. The consolidated rural school . Animal-husbandry study at first-hand. Pupils studying tree grafting at Sherrard, West Virginia RURAL ECONOMICS AND CONSOLIDATION 85 for carousal in rooms full of lurid oratory, beer, and tobacco,will never be the lot of those who enlist for this productivecampaign. But from the standpoint of the creative philos-ophy of life it has the best things in the world to offer. To young men it offers days of toil and nights of offers frugal fare and plain clothes. It offers lean bodies,hard muscles, horny hands, or furrowed brows. It offerswholesome recreation
. The consolidated rural school . Animal-husbandry study at first-hand. Pupils studying tree grafting at Sherrard, West Virginia RURAL ECONOMICS AND CONSOLIDATION 85 for carousal in rooms full of lurid oratory, beer, and tobacco,will never be the lot of those who enlist for this productivecampaign. But from the standpoint of the creative philos-ophy of life it has the best things in the world to offer. To young men it offers days of toil and nights of offers frugal fare and plain clothes. It offers lean bodies,hard muscles, horny hands, or furrowed brows. It offerswholesome recreation to the extent necessary to maintainthe highest efficiency. It offers the burdens of bringing upfamilies and training them in the productive life. It offersthe obligation of using all wealth as tools and not as ameans of self-gratification. It does not offer the insult ofa life of ease, or esthetic enjoyment, or graceful consump-tion, or emotional ecstasy. It offers, instead, the Joy of pro-ductive achievement and of noble comradeship in the pro-ductive life. To youn
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