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Show each other, naturally. But, as for individual advantages of living in either locality, let us consider. People in cities are close to the sources of culture. They have easy access to libraries of exhaustive information, in-formation, art galleries, the best music, drama (the theater is not decadent, de-cadent, it is more wonderful than ever if one chooses the right things) and opportunities for every sort of self-improvement. But after all, city dwellers live a more or less artificial life. Culture In spite of its uplifting influence, is only life by proxy, predigested life in a way, presented to us after be- , ing manipulated to suit the taste and ideas of another. And stores, offices, high buildings, steam-heated apartments, movies! Mow far removed re-moved from nature are they also. It is one thing to look at a picture of a field of sheep another to see a field of sheep and still another to care for those sheep. It takes nature nat-ure to teach us life, and true values of living lies behind all culture. jllAPLETON ! Reporter. Telephone 81-J-l - BY OLIVE HUBERTS BARTON Have yim heard this one? Is it viti-r to live in the country or in :he city ? I tbousrht it was all settled Ions i'o. until I received a letter from a libiiiius society last week nskinu av opinion. It always was a hard .lie. Imt now it's n harder one. If ton live in the country you can step . the gas and bo in the city. It i.m live in the city you can join .'he Sunday parade on Gasoline Way M be in the country in a few minutes. min-utes. It isn't like it used to be in the lays of the Caesers when the whole miitryside moved to the City of luine, about three millions of them : believe the figures are, and left ae country and the wheat-growing i lake care of itself. That is why je Kouion Empire "busted up," as .om Sawyer said. Fortunately in America some are ''fornist" the 'iintry and some are "fornist" the ty. which keeps a nice Valance of 'reduction. That is as it should be : a nation wishes to be a top-notch "wer on this terrestrial globe. The city and the country augment |