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Show hat give service. I In twenty-two states the rural communities com-munities have actually lost or failed o gain, proportionally, in population, n Pennsylvania, 1,320 towns have tone backward in the last ten years. Draw a circle with a radius of ten niles around each of the forty-seven argest cities in the United States. Pake a census of the population and rou will find living within the con- -ines of these circles approximately ! ,500,000 people, or about one-third )f all the people of continental Uni-ed Uni-ed States. They occupy one twenty-thousandth twenty-thousandth part of the entire area of he country. The town of one thousand or over, ihould he the social, spiritual and ommercial center for the people vithin the radius of six to eight niles. Are you trying to make your own such a center? A spirit of pride engenders pride, t few citizens of any community who lelieve in clean streets, free from vaste yaper and empty tobacco tins, , nn by prccent and example, crea ' |