A real concern in America over the movement of rural populations to urban centers is whether or not those who remain in agriculture after the normal contribution to the city are the strong, intelligent, well-seasoned families, in which the best traditions of agriculture and citizenship have been lodged from generation to generation. The present universal cry of “keep the boy on the farm” should be expanded into a great public sentiment for making country life more attractive in every way. When farming is made profitable and when the better things of life are brought, in increasing measure, to the rural community, the great motives which lead youth and middle age to leave the country districts will be removed. In order to assure a continuance f the best strains of farm people in agriculture, there can be no relaxation of the present movements for a better country life, economic, social and educational.
From The University of North Carolina News Letter, April 6, 1921
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