Show THE VILLAGE 1 Population experts are just beginning to awaken to the important place in our n national life held by the village the com corn community community where from to persons make their homes They have been in the habit of classifying the population as urbanand urbanand urban urbanand and rural considering only the cities and rind the farms They included in- in eluded these villages in the rural population count but their residents are axe certainly as far from being farmers as they are from being city dwellers There are more than twelve million I persons living in the villages of the United States Some of them are farmers others are tradesmen proprietors managers and laborers and every village has its quota of professional nal men and women I |