by serious study to advance at
some point the happiness, prosperity, and wholesomeness that belong by
social right to those who live and work in the country.

The author desires to thank the following for the privilege of using
material previously published