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Show 9 Bailey As it, the country-life movement had saw its beginning vJi th President the country-life problem Comm i as i on h irnae Lf s recognition subs8quent creation and Country Life in August, 1908. on defined the duction to the He Roosevelt' country-life "problem" in completed report also delineated, fundamental views 2 in on the the same of the Roosevelt intro- his commission in 1910. the paragraph, of the place of of some of his farmer in American society. The Commission·was appointed the wrot because the time has come when it is vit8 to the we l.f'ar-e of the country se r-Lou sj.y o con sider the nroblems of fa_rm life. So far the f2I'Der h2.snot received the attention that the city worker has received 2nd has not been able to eXpress himself as the city worker has done. The problems of farm life have received very little consideration and the result has been bad for those who dwell in the open country, We a...l1d therefore bad for the whole nation. were founded as a nation of fanners, and in spite of the great growth of our industrial life it still remains true that our whole sy stem rests UTIon the farm, that the welfare of the whole community depends upon the welfare of the farmer. The strengthening of country life is the strengthening of the whole nation.3 . In many weys 2L. United States this H. Bailey, (New York 3Commission on I is a typical Theodore Roosevelt The Country Life ovement in the S:he I;acT:1illan Cornpany 1911), p. , Country Life, Renort of the 7. Commis sion on Country Life (Few York: Sturgis (:_ W2 ton conpany, 1 Sl7 l In his letter transmi toting the report to pp. 9-10. the 1:. S. Senate, dated February 9, 1909, President Roosevelt expressed the same thoughts in only slightly less explicit terms. See U.S., Congress, Senate, RelJort of the CO!:l.."'"::ission on Country Life, S. Doc. 705, 60th 2d , sess., 1909, p. 6. Cong., |
