Show SMALL TOWN LEADING AMERICA not long ago the nation was stirred b bf v the drift of population away from farms and rural areas areaba into the great cities young men attracted by thu tho high wages paid by industry and what appeared AP to be the superior social and economic advantages of urban tr ba n life iko d deserted e i the soil tor for the city in the past quarter cen century tur r america has made tremendous progress better s schools good roads the automobile telephone and radio have created a rural civilization greater than any in history industrialists attracted by such auch factors as lack of labor difficulties difficult les low taxes tax es and pleasant living and working conditions were barred from entry into the small smalltown town only because of lack of power then rural electrification on a large scale was inaugurated and now according to authorities the smaller towns are on the to road a d to industrial leadership of america and the country side la Is staged for the next scene 0 of f our industrial progress the drift of population has haa turned at present the only pronounced gain in industrial wage earners Is taking place placa in the country I 1 it I 1 is sate safe to say sa y that many towns which are almost unknown today will be the grea great industrial centers of the future tho the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century apparently doomed rural progress now the electric revolution of the twentieth ben century la Is reversing the process |